identify plants?
Plant Identification courses
identify plants?
Plant Identification courses
identify plants?
Plant Identification courses
About Me
I delight in drawing flowers and love sharing what I have learnt about fynbos over many years of hiking in the Cape mountains with my late husband Anthony. I am happiest outside on the mountain, in the sea or in the garden where my spirit can soar.
I am a trained botanist with over 30 years of field and teaching experience and offer regular 3 ½ day fynbos plant identification courses in Cape Town.
I am not affiliated to any educational institution, and I have designed this fynbos plant identification course over the last 20 years in the best way there is: by learning alongside those who have attended the course and adapting the way the information is presented.
I am lucky that I really love what I do and that is teach.
Fynbos Plant Identification Course
Are you a fynbos fan who would like to be able to identify what you are looking at?
All courses are 3 ½ days long and cost R3500. They are held at my home in the Southern suburbs and there is space for a maximum of 6 participants.
John Manning’s Guide to Fynbos is the prescribed text and is used throughout the course. All sessions are practical and focus on learning a systematic process of how to identify a plant and why it is placed in a family and genus, rather than just learning what the species name is.
The course can cater for a wide range of different participants such as hikers, students at all levels, professionals as well as field rangers and managers of nature reserves.
The rate and content of any course depends on the background knowledge and skills, but we cover as many fynbos families as possible along with useful shortcuts.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Use botanical guides efficiently
- Understand the botanical framework used to classify plants
- Build on existing knowledge
- Use botanical jargon to describe the structure of plants
- Use a hand lens and a dissecting microscope to see fine details
- Investigate live plants from as many different families as possible
- Learn the shortcuts to families and genera
Participants are not formally assessed, (unless specifically requested) and the course is not SAQA accredited.
Participants are not formally assessed, (unless specifically requested) and the course is not SAQA accredited.
Fynbos Plant Identification Course
Are you a fynbos fan who would like to be able to identify what you are looking at?
All courses are 3 ½ days long and cost R3500. They are held at my home in the Southern suburbs and there is space for a maximum of 6 participants.
John Manning’s Guide to Fynbos is the prescribed text and is used throughout the course. All sessions are practical and focus on learning a systematic process of how to identify a plant and why it is placed in a family and genus, rather than just learning what the species name is.
The course can cater for a wide range of different participants such as hikers, students at all levels, professionals as well as field rangers and managers of nature reserves.
The rate and content of any course depends on the background knowledge and skills, but we cover as many fynbos families as possible along with useful shortcuts.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Use botanical guides efficiently
- Understand the botanical framework used to classify plants
- Build on existing knowledge
- Use botanical jargon to describe the structure of plants
- Use a hand lens and a dissecting microscope to see fine details
- Investigate live plants from as many different families as possible
- Learn the shortcuts to families and genera
Participants are not formally assessed, (unless specifically requested) and the course is not SAQA accredited.
Remember: The best field botanists (professional and amateur ones) draw on years of observing plants and checking with plant descriptions, but still need to refer to botanical books, and ask experts when they get stuck.
Remember: The best field botanists (professional and amateur ones) draw on years of observing plants and checking with plant descriptions, but still need to refer to botanical books, and ask experts when they get stuck.
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JUNE 2 DAY FYNBOS ID COURSE
27th and 29th June 2022
JULY RESTIO ID
COURSE
4th, 6th and 7th July 2022
JULY WEEKEND
COURSE
2nd, 9th, 16th and 17th July 2022
OCTOBER WEEKEND
COURSE
8th, 15th, 22nd and 23rd October 2022
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JUNE 2 DAY FYNBOS ID COURSE
27th and 29th June 2022
JULY RESTIO ID
COURSE
4th, 6th and 7th July 2022
JULY WEEKEND
COURSE
2nd, 9th, 16th and 17th July 2022
OCTOBER WEEKEND
COURSE
8th, 15th, 22nd and 23rd October 2022
NEED A CUSTOM
COURSE?
Contact me!
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