the water garden after a clean up




Last week I came to the watergarden to discover that students and Mr. Heigelke had been working all day cutting back the summer growth.



After a summer of growth it realy needed a trimming.



The flowering currant was trimmed to shoulder height. This will allow the plants to flower early in February.



Arround the pond the purple asters and lupin were cut to the ground. This will give them a robust growth in the spring.



the area around the Oregon Oak was cleared of service berry and lupin. You can now see the famous davinci totem pole. It is a ceramic piece created by former art teacher Anna Quin and the davinci students.



The living machine is doing very well.



It consists of 5 - 55 gallon drums filled with water and plants. They are fed liquid waste from the cafeteria every week.



This nutient rich liquid is digested by the plants ,fish and snails in the tanks.



Notice the size of the leaves in the closest tank. these are wapato and are three times the size of the wapato in the pond



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