You've Been Framed!

Kev and Sinky have done a brilliant job this weekend! They have put in all the posts and built the frame for the stage. Work conditions were not great but they carried on regardless.


It looks really fabulous and it is now much easier to see how the garden is taking shape.

The Amphitheatre'sTaking Shape

If you look closely, you can see that the land has been shaped for our amphitheatre. There will be seating here that will look down onto the staged area.


Hopefully, there'll be less mud though!

It's A maze ing!

Nikki Morgan had her work cut out for her as she had to draw a plan of the maze so we could get an idea of the amount of matrials needed to put it all together. Here it is drawn out on the floor in the gym hall.....I wonder what it'll be like when it is actually in the garden?

Social Gardening

We all met again on the 14th for a spot of weeding a bit of a barbeque. We got the kids working by getting them to clean up some of the boulders
we want use on one of the garden areas.

Bring on the Digger

Thanks to Stuart Mackay and Carillion for once again providing us with a digger to clear the land for us. Peter, the driver, did an excellent job. He made it look so easy!

Round And Round The Gardens

It was a very exciting day today because I got the chance to go and visit some of the other Beechgrove Community Gardens in and around Edinburgh. My first stop was Silverburn in Midlothian. What a stunning garden, superb cake and a very warm welcome we were given. I really liked the way the garden was laid out and there were some tree benches which I think would work well in our school garden.


The next stop was the mining museum at Newton Grange. Despite being so close to the main road, this garden provided a peaceful haven where you could sit and relax and watch the world go by. I really liked the way that pieces of mining machinery were used to provide features throughout the garden.

The last stop was the 'secret' walled garden in Corstorphine. Very tranquil and off the beaten track it was a very impressive in size and looked amazing with a vast array of beautiful plants and trees.

Campfire's Burning

Thanks again to all the people who came along to get stuck into clearing the garden area on Sunday. We got the bonfire going and spent most of the day chopping things down and burning them up!




Tez and Kev get to the root of the matter!

The boys come in out of the rain to eat their sausages.












Time to put out the fire and go home for the night.

Forks, Spades, Axes and Chippers

Today we started a bit of the land clearance.......a tiny bit.....very tiny bit. However, it's a start. Thanks to the people who came along to work in the garden today. There may have only been a handful of us but we worked very hard. Have a look at the photos to see the progress we made. We'll be there again on Sunday doing a bit more - with hopefully a bit more manpower. If we get enough people we could have it done and dug in no time.

It looks like it goes on for ever....actually it does.

Getting the digging started.

Shifting trees....


chipping them....

then chopping down some more.

Thank You Hobbycraft

Many thanks to David Duncan, Manager of Hobbycraft at Fort Kinnaird in Edinburgh for very kindly donating acrylic paint and canvasses for our project. Here is Elaine with the products we were given.


Over the summer we will be inviting pupils to come into school to paint some fabulous pieces of art work which we will hang in the garden from the trees to create an outdoor gallery.

Sensory Garden

We will be including a sensory zone within our community garden. Today Nikki, Aimee, Callum and Thomas were doing a spot of beachcombing to find some interesting pebbles and shells to be used to make up part of the pathway.