What kind of flowers would be best in a school garden?

My school is replanting its garden, im in the thing that helps.


What kind of flowers should we use.


the school colors are blue and gold.


we dont want one that would attract yellowjackets though.


we just want a beautiful, colorful garden.

What kind of flowers would be best in a school garden?
We redid a garden at our kids' elementary school. We blocked out an area for the teachers to use (annuals for class projects, things like seeing beans grow), and made most of the rest very low maintainance. While we passed on the garden after 3 years to some other parents, you have to assume the garden will get neglected after a while.





Most of the area was shady. We planted hostas, daylilies, daffs which naturalize. There were already some nice shrubs, including a daphne, which just needed major pruning. We got other parents to volunteer labor, and donate plants. The local garden center chipped in the mulch.
Reply:I agree with sunflowers but kids also like herb gardens. They are attracted by the names. Sage would be great just for the color and the beautiful purple blooms that the plant produces. You can also plant forget-me-nots for the blue. Nothing is prettier than the blue of forget-me-nots. Then add basil and oregano just for the fun of harvesting the herbs and taking some home to mom and dad. Cosmos are stately and elegant and blow wistfully in the wind and could reflect your school colors when combined with giant blue lobelia. You could also add nasturtiums as border flowers and these come in a variety of bright orange, red, yellow and gold colors. These would look great with perennial forget-me-nots. And a big succes in the herb department is feverfew. This is in the Chrysantamum family. The more you cut the flowers, the more it comes back and blooms. The flowers are small, white mums. The leaves are beautiful in shape and go well in any garden. The fevefew is about 2 foot tall but very bushy with many white flowers. So the above is a combination of perennials, herbs, annuals and can be a fun project for the kids. They can harvest and dry the sage, basil and oregano. And if you want a real nifty large seed bearing plant, put in a couple of fennel plants. The kids can gather fennel seeds and use them in designs or as a gift of seasoning to go with the basil, oregano and sage.
Reply:If you are looking for annuals I would suggest pansies, marigolds to mach your school colors. I would agree that kids would really like the herbs and they are usually hardy and easy to grow. If you are planting veggies any type of bean is going to grow well for kids but you might want to look for something interesting like purple carrots or yin yang beans my kids love all those weird veggies! If you want a shrub I have a Harlequin Glorybower that smells like peanut butter when you crush its leaves and has very neat res and blue star shaped berries that the kids think are pretty cool. I also have a Strawberry tree that the kids like. Heres some pics of both.





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Reply:Sun flowers of all sizes, a giant one for sure! Gladiolas which could be planted now for summer blooms, they are tall and orchid looking blooms sturdy. Cosmos grow tall and bushy and wave in the wind and Morning glories and four o'clocks will climb up a tripod and inspire with there habit of one opening in morning and closing at early evening and the 4 O'clocks opening at about 3pm. all flowers attract bee's and wasps and birds!Good luck!