Gardening With Kids

Combining daycare and gardening

My name is Liz Dutton , and this is my first entry to the GPOD . For the past thirty - five years , I have been garden and operating a day care home on two acres in Kenosha , Wisconsin . Every 24-hour interval you will find me outside with the children with a camera around my neck so that I can photograph them at play , but I also photograph my garden daily and employ the pictures as a type of journal to record the change . summertime is definitely slipping by , and many signal of autumn are creeping in .

Colchicum(Zones 4–7)blooming on the autumn equinoctial point search like saltation on the first day of capitulation . See more crepuscule bloomers .

Morning sun lights up thepennisetumand theHeliopsis(Zones 3–9 ) .

I purchasedPhloxpaniculata ‘ Jeanna ’ because I read it is the phlox that butterflies like good .

Even the youngest in my day care home enjoy the garden . This child is arranging dahlia early in the morning .

Tithonia rotundifolia(Mexican helianthus , annual ) visited by a monarch butterfly .

Have photos to share ? We ’d love to see your garden , a particular collection of works you love , or a grand garden you had the chance to confabulate !

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