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🌱 #History, #Botany, #Plants, #Civilisation, #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 🌱 (Dielytra spectabilis) Lamprocapnos spectabilis - Bleeding Heart. Good in pots. They're very resilient, origins N Eastern China / Korea. Apart from Europe Kew shows only introductions into New York State and Uzbekistan. Kew- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...

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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Plant Collectors - The Tradescants, Father & Son. C17 Star botanists and plant hunters to English royalty. A good starting point article from the Ashmolean Museum - britisharchaeology.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/collections/... John Tradescant the Younger (see ALT text)

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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Campanula grandis sub. grandis - Campanula (one of many) Illustration c1843. Origin (Kew) Turkiye but the only thriving introduction is Italy - climate issues. Big, flashy 2" flowers as a pot specimen for collectors. Cultivation advice- greg.app/campanula-gr...

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#plants #trees #botany #history #art 🌱 Pinus rigida - Pitch Pine Used by Iroquois, Shinnecock, and Cherokee back to 7000 BCE and to make the staircases in my house in England 150 years ago. NE Americas Georgia to Ontario. Short article from New Jersey Forestry - njforestry.org/wp-content/u...

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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Carica papaya - Papaya Originates in S Mexico and C America, first introductions elsewhere by Spanish. Global tropical cultivation, biggest global importer USA at over 13 million tonnes p.a. Global distribution map & pictures- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...

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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Zantedeschia rehmannii - Pink Arum Origin S Africa / Swaziland. Brought to Europe by prolific Polish botanist Anton Rehmann (1840-1917) Attractive garden foliage/flower. RHS Merit Award. (And that's all, really...) RHS care - www.rhs.org.uk/plants/19193...

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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Laboureur dans un champ oil on canvas 19 7/8 x 25 ½ in. Painted in Saint Rémy, early September 1889 Christie's catalogue. Lots of good information there, including the last sale price. 😮 www.christies.com/lot/lot-vinc...

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I'm reposting this because I've had a change of mind. (It happens. Often several times a day. 🙁) My best guess is now: Eucalyptus robusta (almost certainly) - Australian Gum Tree, Swamp Mahogany. Informative article by the Australian Plant Society - resources.austplants.com.au/plant/eucaly...

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Suddenly I feel old and sad. The end of an Era...

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#plants #trees #history #botany #art 🌱 Paulownia imperialis (tomentosa) - Foxglove Tree Originating in E & C China and Korea, introduced first to Japan, into Europe c1820. Impressive 12 metre tree if you have the patience. Expensive as a pot sapling. RHS care - www.rhsplants.co.uk/plants/_/pau...

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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Persea Americana Miller - Avocado Native to The Isthmus of Darien the Avocado is now widespread in the tropics. It's also stretching its own economic viability due to the technology needed to grow and ship it. Article - www.theecoexperts.co.uk/news/avocado...

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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Eucalyptus globulus (probably) - Australian Gum Tree Harold John Graham, 1858-1929 'Gum trees, Olrig' From: Sketches in Victoria and Tasmania, and of the voyage out on the Sobraon, Oct. 1881 Watercolour. From the NLA collection.

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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Averrhoa carambola - Carambola, Star Fruit Origin in SE Asian Islands, now cultivated world wide in the tropical/equatorial latitudes for food & fodder. Short shelf-life and expensive to ship over long distances, needs close temperature and humidity control.

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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Allotments were created in early C19. They gave rural workers who had been drawn into the new industrial cities a chance to improve their diets and stay in touch with the soil. Also a very good source of food in times of national economic distress or conflict.

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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Orchis mascula - Early Purple Orchid The weather in the UK has suddenly shown signs of Spring, so here's one of my favourites, soon to welcome the growing season. Woodland Trust - www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-... RHS - www.rhs.org.uk/plants/11905...

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Landscape with Fallen Tree. Watercolour on card. Sept '24. #art #watercolor #pleinair #landscapepainting #Januarty

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