We (Primary 6) worked with our Nursery to bring the pocket garden to life. We adapted our original plan to fit the scale of the project and ideas collected from all of our pupils in school and nursery. 

Our garden represents human and nature’s engineers together: We used a man-made tyre to represent the world, a wooden block representing a skyscraper (bug) hotel, biodegradable plastic tubing for factory towers (with trees growing out from them – which we will protect and move when they get larger) and tubing to represent a nuclear tower/geothermal tower. We used blocks of wood to encourage bugs to visit and live in.

A family of spiders have moved into our hotel already.  We hope to see more bugs and nature’s engineers visit and stay. 

Our favourite parts were watching our plants grow from seeds, watching and looking for bugs visiting our garden, spending time with the nursery and building our pocket garden.

We tried to get as many plants, baby trees and vegetables as we could from around the world that would grow in our climate. Our poppies did not grow unfortunately.

We used an old log for funghi growth and bugs to stay. We used wood chippings sourced from local community trees/group to protect our garden from heat, retain moisture and camouflage aspects from predators to make a safe home for natures engineers (bugs) and to protect our plants and vegetables.

We added some stones underneath the woodchip and a place for Hedgehogs to stay too.