Stories
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Foraging for a taste of the past
Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.
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姜、蒜、葱 Ginger, garlic and spring onions
Nina Mingya Powles felt adrift in the UK, living thousands of miles from home. But nurturing familiar tastes and smells in her tiny balcony garden helped her roots begin to grow.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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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.
Catalogue
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Wild flowers / [Anne Pratt].
Pratt, Anne, 1806-1893Date: 1893- Pictures
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Wild flowers. Colour process print, 1909.
Date: [15 September 1909]Reference: 730335i- Books
Wild flowers; or, pastoral and local poetry / By Robert Bloomfield.
Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823Date: 1809- Books
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Wild flowers; or, pastoral and local poetry / By Robert Bloomfield.
Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823Date: 1819- Books
Wild flowers of Canada / published exclusively with the Montreal star, Montreal. By special artists and botanists.
Date: Between 1890 and 1899?]