UPDATE: Students Begin Project at Suwanee Park

Updated April 8

Several students began work Friday on an "educational greenspace" project at White Street Park in Suwanee.

Called Project Knowledge of the Garden, the effort is designed to look like a flattened globe of about 40 feet by 20 feet, according to Katelyn Chandler, one of the students.

"Within the land of the globe, we will be placing day lilies and irises. A path made of river stone will be throughout the sea. We wrote plaques that will be bordering the continents and have information regarding topics such as environmental impact of the continent, techniques that environmental writers use to spread the environmental news, agricultural techniques, and even some of the national flowers of the areas," she continued. "There are 10 plaques bordering the continents with this information, and there are three plaques stationed at the garden entrances that detail the agricultural revolutions."

The students began work Friday and hope to conclude Monday.

On Saturday, the students posted the following update online: "Today we layed down stone, planted a whole bunch of plants, covered the continents in soil, put in our plaques, and got really dirty. Monday we'll finish putting in stone after school and all we have to wait for is our sign that will honor our sponsors."

This was posted Friday: "We began our work on the garden today and got a lot done! We planted forty flowers, put down edging, drew out our continents, and dug the holes for our plaques."

Sponsors include Georgia Leisure, Quail Hollow Nurseries, and Leaves and Petals Nursery.

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