The Butterfly Garden

The Planet Savers at Findon Primary School have been focused on planting and maintaining some of the schools developing gardens.

In 2013 the Findon "Butterfly Garden" was designed and implemented by the Sustainability leaders. Since that time the garden has become dry and weeds have spread. To attract more insects and of course, butterflies the Planet Savers took the opportunity to weed and clean up this garden for the upcoming warmer months. Two students in particular have a growing concern for rubbish pollution in the developing gardens. The concern was raised at last Friday's school assembly to address fellow students, teachers and the wider school community.

During the clean up, large weeds were given as a tasty treat to the schools chickens. The left over weeds were put on to the compost. The Planet Savers have developed a conscious effort to think about how and where garden waste is distributed over the past few weeks of this project. Any rubbish that was found in the butterfly garden was sorted in to materials that could be recycled or not.

Once the garden had been cleared of weeds and rubbish pollution the team planted around the border of the garden. Next, they created holes for the new plants going in to the garden next Thursday. While the team of Planet Savers worked on the tidy-up, the remaining students watered the Bush Food Garden plants and returned to water the new plants in the Butterfly Garden.


Below are some images of the garden cleared and ready for more plants next week.