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6 Britain May 2 2022 | World and Press Inside London’s little-known Windrush gardens GARDENING • MIGRANTS The influence of Caribbean horticulture has often been missing from histories of British gardening. mit Übungsmaterial By Phoebe Weston 1 FROM YAMSto chocho to ackee, a new exhibition is shining a light on south London’s Caribbean gardens, created by the Windrush generation who moved to Britain after the Second World War. The Sowing Roots exhibition at the Garden Museum in Lambeth explores how Caribbean horticultural heritage has enriched British gardening. It tells the stories of 15 individuals through interview extracts, photographs, and artefacts – including a pair of dirty gardening gloves, horticulture books, and herbal teas. 2 The idea for the exhibition came after the Windrush scandal in 2018, which exposed how thousands of Caribbean people who had been invited to the UK as British citizens had been wrongly targeted with deportation. The exhibition looks at how cultivating land has helped Caribbean communities to feel at home and rooted in the UK. 3 “The resulting oral histories shed light on the varied traditions that Caribbean people carried with them when they moved to Britain,” a panel at the start of the exhibition reads. “We hope to have unearthed the inventiveness, creativity, and power at the heart of Caribbean gardening that has shaped families, communities, and empire across time and space.” 4 Through gardening, people in the diaspora have been able to connect with their cultural heritage. “The exhibition filled the spot for me, and I know for many gardeners of colour. It’s shone a light on what we’ve been doing for a long time, and given us a little platform,” says Ras Prince Morgan, who was born in Rock River in Clarendon, Jamaica, and migrated to London in 1969 when he was seven years old. 5 Morgan created his garden 16 years ago on disused land filled with Japanese knotweed on the edge of playing fields in Lewisham, south-east London. He initially just wanted to grow some fruit trees so his children would know where their food came from; now he grows plants from all over the world and runs horticultural and educational projects. 6 One of Morgan’s inspirations is Alan Titchmarsh. He loves London’s Kew and Hampton Court Gardens, the Eden Project in Cornwall, and many other European-led institutions, but is frustrated by the lack of visibility of Africans involved in creating this rich history. “Gardening has been such a very European-led institution,” he says. “It paints the picture that Africans were never involved, but that is the furthest thing from the truth. It’s only when you do your research, then you realise we were the backbone of the industry. [White people] were in control, passing the orders and instructions down the line, where we were to carry them out.” 7 Part of Morgan’s motivation for growing things was to increase diversity in gardening in the UK. He now has more than ten volunteers helping him, and most are people of colour. He has noticed the climate getting warmer over the past ten years, meaning he is able to grow more heatloving plants outside, such as bananas, avocados, sugar cane, and angel’s trumpet. “I grew yam on my veranda and had dinner from it. That just blew my mind. People say you can’t grow yam over here, 0 – 1 WINDRUSH (GENERATION) Bezeichnung für Menschen, die 1948 mit dem Schiff „Empire Windrush“ von der Karibik nach GB ausgewandert sind — horticulture “"hO…tIkøltS´‘ Gartenbau; s.w.u. horticultural “ÆhO… tI"køltS´r´l‘ — yam Jamswurzel — chocho Chayote — ackee Akee — to shine a light on; s.w.u. to shed light on (fig) beleuchten — to sow “s´U‘ säen — heritage “"herItIdZ‘ Erbe — to enrich bereichern 2 – 4 to be wrongly targeted with deportation zu Unrecht abgeschoben werden — rooted (fig) verwurzelt — oral history “"O…r´l‘ Interviews mit Zeitzeugen(-innen) als Methode der Geschichtswissenschaft; h.: Erzählung — panel Tafel — to unearth “øn"‰…T‘ (fig) ans Licht bringen — inventiveness “In"ventIvn´s‘ Erfindungsreichtum — to shape prägen — … in the diaspora “daI"œsp´r´‘ im Ausland lebende … — to fill the spot (fig) genau das Richtige it’s not hot enough, but I grew a piece of yam on my veranda!” he says. 8 Morgan gardens according to the cycles of the moon and uses a horoscope book called ‘Old Moore’s Almanack’, which has information on lunar rising and setting times and when is the right time to plant what. His mother – and probably his grandmother too – used the same book. 9 Another story included in the exhibition is that of Earline Hilda Castillo Binger, who was born in Trinidad and moved to the UK in 1971 and became a nurse. She is now a community gardener and leads gardening sessions on land belonging to GP surgeries in Lambeth. “There’s a bush for everything. Every ailment you have, there’s a bush,” she says in her interview for the exhibition. “You know, this gardening has taken me on a journey, a very interesting journey.” 