The Heritage Garden behind the Georgetown & Scott County Museum in the City of Georgetown parking lot on North Mulberry Street welcomes a new generation of Scott County Girl Scouts to an annual planting day.
Now a nationally certified Monarch Way-station, the first butterfly wings were established in 2015 by Scott County Girl Scout Troop 1475 with assistance from a Girl Scout Silver Award Project. 
The perennial beds are expanded and enhanced each year with new plants. Youth will be planting a new butterfly wing, and bringing colorful annual accents to the established perennial beds, now the Butterfly Graffiti Gardens. A second Girl Scout Silver Project transformed the center parking isle into a new perinneal garden.
In 2018 Madison Russell completed her Girl Scout Gold project for the Graffiti Butterfly Garden.
Georgetown Artist in Residence Amy Rogers completed her installation of “Coalesce” in 2019.
Yes you can – paint a rock and plant it in the Graffiti Rock Garden, or bring your own rock sculpture to add to the colorful garden any time during the year.
NEXT is the Butterfly Graffiti Hands-on-Art Signature Mural Wall…
and then we begin again to develop the signage for the garden and final installation fo the Bluegrass Wild Mural and Garden in this City of Georgetown Parking Place Park…
Bluegrass Wild Garden: If anyone has native Kentucky plants to share (from woodland wildflowers to field plants) please ask them to bring a donation for the “Bluegrass Wild Garden” under the murals of prehistoric Kentucky mammals created by artist Stevie Moore.
Contact us if you seek starters from perennials in the gardens. There are plants to share with the public and other volunteer gardens. Black-eyed Susan, three colors of Yarrow, Pink Primrose, Dwarf Coreopsis, and hopefully, little baby hostas are volunteering from last year’s seeds, and new annual seed nursery beds for sharing accent plants will open during the Summer and Fall.
The Gardens: Many garden landscape and art projects tie into community initiatives at historic sites in Georgetown and Scott County for residents’ pleasure and visitors’ delight…
Georgetown, Scott County is rich in history and architectural and horticultural excellence. Volunteer gardens wait your question: “May I…” for the answer ” Yes, you can.”
Gardens for you to visit hosted by other non-profit organizations …
East Main Street :
- The Scott County Native Plant Arboretum: Located at the entrance of Georgetown College Campus welcomes you to walk a path through mature trees identified for your entertainment and education of Kentucky heritage – its big trees. Georgetown College.
- North Mulberry Heritage Gardens: Step on downtown to the Georgetown & Scott County Museum for a side trip back 10,000 to 15,000 years on North Mulberry to uncover the first site: Bluegrass Wild Garden murals by Stevie Moore, with native plantings in progress sharing the same wall as the contemporary Butterfly Graffiti Rock Garden. The parking place parking islands have transformed into butterfly wings, the visual clue offered by artist Amy Rogers. The Butterfly Graffiti Gardens are now a nationally certified Monarch Way Station thanks to Scott County Girls Scouts, the UK-Scott County Cooperative Extension Office, and the SCAC Youth Arts and Education and Art in Public Places programs. City of Georgetown
West Main Street offers three gardens:
- The Pioneer Garden in Royal Spring Park on South Water Street is located at the Big Spring, discovered in 1774. The site hosts two dry-stack raised bed herb gardens built by Boy Scouts Austin Anderson and Austin Abshire to show plants native to Kentucky, and what a pioneer would have carried with them for survival building their home in the wilderness. Melinda Shay earned her Girl Scout Gold Award expanding in enhancing the landscaped garden beds along Royal Spring from its source in 2017. City of Georgetown
- The Victorian Garden: Located on North Water Street at the site of the 1870’s residence and 1892 Scott County Jail, the gardens are in the beginning of development to provide artistic inspiration and flowers for receptions, and pinch-plants for art projects. Now home to a growing population of Monarch Butterflies, it has become a nursery for plants and the migrating endangered butterfly. The gardens definitely come to life with butterflies and photographers throughout the seasons.
West of Georgetown:
- Ward Hall on 460 West just past Highway 62: Dated back to the 1850’s, five acres of formal estate gardens in redevelopment delight visitors and await historians with horticulture on their minds and a hoe in their hands. Ward Hall Preservation Foundation
North of Georgetown:
- Yuko-en Kentucky Japan Friendship Garden on 25 North just north of downtown after crossing North Elkhorn Creek: A friendship in many ways, this aesthetic garden offers a winding trail through nature to reflect on beauty around the springs and ponds. Providing a profusion of diversity in native and introduced plantings, the grounds have now matured and are ready for another verse, under-story plantings seeking shade from the Kentucky sun.
Want to plant a seed for tomorrow? Become a member of the Scott County Arts Consortium, Inc. or friend Scott County Arts & Cultural Welcome Center with a donation today.
“Yes You Can”
Please share the “YES YOU CAN” concept with others seeking gardens to help develop or tend.