Learning Garden in Bloom

We came back to school after the summer holidays to find our learning garden in full bloom, what a fantastic sight! Thank you Mr Cooke for keeping the garden watered over the holidays. The flowers have been attracting large numbers of butterflies such as Red Admirals and Small Tortoiseshells during the day along with many bees, hoverflies and other insects. At night-time, the heady scent from the flowers also attracts moths.

Moth trap set 18th September, 2014 (by bird hide)

Emptied by Year 6 on the 19th: 2 Copper Underwing agg., 1 Angle Shades, 22 Large Yellow Underwing, 3 Dusky Thorn, 1 Garden Carpet, 1 Pied Smudge, 2 Square-spot Rustic, 4 Lunar Underwing, 1 Mouse Moth, 3 Brimstone Moth, 3 Lesser Yellow Underwing, 3 Setaceous Hebrew Character, 1 Brown-spot Pinion, 2 Green Carpet, 1 Snout, 1 Common Wainscot, 2 Common Marbled Carpet, 2 Common/Dark Marbled Carpet agg., 1 Rosy Rustic.

Average temperature 15ºC, drizzly