Plant Hunters

It’s another rainy day, but that’s OK - we’re making progress on the “sort out”.

So I am keeping todays blip simple - a section of a little jug of sweet peas ( they will soon have “gone over”), and a book open at the section describing the same plant.

The book I received on my birthday this last week. It is “The Plant Hunters Atlas” by Amber Edwards, and I am really enjoying it. Here I learn that the annual Sweet Pea (lathyrus odoratus) we all know is a native of Sicily and Sardinia, and was first described by Sicilian monk Franciscus Cupani in his “Hortus Catholicus” published in 1696. He sent seed to correspondents across Europe, which kicked off its future as a garden flower.