Browsing: Botany

Sometimes, planning is overrated. If it weren’t for happy accidents, there’d be no Post-Its or penicillin. Strangers sat down randomly at conference lunch table, sowing the…

 Not today! Actually, yeah. Today. Let’s do it.Years ago I arrived to do a consult for an eccentric artist lady on an overgrown…

Not too many plants blossom in the middle of summer. But the bottle brush buckeye is reliable shade tolerating plant. …

WHEN I WAS YOUNG, my mum discovered a quandong tree close to our house – the thirty-ninth she had lived…

We received an intriguing surprise the other night while prepping dinner. We cut open an unassuming bell pepper (Capsicum annuum)…

Hi all! I haven’t updated this page in about 6 years, and yet I still get to interact with people…

This small creeping plant is a native of Australasia. Its first record in the whole of Britain was from ‘Slateford…

Blue eryngo, Eryngium planum, is the most common garden plant in the genus Erygnium. The eryngiums are a group of…

After spending the past 20 years working at Winterbourne, I am saying goodbye this February to take on a new…

 Completing the Old Logger’s Path on a sun-drenched autumn dayOur long trek did not go according to plan. Not even…