With the last weeks of summer upon us we have been very busy in the School Garden harvesting "Sensational Seeds"...
Our Garden Warriors have enjoyed collecting seeds from our coriander, parsley, calendula, radishes, poppies and sunflowers...
...we have been looking at the amazing engineering that Mother Nature has designed to disperse all the different types of seeds! Some seeds shake out of their little rattles on the breeze, some are heavy enough to just fall down, some attract birds to eat them and take them further a field, and some pop open with such force they "ping" all around, and some come with their own little parachute system to ride the wind to far off lands!
A wonderfully busy time was had carefully selecting seeds to put into creatively decorated envelopes to take home. It was great hearing at yesterdays garden session about how a lot of these seeds have already been planted!
Last week we were all amazed to find quite a few Garden Warriors Featuring in Aprils edition of "NZ Gardener" ...and that McGregor's had a wonderful garden pack of essential Garden goodies heading our way! THANK YOU "NZ Gardener" & Mc Gregor's, you know we will put these to good use!
Our "NZ Gardener" article will no doubt be on the main foyer notice board in pride of place.
The Good news is that Whetu Te Weka has been cohabiting reasonably well in the garden of late...although we must say he has thoroughly destroyed the pea straw bales hunting out tasty critters!
While we do try and have a different activity every week in the garden, our Garden Warriors still just like to wander around just enjoying the garden environment, and taking turns at watering...
...tasting & smelling what is growing...
...but most of all they really like to take a bit of colour home with them!
Another fun afternoon hanging out with a cool bunch of kids...always a privilege!
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