Gardening

CHILDREN – ARE THE FLOWERS OF LIFE!

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Children are inherently natural as nature itself is, so it is healthful for their lives all the works related to caring for the earth and plants. Clear sky, floating clouds, fresh air, a whiff of light breeze, life-giving rain, warm earth, magic transformation of small and light as a feather seed into a beautiful bush with tasty strawberries or delicate flower forget-me-not ……… .. This variety of forms, colors and flavors that is breathtaking – whether it is a miracle, or it is a fact of life? The living world of the living childhood in encounters with living wildlife!

Around the houses of the Children’s Embassy there live elves and gnomes. They help to take care for the specially planted forest plants, meadows, orchards and gardens. Children naturally through live meetings with nature, rather than on the pictures, get to know them. They learn to recognize them, know how to use them in their life, how to grow, reproduce. They learn how to properly care for them, help bees and those, in turn, is always happy to share with them floral honey. All year round at the Embassy there is our own honey, flavored tea from aromatic herbs, dried over the summer and jam from berries grown in the embassy garden.

From early spring there is always a lot of work in the embassy garden. Plant life is constantly in need of care on the part of man. Living from one year to the cycles of nature, the children get used to help adults to take care of the land, realizing that it is just as important as care for themselves. The Earth literally passes through their hands, through their heart. And the most important thing is that they see the results of their work, and a sense of how much joy they bring to them and their mutual people with the fruit of this difficult, but rewarding work.

Houses of the Children’s Embassy are located in such a way as to provide the children the opportunity to not just walk 2-3 hours in nature, but literally to live there and grow close to the plant world, it is easy and natural to learn about the nature of the area. Around all the houses there are always large or small gardens and orchards, in order to bring the children gardening culture and discover their first knowledge of the world of botany.

Children by their nature are remarkably active and tireless. Their help is always joyful, selfless and intact. Their emotions are healthful and beneficial to all live world. And, the most important thing is that the children’s interest in the garden throughout the year stays unchanged. They are beginning to put in order the garden immediately after the winter: they take shelter with heat-loving plants, clean up last year’s leaves, they sweep the track, handicrafts flower boxes, plant tender seedlings flower and vegetable crops, prepare beds for planting, repair fences in the flower beds, handicrafts and hang birdhouses on trees, clean decorative ponds, help to make tubs of heat-loving plants, treat the tubers of dahlias, gladioli, repair gardening tools, drip and loose soil, plant and water the seeds of vegetable crops, and many -many other. By April, the garden blooms and from that moment they do not cease to delight all who live in the Embassy both children and adults with its beauty until late autumn. Tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, rhododendrons, lilacs, viburnum, jasmine, cherry, apple, plum, pear, pass the baton flowering summer flowers and herbs, which are a collection of extremely interesting and varied in the Embassy. In the summer, entering into the garden, it is easy to forget that you are in the center of the city. What secrets are waiting for children in every corner! Beetles, spiders, worms, ants, caterpillars, ladybugs, butterflies, bees and bumblebees, snails, moles, squirrels, birds chirping all the voices encouraging children every day. There went up the first shoots of peas, and there turned green bed thin stalks of dill, cabbage leaves were drooping after the rain rose again and is now encouraging its beautiful greenery. Blooming strawberries recalled the last year’s sweet berries. We must prong the earth around it to the bushes a bit fancier and more presented berries this year. We will make jam out of them and will regale them with friends all winter, thinking of a wonderful summer.

There is in the embassy orchard a small apothecary garden. The collection includes well-known, traditionally used in folk medicine plants like plantain and burdock and celandine, and sage, and foal foot. Learning the structural features of plants, children are happy to look after them in the wild outside of the Embassy space. Children are very fond of taking care for the collection of herbs, such as tarragon, thyme, oregano, thyme, balm, lavender, basil, rosemary and mint. Should they lightly touch or pour some water from watering pots as you are literally enveloped with the magical flavors. How pleasant it is in the evening to please mom with freshly brewed tea with mint and oregano. And, of course, a favorite place of employment – an amazing garden, where houses of sisters-carrots are located, parsley and cucumber brothers, manor lord-Sir-tomatoes and squash, eggplant Castle and colorful peppers. Cabbage beds are situated side by side with a fence of peas and kidney beans. Pumpkins often come to visit the flower beds, and potatoes family is friendly with a large family of squash. We love in the morning to take the basket and to go out with friends in the garden in search of the new harvest. Oh, how delicious and unique is a strawberry, just plucked from the bush!!!!

There are close to the garden pottery and carpentry workshops, which always complement and diversify the work in the garden. To put together a box of seedlings with your own hands, to sculpt in clay a pot for flowers – is not it a miracle. Because children and adults hand out interesting things that are needed for everyday life! Panoramic windows shop go directly into the garden, vegetable garden and you at any time you can run out of the studio into the garden to admire the new blooming flower from chamomile, rose and peony, unusually stretched tomato stem, changed tender leaves of cucumber, first appeared fruits of pumpkin and highlighted in pink apple. And how does the sun manage to do all these transformations? Any season of the year children are waiting for surprises and new experiences. Often, children run barefoot along the paths, because the tracks are made of a variety of materials. Sand, pebbles, bark, grass cuttings. Such an interesting experience! And it’s nice in the hot weather to jump in small pools with warm and cool water.

So in the daily work there comes the time of a new harvest and delicious preparations for the winter. For a long winter you need a lot of stocks. We dry the apples, greens, pickle cabbage, do seaming, threshed grains of wheat spikelets, fills pillows with fragrant hay for games, planting new tubers tulips and primroses, trusting the care of them to dwarves…… Every day there is something new. Only you manage! But, the result of labor is in reality. Children acquire a lifetime invaluable experience. They convinced themselves that what you sow, that you should reap. Summer gives its rights to the beauty autumn. Of course, the autumn – is the brightest time in the garden. The annual cycle is nearing to completion, but still we have time to warm Indian summer, when the fairy Autumn colors in its bright colors all leaves and then they flashing orange-red colors here and there. Children watch how shades of leaves alternate each other, as more and more of them flies on the ground to hide it from the cold. The last herbarium sheets are filled. There are sliced and dried late varieties of apples, garlic is planted before winter and winter wheat. The first snow often catches in surprise the last flowers. And it is a miracle the meeting of the two seasons is always experienced in heart very clearly. And when the snow warm blanket covers garden and a lullaby of the wind helps it to fall asleep before the arrival of warm spring, the children every day, watch the diverse silhouettes of trees withdrawing their clothes, which are in abundant around the embassy houses, they carve in the carpentry workshop bird feeders and hang them in the garden to feathered friends have always a delicious and hearty meal of bread crumbs fresh case, the new and specially harvested in the fall of grains of dry twigs cut under the supervision of master new toys under the gentle singing, disassemble and paint wool, knit warm socks …… .Joyful life in the blessed work is flowing as usual.

COME TO THE CHILDREN’S EMBASSY, WE’LL TOGETHER GROW AND TAKE CARE AFTER CHILDREN AND OUR EARTH!