We’ve been learning about wildflowers for the last few weeks. We’ve studied the parts of flowers, gone on wildflower walks, planted wildflower seeds to make a meadow in a corner of the front yard (inspired by On Meadowview Street by Henry Cole), and poured over lots of wildflower guides. Three that we particularly enjoy are Wildflowers Around the Year by Hope Ryden which has beautiful clear pictures that make detection easy, A Child’s Book of Wildflowers by M. A. Kelly which is filled with lovely watercolors and descriptions of the most common wildflowers, and National Audubon Society First Field Guide: Wildflowers which fits in kids hands perfectly, has great pictures and shows flowers that are in the same family as each featured flower. Sadly, it looks like all three are out of print but they were available at our library and used copies seem easy to come by.
This week’s round up is at Wrapped in Foil.
The wildflower meadow sounds wonderful.
My son threw a handful of wildflower seeds into our yard and we’re finding beautiful flowers popping up all over the place. Thanks for sharing your wildflower identification books, because we’re going to need them 🙂