Bubble Tea Sale and Butterfly Garden check

So we had our bubble tea sale today, a fundraiser that we also hope will generate interest in our project amongst our school. At 6:50AM, we collected the bubble tea from the Dunman school vendor. There were 250 cups, the entirety of which we managed to sell. Below is a photo of us after fundraising, counting the money we made: In...

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Repotting Part 2

Beverley, Wang You and Zek Min continued our repotting project, as part of our efforts to rejuvenate our school garden. Wang You and Zek Min digging the soil. To our surprise, the healthy plants we replotted last week are all drooping and the flowers are all gone! We plan to ask Mr Anuj for advice as to why the plants are not faring well,...

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Butterfly Survey 3 and Visit to Science Centre Singapore

Today, we (Zek Min, Beverley, Vivian and Kate) went for the weekly butterfly survey. There was a surprising amount of plain tigers around, as well as (to our delight) a Common Mime (Papilio Clytia). Attached are a few of the photos we captured of the butterflies. Vivian and Zek Min watching the plants for the butterfly survey. Beverley and Zek...

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Repotting Part 1

We did some work on our school gardens recently (23rd Feb), repotting some of the plants which we had bought but hadn't had time to plant properly yet. Most of plants had thrived where we had left them, especially the Snakeweed plants, which shot up despite little tending. We managed to repot 3 Snakeweed plants (Stachytarpheta indica) and 2 Wedelia...

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Butterfly Survey 2

When we were carrying out our second butterfly survey, we discovered that the garden attracts more than just butterflies. Indeed, upon closer look, the garden is teeming with insects and animals. For example, there were bees that are large enough to cause a flower to sag when they landed on it, many types of snails, centipedes, millipedes and many...

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Propagation workshop

We have been collaborating with members of the Nature Society (Singapore) since back in 2011, and they have been immensely helpful in aiding us and our senior group, Project canSOAR, in establishing our school butterfly garden.  At the end of last year, the NSS extended a further kindness in educating us as to an alternative method with which we can expand our school garden-- namely asexual propagation.  Propagation is a trickier method of breeding plants; however its advantage lies in that it does not require any monetary expenditure...

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Butterfly Survey 1

We carried out our first butterfly survey yesterday at Dhoby Ghaut Green (refer to map) on 4th February. A butterfly survey basically consists of counting the number and type of butterflies that visit a plot of plants in 2 minutes.  Through this, we are helping the NSS (Nature Singapore Society) to collect data regarding which kinds of butterfly...

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