Fresh Berries #2

A grouping of fresh strawberries some in a mason jar with a few laying around the bottom of the jar and on the lid. I used an old antique stool to... more

by Darren Fisher

Title

Fresh Berries #2

Artist

Darren Fisher

Medium

Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art

Description

A grouping of fresh strawberries some in a mason jar with a few laying around the bottom of the jar and on the lid. I used an old antique stool to sit these on and then I added a texture to added depth and character to the image. All of this was photographed outside to give it nice even lighting.
The first garden strawberry was grown in France during the late 18th century.[2] Prior to this, wild strawberries and cultivated selections from wild strawberry species were the common source of the fruit.

The strawberry fruit was mentioned in ancient Roman literature in reference to its medicinal use. The French began taking the strawberry from the forest to their gardens for harvest in the 1300s. Charles V, France's king from 1364 to 1380, had 1,200 strawberry plants in his royal garden. In the early 1400s western European monks were using the wild strawberry in their illuminated manuscripts. The strawberry is found in Italian, Flemish, German art, and English miniatures.[citation needed] The entire strawberry plant was used to treat depressive illnesses.

By the 1500s references of cultivation of the strawberry became more common. People began using it for its supposed medicinal properties and botanists began naming the different species. In England the demand for regular strawberry farming had increased by the mid-1500s. Instructions for growing and harvesting strawberries showed up in writing in 1578. By the end of the 1500s three European species had been cited; F. vesca, F. moschata, and F. viridis. The garden strawberry was transplanted from the forests and then the plants would be propagated asexually by cutting off the runners.

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July 8th, 2013