Ben Dark
@Bensgarden
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Writer of gardens. @GdnMediaGuild Journalist of the year, Author of The Grove https://t.co/N9AiSasHA3
Joined March 2010
Delighted to share news of my huge, green-tendrilled book 🌱🌴🌿
.@TheBodleyHead has signed Ben Dark (@Bensgarden)’s history of the plant kingdom following a five-way auction. Read more 👇
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I'm celebrating and skewering High Victorian Garden Design in an online talk on Tuesday morning - part of the Gardens Trust's brilliant 'A history of Gardens' series. Come! https://t.co/vn9JlCikk6
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The fourth in our online course A History of Gardens 4, on Tues@10 am. Sponsored by Wooden Books. Tickets £8 each (GT members£6)
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I investigate why gardeners who value their past, present and future should read more Proust and ask the all important question: are journalists lower than snakes? - Article by Ben Dark https://t.co/vKgZ3iHIpU
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Ben Dark on The Garden Collective - I investigate why gardeners who value their past, present and future should read more Proust and ask the all important question: are journalists lower than snakes?
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The graphically-rich Fall 2024 issue of the open-access peer-reviewed Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture is now available for free download online. Contains several articles related to plants. https://t.co/c6i3gM11lQ
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Getty is a an extremely disrespectful word for this amazing woman. She probably didn’t even want all those countries and jewels she got
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A 7-year old plant of Hylocomium. A long stairway in which one step is built each year.
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A very nice Dendrobium species* from section Diplocaulobium. Found growing in the lower montane forest of New Guinea (c.1600-1900m) this is, individually, a relatively small epiphyte but it can grow into massive specimens. I find the long-neck-vase shaped pseudobulbs are so silky
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TREE CULTURES: WORDS, WOODS & WELL-BEING Booking now open for symposium organised by @LinneanSociety & @kewgardens Feb 29, 2024. Keynote address from #Kew Ambassador James Wong @Botanygeek Programme & tickets: https://t.co/bQjtYd2fe5…
@KewScience @Kew_LAA @David_Oakes
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Call for Papers: 'Natural History in the Age of Revolutions'. Abstracts are invited for 20-minute papers for a day-long conference @LinneanSociety on 15th July 2024. Full details of the CfP can be found here: https://t.co/2OTSdRMV0L
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Greatly looking forward to this talk for the International Palm Society. On Saturday 23 October, 2pm ET (USA) / 7pm (UK).
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Always a nerve-wracking but exciting moment, the final, final proofs of a book: An Ancient Mesopotamian Herbal will be out in November 2023. Kudos to my brilliant co-authors Barbara Böck @CSIC and Shahina Ghazanfar @KewScience
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What an amazing autumn festival @MalvernShows Thank you for interviewing me and being so kind @Nicki_Chapman. And thank you fellow author @Bensgarden for sharing the sofa and being so lovely.
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"What we know, in general, about most groups of mushrooms is that the distribution of fungi is directly related to the distribution of mycologists," brilliant quote in https://t.co/24mylkokFA
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Hazelnut diversity. In preparation for my book 'Die Haselnuss' which will be published this month. Pre-order whereever books are available. Written in German. ISBN: 978-3-03902-181-9
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When your PhD is on magazines, why wouldn’t you design your thesis title page like a magazine cover?? ✨ Relieved to have submitted my thesis today — now away for a big nap! ✨
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A great event with the loveliest people! Thank you
Sarah had a wonderful time on Sunday afternoon in conversation with award-winning garden writer Ben Dark (@Bensgarden) for #IndieBookshopWeek 🏡💐 Thank you to everyone who came for being such a lovely, engaged audience and to @sellymanor for hosting us for another great event!
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