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moments in pot culture: the venus flytrap

Words by Jessica Peace Victorian superhuman Charles (The Daddy) Darwin, regarded the venus fly trap as, ‘one of the most wonderful [plants] in the...

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moments in pot culture: the fern

Words by Jessica Peace Before she gave birth to Peter Rabbit and looked liked Renée Zellweger, Potter was potty about ferns and produced vast studi...

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moments in pot culture: the daisy

Words by Jessica Peace Your Gran might’ve sung this to you or maybe you heard it in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, but Harry Dacre’s 1892 song, ‘Daisy B...

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moments in pot culture: the rose

Words by Jessica Peace The War of the Roses, won by Henry Tudor who defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth and marked the end of the middle...

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moments in pot culture: the lily

Words by Jessica Peace Renaissance painters of the 15th century used the Lily as a symbol of virginity and innocence. In, ‘Annunciation’, dashed ou...

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moments in pot culture: the fox glove

Words by Jessica Peace Those hill climbing, swooning, Victorian romantics (and ex-poet laureates) scrawled the foxglove into a few of their big num...

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moments in pot culture: the iris

Words by Jessica Peace In the 12th Century Luis VII covered The House of France with ‘fleur-de-lis’ or yellow Iris, this emblem still remains today...

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moments in pot culture: the pea

Words by Jessica Peace Still buzzin’ from the thrills of ‘The Seedlip Garden’, we are thinking of pea’s pop history... Hans Christian Anderson brou...

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...did someone say ‘vintage emporium’?

Words by Jessica Peace Need to grab some vintage stuff for your gaff? We’ve found Crews Hill Vintage Emporium, just down the road from our mates at...

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moments in pot culture - wisteria

Right now Blighty’s bricks are getting smothered in cascades of the purple, chandelier like blooms of the wisteria… WISTERIA MOMENTS IN POT CULTU...