May 27, 2005

Plant cultures is a project by the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, which aims to highlight the impact of South Asian plants in Britain.

Try the 'Plants' and 'Stories' sections - further contributions to the latter are warmly invited. The website is just the beginning: the wider project will have events, walks, and other activities.

posted by Plegmund 18 years ago
  • mmmm, fruity and tasty
  • There's a Royal Botanical Gardens here in Canada, that is quite lovely, but the bloody place is going broke. I'm a bonsai enthusiast myself, and quite enjoy sculpting plants. Me mum, just the other day happened apon a garden centre that had mango trees(indoor), for sale, but I'm afraid city folk are just so lazy(over worked), that they have no concern for cultivaion of anything, other than a hang over(myself included, quite pesently, (hic)) Cheers
  • lovely, Plegmund! I was at Kew just the other day to see the Chihuly glass, and now I have yet another reason to go back. Hurrah!
  • The Internet's not s'posed to be educational, dammit! (Pretty cool.)
  • This is a nice resource. It has the plant that is one of my favorite weboggle words - neem, the plant behind one of the corniest, earwormiest ad jingles - turmeric, but no ganja (though I do see opium poppy). I like the paean to Polish poppy seed cake placed smack-dab in middle of all this South Asian plant-related stuff.
  • Chihuly? Oh, man, I meant to go the exhibit in March in Malibu, but never got around to it. Looks like such beautiful work.
  • PY-- it is. As someone into mehndi, I instantly looked for the stories about henna, which are great. Hurrah for the orangey-red stuff.