Mon dieu! A modern variant on Hugo's classic is miserable in the best way possible #lesmis bit.ly/2QIuFTk

Life gets strange for Victor when he sheds three decades and relives his own belle époque #labelleepoque - bit.ly/31KqfBx

Talking Plants >>> Happy Michaelmas down under: Kayaking down the Yarra River in recent weeks I've been noticing the variety of weeds. Not with distaste, more botanical curiosity. Most of them clearly spread through seed or plant… dlvr.it/SNp6Zt <<< RBG Victoria

This week on Talking Plants, Tim Entwisle reflects on the elegant autumnal flowerhead of Banksia marginata. To read more: bit.ly/3OBPDjh

Talking Plants: Stinky Bladderpod extends its ovary talkingplants.blogspot.com/2022/05/stinky…

Cape Beech, Rapanea melanophloeos, from South Africa might make a decent dresser, but does it create a beautifully sounding violin? talkingplants.blogspot.com/2022/05/cape-b…

Not only a real one, but another royal one - the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid, where on Tuesday I'll giving the plenary presentation on RBG Victoria's climate change work, at a meeting of botanic gardens folk from Spain and Portugual. #climatechange #plants #botanicgardens

What plant is that? The RBG Victoria plant identification website, #VicFlora, has a new look and sleek new features. Identify every native plant and moss in Victoria, with pictures, maps and charming asides. You know you want to... vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au

1 of 2..With heavy hearts our family regrets to announce the passing of Dr Nathalie Nagalingum on Monday 22 August surrounded by her beloved family. Her warm smile, generous heart and tenacious spirit will be missed by all those whose lives she touched and will be forever loved.

2 of 2.. Join us in celebrating Nathalie’s beautiful & inspiring life at St Gabriel’s Church at 10am on 2nd Sept or via video link vividstream.com.au/live/nathalie-… In lieu of flowers, please donate to Ovarian Cancer Australia ovariancancer.net.au/donations or donate blood in Nathalie’s honour.

So many stunning pieces in Melbourne Friends 'The Art of Botanical Illustration' #TABI2022, but this King Protea by Anne Hayes keeps pulling me back. Go see them all at Domain House, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne RBG Victoria until 2 October. Or oine, tabi.rbgfriendsmelbourne.org

This week in #TalkingPlants, bushy violet relatives from New Zealand and Australia flower at the same time. And why not. talkingplants.blogspot.com/2022/11/trans-…

This week on Talking Plants, Tim visits the California Garden at Melbourne Gardens to investigate a manzanita plant that caught his interest. Manzanita means ‘little apple’ or Bearberry. Read more on Tim’s Talking Plants blog: bit.ly/3WHbcmN

Well, Talking Plants is back! I couldn't resist the urge to share my botanical musings and mullings (if that's a word?). Anyway, a Tasmanian Blue Gum suitable for the front garden of a city terrace. That's the claim. talkingplants.blogspot.com/2023/01/perfec… #TalkingPlants RBG Victoria

An Australian clematis (or Old Man's Beard if you like) that doesn't climb - the Shrubby Clematis from Tasmania. #TalkingPlants talkingplants.blogspot.com/2023/02/shrubb…

Exotic purple daisy on the coastal dunes of Bruny Island may have illicit origin. talkingplants.blogspot.com/2023/04/coasta… #TalkingPlants

Aquatic (exotic) 'hawthorn' enjoying an irrigation channel in Tasmania, the land of terrestrial (and also exotic) hawthorns #TalkingPlants talkingplants.blogspot.com/2023/05/oddly-…

In the absence of orchids there is always the Orchid Tree. This one is from South America and its species name - forficata - means 'scissor-shaped', a reference to the overlapping pair of leaflets. talkingplants.blogspot.com/2023/07/subdue…

My final (regular) blogpost today: Latua pubiflora, a cheery South American shrub with mostly unhappy consequences. That's your lot for now, as I rearrange the furniture in prep for different kinds of writing (and other stuff) talkingplants.blogspot.com/2023/08/happy-… #TalkingPlants

NSW Health is warning the public of a high-dose MDMA tablet (ecstasy), found to contain more than four times the average dose of other MDMA tablets in recent circulation. The tablet is pink-orange in colour and a square shape, with a ‘GUCCI’ logo and wording imprinted on it.