Labeling our plants, showing school spirit

Last week we denoted all the Latin species names of our plants and created labels for each one! It sounds fancy, but all of this was done the old-fashioned way, with pencil, notecards, Scotch tape, and toothpicks.

Well done, Faith!

Our featured artists are Angelina and Erica. 

Thank you to the Lia family for their donation of "Ellen" the peppermint plant.

We also painted rocks to spell out CLCS in our Coyote colors. These rocks will decorate the border of our garden. Of course, maintenance of the garden is our first priority. We watered the plants and treated them with diluted fish oil fertilizer and Epsom salts, both to add nutrients to the soil and to ward off pests. So far, our plants seem to be resilient against both insects and rabbits. We only have a few nibbles on our sage plant. We also filled in the topsoil on several of our plants because some of it had washed away after a hard rain. After our work was done, everyone walked away with a sprig of lavender or a flower, as well as a sweet banana pepper. Erica and I then weeded the butterfly garden outside of Purple Kiva.  While doing so, we spotted a monarch butterfly! Hopefully, we will see more soon.