On Friday 19th March 2010 at assembly a trip to the Royal Botanic Gardens sprung up because we were going to do a whole school project on the rainforest next term. We were to go on Tuesday 23rd March 2010. All that weekend and Monday I was feeling excited. When the day came I was up really early.
When we arrived we walked to the Fletcher building to have lunch, we were introduced to our tour guide, Anna. Then me and my classmates started eating lunch Mrs Ben said “three minutes left!”
The first glasshouse we entered Anna gave us a task to find a mini banana plant, strangler fig, vanilla and the drip trip leaves. The strangler fig is a tree that strangles other trees and then eats them once they are dead. The banana tree grows bananas Anna snapped a banana in half to let everyone smell, I alone did not smell anything from it. We use the vanilla plant to flavour food now.
The next greenhouse we went to was the Palm Tropics there was a tree called the Subal Bermudana can grow up to fifty metres high. Anna the tour guide told us about the old Botanic Gardens in Leith and the Subal Bermudana tree was moved from there to the new location of the Botanic Gardens . It needed cut down a little because it is to high.
In the same greenhouse I found out that Bamboo can grow a metre a day and can make things like:
Socks
Flutes
Nappies
Spoons
Bowls/ dishes.
The next greenhouse we faced had a pond in the middle there were plants round the edge like:
Ginger plant
Coco plant
Rubber plant.
The Coco plant is used to make chocolate, Coco pops and Ricekrispes. We were not in that room long because we were running out of time. We carried the tour on and saw a Japanese fish called the Koi Carp.
Eventually the tour ended, back on the bus, back to school I thought everyone enjoyed the day but still tired at the same time.
