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Top 10 Plants & Gardening

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You are here: Home. Plants & Gardening. Blooming late in the year, they provide welcome late flowers in an ever growing range of shapes and colours. They are also a very long lasting cut flower. This plant is slow growing, but yew hedges can grow to an incredible size and last for hundreds of years. The yew-hedge maze at Hampton Court was planted in 1702! With variety of size and form, heathers flower every month of the year. They are evergreen, with many different foliage colours. Dubbed ‘the worl...

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Top 10 Plants & History

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You are here: Home. Plants & History. If the story is to be believed, Newton’s theory of gravity would never have happened without the apple. Along with other precious spices, cloves funded many journeys of exploration. Columbus discovered America when he was looking for a new spice route to India. Charcoal made from burning crack willow was used in the manufacture of gunpowder. A hard, durable wood, ships were traditionally made from oak because of its ability to weather the elements. Mr and Mrs C Morgan.

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Plants & Medicine

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You are here: Home. View our top 10. Plants & Medicine. Even today we are still using compounds derived from plants. Atropine, used to treat certain heart conditions and to relax the muscles of the eye, was originally obtained from the deadly nightshade plant. Foxgloves contain a substance called digitoxin, which was used to treat an irregular heartbeat, and drugs based on this substance are still currently in use. See the top 10 plants. That we think have made the biggest difference to this category.

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Plants & Farming

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You are here: Home. View our top 10. Plants & Farming. Since the first person collected the seeds of wild grasses and planted them on prepared ground about 10,000 years ago, farming has not only been dependent on plants, but has also changed them to suit man’s needs. Barley was one of the first wild grains to be domesticated, though today it is mainly used for animal food. See the top 10 plants. That we think have made the biggest difference to this category. Janet and Maurice Elliott. Mr and Mrs C Morgan.

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Top 10 Plants & Gastronomy

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You are here: Home. Plants & Gastronomy. The dried berries of the. Vine, black pepper is one of the most universal spices, adding piquancy to a wide range of dishes and cuisines. Used as a preservative in hot climates, chilli is one of the most widely used spices throughout the world. It can even add piquancy to sweet foods such as chocolate. Originating in Mexico, chocolate is loved worldwide. Its Latin name means ‘food of the Gods’ and for many people, it truly is a heavenly treat. Brought back from Me...

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Top 10 Plants & Architecture

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You are here: Home. Plants & Architecture. The leaves of the acanthus were a decorative feature of Corinthian columns in ancient Greece. More recently, they influenced many of William Morris’s designs. The fastest growing plant in the world, yet it has a tensile strength greater than steel. Fine-grained and pale, used most often in veneers and plywood, beech wood is used for furniture. Cedar wood contains oils that naturally repel insects. It is resistant to water, weather and decay. Mr and Mrs C Morgan.

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Plant categories

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You are here: Home. We’ve chosen 10 ‘categories’ to show you just how varied and important the role of plants can be in all walks of life. Visitors to the Chelsea Flower Show as well as readers of the Eastern Daily Press newspaper voted for the '. In each category. Attendees at our launch event then chose Wheat as the plant 'that most influences our lives'. Have your say by voting. Plant Categories - People's Choice winning plants. More about Plants and Architecture. More about Plants and Children. Briti...

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Plants & Fashion

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You are here: Home. View our top 10. Plants & Fashion. Everything we wear depends on plants somewhere along the line. Some are very obvious. Cotton is spun from the fibres attached to the seeds of the cotton plant. Linen is made from the woven fibres of the stems of the flax plant. Some are not so obvious. Silk comes from silk worms. But silk worms eat only the leaves of the white mulberry tree and without this plant, the silk industry would not exist. But what about man-made fibres? See the top 10 plants.

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Plants & Children

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You are here: Home. View our top 10. Plants & Children. Even for those of us who grow up in cities, more of our childhood is linked to plants than we might think. The paper in our school books and our comics is made from trees, as are wooden pencils and crayons. Chocolate, cake, biscuits and sweets may not be a particularly healthy choice, but they are a firm favourite with most children. Without cocoa, vanilla and sugar, they wouldn’t be nearly as delicious as they are. See the top 10 plants.

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Top 10 Plants & Medicine

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You are here: Home. Plants & Medicine. Used medicinally for thousands of years, today it is used in the treatment of sleeping disorders, autoimmune diseases and glaucoma. Cocaine was widely used as a local anaesthetic in the 19th century and coca leaf tea is taken for altitude sickness in South America. Galantamine hydrobromide, a compound derived from daffodil bulbs, is being used to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Opium derivatives such as morphine are still used as powerful painkillers in hospitals. Plants...