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Dr Suzanne Moss🌱🏳️‍🌈 📚 Profile picture
Dr Suzanne Moss🌱🏳️‍🌈 📚
@DrSueMoss
Director of Learning and Engagement @The_RHS | Author of #HistoricalFiction | Likes DIY | Plants and Scottie dogs | Book info at website | she/her | views mine
Jul 12, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Even in the Poison Garden, this little guy is in isolation.

Why? Because it is one of the most venomous and dangerous plants in the world - if you touch it, the sensation is likened to being burned and electrocuted at the same time, and the effects can persist for YEARS.

a 🧵 Dendrocnides moroides, also known as the stinging tree, or gympie gympie plant, is a native of Australia. And not one you want to get on the wrong side of.

The plant is covered in hairs, called trichomes, which are like little hypodermic needles.

📸 wiki
May 5, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
I'm going to level with you - this is boring stuff, but it is IMPORTANT if you work in horticulture so I'll post some nice pics with it.
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The @HouseofCommons Education Committee have published their report into the future of post-16 quals.

[Here's a Clerodendrum - THE COLOUR] An awesome Clerodendrum ber... Here's the report - you don't have to read it, but it's actually fairly accessible:
committees.parliament.uk/publications/3…

It looks at the direction of FE education in the UK, and Has Concerns.

They are the same Concerns the hort. industry has been shouting about for ages. Odd, that.
Dec 29, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Person of the day: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

ACTUALLY the first person to introduce inoculation to Britain.

Everyone always talks about Edward Jenner (who was awesome), but Lady Mary had a good 80 years head start on Jenner, but she's a woman, so we don't talk about it.

1/ Born in 1689 Lady Montagu knew her own mind. Early on she rejected her father's choice of suitor and eloped with a rising politician instead.

When he was posted to the Ottoman Empire as the British Ambassador, Mary insisted on accompanying him.

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Dec 28, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
🌿Person of the day: John Coakley Lettsom🌿

Physician, abolitionist, naturalist, philanthropist, horticulturist and generally awesome person.

Here he is with his family at Grove House in Surrey with his greenhouse and plants squarely in frame

(pic - Wellcome images)
1/ Image Born in 1744 on his father's plantation in the West Indies, he was sent to England for his education. He inherited the plantation on his father's death, and realised he was now the owner of MANY slaves.

So he freed them all and provided medical care to the local population.

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