As a school we were delighted to learn that our entry for the 'Dobbies Community Gardens' competition was successful - we had won! This nationwide initiative supports groups across the UK to create, restore, and enhance indoor and outdoor green spaces.
Our future plans involve growing more vegetables and herbs in our raised beds and creating wildlife friendly habitats for pollinators and other minibeasts. We even have plans for a sensory trail!
We recently began work by planting some long flowering, bee-friendly perennials - scabiosa, rudbeckia and Shasta daisies as well as fennel, dill, chives, oregano & lemon balm in our herb garden.
We are very grateful to Mrs McGrath who has helped us along our journey and Mrs Millar who worked with us when we were planting. We loved getting outside, working as a team, and we're excited to continue developing our plans with the help and guidance of the Dobbies horticultural team!