When we opened our garden last August under the auspices of the National Garden Scheme and appeared in its famous Yellow Book we included in our details that we welcomed children. We were aware that few gardens make this obvious so we decided to reverse the trend. We made a few quiz sheets available for them to encourage them to look closely. They were very popular and most youngsters had a go. Some were very determined to find everything on the sheets. Great fun!
One quiz sheet featured our little collection of “green men” which we have scattered around the garden, some of which are hard to find.
The other invited our children visitors to seek out the large variteies of wildlife homes, shelters and nesting places.
I thought you might like to see the photos of the green men and our wildlife features. Amongst the green men is a…
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