Goals for the garden

This year we had a lack of monarchs in our garden; all of the monarchs we have raised so far have been from a teacher’s home garden. Unfortunately, we didn’t have very much milkweed when we were raising caterpillars; we think that’s why we didn’t have very many...

Seven-sons tree

The Vierthaler’s, master gardeners that have helped us with our project, explained why we might not have butterflies and told us we might want more pollinator plants around the school . One of the plants they recommended was the Seven-Son Tree. It will be a...

maypops

The one on the left is the maypop fruit/seed the maypop fruit/seed are from our garden and on the right is the maypop flowers which were in Mrs.Stava’s butterfly garden What are maypops? Maypops are a type of passion fruit. They are edible and smell very sweet....
look what we found!

look what we found!

These are newly laid butterfly eggs, too be specific these are variegated fritillary butterfly eggs. They can lay their eggs on violets, passion vines, and pansies. They are a statewide butterfly that fly multiple flights through April – November. (Ps, its the...
New plants!

New plants!

We have ordered new plants and wood chips for our garden. We are very excited with all of this and think it is a very good achievement for this year. Looking forward to it. Thank you to Mr. Wendorff and Ms. McMullen for the donation to our project.
We’re almost there!

We’re almost there!

We have almost raised enough money to buy our rain barrel. This was one of our goals for this year and we are on our way to achieve it. We could not have done this without our parents and teachers helping us this year.