Digging it

 What a glorious afternoon we had!  The weather was spectacular - not too hot, nice breeze.  We had a dedicated team of parents and, during nutrition break, a fantastic posse of eager students who scooped dirt with shovels, buckets and baskets to get it into our new garden.  We had a lovely group of kindies who came out to the garden to release their painted ladies (and a few butterflies stuck around for the whole afternoon on our heliotrope).  We got all our plants in - some that had already been in the garden, and many new plants.  We were still planting at dismissal so many students were able to plant and water with us.

Our milkweed has 2 caterpillars on it and both survived the transplant.  In fact, when I stopped by the garden this evening to snap a shot for the blog, I found it after it had just molted.  Caterpillars are so amazing!

Thanks to all who helped today, both digging and lending supplies.  Thank you also to Wildwood Tree Services, a local company who donated the delivery of our soil, and Bulow Garden Centre, who donated some plants and gave us a great discount on the rest for our first bed.

As we have mentioned, this is just the first bed in a much larger garden plan.  This bed will be our butterfly garden, which has host and nectar plants for butterflies.  We hope you and the butterflies enjoy it!