Strange Horticulture Lets You Live Your Best Gothic Botanist Life

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I’d love to be an amateur botanist, but I can barely keep the handful of plants in my own home alive. Half of them are plastic and they still look worse for wear. I’ve got my excuses: the conservatory gets too hot, the conservatory gets too cold, the wind messed them up. Basically, any excuse that’s not ‘I forgot to water them.’ The conservatory in our current rental definitely didn’t help though.

That’s why I was excited to check out Strange Horticulture. It’s less about cultivating plants as it is understanding and cataloguing them, but as long as there was no chance any real flora would die as a result of my actions, I was in.

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You’ve taken over your father’s shop and everything that comes with it. Shelves of unlabelled plants, a trusty watering can, a softly purring cat, even his regular customers. Open up the desk and you’re presented with even more. A map, a Strange Book of Plants that tells you about the properties of various flora but crucially doesn’t provide accurate illustrations, and some notes on scraps of paper. I set about working out which plants had which properties from the available information, and immediately nailed down a couple of the simpler shrubs. I quickly worked out my own system for labelling the maybes, too.

Matching plants to their properties is immensely satisfying, and everything you do feels satisfying too. From opening the desk drawers to surveying the map to watering the plants to, of course, petting the cat feels weighty, giving every simple action an heir of importance. You may be a simple horticulturist, but you’re an important horticulturist.

Customers don’t know what plant they want - who would? - but know what ailment they want cured