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Once thrilled by a Madeiran squill, I now have a geranium in the cranium

The buzz about bumblebees

Spanish wattle sounds like a brass band?

I love a large-leaved fig, but not to eat

Sooty mould makes a killer honey

Volcanic aftermath leads to potatoes and a botanic garden in Geneva (Plant Portrait VI*)

Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, Chiranthodendron pentadactylon (so good I'm posting it twice)

Barking up the right tree

Thickly hairy but quite beautiful, the Kerrawang

More than a menagerie: monkeys' hands, parrots' beaks and f?#@&%! macaws at Dunedin Botanic Garden