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 >
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#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 6: Fantastic Mastic
By Maria Christodoulou As we are entering the countdown to Christmas, preparations for the festive season reach new levels. For me, this usually involves a panicked trip to the shops…Read More >
#AdventBotany Day 5: Ivy
By Dawn Bazely The first Advent Botany post, on December 1st, 2014, was about ivy, that most classic of British festive season species. English Ivy, as it’s known in North America…Read More >
#AdventBotany Day 2: Cultivated Cranberries beyond the Festive Season
By Dawn Bazely I would definitely bet that when Alastair and Jonathan launched Advent Botany in 2014, they never imagined that the annual series would still be going four years…Read More >
#AdventBotany Day 1: Christmas Cherry or the not-so-false Jerusalem Cherry
By Alastair Culham The Christmas Cherry is a small, soft-leaved, shrub bearing many small white flowers through the summer that develop into bright orange-red fruit in the autumn. It is…Read More >
Advent Botany 2016 – Day 24: Professor Vernon Heywood
By DrM Dr M introduced to #adventbotany this year, #adventbotanists, botanists whose birthdays fall within advent. The first featured Erasmus Darwin a great botanical mind from a bygone age. Dr…Read More >
Advent Botany – Day 23: Vanilla – nothing plain about this flavour!
By Rachel Webster and Sophie Mogg I’m not one for cream on my Christmas pudding, it just has to be custard or ice cream and so what I’m really admitting…Read More >
Advent Botany 2016 – Day 22: Crataegus mexicana (Tejocote)
By Megan Lynch Traditions are made by people. We do something at a certain time and then we repeat it when that time rolls around again. There are young traditions…Read More >