Never Say It's Just A Dandelion: 125 Wonderful Common Plants for Walkers and Walk Leaders
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (563 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0971104808 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 257 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
I was very disappointed. Janet du Barrie No photographs or drawings of the plants. I had hoped to walk over my property and name wild plants.Cannot accomplish this with this book.You must have a working knowledge of plants and their names if this book is going to be of any use to you.This book has not helped me at all.I was very disappointed.. Eileen said Five Stars. This is a wonderful resource for anyone who leads nature walks.
For each of 125 wild flowers, trees, shrubs, and ferns, there is a page of succinct information about surprising growth habits, a memory aid, intriguing uses, bloom times, appealing lore, reasons for names, and other wonderful stories. An index and bibliography complete the book, which is small enough to fit handily in a waist pouch. Opposite every page of text is a blank page, with an invitation to sketch or make notes--an ideal format by which to make the book personal to each reader. There is a simple activity suggested for each, too, to help the walker engage more intimately with the plant. Dandelions, grass, clover, dock, asters, oaks, maples, sumac, bracken fern--they are all here, each with marvelous stories and wonderful facts to enhance even the casual walker's pleasure in the ubiquitous, all-important, wild world of plants.. A unique take-alo
This led to her own studies of common plants and her present work as a teacher-naturalist for the Audubon Society. Then she worked as a tour director and discovered how interested her passengers were in the plants they saw by the roadside. Hilary likes to find the wonderful things hidden in plain view, and helping others to see them, too. Hilary Hopkins spent twenty-one years as a teacher of children and adults.
From the Publisher Filling a previously-vacant niche between a field guide and a text-heavy narrative, this inviting small book is a perfect companion on casual walks or hikes, or just for fun browsing on a rainy day. Here is a perfect gift for anyone even remotely interested in the outdoors, a friendly and humorous companion leading the way into the fascinating world of common plants. . Thus each book becomes the reader's personalized copy. These are the kinds of "ordinary" plants affectionately explored in this lively book. Instead, walkers see grass, dandelions, clover, smartweed, oaks, maples, sumac and bracken fern. Plant rarities are exciting, but most people will never see them. Two unusual features are the simple activiti