Advent Botany 2017 saw us achieve the 100th Advent blog! We are still finding many new plants to report on but have also reworked some of the earlier species into new accounts taking a different angle on the species or simply expanding some of the very early blogs from 2014.
1: Alastair Culham – Christmas cherry
2: Dawn Bazely – Cranberries
3: Amy Smith – apples and quince
4: Karen Andrews – Glastonbury thorn
5: Dawn Bazely – Ivy across the pond
6: Maria Christodoulou – Mastic
7: Robbie Blackhall-Miles – Shoshana
8: Mandeep Matharu & Louise O’Beirne – Yuletide horticultural heroes pt 1 ‘Christmas’
9: Yvette Harvey & Maria Christodoulou – Elf and Wellbeing
10: Rachel Webster – Have yourself a microscopic Christmas
11: Dr M’s Sloe Christmas
12: Adam Idoine – Feijoa
13: Szu Shen Wong – Pomegranate
14: Helen Miller – Nutmeg and mace
15: Jeanne Osnas/Katherine Preston – Pineapple!
16: Maria Christodoulou & Kalman Konyves – Cardamom
16: Alastair Culham – Brazil nuts
18: Karen Andrews – Cyclamen persicum
19: Will Simpson – Christmas Kalanchoe
20: Hannah Josey – Holly
21: Dawn Bazely – Arctic cotton
22: Ali Eyres – Cork
23: Alastair Culham – Rosemary
24: Meg Cathcart-James – Juniper
25: Alastair Culham – potato