‘Going through the motions’ this week with a plant cutting looking at Ancient Roman medical practices. Intrigued..? More at plantcuttings.uk/2026/04/03/n... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

Spring has truly sprung - in the planetary North - with this plant cutting about mattresses(!), and how fungi can help to repurpose them. Intrigued? More at plantcuttings.uk/2026/03/27/n... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

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when strolling through museums, I often forget statues used to be painted vibrantly

Stoat hopping across snow: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

Something that's not to be fiddled with... Stay safe.

For this week’s plant cutting we connect ‘climate-change-reversing’ afforestation in a desert in China to neighbour-annoying leylandii, via a giant hedge in India. Intrigued? More at plantcuttings.uk/2026/03/20/h... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

‘Sticking it to the man (well, hominin…)’ with this week’s post. Intrigued..? More at plantcuttings.uk/2026/03/13/w... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

You can't run through a campsite. You can only ran, because it's past tents.

Repeated from last night, innit #friday13th

A post about specialist coffees for you to digest this week. Intrigued..? More at plantcuttings.uk/2026/03/06/g... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

Very interesting plant science article about poisoned arrows 🖤🌿

Palaeolithic plants-and-people insights with Stone Age arrowheads and botanical poisons for you Cuttingsophiles this week. Intrigued..? More at plantcuttings.uk/2026/02/27/p... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

What does Mr P Cuttings think of Essential plant biology, a new textbook for plant biology? Find out at plantcuttings.uk/2026/02/20/t... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

Mr P Cuttings takes scicomm promoters to task over the correct use of ‘et alia’… Niche, maybe, but, Intrigued..? More at plantcuttings.uk/2026/02/13/s... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

Mr P Cuttings takes scicomm promoters to task over the correct lay-out of scientific names. Intrigued? More at plantcuttings.uk/2026/02/06/s... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

Thinking of a summer beach holiday, and maybe swimming..? Give a thought to coral-damaging sunscreens… Intrigued? More at plantcuttings.uk/2026/01/30/p... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

Now, that's a toe-curdling Dad joke... 🙂 Stay safe.

The first book review of 2026 is all about the biology of ferns. To find out more, go to plantcuttings.uk/2026/01/23/a... Plus, an idea for a New Year’s Resolution you can keep, why not sign-up to the site at plantcuttings.uk? Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

This week’s Plant Cutting celebrates some of 2025’s notable ‘new’ species of plants. Intrigued? More at plantcuttings.uk/2026/01/16/s... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

The 2nd Plant Cutting for 2026 sheds some light on night-glowing plants. Intrigued? More at plantcuttings.uk/2026/01/09/p... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

The first Plant Cutting for 2026 is something to celebrate – a plant-inspired solution to tackle antibiotic-resistant bacteria… Intrigued? More at plantcuttings.uk/2026/01/02/t... Happy New Year! #Botany #PlantScience

How do you find Will Smith in the snow? Follow the fresh prints.

The last Plant Cutting for 2025 celebrates prize-winning plant-based research… Intrigued? More at plantcuttings.uk/2025/12/26/p... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

The long read that delves into the world of ferns, rare earths, and global geopolitics for you this week… Intrigued? More at plantcuttings.uk/2025/12/19/r... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

🌿 Want to transform your garden this year? The DIY plans to build these 8ft x 4ft raised beds are available today. https://learndirt.com/raised-garden-bed-plans/

Good morning, I hadn't thought of that! What a brilliant suggestion. Thank you so much for pointing that out. An update to that post is certainly in order. Many thanks again! Stay safe, Nigel

This week we have a resolution (of sorts) to my previous query about root mucilage and photosynthesis. Intrigued? More at plantcuttings.uk/2025/12/12/b... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

My last book review of 2025 for you this week. A fascinating read about eucalypts from a former director of Kew Gardens, Stephen Hopper. Just in time for Christmas..? More at plantcuttings.uk/2025/12/05/e... [Plus, free subscription to the blog is - still - available…] Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes? That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.

Calling all who appreciate plants and what they do for us! Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at University of Nottingham (UK) chng.it/Fq67ZRxK via @UKChange #Botany #PlantScience

It is, more in the post. Stay safe.

An appraisal of a book that will get you thinking about plants (well, gardens actually) and people this week, the intriguingly-named The green fuse. More at plantcuttings.uk/2025/11/28/w... Plus, Mr PC’s Black Friday deal – free subscription to the blog is available(!) Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

A rather different blog post this week: An opportunity for readers to engage in a little botanical sleuthery. I’m trying to track down a paper with data re % of photosynthate secreted from roots. Intrigued? Baffled? More at plantcuttings.uk/2025/11/21/a... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole

A look at three botanically-relevant Japanese words today. Who needs Duolingo when you have botanolingo? Intrigued? More at plantcuttings.uk/2025/11/14/t... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

A review of an important book for you today. It’s about plant domestication and the ‘invention’ of agriculture. More at plantcuttings.uk/2025/11/07/t... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🐝 Latest newsletter about Botanical University Challenge is now available on our website. Book reviews, information about #BUC2026, memories of this summer's competition and festival ... botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/

Dear Ros, That is nice to know - thanking you for telling me. 😀 Stay safe, Nigel

We haven’t had an item about seaweeds for some time. To remedy that deficiency, this week’s post is about … seaweeds (and structural colour). Intrigued? More at plantcuttings.uk/2025/10/31/a... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

Garden shed? More of a museum piece... Stay safe.

Back to book reviews this week, and a look at Canopy Meg’s Tree day, 24 trees in 24 hours. Lots of plant biology and ecology for your viewing pleasure. More at plantcuttings.uk/2025/10/24/2... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

No cutting for you this week, nor even a book review. Instead, an unashamedly self-congratulatory post on the occasion of the blog’s 2nd birthday(!). More at plantcuttings.uk/2025/10/17/h... Cheers! #Botany #PlantScience

An appraisal of a plants-and-people book for this week, one about wood-and-woodologists. Intrigued? Read more at plantcuttings.uk/2025/10/10/c... #Botany #PlantScience

Wow!