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Summer Sizzlers: Nasturtiums9 July 2004
History of a humble, underestimated plant

Monet had a keen eye for colour and in his garden at Giverny he grew one rather unexpected plant in profusion.

The humble nasturtium was encouraged to spread across beds and paths in great drifts of strong colour and as Maggie Campbell-Culver, plant historian and author of the Origins of Plants tells Corinne Julius it's a plant that we consistently underestimate...

The Origin of Plants by Maggie Campbell-Culver is published by Headline.


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