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RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival

School Bug Barrels at RHS Hampton Court

Budding young designers aged 4-16 were tasked with creating colourful, pollinator-friendly wonderlands from oil drums in the Go Wild Family Area

A Wonderful World

Breakspeare School

The children at Breakspeare School, Hertfordshire, have created this sensory wonderland filled with flowers in a spectrum of colours and a variety of scents, as a haven for bugs and other wildlife. 

Bird on annual flowers

Bees on a sunflower

Grow your Wonderland

Cleves School

With a focus on children’s mental health, this design by Cleves School kid’s centres around sunflowers. A supporting cast of lobelia, alyssum and dahlias are sure to keep minds – and bees – content. 

Wonderland of Colnbrook

Colnbrook School

An unpainted barrel brims with grasses and herbs, representative of the Meadow Curriculum at Colnbrook, while plant pots in three colours signal the primary special school’s nature based pathways. 

Grasses and achillea

Bees on flowers

Bee Hotel and Spa

Downsend School, Leatherhead

With its scented floral feast and range of habitats, this brilliantly bright barrel by students at Downsend School, Leatherhead, is designed to attract the more than 250 bee species found in Britain. 

It’s a Bugs Life

Durants School Southgate

Students at Durants School Southgate designed It’s a Bugs Life to give easy access to many different creatures so they could find somewhere to lodge, be it for the evening or the long term. 

Bug hotel

Fairy house

Fairy Wonderland

Hampton Court House School

A toadstool umbrella protects shade-loving plants such as heucheras, bellflowers and bleeding hearts. Fairy houses made of clay, wood and pine cones by students at Hampton Court House complete the magic.


 

Through the Garden Gate: Wonderland Awaits

Hurst Park Primary Academy

A whimsical barrel garden by students at Hurst Park Primary Academy bursts with vibrant blooms, varied textures and hidden surprises, inviting visitors to step into a magical wonderland-inspired world. 

Bright annual flowers

Colourful flowers

Down the Rabbit Hole

Knaphill Lower School

A swirling portal entices you Down the Rabbit Hole to a place where nature is celebrated. Flowers, grown by Knaphill Lower School students themselves, tumble from teapot planters and upcycled cans.

Herbal Teas and Insect Homes

Muntham House School

An imaginative wonderland-worthy top hat becomes a planter filled with herbs, paper flowers and crochet cupcakes in this design by pupils at Muntham House. A bow, fashioned from plastic bags, ties up the theme. 

Herbs in a garden

Ladybird image credit: Pixabay Dayamay

Letchworth Ladybird Leisure

Northfields School Gardening Club and Eco-Committee

The children of Northfields School have designed a funfair bug barrel especially for fun-loving ladybirds. Featuring flowers and vegetables beloved of aphids, watch as the ladybirds fly in for a feast.

Time for Tea in Wonderland

Polehampton C of E Junior School

The design team at Polehampton C of E Junior School, where students are proud recipients of Planet Protector roles, have worked together to create this wonderful wonderland where plant-filled teapots pour petals and stems onto stands of floral confections. 

Poppy petals

Bees on yellow flowers

Wonderland of Fun and Feasting

Sonning C of E Primary School

Bedding plants for bees and butterflies nestle beneath climbers that curl skyward in this chequerboard creation by Sonning C of E Primary. Thirsty bees can also drink from water pebbles on top hat planters. 

Earth – Our Wonderland!

Stillness Infant School

Our own precious planet takes centre stage in this design by pupils at Stillness Infants. Plastic bottles become bees; and bottle tops, ladybirds; while the planting mimics what students grow back in the school’s garden. 

Bees and butterflies on flowers

Butterfly on lantana flowers

Art in Nature

Stonegate C o E Primary School

For their design, Stonegate C of E Primary pupils, who enjoy honing their horticultural skills at their after-school gardening club, have artfully incorporated the colours, shapes and textures in nature that are known to attract pollinators.

Fabulous Pollinators ‘Wonderland Fairground’

St Paul’s C of E Primary School, Kingston Hill

A Ferris wheel bee hotel and worm rollercoaster stand above a feast of lavender ‘ice cream’ and rosemary ‘candyfloss’ in this design by students at St Paul’s C of E Primary School, Kingston Hill. 

Bee on lavender

Bees on echinacea

Pollinator Wonderland

Willow Bank Junior School

All pollinators are welcome at this lively Bug Barrel designed by children at Berkshire’s Willow Bank Junior School. There’s plenty to feast on, water to drink and cosy places in which to shelter and hide. 

Hedgehog Habitat Heaven

Wimbledon Chase Primary School

The young people at Wimbledon Chase Primary have conjured up a host of ideas to help hedgehogs. From log piles and insect-friendly plants to ‘untidy’ areas ideal for small mammals to hide out in, they’ve gone the whole hog.

Hedgehog image credit: Pixabay timoostrich

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