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Make Infused Rose Oil from Your Own Rose Petals! 🥀
What do you make with your flowers? 🥀 This is infused Rose oil is one my favorite things to make. I use it on my face and hands daily. 🥀 🥀 I harvest my rose petals, air dry them inside a pretty tea towel until crunchy, and store them in a clear glass jar in…
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Forage with Your Kids: Teach them to recognize these edible plants!
Share the wonder of nature with your kids! Teach them what plants are safe to pick and eat outside and which ones aren’t. Start with these 8 easy to recognize plants that might be growing right in your backyard! Berries: The Sweetness of Nature Blackberries and Raspberries Scientific Names: Blackberry (Rubus species); Red Raspberry, Rubus…
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Are you smarter than a 5th Grader? Can you identify these plants?
Unlock the Secrets of Plant Identification! Are you smarter than a 5th grader? Or a 4th grader? Pictured above is an actual homework assignment for my in-person 3rd and 4th grade Botany class. Can you identify these plants? I posted this photo collage on my personal social media page the other day, someone commented and…
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Dead Flowers = SEEDS!
The Magic of a Seed Do you realize the magic that is in a seed? They can lie dormant for thousands of years and then with just the right conditions the baby plant that is hanging out inside that seed will magically wake up! How amazing is that? The fact that seeds are viable for…
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The One Thing You Can Do Today to Improve Your Plant Identification Skills
Most people give up on plant ID before they even really get started. They find a plant they don’t know and they use a plant identification guide and plant ID key to try to work through the key to narrow down the species of the plant. But, they never make it to the end. Why?…
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Two Biggest Misconceptions about Plant Identification
In all my years of teaching Botany I encounter two misconceptions about plant identification. These ideas are ones that people get hung up on and it really prevents them from progressing in learning to recognize plants. The Two Most Common Misconceptions about Plant Identification: Most people think that both these things are necessary in order…
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Infused Violet Oil – DIY, Homemade Herbal Oil
Make infused Violet Oil with me! This is one of my favorite winter oils. I start to crave it about this time of year when the temps here in the northeast drop to the teens and twenties. It is delicate and luscious. I harvest my violets from my property 2 years ago and they have…
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How to Keep a Botany Journal
Making your own Botany Journal is a great way to organize your learning. Use a pretty notebook, a plain notebook, or decorate your own! My in-person Botany students make their own every year by taking a plain, brown paper kraft notebook and cutting out their favorite pictures from flower catalogs. Then they Modge-Podge them on…
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Study an Herb a Month: A Self-Guided Plan
If you are new to studying plants, particularly for the purpose of herbal medicine, it can feel overwhelming sometimes to when you don’t know where to start or how to begin. So when it feels like you need to learn all the plants all at once, set. a reasonable goal for yourself. Study one new…
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DIY Infused Plantain Oil
Note: This recipe is written for plantain but this method can be used with any plant. You could make rose, mullein, borage, Hawthorne, calendula…. The sky is the limit. Look at that color!!! Have you ever seen a prettier dark green. Did you know that the deepness of color, indicates the potency of the oil.…
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The Private World of Tasha Tudor – Book Review
Do you know Tasha Tudor? Google her name and you’ll find that she illustrated over 100 books, as well as publishing a number of books herself, many of which contain illustrations of her beloved Corgis – her favorite pet. Tasha’s Inspiration: She is know for her whimsical, quaint watercolors depicting daily life from an earlier…
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The 10 Questions You Need to Ask to Identify Any Plant
Stop struggling to use confusing plant identification guides and plant keys. Find out the 10 simple questions you need to be able to answer to identify any flowering plant. Find out the 10 Simple Questions You need to get started with Plant Identification Have you ever: Plant identification doesn’t have to be complicated. While professional…
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How many can you identify? Take our Quiz to find out!
Are you a plant ID expert? Let’s find out. Take our Quiz to see how many of these plants you can identify! Wish you knew more plants? Check out the Basic Plant ID Course where you can learn how to identify over 40,000 plants in 1 hour! How you ask? Learn our easy method of…
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Does your garden GLOW? Come on a Garden Tour with me to see how I transformed my garden after dark!
Many of us enjoy our gardens during the day. The sun feels warm, the flowers are bright and cheerful, the scents relax and draw us in. But, do you enjoy your garden after dark? Let me show you how I enjoy my garden at night when the day is done. I like to enjoy my…
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A Plant Identification Masterpiece: A Book Review of Botany in a Day by Thomas J. Elpel
The Keystone Book for Plant Identification! When it comes to learning plant identification, most field guides organize plants by flower color or alphabetically, requiring you to look up each plant individually, and in the end, memorize thousands of individual plant species. But what if there was a more efficient approach? Enter Botany in a Day…
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Botany Basics Guide: The Essential Knowledge You Need to Identify any Flowering Plant!
Get your Free Download! Ever wonder what you really need to know in order to identify plants quickly and easily? What is the epicotyl, style, or calyx? What are sporangia? Where is the superior ovary? Well, the good news is, you don’t need to know any of those terms in order to be able to…
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How to Learn Plant Identification Quickly, Easily, and Accurately
You can be the person that knows all the plants! Would you like to be able to identify plants quickly and easily by sight, even the difficult ones that you’ve never seen before, and be confident in your identification? Let me tell you how! Key Skills for Easy and Accurate Plant Identification: Tools to help…