Dr Suzanne Moss🌱🏳️🌈 📚
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Director of Learning and Engagement @The_RHS | Author of #HistoricalFiction | Likes DIY | Plants and Scottie dogs | Book info at website | she/her | views mine
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[*tap tap* Is Twitter still on? 🎤]
Out TODAY: Observations on the Danger of Female Curiosity 😍
🌱kick-ass Georgian lady scientists
🌱nerdy lesbians
🌱a unicorn (or is it?)
🌱social awkwardness
Get it for 99p for a LIMITED time only.
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Even in the Poison Garden, this little guy is in isolation.
Why? Because it is one of the most venomous and dangerous plants in the world - if you touch it, the sensation is likened to being burned and electrocuted at the same time, and the effects can persist for YEARS.
a 🧵
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Person of the day: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
ACTUALLY the first person to introduce inoculation to Britain.
Everyone always talks about Edward Jenner (who was awesome), but Lady Mary had a good 80 years head start on Jenner, but she's a woman, so we don't talk about it.
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It's 20 years since the first, legal, same-sex wedding.
🏳️🌈
I'll show you mine if you show me yours...
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Dendrocnides moroides, also known as the stinging tree, or gympie gympie plant, is a native of Australia. And not one you want to get on the wrong side of.
The plant is covered in hairs, called trichomes, which are like little hypodermic needles.
📸 wiki
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They are the same kind of stingers as stinging nettles - they share a family - but this is WAY worse. The needles break off inside the skin at the slightest touch, and continue to release their toxin for months or years after, when touched or bathed or get warm
📸 India times
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Our friends rescued some ex battery chickens and if it doesn't persuade everyone to never eat battery eggs again I don't know what will.
Thankfully their little naked bottoms are now living their best lives and they have tiny jumpers.
But we are terrible to animals. 🙁
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Equally, if they are inhaled, expect sneezing, nosebleeds and possibly major respiratory damage.
The hairs persist, and it is still possible to be stung by specimens collected and dried 100 years ago.
📸 electronic micrograph image of hairs by Marina Hurley
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So I'm personally quite pleased that it's in a cabinet in Alnwick - and I'm sure their horticultural team are too.
But what a plant! 😱🌱
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There is no antidote for the toxin which is reported to have forced people to be tied to beds for the pain, horses to go mad and at least one person to end their own life.
The best treatment seems to be wax or sticky tape to try to remove the hairs, but with limited success.
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The toxin still isn't fully understood, but an associated peptide was named 'gympietide' after the plant in 2020, through ongoing research.
It is now being used to research future painkillers.
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Massonia - a fascinating and very flat alpine which is pollinated by gerbils when they run over it and get pollen on their tummies. 🥰😃
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*faints* 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
(I don't care if you're a variegated Monstera hater. LOOK at it...)
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@paulcoxon
Hello, im Sue, I'm a horticulturist, almost with a PhD in gardens, and I got my organisms and orgasms mixed up in front of a large group of 18 year old boys. 😶
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Its
#nationalgardeningday
! Are you gardening or garden visiting?
Show us 'yer plants. 😃🌱🪴🌲🌳🌵🌺🌻
(To be clear, the below is obvs not my garden...)
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If you're going to watch a video this morning do make it a gambolling baby Clydesdale.
It burns your eyes less than the other one. 😱
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Too chonky to go under, too short to go over... 🥰
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@LawtonTri
I'm not am expert - but it seems that nobody really knows. The structure of the peptides makes them highly stable, but that was only found in 2020.
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Wow - the stinging tree is popular!
There's more fun plants, science and sapphics in my book:
Or check out more cool plants and gardens at 🙂
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@dog_rates
Brodie looks like such a good boy! 😍
Wilma wears her rainbow with pride. She didn't go to any pride events as she prefers napping and chicken, but maybe next year. 🥰🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Check out the size of this Paulownia leaf! I promise my hands are relatively normally sized. 😲😲😍🤩
Paulownia tormentosa year 1 seedlings according to
@Matthew_Pottage
.
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Dad's gone over on his ankle so raiding the first aid kit.
Can only assume they last hurt themselves during the war...
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Parent's neglected secateurs, a tale in four acts:
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Picked up the crochet hook for the first time for a while. Attempted a brontosaurus.
Meet Colin. 😅🦕
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Annual courgette-related cogniznace:
Jul: recipe search
Aug: anybody want any courgettes?
Sept: completely overwhelmed
Oct: mental note that 5 plants can feed small army
Mar: surely one variety isn't enough?
Apr: might as well sow the lot
May: I'll plant 12, just in case.
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If you can make it to
@RHSWisley
in the next couple of weeks, do. Both the camassias and the tulips are SPECTACULAR this year. 😍😍
Well done to our awesome hort team!
