The Power of Flowers

Cute Chamomile Companions

 December saw our Garden come alive with glorious colour, just in time to farewell our Garden Warrior's for the summer.

 Corn flowers mirrored the sky overhead, while stattice splashed papery crimson hues throughout the garden

 Sweet peas were carefully picked to add their old fashioned charm to our Deputy Principals desk

 Picking bouquets of flowers quickly became our Garden Warrior's favourite activity

 It was equally popular amongst the boys, they were just more elusive to capture on camera...

What an amazing garden we created last year Garden Warriors, and who would have ever envisaged just how much pleasure it would give, to so many on so many levels.

 

A garden truly is the gift that just keeps on giving!

Nobody who enters here ever leaves empty handed...



Westport A & P show 100th Anniversary

 This weekend Westport celebrated their 100th A & P show!

 

Our ever trusty "garden Facilitator" kindly had a quick whip around our School garden and entered a basket of "Garden Warrior" produce on our behalf...only to have the Garden Warrior's bump her own basket of produce into 3rd place!

 This special "Centennial Anniversary" ribbon for 2nd place should look pretty nice in the school foyer!

Our very fresh Garden Warrior produce included artichokes, strawberries, scollapini, peas, lettuce, a marrow, rhubarb, and of course our trade mark colour ...provided by cornflowers, calendula and edible violas. We also entered our stattice in the posy section.

 There were some fun vegetable creations on display, meet Courgette girl...

...and be weary of this melon tank!

Cabbage crazy

Have a look at our slide show to view a few "extra" uses for cabbage leaves, and some of the fun we had harvesting our cabbage crop!