It’s autumn in the UK and we’re planning for Spring in the garden. Last Spring we had so much fun exploring the colours of the flowers so when I picked up Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert I knew that we had to plant some more spring bulbs to add to our colours next year.
Planting a Rainbow
The area is very shaded from the over hanging trees so the undergrowth is starting to die back. Our first job was clearing the beds to plant bulbs – with a pair of small gardening gloves J set right into it pulling up the weeds and placing into the bucket for composting.
It was then time to choose our bulbs – we had picked
- Alliums – Purple up to 90cm high to plant at the back
- Dutch Iris – Black up to 45cm we planted in the middle
- Daffodils – Yellow up to 40cm we dotted around the bed randomly
- Crocus – Blue up to 20cm planted at the front
- Tulips – Red up to 45cm planted in the middle
- Hyacinths – Blue up to 20cm planted towards the front
These will grow at different times over the Spring into summer producing a range of colours in the bed to explore and look at as well as attracting different bugs to pollinate them as well.
We planted each bulb in its own hole that we dug and made sure that it was hairy end down (great way to explain the root structure on the bottom to early preschoolers) and then covered with soil.
As it’s been really dry here we watered in the bulbs and now look forward to what they grow into in the spring and the colours that we can see.
See these related ideas to go along with the book and planting the bulbs
- Red Ted Art’s – Flower Collage
- Rainy Day Mum’s – Exploring Colours of Spring
- Not Just Cute – Producing Planting a Rainbow like illustrations
- Teach Preschool – Painting a Rainbow of Flowers Lois Ehlert Style
- The Artful Child – Planting a Rainbow
- Reading Confetti – Egg Carton Flowers
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Cerys
Cerys is from the UK and is a stay at home mum to 2 young children. She blogs at Rainy Day Mum where she shares crafts, cooking, exploring the outdoors and play ideas to make every day fun what ever the weather.
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Thanks for including my link. Planting a Rainbow is one of my favorite books!
It’s a lovely book – thank you for stopping by
Wonderful! We are inspired to plant a rainbow too! Will add it to our garden planning.. hopefully we WILL do it!
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I just hope that they don’t dig up the bulbs between now and then
How exciting to have bulbs to look forward to in the spring! My kids enjoyed watching our garden grow this summer
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J keeps checking expecting them to have grown over night – but we have some ideas of things to plant for winter as well
Looking forward to see what else you plant and grow
Lots of ideas coming up
Cam’t wait to see it!
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It should be fun to see in the Spring – I wish I could fast forward to take a picture of it.
This looks beautiful!! Compliments , I wished I ahd more green fingers…
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I believe that you can grow green fingers – the more you grow the more green fingered you get. Hope we can inspire you to grow some things
PS Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
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What a beautiful post! Makes me want to get out with the kids this weekend and get started on our bulb planting!
There are some great deals on bulbs at the moment – well worth looking out for.
Thank you for finding me and linking up. A great Country Kids day. Funny to think ahead to Spring when we are only just starting autumn, but I guess I do the same, we are just organizing for the Ram to visit our sheep for spring lambs! Your little helpers look like naturals in the garden there, I think they may be saved their watering job this week, rain is on the way!
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Thank you – yes thinking ahead is the key in the garden and I guess on the farm as well…. PS. Fiona it is I Cerys (from Rainy Day Mum) in my alter ego as Growing Green Fingered Kids a new collaborative site for encouraging kids to get gardenings and having fun in the garden
Oh yes, you certainly make gardening look inviting.
What a wonderful and authentic extension to the book.
Thanks for linking up to The Children’s Bookshelf.
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You are going to have a gorgeous garden in the spring! Thanks for linking up tot he Children’s Bookshelf.
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I’ll be featuring this post, too.
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oooh i can’t wait to see how they turn out!
Thanks for linking up to Science Sparks and sorry for the late comment. xx
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