Language plants are wonderful learning materials. They have two main features. They are colourful, and words branch off from each other. There is an example of one at the bottom of this text. You can see where they get their name from: they look like little plants, or trees, made of language. And by branching, just look how many different sentences you can make! Here are just two: Plants can help make learning fun and memorable.

Plants are easy to use and lovely to learn with.

Plants are colour-coded: nouns are blue, verbs are red and so on. Much more than this though, look at the background coloured layers. These show syntax, and break up long strings of words into accessible, meaningful chunks. Grammar is back! In a beautiful way. Language plants look beautiful, but their beauty merely reflects the beauty of language. They are highly logical and organised, and appeal to all learning styles.

Well, if you like what you've seen so far, then you'll just love the CD-Rom, Language Gardening Bouquet! This award-winning resource has 4 levels, elementary to upper intermediate, 60 lessons in total, each covering a syntax structure. There are poems, and other delightfully-crafted texts, all presented in language plants. It is fully interactive, with over 800 activities, a total of 160 hours' worth of classroom material. It is truly a unique resource. Each level can be purchased separately.