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A beautiful sunny 25-degree day set the scene for the excursion. The bus was here, all the children ready and waiting. We loved riding in the bus and there was much chatter going on. At the gardens, Marion, our RBG teacher was waiting. We had a quick morning tea of vegemite sandwiches and grapes and then went through the gate to the children’s garden. Our first task for the day was to plant two pea seeds. First we wrote our name on our pot, then we filled it with soil and put in two seeds. Finally, we sprinkled more soil over the top and Marion watered them for us. Did you know that we have to pay for water and that we shouldn’t waste it? We walked around the garden beds looking for food that was growing there and found some chilli’s, capsicum, peas, beans, spinach, strawberries, bananas, tamarillos and herbs. There was so much food in the garden. Marion collected some that we could bring back to Kinder and we have a large loofah (when in dries out we can use it in the shower). Next we went to the worm shed, which is also the possum shed with two possums sleeping in the rafters above our heads. Marion talked with us about worms and the saddle on their backs where they keep the babies and then we all could look through some soil to find baby worms. Next stop on our tour was a walk to look for the curly leaf spider in the walk along the link path through long curly asparagus fern plants and past the animal sculptures covered with maiden hair fern. How many spiders did we find? Walk to the Herb Garden Next we walked down to the oak lawn and watched a magpie catching worms. There was a chestnut tree with very spikey seeds that were too spikey to pick up. If you crushed them under your foot you could find the chestnut inside. We did a walk to the bottle brush tree where the bees were collecting nectar and then sat under the paper bark tree and felt the smooth texture of the trunk. Wandering down to the Herb garden we stopped to collect some Autumn leaves then we all sat down and made a potpourri bag with dried rose leaves and lavender harvested from the gardens. We smelt lots of herbs by rubbing the leaves between our fingers and then smelling them. Have you smelt a lemon verbena or lemonade tree? And the smell of a curry tree is just like dinner when daddy is cooking according to Elki and Leila! Bunya Bunya Pine and the Lightening Tree. The Bunya Bunya Pine has the largest seeds in the world and the aborigines used to grind the seeds to make flour. Lightening split the tree in half and the gardeners used wire to draw the two halves together. There is still a network of wires if you look up. The scar on the tree behind Marion is where the tree split