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A personal reflection on Wild about Weeds – author Jack Wallington
By Tomos Jones The aim of my PhD is to identify which ornamental plants might become invasive in the future, possibly as a result of climate change. Gardeners have an important role in preventing...
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Final call: help identify potentially invasive plants
Ornamental plants: our future invaders? This seemingly simple question is the focus of my PhD, and I’m asking gardeners to help me answer it. Most of the invasive plants we have in the British Isles...
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Enhancing identification accuracy for powdery mildews using previously...
Publications can take time – it has been almost six months since I first submitted this paper and years since the start of the research towards it! ‘Enhancing identification…’ is published in the...
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Future invaders at RHS Chelsea
I’m heading to RHS Chelsea 2019! I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019, with an exhibit called Ornamental plants: our future invaders? in the Discovery Zone. This...
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#AdventBotany2018, Day 4: The Golden Bough
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 by Sir James Frazer and first published...
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A survey for BSBI vice-county recorders
I have recently started a PhD at the University of Reading titled ‘Garden plants: a threat to the natural environment due to climate change?’ This NERC SCENARIO project is supervised by Dr Alastair...
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#Advent botany Day 9: Cultivating Christmas pt. 2: Elf and Wellbeing
By Yvette Harvey Glasgow Botanic Gardens. Kibble Palace. William Goscombe John (1860-1952), The Elf, marble, 1899Who would have thought that the author of Little Women could have had such a significant...
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#AdventBotany Day 8: Cultivating Christmas
By Mandeep Matharu & Louise O’Beirne Rhododendron ‘Christmas Cheer’ CC BY-SA 2.0As a kid brought up in India, perhaps my earliest memory of Christmas is looking up at one of my teachers dressed up...
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EMA conference / Ohrid, Macedonia
Following last months Powdery Mildew Workshop in Eger, Hungary, I toured eastern Hungary; Tokaj and Debrecen, before travelling to Belgrade, Serbia, and Sarajevo and Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina....
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Powdery Mildew Genomics Workshop 2017
The 7th Powdery Mildew Genomics Workshop 2017 concluded on Friday 15th September, 2017. The meeting followed on from another powdery mildew summer school, which I was unable to attend, and both were...
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PhD Viva, Corrections, Thesis submission, and Graduation
On 7th June 2017 the ‘Increasing accuracy of Powdery Mildew (Ascomycota, Erysiphales) identification using previously untapped DNA regions’ thesis was examined. Corrections for the thesis were accepted...
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Palm trees in British Gardens
Phoenix canariensis growing in Torbay (CC BY-SA 2.0 Torbay Palms) With the publication of the RHS Gardening in a Changing Climate report yesterday we will be launching a survey of which palms are...
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PhD Conferences 2013-2017
During my time as a PhD student at the University of Reading I have been lucky enough to attend a number of conferences, summer schools, and annual meetings and take part in various other outreach...
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Powdery Mildew Identification: Improving accuracy using previously untapped...
Here is the poster I will deliver at the Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2017 (3 – 6 April) at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Scotland. It aims to offer an insight into the...
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Microbiology Society – Annual Conference 2017
Next week (Monday 3 April to Thursday 6 April) I will be travelling to Edinburgh, Scotland for the 2017 Annual Conference for the Microbiology Society; my first time North of the border into Scotland....
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Advent Botany 2016 – Day 13: Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens) – so good...
Editor’s note: For the first time we have a plant so popular that two different institutions have offered a blog on it. They take a different approach so here you have both: one from Manchester...
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Advent Botany 2016 – Day 10: Hoop-petticoat daffodils
By Jordan Bilsborrow and Kálmán Könyves Narcissus bulbocodium found in Sierra de Urbasa, Spain (J. Bilsborrow) Daffodils are very popular garden plants and an important commercial crop both as bulbs...
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RHS John MacLeod Lecture & Marsh Christian Trust Award
The RHS’ annual horticultural lecture took place yesterday, Thursday 10th November. This event has grown in stature each year I have attended, since beginning my PhD back in 2013. This year we were...
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Grand Challenges in Plant Pathology Interdisciplinary Study Group
This weeks BSPP conference was followed by the first ever BSPP study group. Attended mainly by PhD students, the three-day workshop intended to address challenging plant pathology issues the world must...
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BSPP Presidential Meeting 2016
Food security, Biosecurity and Trade; the role of plant health It was a long week. Long, but hugely rewarding. It all kicked off with an early morning train to Oxford and an extended bike ride around...
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