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Silybum Marianum - it increases breast milk: any takers??
Physic Garden, Chelsea, SW3
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It is hardy to zone 7 and is not frost tender. It is in leaf all year, in flower from July to September, and the seeds ripen from August to October. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Bees.
The plant prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils and requires well-drained soil. The plant prefers acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils and can grow in very alkaline soil. It cannot grow in the shade. It requires dry or moist soil. The plant can tolerates strong winds but not maritime exposure.
Edible Parts: Flowers; Leaves; Root; Stem.
Edible Uses: Coffee; Oil.
Root - raw or cooked. A mild flavour and somewhat mucilaginous texture[K]. When boiled, the roots resemble salsify (Tragopogon hispanicus). Leaves - raw or cooked. The very sharp leaf-spines must be removed first, which is quite a fiddly operation. The leaves are quite thick and have a mild flavour when young, at this time they are quite an acceptable ingredient of mixed salads, though they can become bitter in hot dry weather. When cooked they make an acceptable spinach substitute. It is possible to have leaves available all year round from successional sowings[K]. Flower buds - cooked[1, 238]. A globe artichoke substitute, they are used before the flowers open. The flavour is mild and acceptable, but the buds are quite small and even more fiddly to use than globe artichokes. Stems - raw or cooked. They are best peeled and can be soaked to reduce the bitterness. Palatable and nutritious, they can be used like asparagus or rhubarb or added to salads. They are best used in spring when they are young[105]. A good quality oil is obtained from the seeds[4]. The roasted seed is a coffee substitute[21, 46, 61, 183].
Medicinal Uses
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Astringent; Bitter; Cholagogue; Diaphoretic; Diuretic; Emetic; Emmenagogue; Hepatic; Homeopathy; Stimulant; Stomachic; Tonic.
Blessed thistle has a long history of use in the West as a remedy for depression and liver problem]. Recent research has confirmed that it has a remarkable ability to protect the liver from damage resulting from alcoholic and other types of poisoning. The whole plant is astringent, bitter, cholagogue, diaphoretic, diuretic, emetic, emmenagogue, hepatic, stimulant, stomachic and tonic. It is used internally in the treatment of liver and gall bladder diseases, jaundice, cirrhosis, hepatitis and poisoning. The plant is harvested when in flower and dried for later use. Silymarin, an extract from the seed, acts on the membranes of the liver cells preventing the entry of virus toxins and other toxic compounds and thus preventing damage to the cells. It also dramatically improves liver regeneration in hepatitis, cirrhosis, mushroom poisoning and other diseases of the liver. German research suggests that silybin (a flavonoid component of the seed) is clinically useful in the treatment of severe poisoning by Amanita mushrooms. Seed extracts are produced commercially in Europe. Regeneration of the liver is particularly important in the treatment of cancer since this disease is always characterized by a severely compromised and often partially destroyed liver[K]. A homeopathic remedy is obtained from equal parts of the root and the seed with its hulls still attached. It is used in the treatment of liver and abdominal disorders[9].
Other Uses: Green manure; Oil.
A good green manure plant, producing a lot of bulk for incorporation into the soil[K].
Cultivation details
Succeeds in any well-drained fertile garden soil[1, 200]. Prefers a calcareous soil and a sunny position. Hardy to about -15°c. The blessed thistle is a very ornamental plant that was formerly cultivated as a vegetable crop. Young plants are prone to damage from snails and slugs. Plants will often self sow freely.
Propagation
Seed - if sown in situ during March or April, the plant will usually flower in the summer and complete its life cycle in one growing season. The seed can also be sown from May to August when the plant will normally wait until the following year to flower and thus behave as a biennial. The best edible roots should be produced from a May/June sowing, whilst sowing the seed in the spring as well as the summer should ensure a supply of edible leaves all year round.
A large and imposing former corner pub with the name still intact, though it's now a wedding dress shop called David Fielden, though that has closed since. (Also a florist stand.)
Address: 241 Fulham Road.
Owner: Courage (former).
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A gastropub makeover of an existing boozer, rather nice with some decent beers and a pool hall ("billiards room") upstairs. Since refurbished again. (View of tiling in side doorway, and older photo of it from 2008.)
Address: 298 Kings Road.
Owner: ETM Group (former); TCG Acquisitions (former); Tattershall Castle Group (former); Punch Taverns [Spirit Group] (former).
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Autumn colours in the Physic Garden: the Curator's house in in the background.
The Chelsea Physic Garden was founded in 1673, as the Apothecaries' Garden, with the purpose of training apprentices in identifying plants. The location was chosen as the proximity to the river created a warmer microclimate allowing the survival of many non-native plants - such as the largest outdoor fruiting olive tree in Britain - and more importantly, to allow plants to survive harsh British winters. The river was also important as a transport route that linked the garden to other open spaces such as Putney Heath, facilitating easy movements of both plants and botanists. In fact the garden has always sought to achieve good communications with others working in the same field: by the 1700's it had initiated an international botanic garden seed exchange system, which continues to this day.
