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Join Lisa as she takes a closer look at the host of features in the June 5, 2021 issue of "The People's Friend".

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. Around The World In 80…Plants? New book celebrates the flora below the trees. In his follow-up to the bestselling  Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori takes another trip across the globe, bringing to life the science of plants by revealing how their worlds are intricately entwined with our own history, culture and folklore. From the seemingly familiar tomato and dandelion to...

Jonathan Drori Review by Susan Flockhart The hawthorn has long been a harbinger of summer. “Ne’er cast a cloot til May is oot” is a traditional warning to retain your woollies until this native tree – commonly known as the May – blooms white this month, signalling the end of winter. Might future generations instead be advised to retain their duffel coats until the hedgerows turn purple? The lilac-flowered Rhododendron Ponticum is, after all, rapidly usurping once-familiar trees and in Around The World In 80 Plants, Jonathan Drori warns that “a vast area of western Scotland...

Photo: Kiriko Sano This week we continue exploring the programme of the upcoming Hay Festival with a closer look at Hay-on-Earth, a series of 22 events exploring the latest environmental science, sustainable policies and creative responses to the climate crisis. Georgina Godwin talks with two of the writers speaking as part of Hay-on-Earth; author and scientist Jonathan Drori tells us about his book ‘Around the World in 80 Plants’ and Imbolo Mbue, best-selling author of ‘Beloved Dreams’, speaks to us about her latest novel, ‘How Beautiful We Were’. 29 April 2021

Sat 24 Apr 2021 03.00 EDT Often beautiful, sometimes deadly, but constantly ingenious, plants are the sources of life and delight, myth and mayhem. Their worlds are intricately entwined with our own history, culture and folklore. Some have a troubling past, while others have ignited human creativity or enabled whole civilisations to flourish. Here are a handful of the stranger stories behind the plants you see every day. Tomato Cheerful yellow tomato flowers, shaped like a wizard’s hat, need to be shaken to release their pollen. They resonate with the buzzing of bumblebees’ bodies as they...