Excited to be invited to World Monuments Fund Palace of Palms event KewGardens this week. It's a brilliant cause – the Net Zero Carbon restoration of Kew's Palm House – and just happens to be named after my book! George Morley John Darlington 𓅪 @Kew_LAA

British Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton's Met Gala Burberry look was inspired by the story of John Ystumllyn, one of Britain’s first black gardeners, and the symbolic language of flowers in black history. John Ystumllyn was an 18th-century gardener and is considered the first

Excellent lecture by Yota Batsaki Royal Holloway yesterday. Great overview of emerging field of Plant Humanities. Ended with brilliant analysis of Kapwani Kiwanga's glass-encased fern sculpture, 'On Growth', currently on display The High Line. Mark Nesbitt Ruth Livesey

Tremendous resource!

What a difference a letter makes! From Robert Hannigan’s forthcoming “Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us about Problem-Solving and Creativity”

Dazzling display of the architectural qualities of palms: 'Singularity' from @_MarcQuinn Light into Life show KewGardens. Precisely modelled on a Bismarckia nobilis leaf from Kew's Palm House (and placed just outside). Bill Baker @Scott_Zona International Palm Society

🛁 Sake Dean Mahomed, the first #Indian in the #UK to publish an #English book and open an Indian restaurant, changed hygiene forever. This is his story. Sukhada Tatke reports thejuggernaut.com/dean-mahomed-s…

Sukhada Tatke Featuring interviews with Kate Teltscher and Michael Fisher

‘Some day I’m going to paint a portrait, a heroic portrait of these little weeds because they have the resilience that I wish I had, and actually that we need’. Mona Caron, BBC World Service, The Conversation bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09…

Dominic Sandbrook savours SPICE: ‘A story of tremendous verve and scope… Roger Crowley’s rollicking, blood-soaked account of the race for the Spice Islands of east Asia is the book for you.’ thetimes.co.uk/culture/books/… Yale University Press London 📖 Roger Crowley

Superb Cosgrove lecture this evening by Prof Judith Carney from UCLA @KewScience The British Academy Royal Holloway Centre for Geohumanities - about food, autonomy & freedom, using superb archival history & the concept of Bio-refugia to talk about participatory & just food futures.

‘We need other logics for our approach to nature’: the woman uprooting colonialism in botany | Plants | The Guardian ⁦Plant Humanities UK⁩ theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Start the Week from the wonderful Hay Festival on indigenous expert knowledge, culling for conservation and walled gardens, with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Olivia Laing and Hugh Warwick. Coming up on BBC Radio 4 at 9.

Very pleased to share that the article on the opium poppy I co-authored for the Plant Humanities Lab is now live! Featuring archival materials from @Kew_LAA

We are delighted to begin our Prison Reading Groups 25-year celebration with our keynote speaker, British-Iranian author, the incredible Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. #ReadinginPrison25

A fun read! Some delightful ice cream van lore, including the ‘international parental conspiracy’ that the ice cream van jingle announced that stocks had run out (my mother-in-law was an early adopter in 1960s-70s Birmingham).

Libraries are such important places - and not just for the books. A beautifully observed and surprisingly moving piece by AidaE

Houses built of mycelium brick: a wonderful, environmentally-friendly project from Namibia. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Very proud of my (former) PhD student! Many congratulations, Dr Craddock!🙌🎉🥂 Plant Humanities UK @Kew_LAA

Historians of colonial science / the environment, Lego is coming at you for Christmas.