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Plant Families for Natural Gardeners
Learn to recognize 14 plant families and use their botanical patterns to design a natural and thriving ecosystem
Created byMartine Verweij
Last updated 8/2025
English
What you'll learn
- Identify 14 key plant families based on visual and botanical characteristics.
- Understand how plant family traits support natural design and ecological balance.
- Apply botanical patterns to group plants effectively in a natural garden layout.
- Select plant families for specific functions in a self-sustaining ecosystem (e.g. pollinator support, groundcover, soil improvement).
- Create a plant design strategy that works with nature, not against it.
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Course content
16 sections • 59 lectures • 1h 43m total length
Requirements
- There are no prior skills or botanical knowledge required to take this course.
- All you need is a love for nature, curiosity about plants, and a desire to create a more balanced and natural garden.
- A notebook or design journal for your insights and ideas.
- Coloring pencils or markers for the botanical mandalas.
- A printer (if you'd like to print the mandalas).
- This course is perfect for beginners and nature lovers who want to deepen their understanding in a creative and intuitive way.
Description
Welcome to Plant Families for Natural Gardeners, a unique journey into the botanical patterns that shape the plant kingdom and guide us toward working with nature.
In this course, you’ll learn to recognize 14 essential plant families through clear visual traits, simple botany, and inspiring examples. But we won’t stop there. You’ll also discover how each family can support a thriving, regenerative garden system. One that’s beautiful, biodiverse, and in balance.
Paradise consists of two parts you have to master. Part one is knowledge. You have to understand how nature works if you want to work with nature, and this course gives you exactly that foundation.
The online course Plant Families for Natural Gardeners holds the key to your success. Once you grasp how specific plant families contribute to the ecosystem, you’ll realize that every member of that family offers the same environmental benefits. With this insight, choosing the right plant for the right place becomes second nature.
This course is about more than identification. It’s about seeing the hidden connections in nature and using them to design spaces that hum with life. From pollinator-friendly planting to soil support, each family brings a gift, and you’ll learn how to use it.
With beautiful visuals and downloadable mandala coloring pages, you’ll leave this course with both knowledge and inspiration.
Let nature be your teacher. Let the plants show you the way.
Who this course is for:
- Nature-loving gardeners who want to deepen their understanding of plant relationships.
- Designers and permaculturists looking to create more natural, intuitive garden systems.
- Herbalists, foragers and wild plant enthusiasts who want to recognize families in the field.
- Beginners who feel overwhelmed by plant names and want a clear, visual way in.
- Anyone dreaming of creating their own self-sustaining, abundant nature paradise.