与孩子一起园艺:绘画和种植一个花盆

你小时候做过园艺吗?

我所做的.  My dad gave my siblings and me, each a small raised bed in the backyard.  We would spend hours leafing through the latest Burpee catalog, deciding what seeds we would buy to 植物 in our little gardens.

I never forgot my introduction to gardening under my father’s guidance, 我也喜欢和我的孙女做同样的事情, 莉莉.  

莉莉, 还有她的爸爸妈妈, 刚搬进他们的第一套房子, 她很高兴能去园艺.

So, 我带她去了托斯基当地的托儿所, Michigan and told her that she could pick two types of flowers.

After some deliberation, 莉莉 decided on cosmos and marigolds.

园艺和孩子们

We brought them home and got ready to create a pot filled with flowers.

The pot was purchased from the local big box store and painted a bright shade of blue using spray paint.

第一步是在花盆里填满种植材料, which is specially formulated for container gardening as it holds onto just the right amount of soil as opposed to potting soil, 哪个会变得潮湿.

betway旗舰版下载种花的时候, I took the time to explain to 4-year-old 莉莉 how the roots help the top part of the 植物 成长 and flower.

我挖洞，她会把每一株植物放在里面.

园艺和孩子们

然后betway旗舰版下载把土拍平，好好浇水.

当betway旗舰版下载完成的时候, we had a colorful pot filled with cosmos and marigolds ready to sit by the front door.

随着花朵成熟，最终干枯, 莉莉 will collect the seed and save it for next year’s garden.

We had a lovely time and 莉莉 would call me “Plant Lady” and herself the “Plant Girl”.  我想不出更好的方式来度过这个下午了.

你曾经花时间教孩子们园艺吗?  你种了什么??

园艺与莉莉…

诺艾尔约翰逊, 又名, “阿兹植物女士”是一位园艺师, 认证树艺家, and landscape consultant who helps people learn how to create, 成长, and maintain beautiful desert gardens that thrive in a hot, 干燥的气候. 她通过自己来做到这一点 咨询服务，她的在线课程 101年betway苹果下载和她每月的会员俱乐部， 穿过花园门. As she likes to tell desert-dwellers, "Gardening in the desert isn't hard, but it is different."