A great event with the loveliest people! Thank you

When your PhD is on magazines, why wouldn’t you design your thesis title page like a magazine cover?? ✨ Relieved to have submitted my thesis today — now away for a big nap! ✨

Boston Post, Massachusetts, July 7, 1918

Hazelnut diversity. In preparation for my book 'Die Haselnuss' which will be published this month. Pre-order whereever books are available. Written in German. ISBN: 978-3-03902-181-9

"What we know, in general, about most groups of mushrooms is that the distribution of fungi is directly related to the distribution of mycologists," brilliant quote in westernconfluence.org/foraging-for-d…

All online and live tonight.

What an amazing autumn festival RHS Malvern Spring & Autumn Shows Thank you for interviewing me and being so kind Nicki Chapman. And thank you fellow author Ben Dark for sharing the sofa and being so lovely.

Always a nerve-wracking but exciting moment, the final, final proofs of a book: An Ancient Mesopotamian Herbal will be out in November 2023. Kudos to my brilliant co-authors Barbara Böck CSIC and Shahina Ghazanfar @KewScience books.google.co.uk/books/about/An…

Greatly looking forward to this talk for the International Palm Society. On Saturday 23 October, 2pm ET (USA) / 7pm (UK). palms.org/events/palms-a…

Pic Of The Day Cyclamen elegans, Iran

Call for Papers: 'Natural History in the Age of Revolutions'. Abstracts are invited for 20-minute papers for a day-long conference The Linnean Society of London on 15th July 2024. Full details of the CfP can be found here: revolutions.hps.cam.ac.uk/news/call-abst…

TREE CULTURES: WORDS, WOODS & WELL-BEING Booking now open for symposium organised by The Linnean Society of London & KewGardens Feb 29, 2024. Keynote address from #Kew Ambassador James Wong @Botanygeek Programme & tickets: eventbrite.com/e/tree-culture…… @KewScience @Kew_LAA David Oakes

A very nice Dendrobium species* from section Diplocaulobium. Found growing in the lower montane forest of New Guinea (c.1600-1900m) this is, individually, a relatively small epiphyte but it can grow into massive specimens. I find the long-neck-vase shaped pseudobulbs are so silky

A 7-year old plant of Hylocomium. A long stairway in which one step is built each year.

Getty is a an extremely disrespectful word for this amazing woman. She probably didn’t even want all those countries and jewels she got

The graphically-rich Fall 2024 issue of the open-access peer-reviewed Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture is now available for free download online. Contains several articles related to plants. antennae.org.uk

I investigate why gardeners who value their past, present and future should read more Proust and ask the all important question: are journalists lower than snakes? - Article by Ben Dark scribehound.com/gardening/gard… scribehound.com/gardening/gard…

I'm celebrating and skewering High Victorian Garden Design in an online talk on Tuesday morning - part of the Gardens Trust's brilliant 'A history of Gardens' series. Come! eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of-g…