Heritage crops from Fort Calgary Historic Garden including strawflowers, radish pods and crimson flowered broad beans displayed at a fall harvest fair

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Strawflowers (foreground) were grown in early Calgary market gardens around 1900. Purple olive-shaped radish pods (back left) were cultivated in gardens pre 1779. Crimson flowered Broad Bean (back right) is a rare variety that came close to extinction.

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Size: 2940px × 2940px
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Photo credit: © Rosanne Tackaberry / Alamy / Afripics
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