23/05/14 - 25/05/14
Flowers have always been a source of pleasure, as gifts or decorations, as an inspiration for art and poetry, as perfumes, in cooking or as medicines. Our ancestors could identify hundreds of wild plants but we have lost that skill.
This course is for anyone who loves wild flowers and would like to be able to recognise and name more of them. We will spend much of the weekend plant-hunting in the beautiful Surrey countryside, making use of the Centre’s facilities to study the intricate structure of flowers with specimens and slides. We will see how flowers are grouped into families, which makes identification very much easier.
As a result of this course you should find that you notice more wild flowers each time you go out walking, observe them in more detail and you know how to go about identifying them. Your enjoyment of the countryside will be enhanced and you may even have found a new hobby that is cheap, healthy and immensely worthwile.
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