The Children's Garden at Hemlock Bluffs

A Handmade sign denotes the Children's Garden

 Located outside the classroom window, where the children can peek out at their creation, the Children's Garden brings color and imagination to the far side of the Stevens Nature Center.  Developed by staff, but planted, painted and potted by kids, the Children's Garden is a collection of garden projects designed to brighten any garden and to bring wildlife to the garden. 

A recycled birdbath becomes a magical life-sized toadstool

Projects include garden art and large-scale projects, such as the toadstool, arbor and the many decorative steppers laid around the edge of the garden and through the garden.  Smaller projects

An elegant arbor is one entrance into the garden

such as the painted flower pots and the toad abodes located around the water garden are favorite projects for the kids to make for the garden.  Most of the perennials planted in the ground in the garden are native NC plants, selected for their wildlife value.  The plants in the containers are chosen for their color, bloom and nectar, for bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.

A little frog bog and many toad abodes

During spring, summer and fall the children in camps, programs and classes help maintain and beautify this garden and learn while they work to help wildlife habitat at Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve.