The Week in Botany September 15, 2025
Unfortunately, there’s some bad news this week. The in silico Plants editor, Stephen Long, has died. A brief obituary has been posted to Illinois’s website,...
The Week in Botany September 8, 2025
It’s been a quiet week on the blog for a couple of reasons. One is that the email problem has continued, meaning that I can’t schedule posts without emailing...
The Week in Botany August 11, 2025
I’m enjoying Carlos’s series of interview posts. We’ve had some good ones recently with Laura Lagomarsino, Itumeleng Moroenyane, Ana Bedoya and last week,...
The Week in Botany August 4, 2025
I’ve made slight change in how we work recently, thanks to a suggestion from one of our social media followers. She’d made a complaint that we use Canva, who...
The Week in Botany July 28, 2025
We’ve had some good posts this week. The naming of plants after people is controversial. Erika Alejandra Chaves-Diaz writes about which women get plants...
The Week in Botany July 21, 2025
I’ve remembered why I don’t like reusing press releases. A lot of the text might be written, but if you want to check up on the release, then the amount of...
🇫🇷 The Week in Botany July 14, 2025
I hope you’re well, or at least not cooked. It has been warm here, with the third heatwave of the summer. I’ve decided that, for the next one, I’ll start...
The Week in Botany July 7
I didn’t get to Tahiti for my holiday. Instead, I ended up experimenting with text editors. I’ve found IA Writer allows you to paste text in with...
The Week in Botany June 30, 2025
After a couple of weeks being on top of the newsletter, this week is a late night, as I try to finish so I can take a week off. I’ve been trying to do...
The Week in Botany June 23, 2025
There’s a quote from the football manager Ron Atkinson: “I never comment on referees and I’m not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.” There...
The Week in Botany June 16, 2025
The summer / winter solstice will next weekend, depending on which hemisphere you live in. Canada’s Globe and Mail has a cheery headline: How the summer...
The Week in Botany Jun 9, 2025
I hope you’re all well. It’s a late night for me here because as well as writing the email for Buttondown, where most of you will see it, it then gets...
The Week in Botany June 2, 2025
This week I learned that people are growing tea commercially in Scotland. This surprised me, but the existence of a genuine industry explains how someone...
🌻 The Week in Botany May 26, 2025
Congratulations to the gardeners at Jacksonville Zoo, or as it should properly be known now, Jacksonville Zoo AND Botanical Gardens. The press release adds...
🌻 The Week in Botany May 19, 2025
I’ve started a project this week. On the bookshelf behind me was, well I’d like to say a shelf load of books, but really it was assorted rubbish, items I...
🌻 The Week in Botany May 12, 2025
I’m told today is National Limerick Day. It’s also World Topiary Day, when gardeners trim plants in display with shears to cut hedges, making sharp edges and...
🌻 The Week in Botany May 5, 2025
For the scientific papers, I select the papers coming through the system that seem to be getting the most shares from our followers. If there’s a tie-break,...
🌻 The Week in Botany April 28, 2025
The bluebells are now out in force at the side of the road, where I live, a few weeks after I saw them at the FACE experiment, where the higher CO2 had...
🌻 The Week in Botany April 21, 2025
I have been gently reminded that I’ve worked more seven-day weeks than six day weeks since the start of the year, and that it’s a four-day holiday for...
🌻 The Week in Botany April 14, 2025
It’s easy to get lost among a sea of negative stories. We potentially have one later today, when a story by Andrés Pereira-Guaqueta on the danger of climate...
