Educational apparatus for providing correlations especially between botany, geography and History

An educational device comprising,

• a plant growth chamber;
• a substantially planar plant growth limitation shield, having a top and bottom surface, wherein said top surface comprises an illustration, and at least one opening;
• and
• a means for holding said shield in fixed position relative to said chamber, wherein the bottom surface of said shield faces said chamber,
• wherein said plant growth chamber and said shield are integrally formed together from terra cotta material.

A planter for educating a person as to vegetation representative of a geographic location, comprising in combination:

• a planter having a periphery which is contoured to mimic an outline of a geographic area, said planter supporting media which can support live vegetation,
• whereby a person viewing said planter will be educated as to which types of vegetation are indigenous to certain geographic areas,
• wherein said planter includes a plant growth limitation shield oriented horizontally on an upper surface of said planter., said shield including an opening therein having a peripheral contour corresponding to a feature associateable with the geographic area represented by said periphery of said planter, said opening for having the live vegetation growing upwardly therethrough,
• whereby when the vegetation is configured within said planter such that the vegetation would extend through said opening exhibits a contour mimicking said contour of said opening, the vegetation itself may be sculpted to a feature correlating with the geographic area exhibited by said periphery of said planter,
• wherein said periphery of said planter is isolated from other planters and said shield includes a periphery which terminates adjacent said periphery of said planter, whereby said planter has a periphery which represents only a single geographic area, and
• wherein said planter and said shield are formed together as a unitary mass and formed from terra cotta opaque materials.