Author, botanist, broadcaster, etc.; see 'Evergreen: The Botanical Life of a Plant Punk'. Over at 🦋, same handle - I may be away for some time
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4 Mar 2023
I don't have a full audio version of my memoir (Evergreen etc.) but thanks to Robyn Williams and @RadioNational Science Show, you can hear me attempt the first few pages. It's a ripping yarn... 🙂
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Time doesn’t exist. Legendary @EdKuepper , Ivor and co in Northcote last night.
(And thought I saw former boss and music aficionado @TimEntwisle in the house…)
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14 Nov 2024
Not loving Threads (and close to hating X) so trying out the blue butterfly.
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6 Nov 2024
Let reality in. Join me in Canberra on Saturday night, hosting a conversation with master plant propagater Craig Scott.
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5 Nov 2024
2666 by Roberto Bolano. What a book. Quite a trip. Very tough in parts but also some beautiful, curly writing. I especially liked the bits about seaweeds...
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2 Nov 2024
For completeness, you know who whiping up a storm
2 Nov 2024
Back at The Tote, with Antifade band The Judges, prelude to Tropical F--- Storm. Is it too early to say I like their early stuff more, for a 12 or so month old band? Might have been the mixing. Still, always fun, as will be TFS...
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2 Nov 2024
Back at The Tote, with Antifade band The Judges, prelude to Tropical F--- Storm. Is it too early to say I like their early stuff more, for a 12 or so month old band? Might have been the mixing. Still, always fun, as will be TFS...
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7 Oct 2024
Napoleon's jellyfish returns!
There are plants as interesting as oaks, and this is certainly one of them.
#talkingplants reinvents itself again...
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30 Sep 2024
For algal nerds, and aren't we all? Decipher your favourite seaweed or plankton from this lot
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19 Sep 2024
If you are in Canberra 9 November 2024, come and listen to my conversation with Craig Scott about growing Australian plants and his life at Mangrove Mountain (alongside an exhibition by artists Rhiannan Berry and Lauren Sutton, 'Wildflower')
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18 Sep 2024
Why I believe in an interventionist gardener.
Just one among many perspectives on the garden in Australia today in 'The Museum magazine', issue 23
@nma #themuseum
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Tim Entwisle retweeted
11 Sep 2024
Trump debate quotes as read by The Simpsons! #Simpsons #Trump #debate #kamala #debate2024 #homersimpson
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12 Sep 2024
Me explaining, with hand obviously, how good a career in botany can be!
Part of a Conservation Careers Panel organised by Unimelb Wildlife Conservation Society and Soil and Plant Society. Lots of great questions and enthusiasm for careers in conservation.
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2 Sep 2024
Magpies on City Gate, @RBG_Victoria, settling in very nicely. Thanks to philanthropic support from Lady Potter.
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2 Sep 2024
Turner's unlikely and irrepressible oak at Kew Gardens talkingplants.blogspot.com
#talkingplants #oaks #quercus
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27 Jul 2024
Hot oaks in Madrid: a post with only a few oaks within a rather vast, and warm, park on the outskirts of Madrid.
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16 Jul 2024
After nothing for a few months, two blog posts in a week! This time a pin oak relative (perhaps) from Mount Macedon, Victoria – the famed, but obscure pedigreed, Macedon Oak. #talkingplants #oaks #quercus
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12 Jul 2024
Me trying to explain what makes a pin oak different to other oaks
#talkingplants #oaks #quercus
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25 Jun 2024
Yet, when this is examined under the magic tube, a crystal cylinder, closely set with sparkling emeralds, is revealed."
Breckenfeld (1885) The life history of Vaucheria. Am. Mon. microsc. J. 6, p. 6.
Besotted - him and me.
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And I'd forgotten this charming epigraph on p. ii:
"In walking along the banks of the little stream, where, half concealed by more pretentious plants, our humble Vaucheria grows, the average passer-by, if he notices it at all, sees but a tangled tuft of darkgreen 'scum'.
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