October Flowers

 

 It’s mid-October but there are several wild flowers growing in our vegetable garden. The flowers  above are  Feverfew, Cornflower ,our radishes went to see during the summer holidays and these are the flowers Poppy and Corn Marigold

Wildflowers in June

In June the waste ground near the Dart station is a riot of colour. Daisies,red and white clover and buttercups are all growing in the tiny patch of ground

WildFlowers in June

Sunflowers

 

In May the pupils in Senior Infants and 1st class sowed sunflower seeds.

They planted out the sunflowers in the garden. The sunflowers grew very tall

during the summer holidays.

When we came back to school we were a bit disappointed because the sunflowers

 weren’t in bloom. We think that the bad weather delayed the flowers.

This week we were very happy to see that the sunflowers had started to bloom.

I measured the tallest plant 

I discovered that it had grown 2 metres 70 centimetres in 14 weeks.

The stem of the sunflower is coarse and hairy.

I used a piece of string to measure the circumference of the thickest stem.

It was 12 centimetres.

When the sunflowers finish blooming we will leave them there so that the birds can eat the seeds.

Here is a picture of some of our sunflowers.

Infants Grew Sunflowers

The children from Senior Infants grew sunflowers. They planted out the

sunflowers at the beginnning of June.The plants reached up to their knees.

 When they returned in September the sunflowers had grown much taller than

the pupils