A grey paving slab with the shadow of an Acer leaf printed on it

Accidental tataki-zomé from footfall as Autumn fades into Winter

Major FOMO from watching everyone filing into #museums2025! Good to be joining in online though

Digging around at Birmingham Archives to learn about the history of Birmingham Botanical Gardens’ glasshouses. I was looking for connections between India and Thomas Clarke or John Jones, the manufacturer and designer but instead found Clarke’s philanthropic deeds & poetry

@bhambotanicalgardens

Poking around exquisite cottages and designer manor houses at the Wirksworth Festival. So many beautiful home studios and accomplished artists as well as the quirky Museum of Roadside Magic and kids activities to spark inspiration

@wirksworthfestival @museumofroadsidemagic

First cloud inversion of the season. Happy Autumn everyone! 🍂🍁

#peakdistrict #autumn #lovenature

A vibrant dried flower display with rustic shelving, brown bottles and a hand painted sign saying “to plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow”

A vibrant dried flower display hangs from the ceiling over an attractive selection of seeds and apples for sale

Racks of terracotta pots

Beautiful staging in the @clumberparknt glasshouse displays. The ostentatious display of dried flowers gives a nod to its history to impress guests with exotic produce and reveals the abundance of the garden and the scale of hard work that went on (and continues) behind the scenes

A long Victorian glasshouse with a beige path leading up to it, under a cloudy sky, with an A frame showing information on the green and yellow plants flanking the path

The same glasshouse from a side angle showing extensive planting with rustic pea sticks on the left side

The extensively restored Grade II listed Conservatory and Palmhouse at Clumber Park looking stunning in its walled garden setting. The roof has over 800 panes of glass, which all had to be removed, cleaned and reused where possible, as well as addressing the significant timber rot across the frame.

Immersive, uncanny installations were a massive inspiration as an art student so it was amazing to stumble across Mike Nelson’s ‘Humpty Dumpty’ show at @fruitmarket.bsky.social

Good to see the evolution of his work w 1:1 scale photos strapped to salvaged beams, ripped stud walls & lights left bare

A satisfying display of specimens in jars 👌

Beautiful interpretation at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

A battered street sign for city art gallery and Fleshmarket Close above an advert for deep fried mars bars

Edinburgh ❤️

Imagine summarising an academic lecture on decolonising botanical gardens and polyvocal interpretation, live with almost no notes in advance, in illustrated form.

That’s just what @niftyfoxcreative did at @nottinghamtrentuni Institute of Knowledge Exchange Practice conference - an amazing talent!

Fab insights into research and impact at Nottingham Trent University’s Institute of Knowledge Exchange conference.

Here’s Harriet! We’ve grown the Heritage & Communities network to 153 members, incl organisations such as National Trust, Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Arts Council England

A deep dive into decolonising gardens on Day 1 of the #gardens&empires conference, followed by the Unearthed exhibition at The British Library

I’m struck the quality of research but also keen to hear more on how research will involve more diverse voices and provide platforms for social change

Thirst: another beautiful, critical deep dive into a singular topic from Wellcome Collection

Artworks exploring our shared search for water, connecting crises of drought, flood & pollution across time, place & nationalities. Interesting there wasn’t one specific call to action

@wellcomecollection

Maybe I shouldn’t have expected more from a collab btw Saatchi Gallery & Peugeot but using vast quantities of plastic plants to “explore the delicate systems that underpin life on Earth” is insulting to the audience. Signage saying the plastic will be reused & recycled adds to the greenwashing

They were quite useful to get the conversation going. I heard of another group who used them later and went rogue - they hacked them by adding post its on top of water bottles to create hierarchies to their idea stacks!

