Sunday, April 29, 2012

The new gardening projects

What a sunny day! Summer? Almost! So let's make it green. We were gardening and planting again, but with bigger pots and carton boxes and also plants.
We started again with painting the marble pots using corks this time. Some Eco Kids made just dots, some flowers, some vegies, some patterns. The we let it dry and we were planting the flowers from the seeds in the cartoons. Kids were surprised they could use the carton boxes to it. They also were not sure what for were the wholes on the bottom. They put the names of the flowers on the straws and then plant the flowers. Some Eco Kids told me that their flowers from the last ecoworkshop have now 1-2 cm. I am sure, in our house too:)
Then the marble pots were ready to plant and so Eco Kids did it. What was the plant?

Japanese spirea 
Easily grown in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun. Tolerates light shade. Tolerates a wide range of soils. Remove faded flower clusters as practicable (light shearing is an option) to encourage additional bloom. Flowers on new wood, so prune in late winter to early spring if needed. 
Japanese spirea is a dense, upright, mounded, deciduous shrub that typically grows 4-6’ tall with a slightly larger spread. Leaves (to 3” long) are oval and sharpely toothed. Tiny pink flowers in flat-topped clusters (corymbs) cover the foliage in late spring to mid-summer with sparse and intermittent repeat bloom often occurring throughout the remainder of the growing season. Flowers are attractive to butterflies.

When it will be bigger in the pot, remember to plant it in the garden and then use the pot for the other plant or flower:)





























The other project we did was vases for outside. They came out just beautiful. Eco Kids were painting them in different ways. They can put the flowers in it and keep them in the garden, cause the paint on the vases is permanent.













Now it will be 2 DAYS SPRING BREAK SESSION! See you soon!     

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