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🌱 #History, #Botany, #Plants, #Gardening, #Art, Philosophy, Economic & Social History, Small-scale food production, Cricket. Mending old things and restoring old houses. I reply to comments on my posts, but not often to DMs
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#plants #history #botany #art #Australia 🌲🇦🇺 🇬🇧 JOSEF SELLENY 1824-1875 Australian Forest in Illawarra. oil on canvas c1863-64 It's Australia's Federal Election today. Australians, you have a tough, wonderful, beautiful and sometimes scary home. I wish you all a great future, whatever the outcome.

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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Helianthus giganteus - N American Sunflower 🧵/1 Grows from Ontario & Quebec south to Tennessee & Georgia. Likes to have damp roots, thrives in boggy ground and on wet river banks. Seeds historically used by the Choctaw nation ground and added to Maize for bread.

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#plants #botany #history #art 🌱 Camille Pissarro 1830–1903, Côte de Jalais, Pontoise Oils on canvas, c1866 A pleasant agricultural landscape by Pissarro. Given the stages of field cultivation, maybe late spring or early summer. Met Collection via Wiki Commons www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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#plants #trees #Canada #history #botany #art 🌲🇨🇦 🇬🇧 Acer saccharum - Canadian Sugar Maple, Symbol of the National Flag. Today is Canadian Federal Election day. Elbows Up, Canadians. From one of the Old Countries I wish you good luck. Maple spotting... www.treehugger.com/most-common-...

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#plants #history #trees #art 🌲 Olea europaea - Common Olive Tree Holger Jerichau (1861-1900) Descent from the olive groves oils on canvas, c1882 It's Friday! Have good weekend - go somewhere green... Introduction to Olive Trees: herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/plants40...

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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Lilium concolor - Morning Star Lily Brought to Europe by Charles Greville c1790. It may have been lost sometime afterward and was reintroduced by Robert Fortune c1842. Native to China/Korea/Japan at altitudes up to 2000m. Cultivation: www.rhs.org.uk/plants/92383...

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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Thalia dealbata - Alligator Flag 🧵/1 Water plant - thrives in swamps and shallow margins. Native to SE USA (except Florida) and N Mexico. Had arrived in Europe by c1800 but not easy to keep alive in temperate winters. This illustration from John Sims, 1815. 🧵/next

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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Schizophragma hydrangeoides - Japanese Hydrangea Vine 🧵/1 Mentioned last week. Vigorous, dense climber, likes stone/brick walls. Can get out of hand if you turn your back for a moment. Birds nest in it, bees harvest it. /next RHS: www.rhs.org.uk/plants/51054...

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#plants #botany #history #art 🌱 Martin Johnson Heade 1819-1904 'Fighting Hummingbirds with Pink Orchid' Oil on canvas c1885 Orchid: Broughtonia negrilensis - native Jamaica. Humming Birds: Trochilus Cornutus - Horned Sungem Lophornis Delattrei - Rufous-Crested Coquette Long Weekend! Enjoy! 🙂

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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Clematis montana var. rubens 🧵/1 I posted this as a reply last week but mine is coming into flower so... WARNING - This is plant is beautiful but very vigorous. It is a thug that thinks it owns your garden. Do not be shy of training and cutting back hard. /next

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Good Day! Daffodils and Narcissi by Frank Bramley RA 1886 Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

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#plants #food #gardening 🌱 This is, IMHO, quite a good initiative and an informative article. It can make life better for hundreds, if not thousands of city dwellers. I wish it well.

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#plants #trees #botany #history #art 🌲 Laburnum anagyroides - Laburnum, Golden Chain I'm coming up for my <big number> birthday. This, at the age of five, was the first tree I ever propagated (easy). Grow a tree - leave something for the future 🙂 www.treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/lab...

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#history #maps #cartography #art I thought I'd make a quick mention of the digital Map Room at the National Library of Scotland. bsky.app/profile/natl... Maps up to 200 years old of the whole of Britain in precise detail, and much, much older ornate and decorated maps. maps.nls.uk

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#plants #history #botany #art🌱 Camellia sinensis - the Tea Plant 🧵/1 The history of tea is not of the favourite drink of the British. It has shaped modern China's view of the West. It is a record of the ruthless British East India Company, the first unregulated multinational corporation. /next

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#plants #history #botany #art Pistacia vera - Green Pistachio A desert species which copes with saline water at 3,000–4,000 ppm of soluble salts. Kew doesn't list the US as a introduction - the plant has to have 'escaped' into the wild - but widely farmed. powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...

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