I read a book last year about the history of Britain with the Romans Saxons Vikings and all that invading Britain, and I made question and answer cards from the sentences in the book. I felt happy because I felt I was learning something, now with plants I'm feeling frustrated because I can't recognise them. Explain please about the pictures on cards???
If so you could stick some pictures of the plants you're trying to remember on the cards and play Snap! with them. You'd need several pictures of each plant.
Or perhaps this http://www.auntannie.com/GamesToMake/MemoryGame/ would be better to start with. Instead of drawing pictures you could stick pictures of each type of plant and write their name beneath and then have a duplicate set and practise recognising and matching them up.
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Ashley - you’ve got loads of good advice above and as a novice gardener myself, I can only give you a novice’s perspective; i.e. it will take time. I look at the parts of my small-medium sized garden and research which plants will suit each sub-section. The best tool I have used so far is https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/search-form
As a result, I find that if I have a tangible interest in a particular plant(s), I learn much more quickly in the process.
Gardening is wonderful but not necessarily easy for a newcomer. Enjoy it! Learning will come much more easily as a result. Have fun, and all the best with your journey. Chris
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero
You could do something similar to your question and answer cards and @Dovefromabove suggestion. Print out lots of pictures of plants, then write their name, and whether they like shade, sun etc on the back (or any other information you would like to remember - flowering time, soil type). Then you could have a shade, sun, part sun pile, and as you go through the pack you have to put them on the correct pile.
If that helps then you could take it a stage further and play a kind of Top Trumps, if you remember that?
For newcomers to the forum, I believe I'm right in saying that Ashley has told us previously that he has an acquired brain injury and consequently has difficulties with his memory ... he has a supported work placement at the garden centre to aid his recovery.
I hope it's ok me saying that @ashley13 ... we have lots of new people on the forum since you first started posting here ... if people understand why you find remembering things it may help them in thinking of useful suggestions. If I've remembered what you said wrongly, I do apologise.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This might be useful as well @ashley13, this site has some 'flash cards' with useful information on about plants. You print them out, and stick the picture on one side and the useful information on the back.
How would I make a mind map to do with plants? For the history course, I put an image with various facts around the image. I think perhaps that would help me. Just a few facts though because conditions are different here.
I’m Not really familiar with how mind maps work so not sure really. You wouldn’t have to stick them to actual cards, just print them out and write on the back? Appreciate that is a bit of a pain to do though
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If so you could stick some pictures of the plants you're trying to remember on the cards and play Snap! with them. You'd need several pictures of each plant.
Or perhaps this http://www.auntannie.com/GamesToMake/MemoryGame/
would be better to start with. Instead of drawing pictures you could stick pictures of each type of plant and write their name beneath and then have a duplicate set and practise recognising and matching them up.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
As a result, I find that if I have a tangible interest in a particular plant(s), I learn much more quickly in the process.
Gardening is wonderful but not necessarily easy for a newcomer. Enjoy it! Learning will come much more easily as a result. Have fun, and all the best with your journey. Chris
If that helps then you could take it a stage further and play a kind of Top Trumps, if you remember that?
I hope it's ok me saying that @ashley13 ... we have lots of new people on the forum since you first started posting here ... if people understand why you find remembering things it may help them in thinking of useful suggestions. If I've remembered what you said wrongly, I do apologise.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
https://www.plantamnesty.org/flash-cards
You wouldn’t have to stick them to actual cards, just print them out and write on the back? Appreciate that is a bit of a pain to do though