Hamilton Grammar
Hamilton Grammar

To begin our design for our garden we had a brainstorming session in our environmental lessons to get some ideas. Dylan’s design was chosen. It includes lots of nature's engineers such as birds, worms, and bees.
We decided to use pallets as the main frame of our garden this is because we always have some in the school and this is a great way to reuse them. We asked the technician to secure them together then we painted them green and blue using some leftover garden paint. This is to signify the grass and the sky. Mrs Hendry painted some flowers and a rainbow for us.
We then decided to organize the garden into different sections to represent the different types of wildlife we were hoping to attract to the garden.
Our favourite part of creating our garden was decorating our pebbles. We also loved watching our plants grow from seeds into big plants.
We have an area with lettuce, rocket and kale which is our “Veggie Villa” – this gives food for the caterpillars and other animals.
We also created a “Butterfly Buffet” which is a collection of plants whose flowers provide nectar for our pollinators. These are cornflower, lavender and wildflowers.
The next step was to create our “Songbird Spa” we repurposed pebbles from the school garden and decorated them with paints. We stacked them up to create a rockery and placed a dish on top and filled it with water.
Our “Bug B&B” was made out of spare wood from Mrs Colbourne’s garden. Most of our plants were grown from seeds in our polytunnel - a few were donated by staff.
We will continue to look after our garden.
Get a close up view of the garden - watch out for the thyme warp!
