Hugo, who is Spanish, and Can, who is Turkish, came to garden club this Tuesday. They are Year 6 boys and are great funds of knowlege. Can(pronounced Jan) is fantastic on plants and gardening and he told me about his huge family garden in Turkey which he sees around three times a year. We discussed the different names for plants in their languages and he wrote the names for some of them in my Mathew Biggs Fruit and Veg book. I told him how so many of our familiar plants and veg originated from his part of the world, Turkey and Iran: roses, lavender, tulips, vines, fig and olive and how the ancient Romans took so many of them round their Empire with them because they were so valuable for food, medicine and also for their beauty.
I am hoping that they make a photographic record of what they learn so that they can present an assembly about it, maybe in late spring when we have some more material.
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