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The Butterfly Mound is situated behind the reception class and next to the 'Maze Seat'. This hill is slightly smaller that the adjacent Shrub Mound and has been planted to attract butterflies, with a blaze of summer colour.
Many of the herbaceous plants were donated by the Mead Nursery at Brokerswood and the main slope has been planted with hot colours, such as yellows, oranges and reds. We have used inula 'hookeri' extensively, which features a rather pretty hairy yellow daisy flower and is often covered in butterflies from June, right up to September. The flowering period is prolonged by lots of deadheading, which is something that we always try to practice throughout the gardens at Rode School, along with lots of weeding, watering and feeding!
Other plants on this side of the Butterfly Mound include anthemis, broom (cytisus), crocosmia, gaillardia, hemerocallis (day lily), lysamachia, osteospermum, poppies, potentilla and rudbeckia.
On the other, steeper side of the mound we have chosen a red / pink / purple colour theme. Our favourite plants include bugle, gypsophila and a very deep pink variety of osteospermum (jucundum 'blackthorn seedling'). To one side, we have also planted several white buddleia trees (butterfly bush), to help attract even more butterflies and insects.
