By Dawn Bazely Civil Society at the Climate Change Negotiations in Spain The 25th annual “Conference of the Parties” to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change is currently meeting…Read More >
Advent Botany
#AdventBotany 2019 Day 9: How to make a drop spindle
By Claire Smith The first component you need for making your drop spindle is a stick. The stick needs to be nice and firm, nice and straight, ideally not much…Read More >
#AdventBotany 2019 Day 8: Epiphytic Ericaceae – Christmas baubles of the cloud forest
By Robbie Blackhall-Miles Diversity fascinates me and when a plant family is as big as the Ericaceae I can’t help but to want to understand the processes that led to…Read More >
#AdventBotany 2019 Day 7: An un-repressed redhead
By Alastair Culham Cabbages include a great variety of crop species and selections but today’s featured cabbage the the staple of Christmas lunch, the red cabbage. For me, there is…Read More >
#AdventBotany 2019 Day 6: Deck the halls….
By Claire Smith Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly… But not until Christmas Eve, otherwise you’ll have bad luck! Once your holly (Ilex aquifolium) and other festive evergreens are…Read More >
#AdventBotany 2019 Day 5: Lumps of Delight
By Alastair Culham Where would Chistmas be without those dusty cubes of jelly-like substance covered in choking sugar dust? Dickens features ‘Lumps of delight’ in chapter 3 of The Mystery…Read More >
#Advent Botany 2019 Day 4: like a lemon
By Alastair Culham Lemons are small yellow fruit from Citrus limon with a waxy peel and a refreshing smell. Lemon zest and juice form part of the recipies I use…Read More >
#AdventBotany 2019 Day 3: A red hot poker with a mysterious past
By John David For those of you who, like me, find the experience of the short days and long nights of mid Winter a seriously depressing one, the existence of…Read More >
#AdventBotany 2019 Day 2: Death by chocolate
By Alastair Culham In 2014 I introduced the food of the gods, Theobroma cacao, as the source of chocolate, that staple of Christmas excess, in the 16th Advent Botany post. …Read More >
#AdventBotany 2019 Day 1: Clementine, Satsuma, Tangerine; what’s the difference?
By Alastair Culham Welcome to #AdventBotany 2019 and the start of another journey into quirky, curious, historical and, above all, botanical information about the plants associated with the winter season….Read More >