Pupils at
Montague Public School plant 600 flower bulbs in their school garden.
Pupils from the Eco Team, in
association with the Ontario EcoSchools Program, at Montague Public School
in Smiths Falls planted flower bulbs in their school
garden. With help from Kathleen Lang and Steve Svarckopf, our master gardeners
from the Smith Falls Horticultural Society the gardens and bushes at the front
of the school have been given a thorough cleansing to support the planting of
the 600 bulbs.
These flower bulbs were given to them by Bulbs4Kids, a program
that is allowing the team to become familiar with flower bulbs and the world of
nature in way that is also a lot of fun. When the tulips, crocuses, daffodils
and grape hyacinths start blooming early in the spring, this school garden will
be bursting with colour.
The Eco Team from Montague, signed up last summer to receive a flower bulb kit.
This class is one of 150 classes in Canada, 400 classes in the Netherlands,
1050 classes in Germany and 850 classes in England that will be participating
in the Bulbs4Kids project. Since each kit contains 600 flower bulbs, almost 1.5
million flower bulbs will be planted in school gardens.
More and more studies are confirming the beneficial effects that the natural
world has on our health. Playing in a natural environment and having hands-on
experiences with plants contributes to the healthy balanced development of
children. It makes children smarter, fitter and more creative. This is why
Bulbs4Kids decided to offer 150 free Bulbs4Kids kits to Canadian elementary
schools; together with the Eco Team, a Bulbs4Kids kit helps these children
discover flower bulbs. This program was initiated by iBulb and involves making 2,450 flower
bulb kits available to Canadian, Dutch, German and English elementary schools.
iBulb is an organization that promotes the interests of the flower bulb sector.
By means of global PR and advertising campaigns, iBulb is also committed to
stimulating the international use of flower bulbs, bulb cut flowers and bulbs
in pots.