Phil Esseen

Botanist, Landscape Architect; Curator of Botany & Horticulture at Chester Zoo.

[Phil Esseen @EsseenPhil]

@ClaireRaisin Or teleport you to another planet…
Great photo!

[Phil Esseen @EsseenPhil]

@ClaireRaisin @ScienceatCZ @WildlifeCharles @c_birkinshaw Nothing beats misty Manchester!

[Phil Esseen @EsseenPhil]

@BettyShmem Don’t fancy the flymo’s chances on that!

[Phil Esseen @EsseenPhil]

@KateLea1000 Was it easier or harder than 35 years ago? With the South West coastal path under your belt, I bet it was a doddle!!

[Chester Zoo @chesterzoo]

We have something very exciting to announce… 📣

The FIRST successful Coquerel’s sifaka birth ever in Europe 🐵

With these incredible lemurs on the brink of extinction, the arrival of Beatrice’s baby is a real landmark moment for conservation 🌍

[Phil Esseen @EsseenPhil]

@ShitChester Good to see the monkey/ seagull incident still being commemorated 🐒

[Phil Esseen @EsseenPhil]

@Raisinmeister Serves you right after all the fun you made of my flappy trainer mishap!! Who needs soles in Madagascar anyway?

[Phil Esseen @EsseenPhil]

PlantNetwork meeting at The Newt in Somerset last week… what an amazing place!

[Phil Esseen @EsseenPhil]

Exciting opportunity for a PhD student to work on the conservation of meta-populations of threatened Nepenthes species, such as those in our National Plant Collection @chesterzoo @Plantheritage https://t.co/tmOKpVWDyw

[Chester Zoo Science @ScienceatCZ]

It’s a prickly subject – how do you plan the conservation of >30 threatened cactus species? 🌵

As you read this, we're developing an integrated conservation plan for Chile’s endemic Copiapoa cacti with conservationists, government bodies and world-leading cactus scientists 🌎

[BIAZA @BIAZA]

Happy #HumpDay 🐫

Today we'll be highlighting the three winners from the Horticulture category of the BIAZA Annual Awards 2022!

Starting with @chesterzoo, who won Silver for 'Replanting Monsoon Forest' 🌴 Tree-riffic!

[Phil Esseen @EsseenPhil]

@Raisinmeister I’d rather have a large spider than a small mouse any day…

[Phil Esseen @EsseenPhil]

@BettyShmem Personally I prefer a bit of astroturf and a few knomes…

[Phil Esseen @EsseenPhil]

@BettyShmem It’s alright I supposed, if you like water and trees and green stuff…

[Darach Lupton @LuptonDarach]

An excellent day spent at Chester Zoo discussing the conservation and cultivation of threatened Nepenthes @chesterzoo @NBGGlasnevin.

[Chris Birkinshaw @c_birkinshaw]

As part of @Darwin_Defra project - hedges will be installed to protect crops grown adjacent to the Agnalazaha Forest #Madagascar. The hedges will be made from 16,000 plants of native trees. Here are some of them growing in a very colourful nursery. @ScienceatCZ

[Phil Esseen @EsseenPhil]

@ClaireRaisin Looks too accessible to be real!!!

[Phil Esseen @EsseenPhil]

@ClaireRaisin What a beauty! Did it have those water drops on anyway or did you add them to make the perfect photo?

[Phil Esseen @EsseenPhil]

@ClaireRaisin Actually I think Chris’s tweet has just given a little hint….!

[Phil Esseen @EsseenPhil]

@ClaireRaisin you can’t keep us hanging on like that… is it animal, vegetable or mineral?