Almost show time!

Only a few days to go until we go to Gardening Scotland.  we have lots of plants but still not too much colour.  Hopefully this warm spell will boost the plants and our garden will be a blaze of colour, lets hope so as the garden title is" Tam and Delilah's colourful garden!"

Fingers crossed that we do well in the competition, awards day is Friday.  Any visitors to the show will find us in the Pallet Garden section.

Our seedlings

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Here are some of our seedlings for the garden competition. Fingers crossed we get some good weather soon to help things grow!

Thank you to Ross and Liddell

We are very excited at the Garden Club because we have just heard that we are going to be sponsored by Ross and Liddell to go to Gardening Scotland 2010.  The money that they give us will help to pay for a coach to take us to the competition on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday which will be a great help to us.  We weren't sure whether we would be able to get all our plants and pots on the bus to Edinburgh!  So thank you very much to Ross and Liddell.

Pot plant competition, Thursday groups plan.

I am Matthias,  a member of the Garnetbank Garden Club.  My plant pot design for the Thursday groups entry for Gardening Scotland 2010 was inspired by the movie "Little shop of horrors" with flytraps everywhere.  It is a living hell for all the flies that face its formidible mouths.  These plants grow in swamps and attract flies by producing a sweet smell.  I am going to make a model of Audrey from the film and we may grow some bright red plants as well as carniverous ones.

Gardening Scotland 2010

We have had an idea for our planter competition, we are going to put Tam, our garden gnome, in the middle and split the rest up into four different sections; purple, orange/yellow, red/pink and green. We have assigned everyone in the garden club a few plants and we are just starting to grow them now.

By Emma

January at Garnetbank Garden club

Welcome to our January report. This month on the 15th January we had our A.G.M. (Annual General Meeting). Where we discussed about competitions and upcoming events such as Gardening Scotland 2010, our broad bean competition and more. We have also started a blog about our garden gnome Tam written by Emma and Holly (that’s me!). We have entered a competition run by Morrisons to get a place in the Chelsea Flower Show. To enter this competition we have sent in a picture of us gardening and a bit about why we enjoy gardening. We were one of 100 hundred schools picked to grow something for the Chelsea Flower Show and they will choose the best 30 in April. As well as that we have entered Gardening Scotland which takes place in June. We are working on a design for our pallet. The garden club are running a competition in the school to grow the best broad beans which has been organised by Kate there will be more information on this in February.

By Holly

One cloudy night it was snowing. The school garden was covered in fluffy white flakes.

The plants were covered, the soil turned white and basically it was all white, but it was very beautiful. The snow had covered all of the garden and it seemed to stay there for quite a while.

When Heather went out to garden the snow was beneath her feet, she was very surprised but managed to take a lovely photo of it.

By Loujin.