The Ensonglopedia of Plants
| Created: | 2018-11-08 13:35 |
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| Institution: | Botanic Garden |
| Description: | The Ensonglopedia of Plants was commissioned from composer, performer and science communicator, John Hinton, to celebrate the completion of the Rising Path project at the Botanic Garden. The Rising Path is an exciting new venture which offers a new perspective on the Garden's historic Systematic Beds. John has woven together science, history, fable and folklore to give his unique iand highly entertaining take on ten key plant families grown on the Systematic Beds: the buttercups, the mustards, the roses, the peas, the carrots, the daisies, the irises, the grasses, the nightshades and the mints. The ten songs, which range in style from traditional to trance are introduced by Theme for a Systematic Garden which brilliantly summarises and sometimes satirises how plant taxonomy, the science of classifying plants, has changed since the Systematic Beds were laid out in 1846. Download the Ensonglopedia of Plants and enjoy a unique musical journey through the Garden's Systematic Beds. |
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This collection contains 11 media items.
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Theme for a Systematic Garden
The introductory song to The Ensonglopedia of Plants in which the challenges of sorting plants in a post-DNA world are discussed. We meet Andrew Murray, the Garden's first...
Collection: The Ensonglopedia of Plants
Institution: Botanic Garden
Created: Thu 8 Nov 2018
Cut me up a buttercup
Page one of de Candolle's 1813 textbook concerned the buttercup, which is why we all learnt the buttercup in biology at school, even though there is nothing standard about a...
Collection: The Ensonglopedia of Plants
Institution: Botanic Garden
Created: Thu 8 Nov 2018
Hot Dang! The Mustard Song
In this song about the mustard family set in a take-away, we discover why so many are so darn hot!
Collection: The Ensonglopedia of Plants
Institution: Botanic Garden
Created: Thu 8 Nov 2018
Thorny, thorny, thorny
Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? We never get close enough to find out - they're just thorny, thorny, thorny....
Collection: The Ensonglopedia of Plants
Institution: Botanic Garden
Created: Thu 8 Nov 2018
La Fable Sur La Femme Et Le Fabaceae
A retelling of the Princess and the Pea in a post #metoo age
Collection: The Ensonglopedia of Plants
Institution: Botanic Garden
Created: Thu 8 Nov 2018
Mr Carrot
We meet Mr Carrot and his vast family of herbal helpers including Dr Dill and Nurse Caraway.....
Collection: The Ensonglopedia of Plants
Institution: Botanic Garden
Created: Thu 8 Nov 2018
Daisy, daisy
Give me your answer do... Just how many flowers are there in a daisy?
Collection: The Ensonglopedia of Plants
Institution: Botanic Garden
Created: Thu 8 Nov 2018
Flowers Of The Rainbow (in praise of iris)
A meditation on the iris and the rainbow in belief
Collection: The Ensonglopedia of Plants
Institution: Botanic Garden
Created: Thu 8 Nov 2018
The Bladerunners (imagine if we got off our grasses)
An exploration of all the grass family members we depend on for food and shelter
Collection: The Ensonglopedia of Plants
Institution: Botanic Garden
Created: Thu 8 Nov 2018
Let's Call The Whole Thing Nightshade
I say aubergine, you say eggplant....
Collection: The Ensonglopedia of Plants
Institution: Botanic Garden
Created: Thu 8 Nov 2018
Basil, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Why has poor old parsley been booted out of this traditional song?
Collection: The Ensonglopedia of Plants
Institution: Botanic Garden
Created: Thu 8 Nov 2018