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Education centre > Making Your Garden Come Alive – Environmental Interpretation in Botanic Gardens
Making Your Garden Come Alive – Environmental Interpretation in Botanic GardensKonig,M. (2000) Making your Garden Come Alive! Environmental Interpretation in Botanical Gardens. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 9. SABONET, Pretoria.
It includes sections on planning guided walks, self-guided trails, interpretative signs and visitor orientation, as well as newer ideas such as discovery carts, educational theatre and roving interpreters. It also explores the importance of deciding upon and using themes and having an overall plan for your site interpretation. This resource is available electronically on the BGCI CD Rom, 'Plants for the Planet', but is no longer avalaible hard-copy. Contact us to order a copy of the CD Rom or use the links below to download the chapters. Preface and Chapter 1 - What is interpretation?
Chapter 2 - Planning an interpretation programme
Chapter 3 - Thematic interpretation
Chapter 4 - Planning a guided walk
Chapter 5 - Interpretive signage
Chapter 6 - Making interpretive signs
Chapter 7 - Planning a self-guided trail
Chapter 8 - Visitor orientation
Chapter 9 - Expanding your options
Chapter 10 - Ideas and inspiration - Part I Chapter 10 - Ideas and inspiration - Part II Examples of interpretive materials 
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This excellent book, produced by the Southern African Botanical Diversity Network (SABONET), provides practical guidelines on how to develop an interpretation programme in a botanic garden. In a very clear format, with illustrations and diagrams throughout and with inspirational examples and ideas, this publication provides botanic garden educators with a very valuable tool to use in interpretation design.