Bucks Beautiful, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to beautifying Bucks County, announced that funds raised through its events and donations have enabled it to enhance the community in myriad ways.
This year BB planted 85 native trees through its RePlant Bucks initiative. The RePlant Bucks program began in 2018 as a direct result of accumulated effects over the past decade of disease, invasive insects and storm damage on Bucks County’s aging tree canopy. As this has been devastating to witness, BB is committed to lead the way in facilitating the reforestation of the local landscape. Partnering with local nurseries, landscapers and community groups, 1,813 trees have already been installed in 37 locations throughout the county.
As part of its mission to beautify Bucks County, Bucks Beautiful also provides support for the creation and maintenance of local gardens. This year it has provided grants for the following:
• Native Plant Demonstration Garden in partnership with the Penn State Extension Master Gardeners at the Lower Makefield Township Building.
• The Hibbs House Kitchen Garden at Washington Crossing Historic Park, which encompasses many species of plants – including culinary and medicinal herb – that are accurate to 1776 or earlier and likely to have been grown in Bucks County during the Revolution.
• An abundance of blooms serve as a living memorial for the soldiers represented by the 104th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment Monument opposite the Bucks County Courthouse.
• Bucks Beautiful helped to install and support the Warrington Garden Club’s creation of spring, fall and winter decorative plantings gracing the grounds and gathering areas of Bucks County Neshaminy Manor in Warrington.
• Enhance the entrance to the Snipes Farm and Education Center in Morrisville with a complete renovation to provide a calming and beautiful ecological multi-species hedgerow to screen the center from the noise and traffic from the nearby Route 1.
• Jamison Elementary School, where Bucks Beautiful will plant an array of daffodils as well as endow a Wildflower Meadow to serve as an outdoor classroom. This project will serve as a tribute to the late Shane Slone, a former student.
• Assist Afton Elementary School in Yardley to hold a student activity day where students help plant daffodil bulbs on the school grounds as well as planting an additional 2,000 bulbs to beautify the property.
• Bristol Borough Waterfront’s recent transformation will be further brightened each year by a wave of 5,000 beautiful yellow daffodils by a planting co-sponsored by the borough.
• The prior phases at Doylestown’s Pine Run Retirement Community (now Pine Run Village) were so well received that it’s become an annual tradition underwritten by Bucks Beautiful co-founder Jack McCaughan and Bob and Alice Vernon.
• Requests for bulbs were granted to nonprofits throughout the county to enhance their springtime gardens with BB’s signature daffodils.
Generous donations, community partnerships and BB’s growing membership program allow it to coordinate events, community projects and educational programs to continue to beautify Bucks County. To become a member, purchase BB’s signature daffodil bulbs, or contribute to its cause with a donation or memorial gift, visit www.bucksbeautiful.org or call 215-340-3639.
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