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 >
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#AdventBotany 2020 Day 13, Healing Christmas: Cinnamon
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 >
#AdventBotany 2020 Day 12, If ever we needed a gin and tonic…
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 >
#AdventBotany 2020 – Day 11, The joy of Citrus
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 >
#AdventBotany 2020 Day 10 – Spikemoss stories, Selaginella outdoors and in
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 >
#AdventBotany 2020 Day 9 – Bringing a new light – Qulliq
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 >
#AdventBotany 2020 Day 8 – Night of the Winter Radishes – Dawn Bazely’s 2020 introduction to the 2015 Night of the Radishes Advent Botany Post by Emma Cooper
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 >
#AdventBotany 2020, Day 7: The Golden Bough and Golden Sickle
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 >
#Adventbotany Day 6 – Sgan t’sek, Corylus cornuta Marshall
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 >
#AdventBotany 2020 Day 5 – Corylus avellana, lore of hazelnuts
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 >