Our garden was inspired by pupil interest in Minecraft and strawberries so is a real hybrid of a design! 

Using plastic Irn Bru bottles has been a nod to our Scottish heritage to represent the famous drink as well as the good old wellie boot as a reminder of the plentiful Scottish rain! 

Flower choice was inspired by a sword that appears in Minecraft so we planted delphiniums to replicate the long structure and colours of the sword, alongside various other seeds and bulbs to represent colours and elements of Minecraft. The colour choice of plants was also to chosen to attract insects as we learned that some insects are attracted to purple and blue flowers. 

Materials have been recycled/upcycled in creative ways providing us with unique plant pots, some of which have been left in their natural colours and others painted in Minecraft-inspired colours.  

We also planted strawberry seeds in plastic bottles tied to our fence to create a strawberry wall.  These, alongside various herbs are the edible parts of our design. 

Challenges included how to attach our wellies to the wall to make our ‘Wellie Wall’ – we overcame this by adapting our design and now have our wellies standing guard around our tyre plant pots, ready to warm off and stamp out any unwelcome intruders! 

Local organisations kindly donated some seeds and we also had some helpful hints whilst on visits to a local forest school. We have enjoyed planting and watering our plants and love to see the leaves growing and flowers appearing.  We are waiting on some flowers to appear but we can still see that they are growing well. 

When the competition is complete, we will disperse the plants to those who would like to take them home to ensure they continue to be taken care of and enjoyed over the Summer holidays.  We will recycle or re-use any parts that we can. We have really enjoyed this process and this is definitely something we would take part in again.