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What the wind can bring

In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.

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Notes upon arrival

In an effort to feel at home back in the country of her birth, poet Bhanu Kapil recognises the small revelations of nature in a chilly UK spring as a way to reconnect.

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Between two summers

As Michael Malay tends his allotment, absorbing all the sensations of his surroundings, he finds the repetition of work calms the mind.

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Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep

For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.

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  • Five flowering plants, including hornworts (Ceratophyllum species) and nettles (Urtica species). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • Urtica Dioica (Stinging Nettle)
  • Robert Hooke, Micrographia, stinging nettle.
  • Stinging hairs on a nettle leaf
  • Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) stem, SEM
  • A red dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum) and white dead-nettle (Lamium album). Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after F. E. Hulme.
  • Two plants, one possibly a dead nettle (Lamium species): flowering stems. Watercolour.
  • Nettle (Urtica nivea L.): flowering stem with separate flower and fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.
  • Hedge nettle or woundwort (Stachys arvensis): flowering stem, roots and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1803.
  • Woundwort or hedge nettle (Stachys arvensis): entire flowering plant with separate flowers. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1775.
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