Children's Garden at the Royal Bath & West Show

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Ай бұрын

I visited Lara Honnor at her Skool Beanz garden at the Royal Bath & West show ground. Lara and all her volunteers have worked so hard over the past week, with a tiny budget.
We explore their creation of a wonderful colourful and plant filled garden, for children and parents to enjoy over the course of the show.
The Royal Bath and West Show runs from 30th May to 1st June. Tickets are available via the website www.bathandwestshowground.com/...
Included in the garden are all the elements Lara finds important to really engage with children.
* Beautiful no dig veg beds
* Polytunnel - for rainy days
* Upcycled containers and artworks
* Muddy Buddy compost heap
* Rainwater collection
* Quiet garden
* Secret Den
Lara's permanent Skool Beanz garden is at an allotment site in Chilthorne Domer just on the outskirts of Yeovil. She runs a children's gardening club and offers adult courses for those who would like to create their own children's garden. Her website is www.skoolbeanzcic.com
Last summer we visited the garden and you can find the video we made below.
• Lara shows children| H...
Filmed on 29th May at the show ground, near Shepton Mallet, Somerset by Nicola Smith
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Пікірлер: 102

@sproutingemily 27 күн бұрын

She is lovely. Thank you for sharing this.

@OriginalRaveParty Ай бұрын

Such lovely energy 😊

@irishcottagerenovation9900 Ай бұрын

Laras infectious enthusiasm is an inspiration to us all. Children are in safe hands for the future when we have people like this. I’m doing a children’s garden project soon so this is so helpful. Thank you again for sharing this. ❤

@-cherith- Ай бұрын

What a beautiful magnificent soul 💖

@lilpipskweek6448 Ай бұрын

Now all educationalists take note. This is real living working education. Creative,functional and fun. Stuff that will serve you a lifetime not just until you leave school. Its inspirational. Thank you Lara and Charles

@CharlesDowding1nodig 28 күн бұрын

Thanks so much 💚

@cozyhomemakingvibes Ай бұрын

How lovely!!!

@capeeddy Ай бұрын

She's such a sweet woman ❤

@monikamona5271 14 күн бұрын

I love the colors

@landaliveourlittletinyhome7958 28 күн бұрын

I smiled the entire video!

@CharlesDowding1nodig 27 күн бұрын

Great to hear 🙂

@juliamorrisey5541 Ай бұрын

My great-nephew loves my veg garden. He gets very excited to harvest, especially strawberries and blueberries.

@CharlesDowding1nodig Ай бұрын

This is lovely to hear Julia

@BumblebeeAdventure Ай бұрын

even for adults is so motivating!!! Not just kids 🐝thanks for the great video🌻

@bernadette6211 Ай бұрын

Great fun ❤

@CharlesDowding1nodig Ай бұрын

💚

@SantiagoPortanova 29 күн бұрын

I love you guys

@turtle2212 Ай бұрын

It made me want to be a child again, tears of joy filled my eyes😊.

@barbararoyal6139 Ай бұрын

I Absolutely LOVE this!!!!🌸🌿🌼🌱☀️🕊️Thank you!

@wybuchowyukomendant Ай бұрын

It`s awesome you share your gardening knowledge with this kid Lara, always great to see enthusiastic young ones!

@skoolbeanz Ай бұрын

😂

@lisakennedy668 Ай бұрын

As always Lara is so inspiring, the children are going to have so much fun!

@fjalar4856 Ай бұрын

This is amazing! Well done Lara and team. Thank you for sharing.

@sanitanewman5888 Ай бұрын

Gorgeous 👍❤ so god for the little one

@iartistdotme Ай бұрын

What a delightful part of my life - this few minutes was joyful, enlightening, and hopeful. The kids will be changed after playing in it. After all, playing is wonderful education, too.

@rwg727 Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing that Charles! She is a great lady!. So kind of you to promote it!

@OfisLab Ай бұрын

one of the angels living among us!

@6732Louise Ай бұрын

Gorgeous 💚💚 So inspiring to get kids engaged in gardening, all the wee additions to make it interesting for them! Well done Lara!

