Where Can You Find Horticulture in Pop Culture
It's been autumn for awhile, and we all know that daylight isn't as long as it is in the summer. Gardeners only have so much warmth in the day to plant their trees, shrubs, and daffodils - and at night we cozy up waiting for the next day. Often times, we put on a good sweater, make a nice brew of coffee, get under a blanket and put on a movie. What most people miss is that there are tons of horticulture references on our screens that keep us entertained, educated, or simply give us a giggle or two.
When you ask a child or young adult what's a plant from a movie they really love they might tell you Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy, or the Truffula Tree in the Lorax (the tree needed to make the thneed). When you ask someone a bit older to recall a plant in a movie, some might say the Chinese Evergreen from Léon: The Professional or maybe the "terrifying" tomatoes in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. We can make a whole list of all the plants that are in major hits in pop culture, like the silver apple tree in Narnia or the whomping willow in Harry Potter.
But there are gardeners in pop culture references too; Gromit, the cute little stop-motion dog, is an excellent gardener with his cottage style backyard, Morticia Addams, known for snipping the roses off the thorns, and you can't forget the famous J.R.R. Tolkien's Samwise Gamgee from Lord of the Rings.
We've talked about movies and books, but there's also horticulture in video games too - one extremely popular game called Stardew Valley brings light to the fact that sometimes we just need to pause our boring city lives, go to an old farm out in the country, and grow some parsnips. Botany Manner is another great game, although it focuses on puzzles, it teaches botanical logic and seed dormancy.
Horticulture is all around us, even in the virtual worlds behind our screen. It helps reframe gardening to appeal to everyday people. Apartment dwellers and first-time homeowners may feel the connections to plant life with lifestyle. They introduce audiences to botany and agriculture, sparking lifelong hobbies. Pop culture uses climate change and green spaces to raise awareness (you wanted to save the forest after watching FernGully, we all did).
As Bailey once said "Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot lived in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future."
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