Kicking off my trip to the #gardensandempires conference at @britishlibrary with a personal tour round @chelsea_physic_garden thanks to the endlessly inspiring @emily_clare_hazell

So many gems in one small but exquisite plot, making the most of London’s microclimate and its unique medical history

3 white 3D printed boxes sit on a white table. They each hold a whiteboard tile that has been written or drawn on with grey shoelaces connecting them. Colourful pegs are placed on some of the tiles. Yellow tags hang off the shoelaces.

How great are these Co-navigator sets? The workshop started off with personal thinking on whiteboard tiles then we built ideas together using the butterfly technique (voting w pins) and boxes to elevate the most important aspects and consider connections, barriers & aids. Much neater than post its!

A green wildflower meadow fills the bottom of the frame with trees and purple flowers, overlooked by a historic building. Graffiti jars with the natural scene, which includes large rock slabs as seats

Nottingham’s Broadmarsh area of wildflower planting is coming along nicely. There’s something very polished and calming about the contrast of modern and old architecture with naturalistic planting and rock slab seating

A green wildflower meadow fills the bottom of the frame with trees and purple flowers, overlooked by a historic building. Graffiti jars with the natural scene, which includes large rock slabs as seats

Nottingham’s Broadmarsh area of wildflower planting is coming along nicely. There’s something very polished and calming about the contrast of modern and old architecture with naturalistic planting and rock slab seating

Currently reading my husband’s battered copy of “Natives: race and class in the ruins of empire” by Akala - an incredibly powerful memoir and provocation from a key voice in British culture. Easy to read, hard to stomach

A green book called Botany of Empire: plant worlds and the scientific legacies of colonialism lies on a kitchen work surface. It’s green cover has botanical plant illustrations overlaid with historic prints of ships

Bank holiday reading sorted…well, I can dream of five minutes’ peace to myself 😆 - Banu Subramaniam’s “Botany of Empire.”

Thanks to my wonderful former colleague, Heather Alberro, for the signposting me to it 💚

An AI image of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh with my face: a white woman wearing a blue and gold striped headpiece with heavy gold and blue necklaces and a gold tunic type top

This AI photo software raises so many questions at @tutankhamunexhibition…how did it know I was an adult female? How many people is this problematic for? And how do I feel coming face to face with its rendering of me as a 50 year old matriarch?

A smiling white woman has a white VR headset on

A blocky digital rendering of a dog headed Ancient Egyptian god with gleaming gold shimmering behind it

A large room with projections on all walls and the floor show a pink lotus flower rising out of blue water and sand with gold hieroglyphs and glittering stars. Dozens of people sit on white cubes watching.

A fine pen drawing of Tutankhamun’s multi layered coffin

Tutankhamun: The Immersive Experience - an exhibition of two halves: several shoddy replicas despite the genuine death mask appearing on marketing with lengthy panels…but breath-taking immersive experiences via VR, hologram and projection

@tutankhamunexhibition

Three people on a long, high suspension bridge over a gorge smile at the camera

Facing some fears!

On the left of the photo is a historical turret rising out of a blue lake at the foothills of snow covered mountains

The stunning Schloss Oberhofen built on Thunersee in the early 13th century with a sympathetic cafe extension. We were too early in the season for the museum or gardens to be open but got to drink wine on the pier and swim in the crystal clear lake

A circular hole in light coloured rock frames a pale blue sky with pine trees

Prehistoric caves in Switzerland. Interesting to see that bbqs are encouraged in the caves with tongs and tools provided next to a donation box and a picnic bench

Two smiling white women wearing walking gear in the Alps sit in the sun by a traditional wooden building with gothic script above the door and snow covered mountains in the background

A “short walk” in the snow covered Augstmattorn nature reserve. This is just a bog standard 90s diary farm building in the rural area near Thun 🤯

Alpine meadow flowers in the foreground with snow capped mountains in the background and a blue lake in the centre

Switzerland in Spring 😍

Fake gross out! Dr Richard Arm showcasing how NTU research is creating realistic 3D-printed organs to aid medical studies.

A very tangible example of the value of the arts and cross-disciplinary working.

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