Meet the designer event

Saturday 29th September 2007 10.30am - 12noon is the date of our next event, when you can meet Mike Russell who is designing our new new wildlife garden. Find out what features he has incorporated and what his inspiration was. Also help us to decide which plants to include in the Sensory Rainbow Walk.

Feedback from the garden survey

We spent a wonderful sunny afternoon identifying and recording insects, plants and other wildlife that is currently in the garden. The list included snails, centipedes, woodlice, frog hoppers, butterflies and lacewings....blackberries, thistles, currant bushes, feverfew, foxgloves, holly, poppies, birch trees, ash and willow, ivy and lots of bindweed! About 12 children and 7 adults attended the event which was led by Helen and Pete from the Shropshire Wildlife Trust. The children also learnt about wasps nests, birds nests and made simple insect homes using bundles of sticks, bamboo sticks, twigs and moss.

We had some lovely comments from those taking part:

Children
I enjoyed everything I did.

The garden is very good and I like it.

Today was really good and I learnt a lot about new insects and found out a lot of facts I didn’t know before!! Also the garden’s really good and has lots of variety.

I enjoyed it. It was fun doing the habitat.

It was great fun finding all the bugs. The staff were brilliant. I would love to come again. And the garden was full of plants and wildlife. It was great!

I really liked the wildlife garden.I liked seaching for the little insects.And my favourte part was drawing my picther.It was very good.I thought it was fun.

The wildlife garden was really good fun. Pete & Helen were fantastic and they helped you find what spieces the bugs were. My favourite part was when Pete shook the bush and i sucked though the straw. It was really great fun.

Adults
Great fun and learnt a lot .

Wonderful! Love it, so peaceful now, can only imagine how divine it will be.

Seating and table great idea to bring lunch and enjoy a good read.

A lovely project. Lots of potential. Can’t wait for the next stage!

Garden survey event

If you live locally then come along to our first garden event on Wednesday 8th August 2.30 - 4.00pm. Children and older people are invited to help us record what is currently in the garden - plants, insects, birds and other wildlife. The Shropshire Wildlife Trust will also be there and will give a talk about animal habitats and bring examples of bird's nests. You can even create homes for insects, to attract more varieties into the garden.