Botanical Bandits: The Untold Stories of Plant Hunters and Their Impact on Global Landscapes
Take a look back in time to travel with some of the key figures who collected, stole and swindled plants from the wilds of The Americas, Asia and Oceania to give us todays edible and common landscape plants. This will help give you an understanding of the effort required to collect and propagate plants from their original habitat so they can grown in today’s gardens.
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Tue 22 Jul
- SPECIAL OFFER: Discounted course fee (per person) if you register and pay for two or more learners on one order $37.50 incl. GST
- $75.00 incl. GST
Sessions
Session 1
Tue 22 Jul 19:00 - Tue 22 Jul 21:00At Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 2
Tue 29 Jul 19:00 - Tue 29 Jul 21:00At Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 3
Tue 05 Aug 19:00 - Tue 05 Aug 21:00At Selwyn College, Auckland.Please note there is NO refund or transfer if you cancel less than 5 working days in advance of a class starting. Our refund policy can be read in full here.
Description
Come and take a look back in time to travel with some of the key figures who collected, stole and swindled plants from the wilds of The Americas, Asia and Oceania to give us todays edible and common landscape plants. And we will take a look at the profits made and the geopolitical environment that drove the Plant Hunters of the 16th to 19th Centuries.
Course outline
- Brief overview of plant classifications, outline of course, geopolitical landscape of the 1400s to 1800s and relevance to plant collectors, plants from The Americas to Europe 1400 to 1800.
- Plants from Asia to Europe 1400 to 1800.
- Plants from Asia cont’d. Plants from Oceania to Europe. Plants to New Zealand/Aotearoa 1200 to 1800.
Who should attend?
Anyone keen to understand just how some of our common fruit trees or ornamentals have actually appeared in todays gardens.
About your tutor, Paul Crowhurst
Paul, now retired, has been in horticulture and gardening all his working life. He has owned a landscape company specialising in small space gardens and planters, had an extensive involvement with indoor landscaping, design and maintenance, and for several years (while completing a Psychology Degree) was involved in organic gardening for vocational support/rehabilitation with mental health patients. Paul brings a wealth of experience to his tutoring at Selwyn.
He has a keen interest in the who and how modern plants have arrived in our gardens and see the fascination of how much dirty dealing went on behind closed doors just so we can enjoy our nutmeg spice or mango fruit of today.
