Learning to penetrate the wall of green - Plants, Learning Plants, identifying plants
Identifying plants gets easier the more you do it. Honest - it's like we recognise our peas and carrots because we have eaten them (some of us ) a lot. Therefore we know what a pea or a carrot looks like, but do we know what a Pea plant or a Carrot plant looks like if we walked past them growing in a verge or someones garden? Do you know that plants from the Pea Family are characteristic by their flowers sharing the features of a banner, wings and keel? That poisonous plants like Water Hemlock may be mistaken for Wild Carrot with dire consequences.
This is why to learn plants we have to get familiar with them - to put in our dirt time, there's a brilliant book called 'Botany in A Day' by Thomas Elpel that helps you really get to grips with plants and plant recognition.
But even before we get to that point, it's a good idea to simply get outdoors into your street or gardenRead more...
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