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For Children's Workshop information, please page down to Activities

 

 

 

 

 

The Children's garden was developed several years ago so children could have a place of their own to explore, learn and play. Packed into many small spaces, there are child size features aimed to encourage lots of imagination!

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you step into the Children’s garden you are greeted

by a winding maze filled with colorful, as well as,

sensory stimulating plants and flowers. 

 

 

 

Then, you may be lead to the ‘touch’ garden where children can touch and feel many different plants - learning how different plants can affect your senses. Very close by is the ‘smell’ garden that will help them become more aware of all the wonderful different smells of plants and why they smell that way. 

 

                

 

Everyone loves the parade of colorful painted birdhouses that line one side of then fence.  Also along this fence are native Virginia wildflowers. Children are amazed that Virginia so many beautiful native wildflowers. 

 

 

 

 

Across the garden there is a charming vine house covering the picnic table - a special "house" for them to hide and play (not quite big enough for adults) or eat lunch.  

 

Passion Flower "Jeanette" growing over picnic table Sept. 2009

 

 

More activities include:

  • The hopscotch stones in front of the vine house.

  • Dig in the tropical play area

  • Play seek and find with given directions on a flyer near the Vine house.

  • Look for toads in the toad house.

  • Do you have a request for a Master Gardener to work with youth High School age or younger?  The Children's Education Team (CET) is happy to facilitate speakers, workshops or other children activities.  Some workshop topics include:

    • Dirt and Worms

    • Good Bug/Bad Bug

    • Pollinators

    • Part of Plant to Eat

    • Seeds

    Send in your request for a workshop, class or event presence (table), or a tour of the LCMG Demonstration Garden. Please send and email to  CET@loudouncountymastergardeners.org with the following information: Contact name & phone number, Date & Time preferred, the number of students who will be involved and their ages, Meeting place & address, and suggestions for your topic of choice. Someone from the Children's Education Team will email you with our availability

     

 

Children's Garden Plant List from years ago

 Planters have Smell and Touch plants

Bird Wall - Native Flowers

Picnic table "tent"
Ageratum Parsley Spirea Meadowsweet Red Husker Penstemon Passion vine
Marigolds Radish Flax Turtle Head  
White and purple verbena Carrots Phlox Yarrow  
Curly kale Fern leaf dill Purple Coneflower Liatrus  
Licorice Scented geraniums Stonecrop sedum Bee Balm  
Scarlet runner beans Pineapple sage Black-eyed Susan Day Lily  
Artichoke Myrtle Obedient Plant Sunflower  
Curly Parsley Lemon thyme Coreopsis New York Aster  
Okra Crisp mint      
Lemon balm Chives      
Lemon verbena Lambs ear Maze
Italian dandelion Margarite Lamb's ear Dusty Miller Saxifraga ground cover
Trifolium Woolly thyme Zebra iris Johnny Jump-ups Dianthus
    Germander Leptinella Hen and Chicks
    Santolina Rock Cress Licorice
Plants subject to change due to weather, wildlife,etc.

 

For more about children's gardens and gardening with children see:

http://humeseeds.com/kids.htm 

http://geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Glade/3313/index.html

http://kidsgardening.com

 
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