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...
🌻 The Week in Botany April 7, 2025
I visited BiFOR’s FACE experiment this week. This is a small wood with towers that release carbon dioxide around the trees, so that the local concentration...
🌻 The Week in Botany March 31, 2025
There’s a danger with scanning social media so much for stories that you get exposed to the worst of what’s going on many times over So I’ve made a...
🌻 The Week in Botany March 24, 2025
We’ve had a discussion about whether to keep listing USA jobs. We’re keeping them for now, but if you’re applying for a job in the USA from outside the...
🌻 The Week in Botany March 17, 2025
I thought I’d ask for some help this week, but I tried writing a couple of paragraphs and failed. The migraines left me with an idea, and playing around with...
🪧 The Week in Botany March 10, 2025
This week was a migraine week, which was a pity as I missed the calls for the Stand Up for Science rallies. If you’re attending more rallies, Andrew Thaler...
🌻 The Week in Botany March 3, 2025
It’s been another grim week on social media, making botanical news harder to find. I’m going to try something different for next week.There are a lot of...
🌻 The Week in Botany February 24, 2025
The snowdrops seem to have done a lightning raid on the front lawn, appearing and going over in less than a week. The crocuses are putting on a bit more of a...
