Our Garden represents some of the Castles, Homes, History, Industry, Myths and Heritage of Scotland.

We sourced a variety of plants and learned about Scottish history, myths and heritage.

Our garden is designed to attract mini beasts and allow funghi networks to grow. Parts of our garden are edible for minibeasts and allow them to stay safely. We used natural stones, recycled wood for buildings, rotting wood for funghi, recycled Irn Bru cans (with holes cut and drilled) to hold water and for some to allow mini beasts to stay. We built a bug hotel and a shelter for a hedgehog. 

Our favourite part was when we built the garden, watered and looked after it.

We found it challenging during the hot weather recently. Some of our plants and vegetables did not survive after a week of intense heat. We sourced plants which could withstand the heat to replace them and later covered the garden with stones and bark to retain moisture and protect the soil.

Our gardening club pupils and local volunteers donated soil and compost and we were able to use the polytunnel to grow plants.

We will keep looking after our garden for the rest of the term and make it part of our larger school garden.