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moments in pot culture: the palm
Words by Jessica Peace You might know it from the mouth of Barry Manilow, ‘Goodfellas’ or ‘Raging Bull’, but you can’t think of the 1940’s New York...
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moments in pot culture: the snowdrop
Words by Jessica Peace E.A. Bowles (1865–1954) the horticulturist, artist, writer and Lord of the Manor at Myddelton House was nothin’ short of a G...
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moments in pot culture: mistletoe
Words by Jessica Peace Way back the Celts and the Greeks thought this white berries looked like semen (!), so branded this dripping twig a sign of ...
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moments in pot culture: deadly nightshade
Words by Jessica Peace Agatha Christie showed us just how deadly this dark berried plant is in three of her crime novels and short stories: The Cre...
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moments in pot culture: the horse chestnut
Words by Jessica Peace American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt was known as ‘painter and poet of the nursery’, when living in Paris and knockin...
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moments in pot culture: the pansy
Words by Jessica Peace After illustrating Don Quixote, Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe, 19th century cartoonist J. J. Grandville sexed up th...
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moments in pot culture: the thistle
Words by Jessica Peace The Scots have loved the thistle since at least 1263 and so they should; apparently when the barefooted Norsemen (natch) inv...
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moments in pot culture: the lotus
Words by Jessica Peace The lotus is highly significant in Eastern religions including Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism. Due to its masses of petals, ...
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moments in pot culture: the banana
Words by Jessica Peace ‘Let's all go down the Strand - Have a banana!...’ Written in 1904 by Harry Castling and C.W. Murphy, the ‘banana’ was bange...
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moments in pot culture: the pumpkin
Words by Jessica Peace The story of ‘Cinderella’ actually started back with the Greeks; rehashed every few thousand years it was Charles Perrault’s...
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moments in pot culture: the hydrangea
Words by Jessica Peace In the noughties Alexander McQueen’s show, ‘Sarabande’ saw real hydrangeas pinned all over a lovely frock. The show was base...
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