Stories
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How we bury our children
Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.
- Book extract
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.
- Article
Chillies and the trouble with Scoville
Measuring the heat of these peppers can leave you a little lukewarm.
Catalogue
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New and rare beautiful-leaved plants : containing illustrations and descriptions of the most ornamental-foliaged plants not hitherto noticed in any work on the subject / by Shirley Hibberd.
Date: 1870- Books
New and rare beautiful-leaved plants; : containing illustrations and descriptions of the most ornamental-foliaged plants not hitherto noticed in any work on the subject / by Shirley Hibberd, Esq.
Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890.Date: 1870- Books
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The botanic garden; consisting of ... representations of hardy ornamental flowering plants, cultivated in Great Britain / [Benjamin Maund].
Maund, B. (Benjamin), 1790-1863Date: [1825-1842]- Books
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The botanic garden; consisting of ... representations of hardy ornamental flowering plants, cultivated in Great Britain / [Benjamin Maund].
Maund, B. (Benjamin), 1790-1863Date: 1825-1839- Books
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A dictionary of the ornamental trees, shrubs, and plants, most commonly cultivated in the plantations, gardens, and stoves of Great Britain / [Charles Bryant].
Bryant, Charles, -1799Date: [1790]