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 >
Public Engagement with Science
#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 >
#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 4: The Glastonbury Thorn
By Karen Andrews Botanists are no strangers to muddy boots. Glastonbury conjures up an image today of muddy wellingtons at its famous pop music festival. The town also possesses a…Read More >