Green Hour #12: Garden Flowers

Last week our Green Hour focus was on garden flowers. BOY! Were we excited about this. It is amazing how much a little color can change something drab into something beautiful. We still have much to learn about gardening, but these few little flowers that we planted in front of our house are such a welcome sight! Barb has this quote on her post, and I feel it is SO true:

“The only right way to begin plant study with young children is through awakening their interest in and love for flowers.”
Handbook of Nature Study, page 453

Sam, Elise and Claire helped me plant these flowers. We planted the Iris' a few years ago. I don't have pictures of the kids working because my hands were dirty too! We learned about some plant parts. We talked about the things that plants need to grow and thrive. We read some good books about flowers.

Here is a poster we made that shows some of the parts of a flower:


Here are some flowers (and leaves) we pressed:


We started planting our seeds outside few weeks ago, because I am SO impatient and not a very experienced gardener. Here is what our vegetable garden looks like so far (from left to right):
peas, cilantro, grape vines, bell peppers, strawberries, sunflowers, tomatoes, zucchini, and cantaloupe.

Yikes! Don't worry, I watered these plants right after a took these pictures.