Pupils make their mark with garden designs
GLASGOW pupils have created two mini eco- friendly show home gardens for a prominent housebuilder.
Taylor Wimpey West Scotland challenged the Primary 5 children from Wallacewell Primary School to create nature- friendly features for the new gardens in their Monument Way development in Robroyston.
This is to encourage visitors to use the gardens in environmentally friendly ways.
Audrey Ross, sales and marketing director for Taylor Wimpey West Scotland, said: “We are making our show home gardens more nature- friendly with the introduction of bug hotels and planting pollinatorfriendly flowers, and it’s been fantastic to get local children engaged with this project to get everyone thinking about wildlife and we’re delighted with the results.
“The children’s drawings were thoughtful and colourful, and along with our local landscaping expert, we had great fun judging their designs.
“We were so impressed with the designs that we couldn’t just choose one winner to influence our new show home gardens at Monument Way – so we picked two.
“Our young designers were Bethany and Charlie, and as well as seeing their design brought to life, they each won a gardening set packed full of wildflower seeds, a bug hotel, bird feeders, as well as a mini herb garden to grow at home or in school.”
Laura Davidson, headteacher at Wallacewell Primary, said: “Our Primary 5 children enjoyed their challenge to design a sustainable show home garden enormously, and we are thrilled with the designs that Bethany and Charlie created which have been replicated by the team at Monument Way.”