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 For their Carmel Green Teen project, members of Carmel Girl Scout troop 1166 chose to revamp a butterfly habitat reintroduction area at Carmel’s Carey Grove Park. The girls worked on the garden over a period of several weekends in May, 2010. A well-planned butterfly garden becomes a small, but representative sample of the surrounding habitat and as such provides a safe haven for butterflies and other wildlife to gather, seek shelter, acquire food and water, reproduce and build populations; do not underestimate the importance of even a small garden.
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 The girl scouts weeded, edged, tilled, dug-up dead plants, planted new ones, mixed soils and mulched.
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 Working with guidance from the Carmel-Clay Parks Department, they planted Butterfly Bushes, Snowflake Viburnums, Day Lilies, Black-Eyed Susans, Butterfly Weed, and Purple Coneflowers.
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 Butterfly Gardens attract wildlife. They bring butterflies and other wildlife into the area for purposes of enjoyment, observation, study, and photography
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 Butterfly gardens gather the interest of humans, butterflies, and hummingbirds. The birds and insects come in search of the sweet nectar and we humans are attracted to the bright flowers.
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 The girls in Girl Scout troop 1166 worked hard to restore and renew the butterfly habitat garden.
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 Second to bees, butterflies are important for pollination for our food sources. They are also a good indicator of our environmental health.
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 Carey Grove Park Butterfly Garden- BEFORE.
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 - Carey Grove Park Butterfly Garden- AFTER.
- Great work, Girl Scout Troop 1166!
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