By Maria Christodoulou & Kalman Konyves With Christmas approaching quickly, many of you are braving the cold and crowds to complete your Christmas shopping. If you do have time for…Read More >
#AdventBotany Day 15: A holiday pineapple for the table
By Katherine Preston and Jeanne Osnas (The Botanist in the Kitchen) This deep dive into pineapple anatomy is our contribution this year to the very fun Advent Botany essay collection,…Read More >
#AdventBotany Day 14: Trading nutmeg and swapping islands
By Helen Miller On 23rd December 1616 Nathaniel Courthope came into view of Pulo Run, an island situated in the Moluccas (Indonesia), which have been known as the Spice Islands…Read More >
#AdventBotany Day 13: Pomegranate, a pharmaceutical view
By: Szu Shen Wong and Steve Alexander Imageries of the of the Mother and Child are often used in traditional Christmas cards but our modern versions seem to omit a…Read More >
#AdventBotany Day 12: Feijoa – Acca sellowiana
By Adam Idoine My childhood in New Zealand was punctuated every autumn by a bounty of a sweet, fragrant fruit called feijoas. Our garden, like many of our neighbours’ contained…Read More >
#AdventBotany Day 11: A Sloe Christmas
By Jonathan Mitchley (Dr M) This is Dr M’s contribution to #AdventBotany for 2017 the fourth fantastic year of this true botanical original originating from the School of Biological Sciences,…Read More >
#AdventBotany Day 10: Have yourself a microscopically Merry Christmas
By Rachel Webster At this time of year, there is always that one person who is impossible to buy a gift for. What do you get a botanist who has…Read More >
#Advent botany Day 9: Cultivating Christmas pt. 2: Elf and Wellbeing
By Yvette Harvey Who would have thought that the author of Little Women could have had such a significant role in today’s advent blog about plants… For it was Louisa…Read More >
#AdventBotany Day 8: Cultivating Christmas
By Mandeep Matharu & Louise O’Beirne As a kid brought up in India, perhaps my earliest memory of Christmas is looking up at one of my teachers dressed up as…Read More >
#AdventBotany Day 7: ‘like a Shoshana among the thorns’
By Robert Blackhall-Miles FLS Last year for advent botany I wrote about the Madonna lily (Lilium candidum) and its links to the Christmas story and the song of Solomon. This…Read More >