Floristics field course

This summer 58 Bachelor level students successfully completed the field course in Floristics. The course was thought in three groups and supervised by several members of our department. From our workgroup, Ene, Nele, Miina, Kersti and Riin supervised at least one of the groups. During Floristics field course, the students learned to identify 30 moss species and 200 vascular plant species. From this year, the Floristics field course is offered for first year students - therefore the students will be more successful in later studies when they can already recognize many plant species in the wild.

One of the field course groups was also visited by Erle Veber, the director of a new series about the Estonian's National University 100th anniversary ('Rahvusülikooli sajand'). She filmed for an episode about teaching in the university and followed students and supervisors with a camera on a botanical field trip, documented how to mount herbarium specimens and interviewed them about the importance of botanical knowledge. The series will be screened this autumn in ERR (in Estonian).