Ben Dark

Writer of gardens. @GdnMediaGuild Journalist of the year, Author of The Grove

[Ben Dark @Bensgarden]

Delighted to share news of my huge, green-tendrilled book 🌱🌴🌿

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

.@TheBodleyHead has signed Ben Dark (@Bensgarden)’s history of the plant kingdom following a five-way auction.

Read more 👇 https://t.co/4BQQwAT3za

[Ben Dark @Bensgarden]

I'm celebrating and skewering High Victorian Garden Design in an online talk on Tuesday morning - part of the Gardens Trust's brilliant 'A history of Gardens' series. Come!

https://t.co/vn9JlCikk6

[Ben Dark @Bensgarden]

I investigate why gardeners who value their past, present and future should read more Proust and ask the all important question: are journalists lower than snakes?
- Article by Ben Dark

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[The Plant Initiative @Plant_Init]

The graphically-rich Fall 2024 issue of the open-access peer-reviewed Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture is now available for free download online. Contains several articles related to plants. https://t.co/c6i3gM11lQ

[Ben Dark @Bensgarden]

Getty is a an extremely disrespectful word for this amazing woman. She probably didn’t even want all those countries and jewels she got

[HistoryExtra @HistoryExtra]

Can you describe Queen Victoria with just one word?

📸 Getty

[Masaki Shimamura @bryotweet]

A 7-year old plant of Hylocomium. A long stairway in which one step is built each year.

[Kurt Metzger @orchidsofkurt]

A very nice Dendrobium species* from section Diplocaulobium. Found growing in the lower montane forest of New Guinea (c.1600-1900m) this is, individually, a relatively small epiphyte but it can grow into massive specimens. I find the long-neck-vase shaped pseudobulbs are so silky smooth on new growths and quite beautiful! Typical of the section, the flowers last just a portion of one day, blooming in the morning and closing and turning a very bright violet pink in the late afternoon. Flowers also have a very nice scent of vanilla and plants will bloom, depending on size, over a 3-4 day period with most of the flowers opening on the 2nd and 3rd days. [video]

* Notes ~ There seems to be so many variations of the plants and flowers of species from section Diplocaulobium, which make them particularly difficult to identify. I've mostly given up trying except for the most obvious matches.
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#nature is my #garden with all the #amazing #tropical #orchids, #plants and #flowers of Papua New Guinea!

[Ben Dark @Bensgarden]

@GardeningSaul Or more winter works! The shot of the Long Walk with the soil still flat and shiny from the boards was the best bit! A look at 'scaping in sopping wet Hereford red-mud would've been great. MD needs a break from film crews but they use mobile phone footage elsewhere, why not here?

[Ben Dark @Bensgarden]

@HG_Philip Well done!

[Plant Humanities UK @PlantHums_UK]

TREE CULTURES: WORDS, WOODS & WELL-BEING Booking now open for symposium organised by
@LinneanSociety & @kewgardens Feb 29, 2024.
Keynote address from #Kew Ambassador James Wong @Botanygeek Programme & tickets: https://t.co/bQjtYd2fe5… @KewScience @Kew_LAA @David_Oakes

[Natural History in the Age of Revolutions @NHAgeRevolution]

Call for Papers: 'Natural History in the Age of Revolutions'. Abstracts are invited for 20-minute papers for a day-long conference @LinneanSociety on 15th July 2024. Full details of the CfP can be found here: https://t.co/2OTSdRMV0L

[Dr. Sajad Alipour @SajadAlipour98]

Pic Of The Day
Cyclamen elegans, Iran

[Ben Dark @Bensgarden]

@Swaefastide I took one of your codes! Rude of me not to thank you already. I was going to do it on the other place but i cant find you there

[Kate Teltscher @KateTeltscher]

Greatly looking forward to this talk for the International Palm Society. On Saturday 23 October, 2pm ET (USA) / 7pm (UK). https://t.co/psM0w9lZij

[Mark Nesbitt @Economicbotany]

Always a nerve-wracking but exciting moment, the final, final proofs of a book: An Ancient Mesopotamian Herbal will be out in November 2023. Kudos to my brilliant co-authors Barbara Böck @CSIC and Shahina Ghazanfar @KewScience https://t.co/5LETMdVybk

[Kiran Sidhu @KiranSidhu41]

What an amazing autumn festival @MalvernShows

Thank you for interviewing me and being so kind @Nicki_Chapman. And thank you fellow author @Bensgarden for sharing the sofa and being so lovely.

[Ben Dark @Bensgarden]

All online and live tonight.

[Susanne Masters @Ethnobotanica]

"What we know, in general, about most groups of mushrooms is that the distribution of fungi is directly related to the distribution of mycologists," brilliant quote in https://t.co/24mylkokFA

[Jonas Frei @jdfrei]

Hazelnut diversity. In preparation for my book 'Die Haselnuss' which will be published this month.

Pre-order whereever books are available. Written in German.
ISBN: 978-3-03902-181-9