Confetti Park Children's Workshop

Tag: plants

  • Rosemary the Garden Fairy: Grow a time-telling garden

    Rosemary the Garden Fairy: Grow a time-telling garden

    “Follow me to the garden! Let’s check out the magic of nature!”

    Rosemary the Garden Fairy shares gardening tips and natural lore with children.

    Did you know that some plants can tell time?

    A wonderful project would be for you to plant a time-telling garden, full of morning glories, four o’clocks, and moon flowers. You will see that your beautiful morning glories open their temper purple blue petals at dawn. The four o’clocks uncurl their bright pink faces in the afternoon, and guess when the moon flower blooms?

    Something amazing: these flowers can even be placed in a dark closet and still bloom at the right time for several days.

  • Introducing Rosemary the Garden Fairy’s gardening segments for kids!

    Introducing Rosemary the Garden Fairy’s gardening segments for kids!

    “Follow me to the garden! Let’s check out the magic of nature!”

    Introducing Rosemary the Garden Fairy, a new contributor to Confetti Park! We found her flitting about our beautiful corner, and realized she had much wisdom to impart about the natural world.

    In this segment, Rosemary teaches us about air plants.

    Have you ever heard of an air plant?  It can grow without any soil!

    The scientific name for air plants is “Tillandsia.” Lucky kids in Louisiana have seen one species of this plant called Spanish Moss, growing in our beautiful oak trees and throughout our swamps and bayous.

    There are over 650 species of air plants, and some of them bloom pretty little flowers. You can try growing an air plant in your house…. You can even pin it to a curtain and it will grow!