Next Steps:
After starting the garden, we didn't get as far as we had hoped, leaving room to add on and improve the garden. Since we designed the layout of our garden to be a rock garden, we don't need very many plants but we still could use a few more. We could easily add a few more small plants like the Sedum Spurium Tricolor and the Echeveria 'Perle von Nuremberg'. The next step would be to lay down the rocks after all the plants have been planted. From there we would place stepping stones in their place, from the map, to create a pathway through the garden. We could potentially add a bench right outside the garden but it wasn't planned for. We could also add a fence but it isn't necessary since all of our plant aren't usually eaten by animals and they are sharp to protect from them. Our garden is meant to attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds so if we did add any different plants they would be plants that help with attracting these. We could use the garden to teach about plant and animal interactions from the bees, hummingbirds and butterflies. We could also use it as an example to teach about ecology like what we had to do to make to soil able to grow plants and what plants are drought tolerable.
After starting the garden, we didn't get as far as we had hoped, leaving room to add on and improve the garden. Since we designed the layout of our garden to be a rock garden, we don't need very many plants but we still could use a few more. We could easily add a few more small plants like the Sedum Spurium Tricolor and the Echeveria 'Perle von Nuremberg'. The next step would be to lay down the rocks after all the plants have been planted. From there we would place stepping stones in their place, from the map, to create a pathway through the garden. We could potentially add a bench right outside the garden but it wasn't planned for. We could also add a fence but it isn't necessary since all of our plant aren't usually eaten by animals and they are sharp to protect from them. Our garden is meant to attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds so if we did add any different plants they would be plants that help with attracting these. We could use the garden to teach about plant and animal interactions from the bees, hummingbirds and butterflies. We could also use it as an example to teach about ecology like what we had to do to make to soil able to grow plants and what plants are drought tolerable.