Some years later, Dr. Hans Sloane, after whom the nearby locations of Sloane Square and Sloane Street were named, purchased the Manor of Chelsea from Charles Cheyne. This purchase of about 4 acres was leased to the Society of Apothecaries for £5 a year in perpetuity.
Environments for supporting different types of plants were built, including the pond rock garden, constructed from a variety of rock types, namely stones from the Tower of London, Icelandic lava (brought to the garden by Sir Joseph Banks in 1772 on a ship named St. Lawrence), fused bricks and flint. This curious structure has been listed Grade II* and is the oldest rock garden in England on view to the public. It was completed on 16th August 1773.
In 1848 Robert Fortune used Wardian cases, which are rather like miniature greenhouses, to transport seedlings of Camelia sinensis (tea) from China leading to the establishment of the tea industry in India.
In 1876 the Garden enlarged its educational aspirations by deciding to run a lecture course for young women who were training as botany teachers. At the end of the 19th century the trustees of the City Parochial Foundation agreed to take over the running of the Garden from the Society of Apothecaries. In 1983 The Garden became a registered charity and open to the general public for the first time.
The Chelsea Physic Garden has developed a major role in public education focusing on the renewed interest in natural medicine. The Garden of World Medicine which is Britain's first garden of ethnobotany (or the study of the botany of different ethnic groups and indigenous peoples) is laid out together with a new Pharmaceutical Garden.
Now a clothing store, but sensitively adapted to the former pub façade (it hasn't been a pub for a very long time).
Address: 72 Kings Road (formerly at Colville Terrace).
Former Name(s): The Colville Tavern.
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Taken 5th November 2017 at Edgware Bus Station.
This route currently operates from Garston garage between Edgware Bus Station and Harrow Bus Station.
In POST POP: EAST MEETS WEST exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery.
Michael, 2001 by Gary Hume
Gloss paint on aluminium
122 cm diameter
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Decent pub on the King's Road. Back then it had pool tables upstairs and decent beers on pump. It's since been refurbished (having become part of the ETM Group), so it's very much gastro now, though still retaining the pool tables. (More recent photo from 2010.)
Address: 298 Kings Road.
Owner: TCG Acquisitions (former); Tattershall Castle Group (former); Punch Taverns [Spirit Group] (former).
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A back street pub that I need a better photo of. Some rather ornate decoration. Since closed but then reopened, under new management.
Addresss: 1 Lawrence Street.
Owner: Cirrus Inns (former); Star Pubs and Bars (former).
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The Surprise has been closed at the end of 2007 or thereabouts - facade was kept unaltered but the trimmings outside are gone including the old pub sign.
There are few pubs in the area and this particular one had the charm of an 'unmodernised' establishment
Aboudia
2013
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
125 x 200 cm
(Not sure if it's Enfants dans la Rue 1 or 3!)
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In the middle of the row of houses is the former residence of American painter John Singer Sargent
Studio houses on the eastern side of Tite Street
The studio houses at Numbers 31 and 33 Tite Street shown here were designed by Robert Edis and erected in 1880. Number 31 was built for Frank Dicey and purchased in 1901 by William Singer Sargent. Since 1886 Sargent had lived in the ground floor flat of studio flats next door. The architects were embroiled in disputes with Metropolitan Board of Works over their designs. The end result was a compromise. The last house just at the edge of the photograph was built on the site of Whistler's White House.
Ballad to the Moon (Alfred de Musset)
It was, in the dark night,
On the yellowed steeple,
The moon, the moon
Like a dot on an i.
Moon, what dark spirit
Walks at the end of a leash
Through the gloom,
Your face and your profile?
Are you the one-eyed heavens' single eye?
Which bigoted cherub
Peers at us
Beneath your pale mask?
Are you merely a ball?
A big fat daddy-long-legs
That rolls, that rolls
Without legs and arms?
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Ballade à la lune
C'était, dans la nuit brune,
Sur le clocher jauni,
La lune, la lune,
Comme un point sur un i.
Lune, quel esprit sombre
Promène au bout d'un fil,
Dans l'ombre,
Ta face et ton profil?
Es-tu l'oeil du ciel borgne?
Quel chérubin cafard
Nous lorgne
Sous ton masque blafard?
N'es-tu rien qu'une boule?
Qu'un grand faucheux bien gras
Qui roule, qui roule
Sans pattes et sans bras?
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Poem by Alfred de MUSSET (1810-1857)
English translation by Barbara MILLER
Set to Music by Edouard LALO
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BALADA LUNII (de Alfred de Musset)
Era in noaptea neagrà
Pe un turn din câmpii
Luna, luna
Ca un punct pe un “i”
Lunà, ce spirit sumbru
Iti plimb-asa tiptil
Din umbrà
Rotundul tàu profil?
Esti ochiul chior al cerului profan?
Sau înger ce
Priveste prin ochean
Sub masca lui palidà?
O minge esti, fireste?
Sau doar gandacul care
Se tot rostogoleste
Din lipsa de picioare?
(Tradus din franceza de Constant, Londra, Iulie 2008)
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Chelsea SW3
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To the Moon [fragment]
by Percy Bysshe SHELLEY
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing Heaven, and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,--
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?