The children in Primary 5 designed and created a garden based on the idea of a green city built by nature to link with the 2024 theme - Nature’s Engineers.

Our garden is wildlife friendly as it accommodates bees, butterflies, insects and birds. There is a bug hotel, beehive and birdhouse. The blue flowers flowing through the middle of the garden represent a river, which comes up against the sticks and stones. This part of the garden was inspired by the engineering work of a beaver.

The wooden beehive was kindly donated by a Primary 5 pupil. We also received plant donations and peat free soil from our local community to help bring our garden design to life. Our garden includes the following edible plants: strawberries, thyme, rocket, runner beans and rosemary.

Our favourite part of creating our garden was working together as a team, sharing creative ideas, planting, decorating the garden and learning throughout the process.

We repurposed two donated pallets to create the structure of our garden. The ‘back wall’ includes a water feature (recycled guttering), beehives, recycled milk bottles, plant pots, a bird house and a hanging basket.  The children painted stones with illustrations of different animals and insects found in nature. They also created beehives made of recycled tins and scrap paper.

The garden is something we will continue to nurture and cherish.  We hope that other classes in our school will be inspired to design and build their own Pocket Garden in the future, as the process has been lots of fun for all involved!