Portraits of dried leaves by Friends, 1816 (the year without a summer)

Julius Friedrich Ferdinand In the long winter of 1816, the year without even a summer, there were food riots in the UK and famines in China ...

George Orwell's Garden History: "A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray"

 "Some years ago a friend took me to the little Berkshire church of which the celebrated Vicar of Bray was once the incumbent. (Actuall...

The Cabbage that is King: Brassica oleracae longata

Or, the curious case of the seven-foot tall cabbage, which brought two seedsellers and one Reverend Laycock of Hampshire into Westminster Co...