Huge Congratulations to teachers, pupils, parents, Board of Management and friends of Kilteevan National School/Junior Tidy Towns for this wonderful, hugely relevant initiative. - Kilteevan Community Garden.

Adult Tidy Towns looks forward to continuing our support for this project.which supports the Sustainable Developmenmt Goals.

This project is about biodiversity, climate change, resilience, sustainability, well-being, mental health, nutrition, community and much, much more. How lucky the pupils are to be learning vitally important for skills for life. What a great little place Kilteevan is.

Today we celebrate our flora. The first Spotted Orchid of the year was noted on the Cloonlarge Loop yesterday. Many more will hopefully follow. Yes, we have NATIVE wild orchids here.

This beautiful flower has an amazing design. The colour can range from white and pale pink to purple. Notice the distinctive darker pink spots and stripes on their three-lobed lips. The flowers are densely packed in short, cone-shaped clusters. Perfumed flowers like this are particularly attractive to day-flying moths. Again we see everything in nature is connected.