Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
A selection of facts, figures and stories about plants
Well, according to the FT Magazine article, Defining Moment – Japanese knotweed invades Britain, he was the person responsible for introducing Japanese knotweed to the British Isles, way back on 9 August 1850. Mind you, he also got up to some fairly dodgy dealings in its native Japan. Perhaps as Read more …
This Dorset gardener has given up because he needed to keep stopping for a breather every 10 minutes. I know how he feels. The only difference is that he’s done it at the grand old age of 104, over two and a half times my age! And when you see Read more …
I have written before about the joys of common names of plants, but the piece Losing something in translation? really does seem to have captured some of the more bizarre stories of how sometimes the most common of plants have acquired their assortment of vernacular names around the globe. I Read more …