Do you love nature and green walks? Then you can try to make a herbarium, a real nature diary where the stories of your trips and explorations are accompanied by natural elements, such as the leaves you have collected or dried flowers.
Do you love nature and green walks? Then you can try to make a herbarium, a real one nature diary where the stories of your trips and explorations are accompanied by natural elements, such as the leaves you have collected or dried flowers.
It will be a lot of fun create a herbarium in the company of children or create a personal diary that contains both botanical information and the uses of plants as well as personal reflections.
Thanks to app to recognize plants, compiling a herbarium now becomes even easier with a little help from technology. There are several apps from this point of view. One of the most recent is Plantnet.
Read: LEAFSNAP: AN APP TO RECOGNIZE LEAVES WITH YOUR MOBILE PHONE
A further tip to learn to recognize the plants and flowers you meet on your way is to have a nice manual on spontaneous plants that includes both illustrations and photographs. We find that photographs, in particular, are really important to better recognize flowers and plants.
Remember that to preserve leaves, small flowers or other natural elements you will have to let them dry for a few days as much as possible without damaging them. One of the most used methods is to place flowers and leaves between the pages of a dictionary, perhaps to be surmounted with a book or another weight.
Teachers and parents will be able to create a herbarium to help children stay connected with the elements of nature. Alongside the information on the plants, it will be possible to note details on the climate and fauna that populate a specific area.
The beauty of any herbarium lies in theoriginality. You can start from a notebook to cover the cover or you can create your nature diary from scratch by binding sheets. There are no particular guidelines for creating the perfect herbarium. So all you have to do is give space to yours creativeness.
Our advice is to enrich your herbarium with illustrations created by you and to immediately seek information on the plants and flowers you are interested in as soon as you return from your excursion. So you can immediately start taking notes in your diary without forgetting any details.
To give life to your first herbarium or nature diary, take a cue from this video.
Marta Albè
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