December 2015 archive

Bagging botanical Brussels

Gingko biloba Meise [CC-BY-SA-3.0 Steve Cook]

The last time we went to Brussels, I got terribly excited that the hotel we were staying in was right next door to the Botanical Garden of Brussels. Unfortunately – as we discovered in short order – at some point in the 1930s the plants had mostly been shipped off elsewhere, leaving the garden not very botanical, and Dr …

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