Mistletoe Matters
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Seasonal (and sometimes unseasonal) mistletoe ramblings from UK mistletoe expert Jonathan Briggs, previously on twitter as @Viscumalbum
Mistletoe season is almost here, again. Mistletoe Diary will be reporting on bits and bobs of mistletoey stuff through December: mistletoediary.com/mistletoe-se...
Mistletoe Season 2025/6
It's mistletoe time, yet again. And this year the berries have been ripening particularly early, some whitening up a month ago in October - which is very ear
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November 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Mistletoe season is almost here, again. Mistletoe Diary will be reporting on bits and bobs of mistletoey stuff through December: mistletoediary.com/mistletoe-se...
Mistletoe seeds are sprouting out all over: mistletoediary.com/parasitic-pl...
Parasitic plants in spring, Part 2
Picking up from my recent post about spring parasites that aren’t mistletoe, here are some pictures of what mistletoe seeds do in spring. And that is, mostly,
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May 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Mistletoe seeds are sprouting out all over: mistletoediary.com/parasitic-pl...
Some ramblings on springtime parasitic plants (my life seems to be taken over by parasites). mistletoediary.com/parasitic-pl...
Parasitic plants in spring, Part 1
A parasitic plants update, the first of two (maybe three!) parts. This Part 1 isn't about mistletoe (see Part 2 for that). Because now is the season for spot
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April 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Some ramblings on springtime parasitic plants (my life seems to be taken over by parasites). mistletoediary.com/parasitic-pl...
A new invasive fruit fly is taking advantage of mistletoe berries to be ready, from spring, to colonise crop fruits. mistletoediary.com/invasive-fru...
Invasive fruit-flies overwinter in mistletoe, with implications for fruit...
The dependent insect fauna of our mistletoe, Viscum album, gradually changes with time. The mistletoe-dependent weevil Ixapion variegatum was unknown in Britain
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December 16, 2024 at 10:38 AM
A new invasive fruit fly is taking advantage of mistletoe berries to be ready, from spring, to colonise crop fruits. mistletoediary.com/invasive-fru...
Some thoughts on the explosion in UK mistletoe trading - a trend that began two decades ago and is now even on Facebook. And which may reflect, to some extent, increasing quantities of mistletoe growing across a wider area. mistletoediary.com/loadsa-mistl...
Loadsa mistletoe sales
Yesterday I looked up how many people were selling mistletoe in the UK via Facebook Marketplace – and found that there were dozens and dozens of them. Some
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December 14, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Some thoughts on the explosion in UK mistletoe trading - a trend that began two decades ago and is now even on Facebook. And which may reflect, to some extent, increasing quantities of mistletoe growing across a wider area. mistletoediary.com/loadsa-mistl...
A seasonal review of mistletoe's mentions in the mother of all parliaments. It's a mixed bunch, but interesting. mistletoediary.com/mistletoe-in...
Mistletoe in Parliament
A recent query (in connection with this) about how we got Parliament’s approval for National Mistletoe Day in 2005, and a subsequent search for the relevant r
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December 11, 2024 at 6:23 PM
A seasonal review of mistletoe's mentions in the mother of all parliaments. It's a mixed bunch, but interesting. mistletoediary.com/mistletoe-in...
Not much, yet, in this year's mistletoe diary, but there are plans... mistletoediary.com/mistletoe-mo...
Mistletoe morsels 2024
A slow start to Mistletoe Diary his year, too many other things going on. But masses of miscellaneous mistletoe morsels are planned for the next couple of wee
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December 8, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Not much, yet, in this year's mistletoe diary, but there are plans... mistletoediary.com/mistletoe-mo...
Oh dear, the media's off to a particularly stunning start to the mistletoe stories this year. Gen Z are to blame, apparently. And so is 'wokery'. All nonsense of course. mistletoediary.com/the-silly-se...
The silly season is upon us – apparently “wokery” could end mistletoe kisses. What a load of tosh.
There’s a story doing the rounds today that “wokery could put an end to kissing under the mistletoe at Christmas”. The comment is attributed to Nick Cha
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November 25, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Oh dear, the media's off to a particularly stunning start to the mistletoe stories this year. Gen Z are to blame, apparently. And so is 'wokery'. All nonsense of course. mistletoediary.com/the-silly-se...
Some miscellaneous mistletoe morsels to start the season. Nothing actually new, just the usual stuff, though MistleGO is worth looking into. More on season #2 of that soon. mistletoediary.com/mistletoe-se...
Mistletoe Season 2024/25
A belated start to the diary this year! A few snippets of info and dates for now, more soon: Dates This year's Tenbury Mistletoe Festival (and National
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November 14, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Some miscellaneous mistletoe morsels to start the season. Nothing actually new, just the usual stuff, though MistleGO is worth looking into. More on season #2 of that soon. mistletoediary.com/mistletoe-se...
Just arrived here, in anticipation of providing some mistletoey trivia over this winter. Just chilling at the moment but I'll be back.
November 12, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Just arrived here, in anticipation of providing some mistletoey trivia over this winter. Just chilling at the moment but I'll be back.