Our trip to the Gardens

Today we went on a visit to the Botanical Gardens to help them out. Our school has become friends of the gardens and each class will visit once a year to help out. We were welcomed enthusiastically and set to work. The Australian Gum Tree in the Mediterranean Gardens drop gum nuts everywhere. The gum nuts have lots of seeds in them and are make a mess everywhere. They are dangerous on the paths as people can slip on them. In the garden beds the gum nuts break down and spread their seeds everywhere and stop other plants from growing. It was our job to fill buckets with the gum nuts. We collected lots of buckets and had lots of fun doing it. Everyone did a great job. After we filled the buckets we took them to the aviary. Tom looks after the birds and said that they love gum nuts. He only feeds them a few and freezes the rest as they can make themselves sick if they eat too many. We watched him feeding them and then we had to race back to school. It was such a fun afternoon and we would like to go again.