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THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday June 20, 2001 Linbrook goes `green' with garden initiative B y W ilm a B lo k h u is BEAVER FOCUS EDITOR Here's hoping the wild geranium's at Linbrook School will blossom. If not, the school's Garden Club will plant new ones - Linbrook's new Millennium Garden gracing the front of the school build ing will not remain barren of wild geraniums. The entire front of the school on Linbrook Road is being developed into four `learning gardens,' of which three have been completed and proudly described by Garden Club members to visitors at last Wednesday's garden grand opening cere mony. Linbrook's `greening' is a five-year project, launched two years ago, to not only beautify the school, but to teach its Kindergarten to Grade 5 students about the environment - and to appre ciate gardening. Work to create the `Learning Gardens' began in the spring of 2000. When finished, the school will have seven gardens. To date, about $10,000 has been raised for this pro ject. Money has come from Ford's School Naturalization Project funding, $5,000; CN Rail, $1,000; Friends of the Environment Canada Trust, $2,800; Canadian Wildlife Fund, $350; a plant sale held at the school raised about $2,000; and the sale of paving stones raised another $2,600, explained Gail Grant, principal. Donations in kind came from Heather Allison Designs, HS&M Landscaping, and Maple Hill Tree Services. The Linbrook School Council has also raised funds to erect a new sign, complimented with a deco rative garden. Children, teachers and parent volunteers did all of the planting. "We want to thank the many parent volunteers rolled up their sleeves and got really dirty," said Grant. "Saturday plantings, sum mer waterings and ongoing maintenance work - not to forget mixing cement for the handprinted walkways." Completed to date are the Bird Sanctuary, Native, and Woodland gardens. The Garden Club, which consists of about a dozen Grade 4 students, built and painted birdhouses at Lansing Buildall and attached them to the front wall of the school and hung some in the trees in the Bird Sanctuary. The club plans to build birdfeeders as well. The Native Garden and rockery, where the wild geraniums have yet to sprout from seeds, was designed for indigenous plants of southern Ontario. The school's Grade 3 Nature Club is responsible for observing this garden, replenishing plants, and introducing new species. The Woodland Garden, with its upright tree stumps serves as an outdoor class room. Beside this garden, at the sunniest com er o f the school, a Butterfly Garden will be created, using plants that will attract not only but terflies but also humming birds. Existing trees at the front o f the school have been incorporated into the gar dens, designed by parent volunteer and landscape designer Heather Allison. "Designing these gardens was a lot o f fun," she explains, adding, "w e've had so much support from industry, the kids and the school community." She rose to the challenge and designed gardens which could thrive in areas shel tered by trees, withstand fumes from idling buses, and at the same time, serve as a learning environment. (See `Hand prints . . page B4) Bronte Road Street Dance With The Toronto All-Star Big Band Saturday, June 23rd, 7:00 p.m. Bronte Boardwalk Sponsored by the Bronte BIA presents in / a te rfro n t O n t a r io more to disco ver Oakville ival June 2 2 -2 3 -2 4 , 2001 www.oakvillefestival.com Photo by Barrie Erskine Sara Todaro and Brittany W owchuk of Linbrook School's Grade 4 Garden Club were proud to show the school's new gardens to visitors. 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