#currentlyreading The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laigh, it's a fantastic #nonfiction book abouts #gardens, #gardening, the long shared history of #plants and humans, and the cultural importance of #botany, with #botanical references in other major #books from various eras and countries
#culture #culturalhistory #botanicalhistory #BotanicalGarden #gardens #book #literature #historyofliterature #botanicalart #gardens #plantsculture #flowers #bookstodon #bookworm #booklovers #plantslover

🌼 Discover the fascinating history of Forsythia, from its botanical origins to its role in gardens and landscapes worldwide

Read my article of the day here: https://discovermyeurope.eu/forsythia-a-legacy-of-botanical-discovery-and-cultural-significance/

#BotanicalHistory #Forsythia #PlantLegends #GardenTradition #NatureHeritage

england: "we kill your visiting king & queen, and out of pity for you poor natives, will send a boatload of random invasive plants that will be impossible to remove and forever alter the ecology of your islands."

https://imagesofoldhawaii.com/waiawi/

living in hawai'i, you really see how the colonials were just shuffling around people, animals, & plants like game pieces on a global chessboard...thinking they know best...

#colonialism #ecology #BotanicalHistory #history #hawaii #pacific

learning about how the highly-invasive strawberry guava (psidium cattleianum, also called waiawi) got introduced to the hawaiian islands and the story is just as bad as one would expect...

https://imagesofoldhawaii.com/waiawi/

#ecology #history #BotanicalHistory #hawaii #plants @plants #environment #tropical #TropicalAg #InvasiveSpecies #colonialism