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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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#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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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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#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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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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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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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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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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