10 Subsistence and small-scale farming occupies a unique place in the history of Caribbean peoples, says historian Dr Elizabeth Cooper, who curated the exhibition. “Sowing Roots taps into this history and the ways that migrants from the Caribbean carried meanings and traditions of gardening with them when they moved to the UK – and in turn transformed the uses and meanings of green spaces in south London,” she says. © 2022 Guardian News and Media Ltd A “Windrush Garden” exhibit at the 2018 Chelsea Flower Show in London. | Photo: Picture Alliance sein — to migrate auswandern 5 – 7 disused land “dIs"ju…zd‘ Brachfläche — Japanese knotweed “"nÅtwi…d‘ Japanischer Staudenknöterich — playing field Sportplatz — Lewisham “"lu…IS´m‘ — visibility “ÆvIz´"bIl´ti‘ Sichtbarkeit — backbone (fig) tragende Säule — down the line (in der Hierarchie) nach unten — sugar cane Zuckerrohr — angel’s trumpet Engelstrompete — to blow s.o.’s mind (coll) jdn. umhauen 8 – 10 lunar … … des Mondes — community gardener Gemeinschaftsgärtner(in) — GP surgery “"s‰…dZ´ri‘ Hausarztpraxis — bush h.: Kraut — ailment Leiden — subsistence “s´b"sIst´ns‘ Selbstversorgung — small-scale farming Kleinlandwirtschaft — unique “ju…"nI…k‘ einzigartig — historian “hI"stO…ri´n‘ Historiker(in) — to curate “kjU´"reIt‘ als Kurator(in) betreuen — to tap into erschließen — in turn und so ihrerseits — green space Grünfläche Archaeologists discover rare mosaic floor at construction site ARCHAEOLOGY By Annabelle Timsit 1 ARCHAEOLOGISTS excavating a construction site in South London have discovered a Roman-era mosaic floor thought to be at least 1,800 years old – a “once-in-a-lifetime” find that one said is the “largest area of decorated mosaic discovered in London in the past 50 years.” The colorful double-paneled mosaic was uncovered by the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) as part of ongoing excavations of an area in Southwark that will be the site of a multiuse development known as the Liberty of Southwark. 2 MOLA conservators are expected to be on the site starting this week to assess the mosaics and later transport them to the museum for conservation. The long-term plan is for the mosaics to be put on display. Antonietta Lerz, a senior archaeologist at MOLA who supervised the excavation with her colleague Dave Saxby, described the mosaics in an email to ‘The Washington Post’ as a “once-in-a-lifetime” find because of their “size, rarity, and preservation.” 3 When the Romans ruled over Britain from the mid-1st to the early 5th century, they estab- Detail of the Roman-era mosaic floor discovered in London by MOLA archaeologists. | Photo: Picture Alliance/ empics lished their capital, Londinium, where the city of London is now – which is why Southwark is known to contain many Roman relics. Previous discoveries on the site include coins, jewelry, and copper bowls. A news release announcing the discovery on Tuesday said the largest of the two mosaic panels is from the late 2nd to early 3rd century, while the room it was in “was clearly in use for a longer period of time.” … 4 “Given the size of the dining room and its lavish decoration, it is believed that only high-ranking officers and their guests would have used this space,”

World and Press | May 2 2022 How a war helped ease a rift between Britain and the EU INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS The crisis in Ukraine is beginning to narrow the chasm opened up by Brexit. By Stephen Castle 1 IT TOOKthe invasion of a sovereign nation, the bombardment of its cities, and the continent’s biggest security challenge in decades to make it happen. But for the first time in years, Britain and the European Union are working together again. On Friday, Britain’s foreign secretary, Liz Truss, attended a meeting of EU ministers in Brussels to discuss the crisis in Ukraine, a move that, in pre-Brexit days, would have been routine, but one that now underscores a striking rapprochement. 