00:00So my name is Louise Morton and I'm the Horticulturist here at Wycker Primary School in Port Chester.
00:06So tell me what we're doing here today. Well we're extremely excited because we've got a very rare
00:12occurrence in the UK of a plant named as Puya chalensis also known as sheep catcher which is
00:20about to bloom in front of us and it only flowers for a very short period of time maybe a couple of
00:26days. Fabulous. How do you feel about discovering this? Extremely lucky and exciting I mean it's taken
00:3610 years it can take up to 20 years to flower and apparently the flower only the plant only blooms
00:41once in its lifetime and the I mean the places it usually would bloom would be inside in the UK we've
00:48had a few occurrences of it blooming outside as ours is about two one of which was at RHS Wisley.
00:56So tell me a little bit about um you know the children here and and the horticultural um sort of uh
01:06education. Yeah so essentially for the 16 years the children have been um engaged in the natural
01:13world here as part of their curriculum which horticulture has paid a huge amount in and they're
01:18able to propagate from seed cutting division planting and also caring and nurturing for the
01:25finer points of horticulture it's not just planted and left so they're very much involved in caring
01:30for their environment and they have a real natural curiosity um for what's involved with that and
01:36then also creating habitats for wildlife by doing the growing essentially and another strand of our
01:43horticulture is food production which we're all really passionate about because we obviously love
01:48the growing of it but also the eating and the tasting and cooking as well. So um girls can you introduce yourselves?
01:55I'm Bella Rae um my last name right now and I'm one of the students for from Wicca Primary School and I think it's really cool that we have this plant in our in our gardens.
02:09I'm Margaret Castro and I'm Margaret Castro and I'm one of the students at Wicca Primary School and I think
02:14it's really incredible that we have a very a plant that we wouldn't see it much in our school grounds.
02:23Hello I'm Ivy Wright and I'm one of the students of Wicca Primary School. I'm really excited to see the
02:30flower roots here. I'm Sky Cabin and I'm one of the students at Wicca Primary School and I think it's great that we have a quite rare flower and like a plant that's going to flower in our grounds.
02:45So the garden that we're stood in front of is where our Bria Chilensis is about to flower and it's our
02:51Jurassic garden which is also quite unusual for a school. It's um landscaped using um stone from Hamhill and
02:58Somerset so actual Jurassic rock and we've got huge um uh Daconesia Antarctica which is better known as a
03:04tree fern behind it and essentially it's just a wonderful learning environment for children to go
03:10in and sit, study, sketch, research and also appreciate.
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