-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Specimens, Specimens: Uses | Herbarium World on Brief notes on some Percival Wheats
- Tendrils: 151218 – The Unconventional Gardener on Advent Botany 2015 – Day 15: Mahleb
- Tendrils: 151218 – The Unconventional Gardener on Advent Botany 2015 – Day 17: Sgan t’sek
- Tomos Jones on A personal reflection on Wild about Weeds – author Jack Wallington
- Future Invaders in your Garden? – The Gardening Zoologist on Future invaders at RHS Chelsea
Categories
Meta
Subscribe to Blog via Email
-
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
Category Archives: Herbarium RNG
Advent Botany 2016 – Day 10: Hoop-petticoat daffodils
By Jordan Bilsborrow and Kálmán Könyves Daffodils are very popular garden plants and an important commercial crop both as bulbs and as cut flowers. Our fascination with these very charming spring flowers has led to many cultural links in literature … Continue reading →
Posted in Herbarium RNG, Public Engagement with Science, RHS research
|
Tagged Advent, Jordan Bilsborrow, Kalman Konyves
|
2 Comments
Advent Botany 2016 – Day 9: Getting stuffed at Christmas – the Onion
By Rachel Webster Not much of a surprise here, but after covering sage yesterday we really had to say a few words about onions today. If you want to be growing your own, then John Gerard’s Herball suggests that ‘The onion requireth a fat ground … Continue reading →
Posted in Herbarium RNG, Public Engagement with Science
|
Tagged @Aristolochia, Advent, MANCH, Manchester, Onion, Rachel Webster
|
1 Comment
Advent Botany 2016 – Day 8: Getting stuffed at Christmas: Sage
By Rachel Webster There are many more gastronomically interesting options available at Christmas time, but I’m still always drawn to the reassuringly traditional sage and onion stuffing. Nowadays, in addition to stuffing poultry, sage is often used to flavour other … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Herbarium RNG, Public Engagement with Science
|
Tagged @Aristolochia, Advent, Manchester, Rachel Webster
|
1 Comment
Advent Botany 2016 – Day 7: The Clove
To the microscopist, clove oil used to be one of the best smelling agents when preparing samples for permanent mounting on a glass slide. The corridor soon filled with the wonderful rich smell. However, cloves have a much wider range … Continue reading →
Posted in Herbarium RNG, Public Engagement with Science
|
Tagged Advent, clove, pomander
|
2 Comments
52 Museums – this week on Instagram
The Reading University Museums and Collections are running the 52Museums account on Instagram this week. We are theming entries around the alphabet and will be showcasing artefacts from A to Z. The Herbarium is one of those collections and so … Continue reading →
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
The University of Reading Herbarium hosts a fascinating historic collection of ferns amassed by the energetic and well connected Katherine Murray Lyell, wife of Henry Lyell, but also sister-in-law to Sir Charles Lyell (who was married to Katherine’s sister Mary).
Brief notes on some Percival Wheats
The University of Reading Herbarium houses a collection of wheat samples collected by John Percival. Some of those samples are archaeological and these are housed in plastic boxes in metal drawers in the main herbarium. To help scholars who wish … Continue reading →
Colour with Clusius
Here are seven illustrated pages from Rariorum plantarum historia by Carolus Clusius published in 1601, the time of Queen Elizabeth I. Please colour them in and #Tweet to @RNGherb for #ColourOurCollections.
Are you an adventurous botanist?
If you are an adventurous botanist looking for something new then Windfall Films may have just the thing for you! They are assembling a crew of ten men and replicating an epic 18th century maritime voyage for a six-part series … Continue reading →
Advent Botany 2015 – Christmas Day: The Christmas Cactus
By Alastair Culham My grandfather grew a huge Christmas cactus which flowered regularly every year. It spent the summers in a shady spot in the garden and the winters indoors away from the frost. It intrigued me because it didn’t … Continue reading →