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So we planned a camp in our garden for the weekend so we can get some serious work started for our wildlife friendly garden vision and we invited the Discovery group to help as the saying goes many hands make light work . We decided to do a sunrise hike up to the famous Eagles rock in our area up through a forest to the cliff face . Listening to all the sounds at night trying to envisage will our garden sound like this at night when our project is complete . Taking all the wonderful smells as we stroll through the forest so we decided smell in the garden is a plus so 2 lavender bushes were planted . We cut the garden again to make it even shorter built a compost heap for all the cuttings and waste which we hope will provide good compost in the future. We planted to wildflower patches to attract the pollinators mainly bees and beautiful butterflies for colour. Blueberry bush was also planted for some juicy fruits , The small pond construction was started , Feeders for birds was put up new feeding tables were made and painted . All in all a very busy weekend for everyone with more to do and hopefully this will all start to bare fruits in the future with the main man in mind John Muir

This session for the Clay Art was out in the forest with the Discovery Group and just by being in such a wonderful wild area gave us great ideas for our garden 1 being a source of water with a river flowing through the forest so the idea was our garden needed a small pond this instantly is attractive to local wildlife and by using the natural materials in the forest for the art gives us a great idea on what plants , trees etc we could use in our garden . This was a really beneficial day in the forest and a great time out

This was the first big stage of our project and simply aimed at cleaning up our garden free of rubbish and getting the long grass cut down to make it more manageable to work in. By the end of this session and great help from the Discovery Crew we had the Garden as a blank canvass ready to develop as we could now see what we had to work with and our ideas started to flood in on how to make it really attractive to wildlife which we are sure John Muir himself would approve off

The second session of the clay art again proved really useful as we started to use other natural materials that may play a part in our garden project in the future learning on how the materials work and some of the benefits they could bring is a big plus. We again were having a great time doing the art and crafts with the Discovery group