Growing for Gold

Our Olympic flowerbed is gradually taking shape. Today, under a baking blue sky, we planted the five rings.The rings are made up of the following plants:

Blue - lobelia and ageratum

Black - black grass

Red - petunia

Yellow - marigold

Green - grass.

The background will be planted up with white alyssum in the next few weeks. In the meantime we need to nurture our rings by making sure they are kept well watered.

Bursting into life

Well after the recent cold and very wet weather, this sunny spell is more than welcome. In the space of a few days the school grounds have been transformed. There are new leaves bursting out all over the place. The fruit trees are looking very pretty adorned with their blossom flowers and the flag iris in the bog garden are just coming into flower too.

I managed to snap up a few root wrapped trees at Homebase yesterday for the princely sum of £2.66 each! So today, Declan helped me to plant them around the edge of the bog garden and give them a really good watering in.

I also managed to bag some bargain basement petunias which the year one gardeners potted up and placed near their classroom entrance. The bright red blousey flowers look terrific.

Sunshine at last!

We have had some glorious weather today and made the most of it by getting out in the garden. The year four gardening team joined me for a spot of weeding,watering and planting. We began by removing the grass and other weeds from the bog garden. The flag iris and watermint are growing well. The new addition  to the bog garden planted by the Early Years children last week looks right at home. Once the children had removed all the weeds, they gave they bog garden a thoroughly good soaking.

Next we moved on to the vegetable garden where there was yet more weeding to be done! We took time to pause by the herb bed and explore all the textures and smells. Ella-Mae loved the smell of the rosemary, whilst thought the thyme smelt the best. The chocolate mint was a winner with everyone.

Once the weeding was finished, we planted some peas and runner beans along with some colourful marigold plants.
The leeks that we had planted in the winter had grown to an impressive size, so the children harvested them and will deliver them to the school kitchen tomorrow.

The sunny weather is set to last a few more days, so hopefully we can take advantage of the sunny spell to plant some more delicious vegetables.

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