Prepare your own stunning visual record of plants, detailing the botanical study with pressed plants, paintings and written detail, to create a scientific reference and beautiful work of art.
For each page of the herbarium, collect an interesting specimen with a leaf and flower or seedhead, ensuring you don’t disturb rare or protected plants. Record important details following the instruction guide from the kit, you might also like to photograph it. Make sketches or paintings, investigate the Latin plant name. Press your sample and when completely dry stick onto the page and label it.
The set contains:
- A quality hard backed A5 spiral bound book with 50 sheets of cartridge paper
- Watercolour set of 12 paints for observational painting
- Wooden handled paint brush
- Classification labels
- PVA glue
- Round-ended tweezers
- Guide
A mindful and creative activity, to give you an insight into the plants you choose to capture and investigate.