Many of us enjoyed exploring our local parks and gardens with our families during lockdown.
If you are trying to encourage the family to continue their weekly perambulations, you might like to use this blog post from the Teece Museum as fresh inspiration.
There are many ancient treatises on agriculture, often recorded in written form as poetry, which detail information about plants and animals.
A number of plants that were familiar to the ancient Greeks and Romans can also be found in New Zealand.
In our newest ‘Potted History’ post, UC Classics student Laura Bythell explores the connections between the ancient world and the natural world outside your window.
So why not print out this list and go around your back garden or on a short stroll in your local area, and see how many of these plants you can identify.
