Ecologist Angela Moles chats with Tim Entwisle about Australia’s support for young scientists and how it compares with other OECD countries. They discuss how plants are responding to a warming world, ...

A blog about plants and gardens (gardening, botany, algae and fungi)

We meet botanist Professor Tim Entwisle, whose fascination with algae led him to a career in some of the most significant botanic gardens in the world.

A blog about plants and gardens (gardening, botany, algae and fungi)

Life on Earth is often described as a web, but for much of modern science it was catalogued as a ledger: names, specimens, distributions, relationships drawn in careful lines. Over the course of the 2...

A blog about plants and gardens (gardening, botany, algae and fungi)

A blog about plants and gardens (gardening, botany, algae and fungi)

A blog about plants and gardens (gardening, botany, algae and fungi)

A blog about plants and gardens (gardening, botany, algae and fungi)

🗓️ 13 Oct 2025 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM 📍 Mueller Hall

Do trees talk to one another? Can a plant use up the oxygen in a room while you sleep? What is a native plant and what is a weed? Are some plants truly immortal? Through 50 beautifully crafted essays...

Join John Siemon, Director of Horticulture and Living Collections to launch of Tim Entwisle's new book, The Sceptical Botanist.

A blog about plants and gardens (gardening, botany, algae and fungi)

2025 Winter Speaker Program Tim will also outline his forthcoming book on dispelling plant and garden myths The Sceptical Botanist – Separating Fact from Fiction. Tim Entwisle is Patron of the Australian Garden History Society. Tim has been director of […]