Talking about plants - comments of primary school groups looking at plant exhibits in a botanical garden

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Climate change education: quantitatively assessing the impact of a botanical garden as an informal learning environment (2013, background): “There are few educational studies conducted in botanical gardens (e.g. Conlon Morgan et al. 2009; Michener and Schultz 2002; Stewart 2002; Tunnicliffe 2001) and that is why Sanders (2007, 1209) argues that botanical gardens are an ‘underresearched educational context’; empirical studies about climat”
Making Public the Private Life of Plants: The contribution of informal learning environments (2007, background): “Moreover, scant attention has been paid to the role of education in botanic gardens, as Tunnicliffe ( 2001 ) has noted.”
Plants have a chance: outdoor educational programmes alter students' knowledge and attitudes towards plants (2011, result): “Some studies found mixed results (Harvey 1989; Tunnicliffe 2001).”
Children’s perceptions and learning about tropical rainforests: an analysis of their drawings (2007, background): “Tunnicliffe (2001) has observed that children look in a ‘haphazard fashion’ when visiting botanical gardens, but they do recognise familiar plants and have an anthropocentric view about them, such as eating, cultivating, or maintaining them for human pleasure.”