@cpoco Ай бұрын

Absolutely brilliant, Lara is a treasure!

@spencersanderson1894 29 күн бұрын

Amazing! I laid the hedge for School Beanz on their plot, they are lovely and it’s such a great idea! Great to see them get the recognition they deserve!

@CharlesDowding1nodig 28 күн бұрын

Nice job Spencer

@spencersanderson1894 28 күн бұрын

@@CharlesDowding1nodig thank you, it was a pleasure, they’re great people.

@skoolbeanz 26 күн бұрын

Thank you so much Spencer! Your hedge is growing well at Skool Beanz 😁

@thedorkasaur Ай бұрын

What an absolute inspiration!

@andreahorsch286 Ай бұрын

Headed to our West Virginia school garden today

@countryquilting Ай бұрын

How beautiful this is 😍 I wish all children had access to it and could learn how fun gardening can be. Love the positivity too! ♥️♥️♥️ Lovely job!

@pascalxus Ай бұрын

wow, so artistic and colorful! i love all the label colors and wood panel paintings!

@vplph Ай бұрын

Who needs sun when you have that energy ❤️

@skoolbeanz Ай бұрын

😁

@karlmags9875 Ай бұрын

Really cool ideas! love all these colorful details!

@lorainemcguire5795 Ай бұрын

Such a lovely video ❤ children will love the activities very inspirational for everyone 🎉

@MsScotlyn Ай бұрын

Children will absolutely love this, it's beautiful! It's given me some fun ideas for me little garden so thank you 🥀🌻

@lauraalmasan3930 Ай бұрын

Great ideas! I’m sure the children must be thrilled to visit the garden!

@irenemarlow9144 Ай бұрын

Wonderful! ❤😁

@waynesell3681 Ай бұрын

Wonderful garden and teachers! The children will love it, parents too. Amazing!

@timflatus Ай бұрын

She's fun!

@lyndarobinson2853 Ай бұрын

What fun! Really enjoyed this. Thank you 😊

@durbatov Ай бұрын

Great work these skills are so important for children

@CharlesDowding1nodig Ай бұрын

I agree 🙂

@RachelChick-qx8zi Ай бұрын

We visited today and my girls absolutely loved taking part in the activities and they came back inspired with lots of ideas. I can’t recommend it enough if you live near and can visit over the weekend.

@CharlesDowding1nodig 28 күн бұрын

So glad!

@tedsteiner Ай бұрын

Wonderful! Love getting the kids involved 🥰

@CharlesDowding1nodig Ай бұрын

💚

@gudi361 Ай бұрын

Just love it, so beautiful!

@jmessenger919 Ай бұрын

this is such a lovely garden, so whimsical. They did such a great job, love it. Bless this woman for all her hard work.

@saschathinius7082 Ай бұрын

I love it, it is brilliant

@rebeccajns Ай бұрын

So many lovely ideas. I think it's amazing to get kids involved in learning to plant things. Such an awarding feeling to watch the things you've planted grow. Thank u for sharing ❤

@CharlesDowding1nodig Ай бұрын

You are welcome

@elizabethwoodhouse9461 Ай бұрын

Big shout out to your sponsors, for the polytunnel etc... Well done looks fab, love the video ❤

@skoolbeanz Ай бұрын

First Tunnels are great 👍🏼

@luisagarcia3961 21 күн бұрын

Obrigado querido Charles ❤

@CharlesDowding1nodig 21 күн бұрын

💚

@smas3256 Ай бұрын

No fun without worms. lol. Wig Wam shelter, even better idea. Fun for everyone. A lot of thought and effort really shows.

@julienfayet5337 Ай бұрын

C’est magnifique, félicitations 💚

@jamesmcbride2929 Ай бұрын

Oh can't you see the kids chasing the colors of the rainbow.

