31 Jul 2025
🧭 Hear more from Matthew: bit.ly/45erpFe
📰 See where he’s been making headlines: bit.ly/40LDaS5
🌍 Follow his travels on Instagram: @matthewjjeffery
#ExpeditionBotanist #PlantConservation #ClimateResilience #LivingCollection
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22 Apr 2025
This #EarthDay we’re celebrating the power of plants & their incredible diversity by revealing the theme of our new photo competition with @igpoty: ‘Around the World at CUBG’. With 8000 plants in our #LivingCollection, you’ll be spoilt for choice! bit.ly/3GlXvWB
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9 Jun 2023
...and look forward to being back there again soon.
We hope you've enjoyed these shared glimpses #BehindTheScenes of Team #CUBGinKyrgyzstan's collecting expedition and all that goes into developing our #LivingCollection: rb.gy/0fm66
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6 Jun 2023
Team #CUBGinKyrgyzstan have been hard at work on their 3 week field trip to Kyrgyzstan with @FloraFaunaInt, identifying new plants for our #LivingCollection. Here's their #DayInTheLife of a botanist in the field. First of all some tea & taking in the morning view from the tent...
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6 Jun 2023
Thank you @kewgardens for hosting our CUBG staff visit yesterday 🌿
It was great meeting Kew colleagues, seeing some of the diverse plant collection & exploring your amazing site 🌳
#botanicgardens #biodiversity #livingcollection
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25 May 2023
A team from CUBG & @FloraFaunaInt are currently on a 3 week #Fieldwork trip to Kyrgyzstan to identify new plants for our #LivingCollection. They’ve just finished the first leg & will be tweeting about their work. We hope you enjoy following their adventures! #CUBGinKyrgyzstan.
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5 May 2023
In celebration of the #Coronation 👑 of King Charles III this weekend we’ve been inspired by the beautiful botanically themed Coronation invitation. Here are some of the plants that feature in it and visitors can also enjoy here as part of our #LivingCollection.
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11 Jan 2023
What a beauty! Need to read the full story to like it even more.
#AIArtwork #storytelling #NFT #FREEMINT #livingcollection #universe
10 Jan 2023
One of the most frightening reminders of civilization gone is the old abandoned gas pump, located on a forgotten paradise planet. The pump looks harmless enough, a rusty object stained with age and poking out of the ground 1/3🧵
#freemint #freemintNFT #NFT
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27 Oct 2022
[4/4] This has delicate green-yellow flowers on dangling racemes (flowers arranged along a central stem) which are 50cms long. A real jasmine-scented beauty that will chase away all thoughts of stinking fish! #Orchids #SmellyPlant #LivingCollection #HalfTerm
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21 Apr 2022
This was a huge effort by everyone and was born in “digital captivity” out of our #ZooMu workshop hosted by @S_M_Whitfield @cylon_gecko @AlexShepack @iDigGilNelson #JillGoodwin @AllyBogi
@MemphisZoo @zoomiami @yalepeabody @iDigBio
#LivingCollection #BiodiversityCollection
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14 Apr 2022
(2/2) Fascinating fritillaries! Found to contain enormous quantities of DNA – the highest known in any plant or animal species. Fritillaria meleagris has a genome 15 times bigger than our human one! 🧬
@plantheritage #BotanicGarden #LivingCollection #PlantConservation
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7 Apr 2022
It’s Saxifrage Showtime in the Mountains Glasshouse! Come and see our National Collection - over 100 saxifrage species, originating from the high mountains of the arctic tundra to shady rock faces in southern Europe @Plantheritage #Saxifraga #LivingCollection #PlantConservation
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1 Apr 2022
Our National Collection of species tulips is in bloom - stunning to see & important for research & conservation, including the impact of climate change on wild tulip habitats @plantsci @brockingtonian @FaunaFloraInt @Plantheritage #Tulips #LivingCollection #PlantConservation
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7 Feb 2022
Giving plants the voice and reach they deserve. CUBG Director @Beverley_CUBG urges the #botanicgarden community to consider ways to develop digital engagement into the future #livingcollection #botanicgarden #plants
@TheBotanics @SibbaldiaJ @plantsci
(PDF avail on link below)
7 Feb 2022
Covid-19 brought revelatory opportunities to connect people with plants
Read Guest Essay @Beverley_CUBG on the prospects for the future here ow.ly/mCHr50HO2rP
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25 Aug 2021
In The Arboretum, science and research unfold in such a natural way that you might not realize you’re exploring a #LivingCollection. Your support is vital to conserving biodiversity and promoting physical and mental well-being.
Join our supporters! bbis.alumni.uoguelph.ca/BBIS…
29 Jul 2021
Great to visit @LoganBotanicGdn today and see recent developments, #historic plantings and #livingcollection. Too long since last visit and 33 years since I joined @TheBotanics at Logan. #rbgehort #plantconservation
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25 May 2021
In questa nuova composizione #HORIZON il raffinato laminam Statuario delle basi sospese si accosta al caldo Noce Light delle mensole di alto spessore e valore estetico come in un abbraccio. bit.ly/3nRumFo
#mobilgam #livingcollection #soggiorno #arredamento #homedesign
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18 May 2021
Today celebrating #InternationalMuseumsDay with this photo from 2018 – 3 years ago as #curator of #LivingCollection #Project #popup #exhibition at @aNemzetiGaleria #art #contemporaryart #museum #artmuseum #nationalgallery #MuseumDay #InternationalMuseumDay2021
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9 Feb 2021
Compost steaming in the snow 🌨️🌿🍵 Cooking up some nutritious goodness for the #LivingCollection @TheBotanics #RBGEHort
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M receives a major donation from the Living Collection from William and Lavina Lim #Mplus #donation #LivingCollection #WilliamLim #LavinaLim #art #newspaper
Read more about this here: ow.ly/wflA50CJ09H
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