HowExpert Guide to Plants: 101 Tips to Learn, Understand, and Appreciate the History, Science, and World of Plants Around Us

Howexpert,Loretta Pedersen

HowExpert Guide to Plants: 101 Tips to Learn, Understand, and Appreciate the History, Science, and World of Plants Around Us
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Paperback
Publisher
Howexpert
Country
Published
30 April 2022
Pages
154
ISBN
9781648918582

HowExpert Guide to Plants: 101 Tips to Learn, Understand, and Appreciate the History, Science, and World of Plants Around Us

Howexpert,Loretta Pedersen

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If you want to learn, understand, and appreciate the history, science, and world of plants around us, then check out HowExpert Guide to Plants.

HowExpert Guide to Plants provides 101 tips with comprehensive explanations to help readers learn about and enjoy all the basics of plants. Readers will learn ways to integrate botanical knowledge and hands-on interactions with plants into their daily lives, even when living in places like small apartments or large cities. Readers will also learn about the cultural, linguistic, and culinary aspects of plants and will discover ways to make creative gifts for loved ones using beautiful botanical materials.

The book begins by taking readers through the history of plants on Earth and then explores some common misunderstandings about plants. Next, readers will learn the basics of plant identification and some fundamentals of plant biology. After mastering this background knowledge, readers will then learn how to actively get involved with plants in their local communities and creative hobbies.

This is an ideal book for people passionate about plants and looking for an accessible, multi-faceted, and truly meaningful foundation that is rooted in scientific principles and that gets people involved in the plant-related community and artistic activities. This book will show readers how to deepen their understanding of plants while contributing to the well-being of local plant habitats and human communities.

Check out HowExpert Guide to Plants if you want to learn, understand, and appreciate the history, science, and world of plants around us.

About the Author

Loretta Pedersen is an ecologist, writer, and editor in Washington State. Her love of plants took root when she was a child hiking around the mountains of Colorado with her father, whose hobby was studying wild plants. Pedersen’s first plant-related job was at a retail nursery when she was in junior high. Pedersen received her master’s degree from the University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, where she studied the chemical ecology of Puget Sound prairie plants. She sometimes teaches courses in native plant identification, plant taxonomy, and sustainable horticulture and has also worked with arboretum living collections curation and herbarium specimen management.

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