This handy book is your go-to resource to learn what plants work in different garden situations, perfect for exemplifying your answers and gaining extra marks in the exam, as well as furthering your general plant knowledge.
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With the aim of reducing your learning load, the plant selection is carefully honed so you won't need to learn hundreds of names.
There are 135 different headings with up to 5 plants listed for each, e.g. types of life cycle, seed dispersal, soil types, microclimates, seasonal interest, etc.
Many plants are repeated under different headings, with a total of just over 150 plants to learn. This is to make life easier for you; your horticulture course is packed with so much else to memorise!
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This book will help build a mental framework of plants and situations they're suitable for, meaning other plants you learn about can be slotted into this framework. This will make it easier to learn and apply new plants to different garden situations.
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This preview of the contents gives you a sense of the different headings under which plants are listed.
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At level two and beyond, it's essential that you can name plants for different situations, adaptations, etc.​​
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Scroll down to access a preview of the book, including the full contents, to get a full sense of what's inside. There's also a downloadable spreadsheet of the plant list, including the different plants under each heading.​
Click here (or on the 'download' button) to download a spreadsheet of the book's plants.
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On the first tab plants are listed under each category.
On the second tab you can view the full alphabetical list with relevant categories.
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This sheet does not include images, description, size or other useful information that's included in the book.
The spreadsheet is freely given as a learning aid. Unless your plant knowledge is very good, it won't be especially useful without the images and description in the book.
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You could try building your understanding of categorising plants you already know by adding them to the categories in the first tab. On the second tab you could try adding more categories to each listed plant.
These activities will build your theoretical and working knowledge of how plants are categorised and used in gardens.