Christina Hourigan
@treeseeker.bsky.social
Historical Geography #planthumanities PhD student at Royal Holloway & RBG Kew researching the cultural history of arboretums. Book author, former magazine editor, gardener, cat servant
It was great to sign some copies of our new #book 'Among the Giants, a year in Kew's Arboretum' at #KewPublishing @rbgkew.bsky.social last week. It was such a joy to spend the seasons with Kew's Tree Gang and write about Kew's beautiful trees, arboriculture and climate resilience.
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It was great to sign some copies of our new #book 'Among the Giants, a year in Kew's Arboretum' at #KewPublishing @rbgkew.bsky.social last week. It was such a joy to spend the seasons with Kew's Tree Gang and write about Kew's beautiful trees, arboriculture and climate resilience.
Huge thanks to the team at @plantperspectives.bsky.social @whitehorsepress.bsky.social and @sarahwhpress.bsky.social for creating such stunning designs for our special #arborealhumanities issue!
Check out all the beautifully crafted papers, poetry and reviews at whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie...
Check out all the beautifully crafted papers, poetry and reviews at whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie...
October 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Huge thanks to the team at @plantperspectives.bsky.social @whitehorsepress.bsky.social and @sarahwhpress.bsky.social for creating such stunning designs for our special #arborealhumanities issue!
Check out all the beautifully crafted papers, poetry and reviews at whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie...
Check out all the beautifully crafted papers, poetry and reviews at whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie...
Fascinating talk by #author Sara Lodge on her #newbook about #Victorian #FemaleDetectives at #ChiswickBookFestival today! Can't wait to read it.
#History #publishing #research #archives #yaleuniversitypress
#History #publishing #research #archives #yaleuniversitypress
September 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Fascinating talk by #author Sara Lodge on her #newbook about #Victorian #FemaleDetectives at #ChiswickBookFestival today! Can't wait to read it.
#History #publishing #research #archives #yaleuniversitypress
#History #publishing #research #archives #yaleuniversitypress
Happy #Publication Day to #AmongtheGiants, a year at the #Kew Arboretum. #OctopusBooks #KewPublishing #KewGardens #gardenhistory #trees #science #climateresilience #climatechange #urbantrees
Available at all good book stores now!
Available at all good book stores now!
August 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Happy #Publication Day to #AmongtheGiants, a year at the #Kew Arboretum. #OctopusBooks #KewPublishing #KewGardens #gardenhistory #trees #science #climateresilience #climatechange #urbantrees
Available at all good book stores now!
Available at all good book stores now!
Discount klaxon! My new #book is 25%off preorder this week only at #Waterstones #WPreorder.
Come with us and discover the fascinating work of #Kew's #TreeGang, the history of Kew's #Arboretum and #trees and how research is helping staff prepare the collection for #climatechange.
Come with us and discover the fascinating work of #Kew's #TreeGang, the history of Kew's #Arboretum and #trees and how research is helping staff prepare the collection for #climatechange.
July 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Discount klaxon! My new #book is 25%off preorder this week only at #Waterstones #WPreorder.
Come with us and discover the fascinating work of #Kew's #TreeGang, the history of Kew's #Arboretum and #trees and how research is helping staff prepare the collection for #climatechange.
Come with us and discover the fascinating work of #Kew's #TreeGang, the history of Kew's #Arboretum and #trees and how research is helping staff prepare the collection for #climatechange.
Hot off the press! 🥳 Advance copies of my new book written with Carolyn Fry have just arrived!
Among the Giants, a year at the Kew Arboretum reveals season by season the amazing work of Kew's Tree Gang as they look after 11,000 trees & delves into the history of the arboretum. Pre-order now!! 💚
Among the Giants, a year at the Kew Arboretum reveals season by season the amazing work of Kew's Tree Gang as they look after 11,000 trees & delves into the history of the arboretum. Pre-order now!! 💚
July 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Hot off the press! 🥳 Advance copies of my new book written with Carolyn Fry have just arrived!
Among the Giants, a year at the Kew Arboretum reveals season by season the amazing work of Kew's Tree Gang as they look after 11,000 trees & delves into the history of the arboretum. Pre-order now!! 💚
Among the Giants, a year at the Kew Arboretum reveals season by season the amazing work of Kew's Tree Gang as they look after 11,000 trees & delves into the history of the arboretum. Pre-order now!! 💚
A wonderful day for my first visit to The Yorkshire Arboretum. So many interesting trees related to Kew's collections. Loved their interpretation tagline 'Stories Trees Tell'!
June 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A wonderful day for my first visit to The Yorkshire Arboretum. So many interesting trees related to Kew's collections. Loved their interpretation tagline 'Stories Trees Tell'!
Spent a lovely morning sharing tree tales from Kew's #Archives for the #UrbanTreeFestival in London. From paving the city's streets with sweet gum and jarrah wood to conserving our native black poplar. Kew's Archive is a rich seam of reports, maps, correspondence, scrap books and more 🌳🌲🌴💚
May 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Spent a lovely morning sharing tree tales from Kew's #Archives for the #UrbanTreeFestival in London. From paving the city's streets with sweet gum and jarrah wood to conserving our native black poplar. Kew's Archive is a rich seam of reports, maps, correspondence, scrap books and more 🌳🌲🌴💚
#NewBook Looking forward to delving into this... #trees #planthistory #culture #ecology #planthumanities
April 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
#NewBook Looking forward to delving into this... #trees #planthistory #culture #ecology #planthumanities
Fabulous evening at the Private View of the new Kew #exhibition The Power Of #Trees! Including 20 new works of art by the #Bedgebury Florilegium Society. Wonderful variety of pieces of #art across the different galleries. New book out for the exhibition including a history of Bedgebury by ME!!!