2 In the poisonous aftermath of Britain’s exit from the European Union, the relationship between the two sides degenerated into discord, distrust, and open sniping. But confronted with the war in Ukraine, and resulting issues that are several orders of magnitude graver than rifts over fishing rights or the movement of sausages, the chasm opened up by Brexit is beginning to narrow. 3 “In the two years I have been here, I don’t think I have seen such intensity and quality in our relationship as I have in the last two weeks,” said João Vale de Almeida, the European Union’s ambassador to Britain. Truss’ attendance at the Brussels meeting was “very meaningful and symbolic,” he added. 4 The new mood of cooperation points to the possibility that, after years of division and feuding, the two sides might be starting to put Brexit behind them. When asked about the significance of Truss’ the news release states. “The complete footprint of the building is still being uncovered, but current findings suggest this was a very large complex, with multiple rooms and corridors surrounding a central courtyard.” The condition of the mosaic is visit to Brussels, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain said that it showed that Britain was working very closely with European partners. He added: “What we have been able to demonstrate to Putin is a strength of unity on this, moving with purpose.” 5 Since Russia launched its invasion more than a week ago, Britain has moved in step with the European Union, the United States, and other allies to introduce sanctions intended to cripple the Russian economy, and analysts have noted the changed atmosphere. 6 Almost six wearying years after Britain voted to leave the European Union, even the most hardened Brexit supporter knows that Moscow is a bigger threat than Brussels, and even the most hostile critics of Britain in Europe understand that sanctions against Russia work better with British economic heft behind them. “The EU and the British are looking at the bigger picture and at our fundamental interests and finding a considerable degree of alignment,” said Sophia Gaston, director of the British Foreign Policy Group, a research institute. 7 This was not the sort of scenario envisaged last year when Johnson published his strategy for a post-Brexit “global Britain,” which stressed British ties with the United States, and with Asian and Pacific countries, but which said very little about cooperation with its European neighbors. … 8 Yet in recent weeks both Johnson and Truss have switched “remarkable,” Lerz said, given the extent of the changes that have taken place in Southwark in the past 1,800 years, including “the 17th-to-19th-century development of the site.” … © 2022 The Washington Post 0 – 1 ARCHAEOLOGIST“ÆA…ki"Ål´dZIst‘ — construction site Baustelle — to excavate “"eksk´veIt‘ ausgraben; s.w.u. excavation — Roman-era aus der Römerzeit — double-paneled zweiteilig; s.w.u. panel Platte — to uncover freilegen — ongoing laufend — Southwark “"søD´k‘ — multiuse development Neubaugebiet; s.w.u. development Bebauung 2 – 4 conservator “"kÅns´veIt´‘ Restaurator(in); s.w.u. conservation Restaurierung — senior leitend — to supervise “"su…p´vaIz‘ beaufsichtigen — preservation Erhaltungszustand — relic “"relIk‘ Relikt — news release Pressemitteilung — given angesichts — lavish “"lœvIS‘ aufwendig; prächtig — footprint Grundfläche — courtyard Innenhof — remarkable “rI"mA…k´b´l‘ bemerkenswert British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Maroš Šefčovič, the European Commissioner for Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight, in February. | Photo: Getty Images their attention to the European continent, making several visits to Baltic states that border Russia, as well as to Poland – NATO nations that are also members of the European Union. That means that many of their policies, including economic sanctions, are coordinated in Brussels. On Friday, as she arrived at the meeting in Brussels, Truss said that Britain was working with the European Union, the United States, and Canada to secure the “toughest possible sanctions,” adding, “we want to see more.” 9 And while some in Britain initially doubted that their continental neighbors would rise to the challenge posed by Moscow, they have been disproved by the extraordinary shift in Germany’s B2 – C2 Abiturthema: Internationale Beziehungen Gr0ßbritannien – EU Special World and Press Brexit ¤ 14,90 [D] ISBN 978-3-7961-1068-9 www.sprachzeitungen.de