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Edinburgh Zoo being fabulous LGBTQ+ allies and wonderfully considered in their replies to the inevitable Twitter nastiness.
We can all watch and learn a little here. 👏👏👏🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️😃
Our teams had an incredible day at Edinburgh Pride 🌈
LGBTQ+ colleagues, members and supporters make amazing contributions to saving wildlife. Let's build a community where everyone is welcome 🏳️🌈
Together, we can create a world where nature is protected, valued and loved 💛
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Fixed the headline for you,
@Telegraph
Exclusive:
@nationaltrust
continues its drive for inclusivity and accurate representation in the protection and presentation of UK heritage.
🙄
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I have exciting news. 😃
The
@The_RHS
has a new strategy and transformative developments on the way. 🌱
I'm super excited to be taking on the new role of Director of Learning and Public Engagement from September. We will do awesome things. 🙌
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The world was eventually declared free of smallpox in 1980.
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Slowly coming to terms with the view from my new office.
It's tough, but I'm pushing through...
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My lovely wife
@MillyMossTweets
has a significant birthday today, so please congratulate her on reaching another life milestone. 🥳🥳
Personally, I'm very excited we're now both old enough that we can consider buying a nest of tables without feeling uncool. 🙌😃
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I've lost track of number of crochet days, but this is Gordon. 🐘😄
His trunk is a little wonky, but we like him anyway.
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The Camassia meadow is almost at its best at
@rhswisley
! Would highly recommend a visit - you might even get your photo in focus. 🙄😆
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Aside from the much-hoped-for tea towel, Barney The Wooden Spoon Holding Bunny is my fave Christmas present.
Handmade by my dad. 🤩🥰
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This is so horribly harmful. Most gay people/lesbians do not feel like they are being redefined. In fact, conversely and unsurprisingly, they get what it's like to be othered and so are desperate to support trans people. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
This does not speak for me. 😐
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As you all clearly like fiendish plants, I thought we'd chat about one closer to home - common, and super deadly. ☠️
Ingesting - a definite no-no. Even holding one for too long can be fatal.
And you probably recognise it - Aconitum, or monkshood.
📷Acabashi
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I know people have all sorts of exciting ideas about what lesbians get up to at home, but this weekend I made my wife a jigsaw table out of some ikea trestles and OSB loft boarding, and I'm pretty sure this is the happiest I've ever made her... 😄
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Lady Montagu had her son and daughter inoculated, and tried to introduce the practice to Britain. Opponents wouldn't believe anything good could come from non-Christians, and certainly not if it was suggested by a woman.
She was still pretty trendy. 👇
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Certainly the biggest sunflower head I've ever grown, possibly the biggest I've ever seen. It's massive!
Show me your massive sunflower triumphs!
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Timeliness are a bit grim this morning, but FB just reminded me that it's a whole year since Wilma vs Frozen Pea, so I hope it gives you a smile too. 🥰😍
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I'd like you to meet the newest members of our weirdly extended, slightly dysfunctional family.
Meet Mint and Myrtle... 😍
And... 👇
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If we have a zoom call today, you might be seeing my deputy instead.
Don't pretend you wouldn't prefer it.
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An incredible evening for the hot air balloon show at
@chatsworthofficial
- what a spectacle! 😍🎈😍
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Apparently it's
#lesbianvisibilityday
- so here we are, visibly lesbianing in a field. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️😃
Tried to get the dog in but she wasn't having any of it, and anyway, she hasn't indicated that she might be a lesbian, so I guess that's fine... 😄
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🌱 Calling the growers and non-growers of twitter🌱
@dr_hick
and I are going to attempt to
#growinselfisolation
and crop some veggies in grow bags and planters in our limited garden space.
Anyone fancy joining us to share tips, successes and failures?
Please spread the word!
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I don't usually post food, but
@Nigella_Lawson
's fish finger bhorta with turmeric potatoes is too pretty not to share.
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Had a quick trip to Kew this afternoon. The Victoria waterlilies are immense! 😍😍
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Happy Christmas from us and our Christmas jumpers! 🎄😅 Wilma hates hers.
Hope you have a great one. Or at least tolerable if youre wearing a jumper you dislike. 😘
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Tests were arranged on prisoners and orphans. Following the tests one of the female prisoners was ordered to sleep in the same bed as a ten year old boy with smallpox for six weeks to see if she would catch it.
All sorts of ethical and safeguarding fun.
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What an absolute privilege to have a tour around Munstead Wood and learn more about the fabulous Gertrude Jekyll. I'm so glad it's been acquired for
@nationaltrust
and am looking forward to seeing what comes next. 😃🙌
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She noticed that the Turks were not pock marked from the smallpox, like many people in Britain. After a bit of investigation, she found out why.
The local ladies had found a method of inoculation (called variolation), using smallpox scabs.
