Apart from the pear tree in which sat the partridge, there are no plants in the 12 days of Christmas according to the folk song. Sadly, even that reference is erroneous, because partridges are ground dwelling birds. And yet at Christmas we are surrounded by plants. This talk by Accredited Lecturer Timothy Walker puts the record straight and rewrites the zoocentric song replacing partridges with poinsettias, and maids with mistletoe.
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Comments
Thank you Timothy for such a refreshing plant focused talk this morning.
Fascinating and very cleverly and wittily presented.
Best so far. A veritable mine of information and I think I’ve retained some of it too!
I absolutely loved this, nice to watch and listen to something a bit different from the norm and it was fascinating. Thank you :)
I am so loving your Artvent.... and today’s lecture was really wonderful, so much to learn about the more unusual plants, which we could use in future Christmasses.
Thank you very much for all of this..
I learned so much from this. It was incredibly interesting.
Lovely, well-presented talk full of interesting information, so suitable for Christmas: thank you!
What a brilliant presentation - I learned SO much from 5 minutes of this deeply knowledgeable talk. I'm thoroughly enjoying your Advent offerings, but this was the best!
That was a fascinating insight in to the numerous plants associated with Christmas. Thank you!
That was a really interesting presentation by Timothy and quite rightly putting Christmas plants top of the tree!