@GrandmomZoo 10 күн бұрын

Ok, I need to get some paint and more decos for my food forrest! 😊❤

@tatianasolodkokuruca4986 Ай бұрын

This by far THE MOST inspirational video I have seen on how to make your garden extra exciting for children! ❤ Also an incredibly cool solution for a water tank for someone who doesn't want it to be an ugly feature of a garden and has kids as well! Now I badly need more videos from Lara on how all of this could be done with less blood. Video for busy parents with kids ;-)

@CharlesDowding1nodig 28 күн бұрын

💚

@don5125 Ай бұрын

😂❤️👍

@davidcourt1047 Ай бұрын

Such great work & an innovative display ... just a shame that some of the signs don't help / encourage correct spelling !

@iteerrex8166 Ай бұрын

Pleasant chat and great little teaching garden. I’d make one suggestion, to use only natural nontoxic paints and materials around food plants. It’s not gona be as bright and long lasting, but I actually like pastels. They have a nice calmness to it.

@ricos1497 Ай бұрын

I think the cuprinol garden paints mentioned in the video are water based and non toxic.

@iteerrex8166 Ай бұрын

@@ricos1497 Ok. I had no idea what kind of paint was used, but I just wanted to mention as a caution.

@ricos1497 Ай бұрын

@@iteerrex8166 she mentioned cuprinol in the video, so I assume that it's their garden shades range, which appear to be water based and non toxic. Difficult to tell these days though, you're right to be cautious!

@thecsslife Ай бұрын

My beetroot has started to bolt already! The variety is golden burpees, multi sown in February and planted out in March. I've never seen this before, normally they flower on year two if left in the ground. And all crimson broad beans not making pods but superaguadulce all are? Unusual year with all this rain... Any ideas?

@CharlesDowding1nodig 28 күн бұрын

This is why, for early sowing, I recommend Boltardy or there's another new one called Boston. I don't know what's going on with your crimson beans!

@thecsslife 28 күн бұрын

@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks for the advice! I’ve pinched out the flower head, hopefully that will work out fine.

@jessieb7290 Ай бұрын

What happens to all the veg after the show? Does it get moved again?

@skoolbeanz Ай бұрын

Yes we are going to take it back to the Skool Beanz allotment and plant it ☺️

@yvonnejackson1696 Ай бұрын

The ability to grow a garden- A much more useful skill than an ability to solve quadratic equations 😆 Not that I’m against quadratic equation skills. 😁

@CharlesDowding1nodig 28 күн бұрын

Wow! Love it Yvonne

@GoustiFruit Ай бұрын

I'd like to be child again.

@nickhammersonrocks Ай бұрын

WE’VE BEEN TRYING TO CONVINCE OUR CHILDREN THAT THEY DON’T REALLY NEED A PUPPY FOR THEIR BIRTHDAY !!!! WE TELL THEM THAT THEY ALREADY HAVE THE GREATEST LIVING ORGANISM A KID COULD EVER WANT !!!! A BEAUTIFUL, ABUNDANTLY FERTILE, UNDUG PATCH OF SOIL RIGHT IN THEIR BACK YARD !!!!! THEY’RE NOT GOING FOR IT THOUGH !!!!! 😒😞

@skoolbeanz Ай бұрын

My advice is get them that puppy. Then they will spend even more time in the garden playing with it 😊

@nickhammersonrocks Ай бұрын

@@skoolbeanz TRUE !!!! AND THE PUPPY CAN HELP WITH OUR COMPOST MIXTURE !!!!! 👍

@CharlesDowding1nodig 28 күн бұрын

😂 and they will grow into it

@jonathanravenhilllloyd2070 Ай бұрын

The pedantic English teacher side of me insists that 'to weave' is an irregular verb: weave, wove, woven.

@nursennursen2125 Ай бұрын

Ahhh türkçe altyazi neden yok:((

@jensissons5709 Ай бұрын

I thought it would be a garden designed and built by children. Were children involved at any point?

@skoolbeanz Ай бұрын

Absolutely, they helped paint + decorate the signs + planters + scarecrow. This is a learning garden for children, functional as well as fun and beautiful. All the elements in this garden have been taken from our original Skool Beanz allotment so we know how much the children love them ☺️