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40 revolutions complete today. 🥳
And I'm pretty sure there is no better present from your loved ones, than a brushless combi drill and impact driver set with assorted accessories. 🤩😍😃
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If you have time, take 2 mins to listen to this speech this morning.
It very eloquently contextualises one of the pervading themes of populist culture.
My takeaway?
'The kindest person in the room is often the smartest'.
🙌🙂❤️
Please listen to this speech by
@GovPritzker
. It perfectly explains both the cruelty and stupidity of the people now ruling Brexit Britain.
#BrexitHasFailed
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Base needs a varnish and all needs a polish, but pretty happy with the home made bath taps! About £55 rather than £600...
#renovation
#diy
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Love having this lady and her hubby round, but between them and the blue tits they're getting through 3 fat balls a day!
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I'm sure I heard that gin aids COVID recovery, right? 😉🍸
(Work with me Twitter...)
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@lauraelizakay
@vaselby
Ugh. This has happened to me more times than I dare to count and it never gets less cringy. One b&b lady once insisted in putting us in a room with a double and a single bed, 'in case we changed our minds'.
Kind of exhausting. 😐
(Delighted about your champers though! 🥂)
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I took some 'accidental pocket pics' and now my phone gallery looks like a
@FarrowandBall
colour chart... 🧐
#molesburp
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Here's hoping the whole week is as excellent as its beginning!
(Yes I'm standing in a cornfield in my pyjamas).
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Every year we grow loads of tomatoes and forget which ones we liked the best. So here's this year's crop, ranked.
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This morning for your viewing pleasure - baby moorhens on lily pads. 🥰
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The King agreed that his granddaughters could be inoculated, but still wouldn't risk his grandsons.
Lady Montagu suspected that one of the main reasons the treatment was rejected was that physicians made a lot of money from treating clients with smallpox.
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Go on then, since it's a bank holiday. 😅
Hit me with your weddings. The last time we did this it was JOYFUL. 😍🏳️🌈
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On Saturday my father in law asked for some help interpreting the greenhouse instructions, and I'm still here...
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I have to say this wasn't *quite* what I had in mind when I ordered a non-spill dog bowl.
I suppose she could sit in it without spilling out.
Must pay more attention to sizing.
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It was another 80 years before Edward Jenner published his work on inoculating against smallpox with cowpox. People were still suspicious, and satires showed the risks of having tiny cows erupting from every orifice, as below.
(NB, never actually happened)
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(Wellcome images)
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We always grow loads of tomato varieties and I forget which ones are good and which aren't, so in 2019 I decided to document them - it's still handy now!
Just need to wait for it to warm up a little... ❄️☃️🍅
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They powdered the scabs, 'opened the veins' of a child in four or five places, and poked some of the scabs into the holes.
Nice.
But it worked. Some patients became ill, but it was far less risky than waiting around to get smallpox itself.
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Happy 3rd birthday to Wilma Bean, who came to us small enough to carry home inside my coat and now manages to take up half the bed despite being shorter than my knees at her highest point.
Logic defying all round. Love her. ❤️ 🥰
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I'm really sorry for just spamming your Twitter with the puppy for the past couple of weeks, but I just can't quite get over her. Look at that face!
Plant related content will resume shortly.
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Moss family pumpkins done 🎃😆
Do you have any you care to share? 🎃🙂
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Born in 1689 Lady Montagu knew her own mind. Early on she rejected her father's choice of suitor and eloped with a rising politician instead.
When he was posted to the Ottoman Empire as the British Ambassador, Mary insisted on accompanying him.
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May have* bought a new plant.
DO NOT TELL MY WIFE.
🧐😜
*definitely have
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#lesbianvisibilityweek
seems a good time to let you know that all being well my first book will be out this summer.
If you've ever wondered how nerdy, sapphic women might have fared in the 18th century, you might like it.
At least I hope you might- I'm super nervous about it 😂
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Lady Montagu managed to convince many of her female friends who had their children inoculated. When Princess Caroline wanted to get her children done, the King insisted on testing first.
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I've only been TO work five times in the past year, so it's awesome to see spring happening here today.
@RHSWisley
is looking fabulous.
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The rock garden at
@rhswisley
- always good value at this time of year! 😍🌺
#colour
#flowers
#plants
#biodiversity
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My Salvia brings all the bees to the yard, and they're like;
'Goodness this is an excellent nectar source. Please plant more to support our survival and enable us to ultimately facilitate the continuation of life on earth.'
#BigBeeChallenge
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Gorgeous autumn-coloured walk with these two, and managed to get the little one to stay still enough for a photo for once! 🥰🍂🍂🍂
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It's Friday night, so can we get excited about knees?
Tree knees that is - or 'cypress knees'.🌲🦵
Unlike people knees which are pretty self explanatory, tree knees have been a mystery for over 200 years.
I spotted these beauties at
@kewgardens
this week.
Phwoar. 😍
a🧵
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