For pupils aged 3-18
Every year, Eco Schools Scotland runs the One Planet Picnic Pocket Garden Competition. This year’s theme is Coasts and Waters. To take part, you should design and build an exciting and unusual garden design on this theme that includes edible plants, plants that attract wildlife and that re-use something that would have been thrown away (perhaps to grow plants in.) You could take the River Clyde as inspiration as it is the nearest body of water to our school or even the pond in Maxwell Park.
This project links to our current topics of Biodiversity and School Grounds and could help us to earn our next Eco Flag.
If your design is chosen as a winner, you will get to display it at the Scottish Garden Show at Scone Palace between the 29th and 31st May.
You need to submit your design electronically to oneplanetpicnic@keepscotlandbeautiful.org by 5pm on Wednesday 10th March. Designs must be high resolution, photographed, saved or scanned as the largest file size possible to allow the design to be printed for judging.
Here is more about the design brief.
- Pocket gardens must fit within a rectangular border sized120cm x100cm and should not be any higher than 2m, but can be any shape you wish.
- You can re-use any material to create the garden. Play with construction materials or old containers you have lying around to give you ideas. The plants need to be grown in compost.
- Use as many native plants as you can. You can look online to find plants that are native to Scotland.
- Your design should be to the scale of the plants used.
- Choose plants that would be found growing together in nature. For example don’t use plants that grow in ponds next to plants that like dry areas.
- You need to design your garden so that it won’t blow away because the ground at the Scottish Garden Show cannot be dug to hold anything in place.
- Your garden should be easy to assemble at the show ground from component parts.
- Don’t use pesticides or weed killers in your garden. It should be grown organically.
- To see competition entries from previous years use this link https://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/education-and-learning/food-and-the-environment/pocket-garden/pocket-garden-stories/
For more help contact one of the Garden for Life mentors who may be able to give you some plants by emailing: beautifulscotland@keepscotland beautiful.org
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Pocket Garden Stories | Food and the Environment
Find some inspiration for designing your own Pocket Garden.
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