# gardenart

The Portico's 1781 Icones Plantarum Rariorum contains delicately coloured drawings such as this of the flower salsify (or goatsbeard).

Its compiler, Nikolaus Jacquin, traveled extensively in the Caribbean and Central America and was close with Mozart and Alexander von Humboldt.

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2023-03-29

THREAD:
Skirret, Salsify, Scorzonera...
These are root vegetables, once popular, and eaten in almost every meal, in a pottage style stew mainly; it was the staple of many farmers...
What happened to them? Why don't we eat them any more?
1/x

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2022-03-06

Gracefully dancing seed heads • Moonlight Minuet
New art at https://t.co/exDqDTj5N1

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2017-07-02