🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌿❄️🎄 Advent Botany Day 25 - It's Christmas! Let's see highlights again from Izzy, Niamh and Jess!
Christmas Greetings and Best Wishes to all from Botanical University Challenge!
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌿❄️🎄Advent Botany Day 24 - mistletoe! So much to say about it and Izzy, Jess and Niamh tell you more. They have been so inventive with seasonal and Christmassy plants!
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌿❄️🎄Advent Botany Day 21 - juniper. Smallish evergreen trees that can grow into beautiful shapes.
Jess, Izzy and Niamh will tell you more! #BUC2026 #AdventBotany #ChristmasPlants #evergreentrees
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌿❄️🎄 Advent Botany Day 20 - thyme! Aromatic herb in cookery. Niamh, Izzy & Jess tell you more! Also, The Thymes is the name of the official newsletter of Botanical University Challenge. All issues:
botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
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Advent Botany Day 18. Nearing the Big Day so time to think of Christmas trees! Several evergreen trees species used in Europe. Norway spruce, Nordmann fir, Lodgepole pine ....
More about Christmas trees from the Forestry Commission: www.forestryengland.uk/blog/the-exp...
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌿❄️🎄Advent Botany Day 16 - parsley! Intense green leaves, very characteristic scent and flavour/flavor when sprinkled on meals.
Let Jess, Izzy and Niamh tell you more!! #BUC2026 #AdventBotany #plants #loveplants
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌿❄️🎄 Advent Botany Day 14! Only a day late but delicious apples keep for months. Niamh, Izzy and Jess tell you more about them. #BUC2026 #AdventBotany #ChristmasPlants #apples #plants #loveplants
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌿❄️🎄Advent Botany Day 15 - Angelica by name and taste! Let Izzy, Jess and Niamh tell you about this aromatic plant! #BUC2026 #AdventBotany #ChristmasPlants #plants #loveplants
🌱🌾🌍🎄🌻🌳Advent Botany Day 13 - chestnuts. Not only producing nuts that are delicious when cooked, but also large trees with for useful timber. Let Izzy, Jess and Niamh tell you more! #BUC2026 #AdventBotany #ChristmasPlants #plants #loveplants
🌱🌾🌍🎄🌻🌳 Advent Botany Day 12 - gorse! Brilliant yellow flowers on vicious, spiky plant all year round. And their scent on a hot summer day - coconut - is so unexpected in the temperate European climate! Let Izzy, Jess & Niamh tell you more! #BUC2026 #Christmasplants #AdventBotany #plants #loveplants
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌿❄️🎄Advent Botany Day 11! Yew trees. Green all year round. Let Niamh, Izzy and Jess tell you more!
#BUC2026 #trees #AdventBotany #Christmasplants #plants #loveplants
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌿❄️🎄 Advent Botany day 10 - pear trees. First line of song known from northern England 1700s with many changes since. Counting songs associated with Christmas across Europe. Read more from Jess, Izzy and Niamh! #BUC2026 #Christmasplants #AdventBotany #TwelvedaysofChristmas #plants #loveplants
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌿🧪❄️🎄Day 6 of Advent Botany! The spindle tree that has such pretty seeds. One of a genus with over 140 members that originate all around the world.
Jess, Izzy and Niamh tell you more!
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The Glastonbury Holy Thorn for #AdventBotany Day 24 #AdventCalendar #Advent A past series of 3 blogs on the subject botanykaren.net/2022/12/24/g...
Not my favourite but it’s popular with many at Christmas: the Poinsettia. #AdventBotany Day 22 blog. #AdventCalendar #Advent botanykaren.net/2020/12/12/m...
A Christmas custom from Provence for #AdventBotany Day 21 #AdventCalendar #Advent botanykaren.net/2021/12/18/1...
Watching a Christmas gift flower. Amaryllis photo blog for #AdventBotany Day 19 botanykaren.net/2022/12/03/a... #AdventCalendar #Advent
The botanical ingredients in Mulled Wine #AdventBotany Day 17 #AdventCalendar #Advent botanykaren.net/2022/12/20/m...
Cinnamon - an essential taste and scent of Christmas #AdventBotany Day 14 botanykaren.net/2022/12/19/c...
13th December is St Lucia’s Day in Sweden which brings us to Saffron for buns for #AdventBotany botanykaren.net/2021/12/13/s...
Cranberries - a Christmas must-have with turkey? #AdventBotany Day 9 botanykaren.net/2020/12/23/c...
Reminder of a blog written in Covid times in 2020. While we may not want reminding of those times, the blog is about fascinating Mistletoe. #AdventBotany Day 8 botanykaren.net/2020/12/11/a...
