Botanical garden

Botanical garden

I remembered when my sisters and I went to the Botanical Garden for the first time. It was amazing!  

We hopped in the double decker bus and we all wanted to go at the top of the bus but some of us to go to the bottom. Then we arrived and we were led to the courtyard. That’s when the two ladies told us there names. One of their names were Caroline. They explained what we had to do. That was before we had morning tea.

After morning tea we went into the classroom to learn about 4 types of plants which were native, endemic, exotic plants and weeds.

After the classroom we went to the children's garden. When we were in the Children's Garden we had a magic moment.  Then we had a story about a Tui that went to different trees. The last thing we did was to identify plants and trees. We got a card that showed a plant that we had to find.

When we finished we had to go and gather Kowhai seeds. We got envelopes and out our seeds inside it. Then the fun part came and we all went to the garden center.

First Caroline told us what we had to do. We had to watch her so we would know what to do. Then when she finished she told us what we had to do. First we had to get 2 yogurt pots. Then we had to pick what we wanted to do. Then we had to do the activities and if we finished, we had to find a plants. There was a plant that was edible that everyone tasted. When we got back to the courtyard it was lunch time and everyone was eating.

When we all finished eating we all went into our groups. We had to get leaves from the ground and take photos.

After the bush walk we had to thank the two ladies and we got ready to go back to school.

By: Maira