Butterfly+garden

There are two links here to the 2009 creation of our garden. The blog will be continued so we can all see how our garden evolves. 1. http://room4otaika.wikispaces.com 2. http://otaikavalleyschoolbutterflygarden.blogspot.com

October 2010 Our garden survived the winter very well and lots of plants are flowering and looking very healthy. We have weeded it and cut off the dead heads from the flowering plants. Overall it has looked after itself and hasn't needed watering or much attention. Here are some photos of the flowers that are attracting the butterflies. We have one fat caterpillar and are watching to see what predators are eating our caterpillars. We have lost several.

This swan plant has survived the winter and is now flowering. Other plants were not so lucky and died. We have replaced those plants.



Most of these flowers are from last year, some have self seeded and are just starting to spread out more.



The bottle brush is looking very attractive and the butterflies like it.



May 2010 This week some parents and our class weeded the garden and removed all the dead floers and annuals that had finished flowering. Then they planted lots of new flowering plants for the butterflies and bees over winter. Lots of tiny seedlings have appeared following the rain.