Farewell to our Alliums for another year…We’ve loved them and so have the bees!
Many thanks to Alex Bogdan for her beautiful photos.
#allium #purple #bulb #flowersforbees #dalstoneasterncurvegarden
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Dalston. Open 7 days a week, 12 months a year, with a full programme of creative, cultural and volunteering activities.
Farewell to our Alliums for another year…We’ve loved them and so have the bees!
Many thanks to Alex Bogdan for her beautiful photos.
#allium #purple #bulb #flowersforbees #dalstoneasterncurvegarden
‘Its tickly feet feel like velcro'
That was one of the responses from children from Dalston’s Holy Trinity Primary School who were encountering a stag beetle for the first time.
Over recent weeks they’ve been working with artist educators Laura Halliwell and Corinne Beaty and author and nature educator Michael Holland to explore the diversity of mini-beasts that have made their home in the Garden. They’ve been carefully lifting logs to look for their habitats, shaking tree branches onto a white sheet to see what creatures live there, observing ants marching up and down tree trunks and looking for more signs of minibeast activity, such as nibbled leaves. Inspired by their discoveries they’ve been making their own lady-bird puppets, and drawing minibeasts from up close observation.
This week children were particularly excited to discover a stag beetle living under a log and some even drummed up the courage to let it sit on their hands commenting on how 'its tickly feet feel like velcro’. We are delighted that not only is this priority species now thriving at the Curve Garden among the dead wood log piles that are part of our drive to create diverse habitats, but that Hackney children are learning to love this globally endangered species, as well as less ‘glamorous’ mini-beasts like woodlice.
Our annual ‘Inspired by Nature’ programme with Holy Trinity Primary School is very special for us and for them. Most of the children don’t have their own gardens, so we love to see them returning to visit us year after year, often bringing family and friends to show off ‘their garden’ to them. Long may their joy in nature in the city continue!
#outdoorlearning#natureinthecity#dalstoneasterncurvegarden#biodiversity#minibeasts#hackneykids