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Children delight in new garden

22 April 2009

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Children enjoy the newly-renovated garden at the Monash Caulfield Childcare Centre.

A new children's garden has been opened at the Monash Caulfield Childcare Centre.

The newly-renovated garden space is complete with sandpits, a fernery, cubbyhouse, bridges, veggie patch, apple trees and water tanks.

It is the result of months of hard work by designer Ruth Czermak from Botanical Traditions, the team from Australian Landscape Management and centre staff.

Centre director Rukmini Bose-Rahman said the children had watched the process with eager anticipation and were enjoying playing and exploring in their new natural environment.

"There is so much to do, smell and touch. Staff have more scope to implement exciting outdoor experiences following the children's interests," Ms Bose-Rahman said.

Centre president Ben Conyers said families had also enjoyed the transformation.

"The children are coming home with stories about all the digging and exploring they have been doing," Mr Conyers said.

The garden has been funded by the Victorian government's Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

For more information visit the Monash Caulfield Childcare Centre web page.