Urban botanising a little population of natural Aloe marlothii X A. davyana hybrids in amongst a moerse population of Aloe davyana🌱

This household is having a grand old time in the kitchen at the moment!

Blows my mind that we have the technology to measure photosynthesis

Tsenza making emails bearable (Don't say anything about my 40 million open tabs)

Sending up the Cabbage Signal for @makenziemabryphd.bsky.social 🔦

Luffa cylindrica fruit in the early stages of development

Our Work Integrated Learning students planting out their spinach, bell-peppers, and purple sweet potatoes into the Giving Garden🌱

Yesterday our Work Integrated Learning volunteers from TUT split and packaged Egyptian walking onions (Allium x proliferum) and Zimbabwean ever-ready onions (Allium cepa 'Perutile') to distribute to 248 home and community food gardens through the ABBA Embrace Foundation's food garden campaign.

Some incredible work from my colleague for his Culinary Arts practical demonstration turning snippets of my gardens into a vibrant salad🥗

A new study has explored how we can use competition and engagement to empower plant-aware students and prevent the "ticking time bomb" of botanical skills debt. The Botanical University Challenge is much more than just a contest (@bucbotany.bsky.social). Read more 👇 bit.ly/3XtNzQw

My latest article, for @yalee360.bsky.social, about South Africa's plant poaching crisis. Please share the link! e360.yale.edu/features/sou...

Scarlet rosemallow (Hibiscus coccineus) flowering in our rainwater attenuation dam. This semi-aquatic hibiscus is native to the Southeastern United States where it's found growing in wetlands such as swamps and marshes🌺

Another one of my side quests: using horticulture for ecological restoration🌱 www.up.ac.za/news/post_32...

As part of the Centenary Symposium for the University of Pretoria's Schweickerdt Herbarium and Manie van der Schijff Botanical Garden, we brought in undergrad students from the Department of Consumer and Food Sciences to create a lunch from ingredients harvested from our gardens (1/5)

Shameless self-promotion of the community engagement element of my work🌱 www.up.ac.za/news/post_32...

Just a very wholesome day getting some of the novel crops from the collection into community gardens in Alexandra🌱

With the most ridiculous edible roots as well

Some very angry little wire chompers in the irrigation control boxes today

No beer like a field beer 🍻

In agriculture, "there are no solutions, only trade-offs." Here, the common biodiversity vs. productivity. "a reminder of the challenge in reconciling conflicting aims in farmland management." Open access. www.nature.com/articles/s4...

9 weeks after being mailed to me and 4 weeks after planting, the first of the Adenium swazicum is flowering despite not being watered yet😬

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

Right, @adamwelz.bsky.social recommended I give this site a try so let's give it a second chance. Customary offering of (potato) flowers upon arrival

!Nara (Acanthosicyos horridus) is spiney cucurbit endemic to the Namib desert. The species is typically found growing in the interdunes and is one of the toughest plants I've ever come across.

Had to make the first post about aloes POV: You're a little Aloidendron ramosissimum seedling and I'm very proud of how you're growing😄