Wild life Garden-”Inviting Garden” -How to make? Enriching biodiversity in the school-yard

How to establish the garden?

שלב מוקדם – בדיקה – מה כבר יש בגינה?

Step1

A survey- who is found already in the yard

Step2

palnning

צמחי תבלין

Must take into account conditions like shade and slopes

Step 3: sowing Annual wild plants

flowerbed for geophytes -autumn

Step 4:digging the pond

First birds coming to the pond

Half a year later

Making a winter pond autumn

Adding soil from a dry pond

Filling up the winter pond in case the rains don’t start

Fresh water creatures in the winter pond

סרטני צדפונית

חלזונות בולית

February –blossom in the winter pond

Step 5: Compost pile

קומפוסט

Step 6: creating paths

Step 7: making the flowerbeds- adding compost

Step 8: arranging irrigation system

Step 9: planting

Planting the butterfly garden - autumn

Butterfly garden - spring

Butterfly garden - spring

Step 10: making feeders and nesting boxes

Feeder from a plastic container

Preparing plastic containers

pine cone Pieflour

oilseeds

Step 11: building a sitting place

Step 12: creating a hide

The garden ‘before’

Preparing the path and planting

Watching the garden

The garden – half a year later

The gardens board

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