April 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Fabulous evening at the Private View of the new Kew #exhibition The Power Of #Trees! Including 20 new works of art by the #Bedgebury Florilegium Society. Wonderful variety of pieces of #art across the different galleries. New book out for the exhibition including a history of Bedgebury by ME!!!
Really recommend this new small exhibition in Kew's Library Reading Room exploring shifts in the practices of 18 and 19C botany and how indigenous knowledge was used and acknowledged #BotanicalRevolutions #Archives #Kew
April 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Really recommend this new small exhibition in Kew's Library Reading Room exploring shifts in the practices of 18 and 19C botany and how indigenous knowledge was used and acknowledged #BotanicalRevolutions #Archives #Kew
March 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Fantastic day at Bedgebury Pinetum today celebrating their Centenary with Tree planting, tours, lots of chatting about trees and William Dallimore, and CAKE! Huge thank you to all the team there for a brilliant day 👏 🌲💚 Here's to another 100 years of great conservation and educational work.
March 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Fantastic day at Bedgebury Pinetum today celebrating their Centenary with Tree planting, tours, lots of chatting about trees and William Dallimore, and CAKE! Huge thank you to all the team there for a brilliant day 👏 🌲💚 Here's to another 100 years of great conservation and educational work.
So nice to pick up my copies of the all new edition of Treasured Trees. Full of stunning paintings by Masumi Yamanaka, tree histories by Martyn Rix and an introductory essay of the history of tree collecting and planting at Kew by ME! 😀 Huge thanks to Kew Publishing for breathing new life into it.
March 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
So nice to pick up my copies of the all new edition of Treasured Trees. Full of stunning paintings by Masumi Yamanaka, tree histories by Martyn Rix and an introductory essay of the history of tree collecting and planting at Kew by ME! 😀 Huge thanks to Kew Publishing for breathing new life into it.
A fascinating evening at The #GardenMuseum last night at the 'launch' of the WA #Nesfield #Archive. Great to see the range of materials that will soon be available for #research on this great high #Victorian designer and #artist.
February 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A fascinating evening at The #GardenMuseum last night at the 'launch' of the WA #Nesfield #Archive. Great to see the range of materials that will soon be available for #research on this great high #Victorian designer and #artist.
Beautiful afternoon at the 'office'
January 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Beautiful afternoon at the 'office'
Great first day of #Techne Congress at UAL College of Fashion in Stratford. Inspiring talks about making and living, spaces of creativity and learning, emotional archival encounters, and inspiring work on plants such as hemp and nettles too! Great lunch too! 😋 😁🤓💚
January 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Great first day of #Techne Congress at UAL College of Fashion in Stratford. Inspiring talks about making and living, spaces of creativity and learning, emotional archival encounters, and inspiring work on plants such as hemp and nettles too! Great lunch too! 😋 😁🤓💚
Fabulous news and well deserved! 🥳 Very lucky to have Felix as my supervisor 👍
December 12, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Fabulous news and well deserved! 🥳 Very lucky to have Felix as my supervisor 👍
A beautiful day to be heading through the #kew #arboretum to see some more fabulous #archive materials.
November 29, 2024 at 6:05 PM
A beautiful day to be heading through the #kew #arboretum to see some more fabulous #archive materials.
Great day at the London Archives sharing stories from the Kew Archives around plants and trade and London ports in the Victorian era. I offered a quirky story of how some London streets were once paved with sweet gum timber (Liquidambar styriciflua) from N America.
November 15, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Great day at the London Archives sharing stories from the Kew Archives around plants and trade and London ports in the Victorian era. I offered a quirky story of how some London streets were once paved with sweet gum timber (Liquidambar styriciflua) from N America.
When you are trying (and failing) to finish your first journal article, sometimes you just have to go and spend time with a tree 😍 which wants nothing more of you than to admire how beautiful it is.
October 28, 2024 at 11:09 PM
When you are trying (and failing) to finish your first journal article, sometimes you just have to go and spend time with a tree 😍 which wants nothing more of you than to admire how beautiful it is.
What a lovely afternoon at Syon House celebrating 30 years of the Thames Landscape Strategy and the beginning of a new era of plans. So fantastic to see Sir David Attenborough there and looking so well. What a legend.
September 19, 2024 at 6:01 PM
What a lovely afternoon at Syon House celebrating 30 years of the Thames Landscape Strategy and the beginning of a new era of plans. So fantastic to see Sir David Attenborough there and looking so well. What a legend.
I do love finding and purchasing a niche #secondhandbook! 🤭😁📚
September 8, 2024 at 8:06 PM
I do love finding and purchasing a niche #secondhandbook! 🤭😁📚
Sorry for shameless plug but the new redesigned edition of my #book #RemarkableTrees was published yesterday. Yay!
#trees #planthistory #planthumanities
It highlights the myriad ways we use, revere, & need to conserve trees. It's packed with lovely illustrations from the #Archives at #Kew Gardens.
#trees #planthistory #planthumanities
It highlights the myriad ways we use, revere, & need to conserve trees. It's packed with lovely illustrations from the #Archives at #Kew Gardens.
September 3, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Sorry for shameless plug but the new redesigned edition of my #book #RemarkableTrees was published yesterday. Yay!
#trees #planthistory #planthumanities
It highlights the myriad ways we use, revere, & need to conserve trees. It's packed with lovely illustrations from the #Archives at #Kew Gardens.
#trees #planthistory #planthumanities
It highlights the myriad ways we use, revere, & need to conserve trees. It's packed with lovely illustrations from the #Archives at #Kew Gardens.