Eagle Scout Project

Interpretive Garden and Mural at Rim

High School

By: Chris Jack

Project Description

• Interpretative Garden

• Native Plant Species

• Ground Cover

• Irrigation

• Mural

• Signage

Project Site Location

Project Description

Project Description

Preliminary Plant Layout

Pink bracted manzanita and Mexican manzanita (Red)

Incense cedar (Green)chaparral whitethorn (Light blue)

California buckwheat (Orange)Mountain Pink Currant (Pink)

Mountain Sage and Dorr's Sage (Purple)Deergrass (Brown)

Various plants (Yellow)

Process

• Interpretive Garden

• Prepare planters

• Install irrigation system

• Plant the native plants

• Put in ground cover

• Mural

• Prepare wall

• Tracing the image

• Mural Painting

• Adding protective coat

Process (cont)

• Interpretive Signs

• Photo

• Info

• Uses

Pricing

• Materials – $3,350

• Painting of mural - $1,300

• Signs - $300 (wood, cement, plastic)

• Plants - $850 (incense cedar, Pink bracted manzanita, Mexican manzanita, chaparral whitethorn, California buckwheat, mountain pink currant, mountain sage, Dorr's sage, Eaton firecracker, Grinnell's, beardtongue, deer grass, California fuchsia, monkey flowers, yarrow)

• Irrigation - $900 (PVC, PVC cement, PVC cutters, drip tubing, other fittings

Pricing (cont)

• Supplies - $500

• Mural supplies ( Stiff paint brushes, 4 inches to 1/2 inch in width, 6 of each, Four nine-inch wide, 1/2 inch thick rollers, two roller handles, 5 foot long pole to screw roller, Rags, 6 plastic quart buckets with lids, paint mixing sticks, metal paint can opener, Drop cloth, water source, Gallon of acrylic latex primer for concrete, 2 quarts each of about eight different latex exterior house paint colors, clear concrete block sealer)

• Other - $700

• Food and drinks - $300

• Extra - $400

Pricing (cont)

• Tools - $184

• Sand blaster - $184

• Other tools(hoes, shovels, rakes, gloves, leaf blower, push

brooms, brooms, spades, tape measure, trowel, sand blaster,

truck, trailer, picks

• Total estimated project cost - $4,734

Fundraising

• Talk to local businesses for donations

• Present in front of the rotary

• Present in front of the schoolboard and PTA

• Donations from extended family and friends

• Mural artist will donate on site consultative hours

• Botanist will donate on site consultative hours

• School district head of MOT will donate on site consultative hours

Project Site Photos

Conceptual Project Site Elevation

Mural

Project Site Photo

Concept for Mural

Preliminary Mural Painting

Call to Action

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• I am currently asking for donations