Eden Project

This weeks Plant Record

(For a bit of fun, every Friday our Plant Records Manager, Chris Bisson, the guy who maintains all the recorded information on our plant collections, will do a regular blog slot where he recommends his favourite “plant records” – that is, songs that are in some way linked to a plant. (Do you see what we did there?) )

‘Strawberry Fields’ – The Beatles (1967)

Garden strawberries (cultivars of Fragaria x ananassa) originated in France in 1740 when South American and North American strawberry plants were crossed. Commercial cultivation of the plants with large, sweet fruit soon replaced the woodland strawberry (Fragaria Vesca). It’s still a treat to find the small, tangy fruit along hedgerows, meadows and woodland edges. Roll on summer…

The subject of this John Lennon-penned psychedelic classic, as if you don’t know already, was the Salvation Army’s Strawberry Field children’s home situated near his childhood home in Woolton, Liverpool.

Special thanks to Simon for choosing this one!

Chris Bisson – Plant Records Manager – Eden Project

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