Advent

By James Dinsley Childhood trips to IKEA Every year as I was growing up my family would embark on a quest (in what seemed like a Christmas tradition in itself)…Read More >

By Macarena Cárdenas Think of the smell and taste of Christmas and Cinnamon may come to your mind, the sweet essence of mulled wine, or in the warmth of the…Read More >

By Meg Cathcart-James Back in 2017, I wrote an Advent Botany article about juniper; its links to Christmas and myriad culinary uses, including its role as the main botanical in…Read More >

Today’s #AdventBotany blog features hybridization, virgin birth and a tour of some of the smaller fruited citrus.  It features a blog from 2015 by John Warren and from 2019 by…Read More >

By Hans Olav Nymand Denmark is a little land in Scandinavia, Northern Europe, but unlike the other Scandinavian countries, we have neither mountains (highest point 172m) nor vast boreal forests,…Read More >

By Dawn Bazely Since 2014, writing about seasonal plants for Alastair and Jonathan’s Advent Botany blog has motivated me to try my hand at diverse forms of science communication, including…Read More >

By Dawn Bazely In 2015, I was astonished to learn about an Advent season celebration in Mexico involving carved radishes (Raphanus sativus), in Emma Cooper’s post, La Noche de las…Read More >

By John David Not an obvious topic for Advent, but bear with me, the connection will become clear. The Golden Bough is most famously the title of a book written…Read More >

By Chelsey Geralda Armstrong On Day 5 of the advent botany series this year we heard about the world’s 4th largest nut crop, the European Hazelnut (Corylus avellena). But, it’s…Read More >

By Sophie Marley Purple quality streets, pralines and ferrero rocher are always the first to vanish from chocolate tins during the festive grazing period. Their crunchy moreish hazelnut centres are…Read More >