THE CUT

moments in pot culture: the fig

Words by Jessica Peace Way back in Genesis when Eve got peckish and chowed down on some fruit dangling from a bough, all of a sudden her and her be...

moments in pot culture: the orchid

Words by Jessica Peace Édouard Manet, shoved a pink orchid in his model’s barnet for his painting ‘Olympia’ (1863). The painting caused an outrage ...

moments in pot culture: the carnation

Words by Jessica Peace On the first night of his play ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ (1892), Oscar Wilde asked one of his actresses and the audience membe...

moments in pot culture: the willow

Words by Jessica Peace Has your Nanna got any blue plates stuck up on her wall? The ‘willow pattern’ got big in Blighty in the late 1700’s after to...

moments in pot culture: the hibiscus

moments in pot culture: parsley

Words by Jessica Peace This herb was BIG in the 60’s... Michael Bond’s ‘The Herbs’ (it’s on youtube, get it watched) gave the 1960’s its stop anima...

moments in pot culture: the apple

Words by Jessica Peace Don’t talk to strangers and don’t bite into apples given to you from old hags - poor Snow White found out the tough way in t...

moments in pot culture: the strawberry

Words by Jessica Peace In Shakespeare’s play ‘Othello’ (1603 - ‘they’ think), the handkerchief that gets Desdemona into all that trouble is covere...

moments in pot culture: the poppy

Words by Jessica Peace In 1915 Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae wrote the poem, ‘In Flanders Fields’ where he gestures to poppies that grow over sold...

moments in pot culture: the cactus

Words by Jessica Peace In 1937 plant hero Frida Kahlo paints the still life ‘Cactus Fruits’, critics argue the deep red fruits reference her own su...

moments in pot culture: the acanthus

Words by Jessica Peace Right back to the Romans and the Greeks, the floppy, unfurling leaf of the acanthus has been chiselled into pillars using p...

moments in pot culture: the buttercup

Words by Jessica Peace ‘...the sky is summer-blue, /And meadows full of buttercups, /Are spread abroad for you’ whispered Cicely Mary Barker’s blon...