A Blustery Week

 A blustery southwesterly didn't deter this Monarch Butterfly from paying a visit to our swan plant...lets hope it can grow a bit more before the eggs hatch into VERY Hungary little caterpillars... dressed in the yellow and black stripes of the junior Westport rugby team

 This term we are fortunate to have a whole Wednesday afternoon in the Garden as part of our school wide "move it and groove it" elective. This extremely helpful Warrior settled into drilling holes in bottle tops for ...

 ...these Garden Warriors to finish off their Christmas Bean tree. It really looks amazing, with a yellow star on top, tremendous effort Warriors!

 Ever keen & helpful, this Garden Warrior took charge of fixing Room 1's driftwood art to the fence...almost all the way along now!

 A hard working team of Garden Warriors set to planting out all the edible Viola's that they grew, around the edge of our bottle garden. This should looking stunning in a few weeks time with rings of violet edible violas and flaming marigolds, framing our lettuce. Another row of lettuce seedlings also went behind  these nearly ready to eat lettuce! Yum, salad season is here!

 This team of Garden Warriors put in a great effort planting up lettuce seedlings ready for the Monster Market in mid-November. The bottle garden lettuce will be ready for harvesting at market time...so be sure to look out for our salad bags!

 Our weaving wall provided a place for quite contemplation, and an opportunity to discover inner creativity!

 A tremendous trench was dug by these Garden Warriors, and a start made on constructing a bottle edge to our feijoa and rosemary hedging. This fledgling hedge will welcome the added protection.

 Our flax cable drum knitting was cast off and installed over some driftwood to create a sculptural installation, for our gourd seedlings to grow up.

Lets try threading some shells on as we knit next time...

 Wheel barrow loads of mulch was delivered to our black currants and raspberries...this will help keep the weeds down and the moisture in. WE may try some flax weaving through this fence to try and break up the stiff Northerly wind that blows in from the sea...

Sadly we farwelled one of our Garden Warriors this week.

Two of our "Garden Facilitators" put together these flowers on behalf of our school. North School was represented by Burgundy Elysium, the rugby team was there as black iris and lots of yellow lilly's and snap dragons, the West Coast was present in the form of flowering tea tree, ferns and fronds, a few sneaky little favourite lollies and treats were also in there!

 

Now we just need our sweet peas to start flowering so we can give our teachers a well deserved bouquet too, they were true North Stars this week providing guidance to all!