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Image 16 October 2018 gs

Complex geometry of a fan palm viewed from above (Squire/Living Field).

One of a series of drawing by K Owen in the 1980s: the common mallow goes unnoticed or pulled out as a garden weed, but, like other mallows, its mucilage was once prized as a poultice or ointment.

Weed, ointment, snack?
18 November 2020 gs
‘And those who walk this blessed land ….. their souls shall never cease’ (From War Horse, Tams)

Poppies over the years in the Living Field garden …..

Remembrance
8 November 2020 gs
Selection of dye plants, dyestuffs and dyed fibres – the Living Field’s 5000-years of natural Dyes

Dye plants, Dyestuffs and natural fibres
5 November 2020 gs
Memories of summer – some of the Garden’s best bee-plants among the Compositae (Living Field collection, first published 2019)

Bee-plants – Compositae
1 November 2020 gs
A botanical artist’s illustrations will be used by the Living Field to explain how mixtures of crops and crops with grass were managed in the 1800s

Illustrating crop-grass mixtures
10 May 2020 gs