🌱 #History, #Botany, #Plants, #Gardening, #Art, #Allotment, Economic & Social History, Small-scale food production, Cricket. Mending old things and restoring old houses. Location 🇬🇧
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Stephen Spitewinter
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#plants #history #art 🎨
Friday Art!
SIR GEORGE CLAUSEN, R.A., 1852-1944
'The Plough'
Watercolour and pencil, c1893
Have a good weekend. Try to get out somewhere new.
( Yes, I do know that it was Scotland 🏴 1:0 🇭🇹 Haiti last Sunday, and I'm very pleased for that, too. )
Good Morning from 🇬🇧. We have a few sore heads today from drinking to the football (England 🏴 4 : 2 🇭🇷 Croatia).
Have a good weekend!
#plants #history #botany #art #ferns 🌱
Adiantum (many var.) - Maidenhair fern
Pleasant plant indoor & green house. They do well in a bathroom with bright but indirect sunlight. Needs regular water (more than you think) - never let them dry out.
RHS How to grow:
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/20650...
Stephen Spitewinter
#plants #botany #history #art #poison ☠️
The Dangerous Colour Green
Colouring botanical plates was a dangerous business up to the 1890s. The Cyanide in the the Cassava could kill you - but so could the Arsenic in the green inks you used.
A short history -
blog.americanduchess.com/2022/05/a-li...
I first posted the article on Arsenic Green / Scheele's Green about 18 months ago but there are many more of us now.
There is a story that #Napoleon Bonaparte 🇫🇷 died in exile on #StHelena from exposure to Arsenic pigments in wallpaper. If you have seen any papers on this theory please tell me.
#plants #trees #history #art 🌲
Friday art...
Samuel John Peploe, R.S.A. (1871-1935)
'The Pine Trees'
Oils on Panel
Biography & other works:
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
Have a good weekend everyone. 🙂
Stephen Spitewinter
#Trump #KennedyCentre #Nokings #resist #bluecrew
Of course, he must be disappointed, but there are many municipalities who can honour his name without getting Congress involved.
#Trump #KennedyCentre #Nokings #resist #bluecrew
The world knows, now.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
