Wearing the Garden and Food, Plants and Medicine
Elizabeth Anya-Petrivna – Wearing the Garden
Anya-Petrivna, E. (2014). Wearing the Garden. Australian Garden History, 26(1), 20-23.
- What is it about?
- Why is it interesting?
On page 22, the author emphasises the prominence of flowers in trade by stating that “…artificial flowers were evidently in great colonial demand…” (Anya-Petrivna, 2014). She also indicates that “… as a successful business, the firm continued to import French, English, and German flowers…” (Anya-Petrivna, 2014).
- Ideas for project.
- Trade/ business
- Florist (online)?
- Fashion (diary)
- Landscape/ gardener (planner)
- Floral motif/ design on materials
- Postcard
- Fashion
- Book
- Sketch of plants (discovering new species)?
- Journals/ diaries
Brian Shutes – Food Plants and Medicine
Shutes, B. (1984). Food plants and medicine. Journal of Biological Education, 18(3), 186.
- What is it about?
It only focuses on three groups – plants with antiseptic properties, fruits which have anti-inflammatory properties, and cereals/ wheat for consumption. Other groups of plants and vegetation are excluded and so are other medicinal properties. Only focuses on foods used in Britain - does not mention Indigenous uses of herbs and plants for medicine, or information from Europe, and Asia.
- Why is it interesting?
Different plants and vegetation have a range of uses for healing the ill, infected and wounded. They are not just consumed to alleviate hunger, they can be used for medicinal purposes.
Antiseptic properties | ||
Name | Scientific Name | Uses |
Garlic (vegetable) | Allium Sativum | Wounded troops in trenches |
Cabbage (vegetable) | Brassica Oleracea |
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Carrot (vegetable) | Daucus Carota |
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Apple Juice | Malus Pumila |
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Lemon Lime Juice | Citrus Limonum Citrus Medica |
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Anti-Inflammatory | ||
Name | Scientific name | Uses |
Blackcurrant (Fruit) | Ribes Nigrum |
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Raspberry Strawberry | Ribes Idaeus Fragaria ananassa |
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Dog rose (only use an extract of this) | Rosa Canina |
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- Ideas for project.
- Range of plants, fruits, vegetables from around the world
- Research the different types and their uses
- Display as catalogue (online)?
- Info-brochure
- Medicinal uses of herbs, plants and vegetables
- Audience: general public
- Webpage
- List of plants and their medicinal properties
- Audience: general public
- Book
- Sketchbook of ‘rare’ and ‘newly discovered’ species and their properties
- Sketchbook of plants from personal garden (make up)
- Diary of ‘witch spells’? – using different plants for healing??