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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