Back in early spring, all the children sowed sunflower seeds. Most of them grew as tall as five feet! Eliza got a bit impatient waiting so long for her’s to grow and nothing happened! Everyone else’s sunflowers had grown and died, the garden started to look dull until…
This little gem made an appearance!
She’s only three feet tall but perfectly formed and attracting all the wildlife.
We have been waiting and waiting for our raspberries to grow since the beginning of summer. Poppy has been waiting to make raspberry coulis and Faith wanted to make raspberry pavlova. This week, while we were tidying the garden ready for autumn, we cut back the blueberry bush and to our delight, found GIANT RASPBERRIES!
Silly Tracie, they’re not summer fruiting raspberries, they’re autumn raspberries!
We’ve had loads of fun this week cleaning and mending our old bird boxes and feeders, ready for the Autumn bird rush. We made a tall feeding station to keep Fizzy, Flora and Rosie from frightening them away! We are hoping our Robin, who we call Christopher, comes back for tea soon!
The children loved helping Tracie make this herb fence. First we used the electric screwdriver to put screws in place to hold the pots to our fence. They have moulded holes on the back to make them easy to attach (from IKEA).
We then went over to the cold frame to pick the herbs we wanted to display. We chose Curry Plant, Rosemary, Lavender, Coriander, Chives and Mint. The whole fence was so pretty and fragrant the children spent the day going over and smelling them. We even had a bee visit us.
Tracie's Treasures 