Project Pansy! 3

Driving Forces:

• The school will look prettier
• The flowers add color to a non-colorful school
• The flowers might lighten someone’s day

Barriers

• When Ferny's Nursery responds to our E-Mail
• Money
• How many flowers the Nursery decides to give us
• Transportation of the flowers/dirt
• Flowers could die
• Flowers could be distracting
• Maintaining the care for the flowers
• Some people might not enjoy the flowers
• People might pick the flowers
• Seeing the benefits of the flowers

Money

One barrier that we might face is money. Ferny's may not choose to donate to us what we have asked for and we might very well face a problem with collecting money. The flowers are fairly inexpensive but the new dirt that we would like to get to plant the flowers in may cost a pretty penny. We have thought of two ideas to get over this bridge if we come to it.

Our first idea is to have a candy sale. Everyone likes candy, and if they don't, there is something strange going on with them. It's an inexpensive food that everyone loves now and then. If we came to the point where we had to have a candy drive, we would probably sell during lunch, but we would make further plans on this. Our backup plan, if the candy drive doesn't work out, we would plan to have a donation. But this is just a backup plan, and again we would make further plans on this two ideas if we were to come to it.

Transportation:

If we do get the donation from Ferny's Nursery, then the transportation of all the flowers and dirt would be a small problem to address. If we receive what we asked for, then we would have to transport 12 Pansy's, 6 Mums and 2 bags of dirt. This is a little much to carry, so a car would be a GOOD idea to think about.

One option is to have my father, drive us after school let out, to the Nursery, and then pick up the flowers. That is a very practical way to pick up all the donations. If that idea were to fall through, then one other option would be to have one of Cole's parents take us to the Nursery. We would have to ask them if they were free, but I'm thinking my father would have no problem with giving us a ride.

Maintaining the Care and Up Keeping of the Plants:

To maintain the flowers will plan to plant in the front of the school, we will create a care sheet. We plan to water the flowers everyday it does not rain, so that the dirt never fully dries out, and to pick the weeds that may attempt to grow around the flowers. If we do these two things often enough, we may be lucky to see them live through the winter. Though they are winter Pansy's, we are going to have to treat them kindly if we wish for them to live through the snow and downfall of rain.

The winter snow, if it chooses to snow, may be harsh on the flowers, and may end up killing them. We have two ideas as to how to keep the flowers warmer through the long winter season. One is to put mulch around the perimeter of the flowers. The mulch could be fallen leaves from trees, which we could get free. Another idea would be to keep the flowers closer to the building. That way they would stay warmer.