It seems such a pity when a nursery has a lot of land but it is all just grassed over or filled with evergreen bushes. If this is your situation, can you negotiate for:
* a flower bed to be 'the children's', for growing annual flowers?
* a patch to be left to grow a few vegetables for the nursery kitchen?
* a sizeable area of grass to be left unmown from early May to mid- September, so you can have a meadow garden? The grass will grow tall and flower, and wildflowers will appear: buttercups, daisies, clover, hawkbit, groundsel. Enjoy the names: ragged Robin, shepherd's purse, fieldmouse ear chickweed! The joy of rolling in long grass, picking daisies and blowing dandelion clocks is part of childhood. Some children's only experience of this could be at your nursery. See how the flowers attract butterflies, ladybirds and other small creatures. If you never do anything else, do try to have a meadow garden. The effort for you will be about nil, and the potential pleasure for children will be enormous.
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