Tom Christian

Consulting botanical horticulturist | Assistant Editor @idstso | trustee @woodlandherita1 | research fellow @thebotanics | member @iucn conifer specialist group

[Alan Elliott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @alan_elliott]

1st of the new red labels to highlight Rhododendron of Conservation Concern going out @TheBotanics. Being part of the @bgci Global Conservation Consortium for Rhododendron making us reappraise how we manage & communicate the significance of our #Rhododendron collection.

[Marcella Corcoran @HorticultureSci]

Incredible, secret firefighting mission saves famous 'dinosaur trees' https://t.co/sNEZKyLLMv via @smh

[ICCP @RBGE_ICCP]

Doug Flint, Project Officer for @ntcs_info establishing exact locations for 400 conifers (including Prumnopitys andina) planted at Kilmun Arboretum in collaboration with @PKCTrust, @forestryls @forestryc @scottishforestry & @RBGE_ICCP. @Bertolicus

[Tom Christian @_TomEChristian]

The falls of Bruar, #Perthshire on Boxing Day @PKCTrust @HiPerthshire #winter #trees

[Trees etc. @arborsmarty]

Just another Snow Gum (Eucalyptus pauciflora).

[Tom Christian @_TomEChristian]

@PeterMoonlight Why be popular when you can be right! ;)

[Alan Elliott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @alan_elliott]

Welcome to the twilight zone.

[Tom Christian @_TomEChristian]

@whinchliffe https://t.co/e2xJSeu50y if you have the time to spare and want to give yourself a headache! I don't know how much our understanding of this species has evolved since this was published...

[Tom Christian @_TomEChristian]

Taxodium on fire in St James's Park, #London

[Tom Christian @_TomEChristian]

Larix griffithii lighting up the Bhutanese hillside at @BenmoreBotGdn this afternoon #Autumn #Argyll #rbgehort

[FAO Climate Change & Biodiversity @FAOclimate]

RT @UNBiodiversity: 🌱 2020 will be the International year of Plant Health! What does plant health mean for #biodiversity?

🌿 #IYPH #IYPH2020

[Tom Christian @_TomEChristian]

More Eucryphia! E. moorei from SE #Australia is too rarely planted even in suitable gardens. Its hybrid (with E. lucida) E. x hilleri is hardier and still has pinnate leaves (with fewer leaflets) and small flowers. Both flowering yesterday at #Kilmacurragh #Ireland @rhsirl

[Tom Christian @_TomEChristian]

Eucryphia 'Penwith' trying to steal the show at @Fotahouse #gardens #Ireland @rhsirl

[Tom Christian @_TomEChristian]

@Lophophanes @RBGE_ICCP @Fotahouse There are some patula nearby and they are very different when seen together

[Tom Christian @_TomEChristian]

Three @RBGE_ICCP highlights at @Fotahouse #Cork the Mexican Pinus teucote, Taiwania cryptomerioides thriving in permanently waterlogged soils and the Chilean Quillaja saponaria 12m and still going like a rocket! #rbgehort #Ireland #trees

[PlantNetwork @PlantNetwork]

#PEH2020 Grants and bursaries available:
https://t.co/ux4eyCfz0J
but register for the conference to benefit from the early-bird delegate fee while you wait to hear...

#horticulture #conference #grants #horticulturalbursaries

[Tom Christian @_TomEChristian]

@whitmuir1 @RBGE_ICCP Nice to see that this has established so well! Sister seedlings doing ok at Dawyck and in Perthshire, and thriving at Bedgebury in Kent when last seen!

[Tom Christian @_TomEChristian]

@Lophophanes @gingergairdner @SconePalace @ntcs_info @zsstevens Even beating macroptera to the top of the league? https://t.co/Yjy6dS8aWh

[Jeremy Barrell @JeremyDBarrell]

Well, this is what we were hoping for! £300,000 combined for Enzo Homes & Fiorenzo Sauro, & £120,000 for Arwyn Morgan, who felled the tree & 70 others in an area of ancient woodland. This is a massive fine. Well done Swansea Council. Possibly an appeal!
https://t.co/vhqwoWUVE3

[Tom Christian @_TomEChristian]

@gingergairdner @SconePalace @ntcs_info @zsstevens Great to see it doing so well!