Delighted to read this @Newstatesman! @kewgardens @Kew_LAA @GinaFullerlove @Economicbotany @BillJBaker @kewbookshop

Historians of colonial science / the environment, Lego is coming at you for Christmas.

Very proud of my (former) PhD student! Many congratulations, Dr Craddock!🙌🎉🥂 @PlantHums_UK @Kew_LAA

Houses built of mycelium brick: a wonderful, environmentally-friendly project from Namibia.

Libraries are such important places - and not just for the books. A beautifully observed and surprisingly moving piece by @AidaE

A fun read! Some delightful ice cream van lore, including the ‘international parental conspiracy’ that the ice cream van jingle announced that stocks had run out (my mother-in-law was an early adopter in 1960s-70s Birmingham).

We are delighted to begin our Prison Reading Groups 25-year celebration with our keynote speaker, British-Iranian author, the incredible Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. #ReadinginPrison25

Very pleased to share that the article on the opium poppy I co-authored for the Plant Humanities Lab is now live! Featuring archival materials from @Kew_LAA

Start the Week from the wonderful @hayfestival on indigenous expert knowledge, culling for conservation and walled gardens, with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Olivia Laing and @hedgehoghugh. Coming up on @BBCRadio4 at 9.

‘We need other logics for our approach to nature’: the woman uprooting colonialism in botany | Plants | The Guardian ⁦@PlantHums_UK⁩

Superb Cosgrove lecture this evening by Prof Judith Carney from UCLA @KewScience @BritishAcademy_ @RoyalHolloway Centre for Geohumanities - about food, autonomy & freedom, using superb archival history & the concept of Bio-refugia to talk about participatory & just food futures.

Dominic Sandbrook savours SPICE: ‘A story of tremendous verve and scope… Roger Crowley’s rollicking, blood-soaked account of the race for the Spice Islands of east Asia is the book for you.’ https://t.co/3fBO6uxqrL @YaleBooks @crowley_roger

‘Some day I’m going to paint a portrait, a heroic portrait of these little weeds because they have the resilience that I wish I had, and actually that we need’. Mona Caron, BBC World Service, The Conversation

@sukhadatatke Featuring interviews with @KateTeltscher and Michael Fisher

🛁 Sake Dean Mahomed, the first #Indian in the #UK to publish an #English book and open an Indian restaurant, changed hygiene forever. This is his story. @sukhadatatke reports https://t.co/tdKBmwYPyJ

Dazzling display of the architectural qualities of palms: 'Singularity' from @_MarcQuinn Light into Life show @kewgardens. Precisely modelled on a Bismarckia nobilis leaf from Kew's Palm House (and placed just outside). @BillJBaker @Scott_Zona @IPS_PalmSociety

What a difference a letter makes! From Robert Hannigan’s forthcoming “Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us about Problem-Solving and Creativity”

Tremendous resource!

Excellent lecture by Yota Batsaki @RoyalHolloway yesterday. Great overview of emerging field of Plant Humanities. Ended with brilliant analysis of Kapwani Kiwanga's glass-encased fern sculpture, 'On Growth', currently on display @highlinenyc. @Economicbotany @LiveseyRuth

British Formula 1 driver @LewisHamilton's Met Gala @Burberry look was inspired by the story of John Ystumllyn, one of Britain’s first black gardeners, and the symbolic language of flowers in black history. John Ystumllyn was an 18th-century gardener and is considered the first

Excited to be invited to @WorldMonuments Palace of Palms event @kewgardens this week. It's a brilliant cause – the Net Zero Carbon restoration of Kew's Palm House – and just happens to be named after my book! @georgeisediting @JohnD_WMFB @Kew_LAA