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Monday 26th November 2007
Michael McKnight, (left), principal of Cedar integrated primary school in
Crossgar, award winning landscape designer, Celia Spouncer (centre) and Patrick
McLain of local hard landscaping specialist, Acheson and Glover, join pupils to
admire a ‘Friendship Garden’ taking shape at the County Down school with support
from Acheson & Glover.
The company has supplied paving blocks to build pathways in the garden which is
being created as part of a European partnership programme involving Cedar and
schools in Hungary, Poland, Turkey.
Under the Comenius project, all four schools are designing and building their
own small gardens to promote learning about the environments, ecology, habitats
and climates of each country and to inspire artwork, poetry and prose.
Cedar’s imaginative garden has been designed by pupils at the school with a
little help from Celia whose awards include a silver medal at the RHS Chelsea
Flower Show. Measuring almost 200m2, it features four areas, each of which will
be laid out to represent the participating countries.
