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468 Šolska kronika • 3 • 2015 Magajne Germ, Alenka idr., Ob stoletnici šole v Bukovščici, Železne niti 10 (ur. Rudi Rejc), Železniki 2013. Stalež šolstva in učiteljstva ter prosvetnih in kulturnih ustanov v Dravski Banovini, Ljubljana 1934. Šmid, Olga, Šolstvo v Selški dolini nekoč in danes, Selška dolina v preteklosti in seda- njosti (ur. France Planina), Železniki 1973. http://www.las-pogorje.si/Slo/main.asp?id=137F3CFF (pridobljeno: 4. 12. 2014) http://www.stat.si/krajevnaimena/default.asp?txtIme=SV.%20LENART&selNacin=c elo&selTip=naselja&ID=4410 (pridobljeno: 12. 3. 2015) Summary The school gardens in Bukovščica and Sv. Lenart in the Selška dolina valley Neža Trdin Schooling in Sv. Lenart goes back to 1876, with the founding of a makeshift school, while regular lessons began to be conducted shortly before the construction of the school building, which came into use in 1896. In the same year, with the help of the Provincial Committee and the Carniolan Savings Bank, the municipality also laid out the school garden with its courtyard and woodshed. The garden did not come along as well as it could have, as the soil was clayey. Additional damage was also caused by wildlife, as the school did not have the funds to erect a suitable fence around it. In 1949 the garden was scaled down to expand the courtyard and the playground and was last mentioned in a description entered in the school chronicles in the year 1962/63. A good 10km from Sv. Lenart lies the village of Bukovščica. Its brick school was constructed in 1912, and it is assumed that the school garden was laid out in the spring of the following year. This garden also struggled with poor soil, due to its high sand content. Graced with a few trees, it even had an apricot cultivar among the fruit varieties, a vegetable patch, various sorts of decorative flowering plants and an area for the berry bearing bushes of gooseberry, red and black currants, and strawberries. The descriptions of the garden up until 1948 list exactly what was planted in all the beds and include equally detailed inventaries of all the gardening tools. The last mention of the garden dates from the school year of 1955/56 when new cement edging was installed around a number of the beds. The school chronicles of both the Sv. Lenart and Bukovščica schools kept at the Historical Archives of Ljubljana end in the mid 1960s. Further information on these two school gardens would need to be sought in the chronicles kept at each of the schools or their parent school in Škofja Loka. That the schools have not entirely forgotten about their gardens though can be seen by the data that they both participated in the project Grandma’s Herbal Lore and laid out their own school herb gardens.