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Chamber and committees

Glasgow Pupils Design Green Gardens for Taylor Wimpey Show Home

  • Submitted by: Annie Wells, Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
  • Date lodged: Monday, 29 April 2024
  • Motion reference: S6M-13018

That the Parliament congratulates pupils from Wallacewell Primary School who created mini eco-friendly show home gardens for a prominent housebuilder; understands that Taylor Wimpey West Scotland challenged the P5 children to create nature-friendly features for the new gardens in its Monument Way development in Robroyston, in the hope that it would encourage visitors to use the gardens in environmentally-friendly ways; notes that the housebuilder wanted its show home gardens to be more nature friendly, with the introduction of bug hotels and the planting of pollinator-friendly flowers; understands that children submitted drawings showing what the gardens could look like; notes that the housebuilder's local landscaping expert, and others, judged the designs, but were unable to pick an overall winner due to the design ideas being of such high quality, and that, as such, two winners were selected; understands that designers Bethany and Charlie each saw their design brought to life and won a gardening set packed full of wildflower seeds, a bug hotel, bird feeders, as well as a mini herb garden to grow at home or in school, and believes that all of the P5 children enormously enjoyed the challenge of designing a sustainable show home garden.


Supported by: Clare Adamson, Jeremy Balfour, Colin Beattie, Miles Briggs, Alexander Burnett, Jackson Carlaw, Sharon Dowey, Pam Duncan-Glancy, Tim Eagle, Russell Findlay, Meghan Gallacher, Maurice Golden, Pam Gosal, Jamie Greene, Dr. Sandesh Gulhane, Jamie Halcro Johnston, Craig Hoy, Liam Kerr, Bill Kidd, Roz McCall, Stuart McMillan, Marie McNair, Edward Mountain, Douglas Ross, Alexander Stewart, Kevin Stewart, Paul Sweeney, David Torrance, Sue Webber, Tess White, Brian Whittle