Local school children together and volunteers from The Croft, Camphill Village Trust have been learning and enjoying the art of garden design in the Walled Garden the last few weeks.
School children from West Heslerton CE Primary School, Settrington
All Saints CE School and Rillington Community Primary School, were asked to
consider the colour, height and overall shape of their flower bed designs.
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bed includes around 250 tulip / daffodil bulbs with five or six different colours.
The schools each visited the walled garden on three separate days throughout
November to plant up one of their chosen design. A
fourth bed was planted by volunteers from The Croft, Camphill Village
Trust, as part of their weekly volunteer gardening work at Scampston.
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| The Croft - Camphill Village Trust volunteers preparing the flower beds for planting |
Tulip design ideas from the Schools......
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| West Heslerton School Design |
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| Settrington School Design |
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| Rillington School design. |
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| Rillington School design |
A selection of photos from the planting days and bed preparation below....
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West Heslerton School exploring the walled garden
Some of the children were also inspired to get involved with creating natural art work in the garden as part of their visit. |
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| Natural art inspired by the drift grass |
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| Drift grass man! |
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| 3D Natural art |
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| West Heslerton school busy bulb planting |
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| Settrington group start planting |
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| Rillington school busy planting. |
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| Tree art |
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| Settrington - The design takes shape - final circle |
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| More drift grass inspired art-work |
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| Adding the cross sections to the design... |
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| Drift grass den! |
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| Flower..... |
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| The last few bulbs for Settrington! |
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| Finished design with happy design team and planters from Settrington School |
The tulip beds should be in flower next spring, for the children and all visitors to the gardens to enjoy.
Volunteers from
The Croft - Camphill Village Trust help every week with a range of work in the Scampston gardens and parkland. In November, this included helping prepare the circular beds for planting as well as planting up their own tulip bed design.
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| Removing the summer flowers |
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| Tulip bed planted by The Croft Volunteers :-) |
