A project I've been working on for the last two years has been the cultivation of a critically endangered wildflower that's found only in the vicinity of our school (click here for more background).
Yesterday our Botany Club got in the mud to plant some of the seeds I collected this summer (about 2000!) in some new beds next to our original yanar döner plot. We also took another step toward our long term goal by adding another endemic species, Centaurea cyanocephala. There are 25 endangered wildflowers in our province, so we've got big plans for our big new campus!
The C. cyanocephala are biannuals, so now we'll have to be extra careful to make sure that our well intentioned school gardeners don't clean and hoe the area next summer. To see what we did and how we managed the problem of the biannuals, look at my Flickr set here. Some of the photos have notes attached to them which you can see if you pass your mouse pointer over the image. Maybe this will give some you new ideas for using photographs in your lessons.
As winter approaches, we'll start work on the the club website, and I'm looking forward to trying some other cool tools with the group.
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