foreign policy, including its decisions to suspend the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, to increase military spending, and to send weapons to Ukraine. … 10 There have been differences over sanctions, with continental European nations unable to wean themselves quickly from their dependency on Russian energy or to cut off some of the mechanisms of paying for it. While Britain has pushed harder on banking measures, it has struggled to shake off the influence of Russia’s oligarchs on British life. Nonetheless, there has been relatively little point scoring, even between London and Paris, whose ties have been particularly fractious, a sign – perhaps – of a more cooperative post-Brexit world. “I think we Britain 0 – 1 TO EASEa rift (fig) e-e Kluft überbrücken — chasm “"kœz´m‘ Kluft — sovereign “"sÅv´rIn‘ souverän — foreign secretary Außenminister(in) — to underscore; s.w.u. to stress betonen — striking bemerkenswert — rapprochement “rœp"rÅSmÅ)N‘ Annäherung 2 – 3 in the aftermath of in der Zeit nach — poisonous “"pOIz´n´s‘ vergiftet — to degenerate into “dI"dZen´reIt‘ ausarten in — discord “"--‘ Zwietracht — distrust Misstrauen — sniping Verbalattacke — several orders of magnitude … “"mœgnItSu…d‘ um einige Größenordnungen … — grave schwerwiegend — ambassador “œm"bœs´d´‘ Botschafter(in) 4 – 5 division Spaltung — feuding “"fju…dIN‘ Streitigkeiten — significance “sIg"nIfIk´ns‘ Bedeutung — spokesman Sprecher — unity Einigkeit; s.w.u. to unite vereinen — with purpose “"p‰…p´s‘ entschlossen — to move in step (fig) geschlossen handeln — allies “"œlaIz‘ Verbündete — to cripple schwächen 6 – 8 wearying “"wI´riIN‘ ermüdend — hardened hartgesotten — hostile “"hÅstaIl‘ feindselig — heft (fig) Gewicht — to look at the bigger picture (fig) den größeren Zus.hang sehen — alignment “´"laInm´nt‘ Übereinstimmung — to envisage “In"vIzIdZ‘ voraussehen — ties Beziehungen 9 to doubt “daUt‘ bezweifeln — to rise to a challenge (fig) s. e-r Herausforderung stellen — to pose aufwerfen — to disprove e-s Besseren belehren — shift Veränderung — to suspend “s´"spend‘ aussetzen — military spending Rüstungsausgaben 10 to wean o.s. from s. lösen aus — dependency “dI"pend´nsi‘ Abhängigkeit — banking measures h.: Maßnahmen gegen Banken — nonetheless trotzdem — point scoring (coll) kleinliches Hickhack — fractious “"frœkS´s‘ angespannt; zerstritten — to appeal to our better angels (fig) an unser Gewissen appellieren (vgl. Antrittsrede von Abraham Lincoln) — to keep things in a sober space (fig) die Dinge pragmatisch angehen 11 – 13 resignation “ÆrezIg"neIS´n‘ Rücktritt — negotiator “nI"g´USieIt´‘ Unterhändler(in); to negotiate verhandeln — tortuous “"tO…tSu´s‘ langwierig — contentious “k´n"tenS´s‘ umstritten — to govern regeln — to rule out ausschließen — to invoke s. berufen auf — during the height of … “haIt‘ auf dem Höhepunkt der … — truce “tru…s‘ (fig) Waffenstillstand — to outlast überdauern 7 saw both sides saying, ‘Here we can appeal to our better angels and keep things in a more sober space,’” Gaston said. 11 Even before the invasion, relations between Britain and the European Union had improved after the resignation from the cabinet of David Frost, who was Johnson’s Brexit negotiator. His hard-line negotiating tactics made him few friends in Brussels during tortuous talks over a contentious part of Johnson’s Brexit deal that governs trade between mainland Britain and Northern Ireland. 12 Responsibility for negotiating changes to the agreement, known as the Northern Ireland Protocol, went to Truss, and while she so far has not changed policy, her tone has been seen in Brussels as more constructive. Responsible for foreign policy, Truss is sensitive to the wider international picture including President Joe Biden’s desire not to do anything that could risk the fragile peace process in Northern Ireland. So while Truss has not ruled out invoking an article that would suspend part of the protocol, doing so during the height of the Ukraine– Russia crisis seems unlikely. 13 One question is whether the truce between London and Brussels can outlast the war in Ukraine. Vale de Almeida said that the crisis “only proves how much we have in common – even after Brexit so much unites us,” but added: “For cooperation to work better, we need some structure and some sort of permanent mechanism of cooperation.” © 2022 The New York Times Company This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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