Category Archives: Belgium

Like a phoenix

Posted on June 21, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

You might remember the obscure pictures of the old abandoned greenhouse we found in the forest at the university (from this post). We had two highly efficient days of cleaning, destroying, throwing out and removing the old stuff that was … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Ecology, Field ecology, Fieldwork, Garden, Gardening, Greenhouse, Lost places, Nature, Photography, Science | Leave a comment

Residing at the castle

Posted on June 16, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

They provide a beautiful example of a marriage between nature and culture, between history and conservation: castle parks. I realised this more than ever earlier this week, when I (almost accidentally) stumbled upon a beautiful little park with the ruins of … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Architecture, Belgium, Biodiversity, Buildings, Castle, Conservation, Ecology, Europe, Hiking, Lost place, Nature, Nature photography, Park, Photography, Ruins, Science | 3 Comments

A suspicious amount of green tea

Posted on June 15, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

That I seemed to love tea, the cashier of my local supermarket noticed. A fairly unusual conversation starter, where it not that he could impossibly ignore the obvious fact: I had a cart with only green tea, 140 tea bags … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Drinking, Ecology, Food, Food photography, Green, Party, Photography, Science, Summer, Sunset, Tea bag index, Teaching | 4 Comments

That’s invasive!

Posted on June 1, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

Science has to keep up with the rest of society, in order to stay meaningful. Luckily, science is all about innovating, so the good ideas are plentiful. Through the ‘Empowering biodiversity research’ conference in Brussels, Belgium, where big datasets in … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecology, Europe, Field ecology, future, Gardens, Invasive species, Nature, Photography, Plant invasion, Plants, Science | 3 Comments

Hidden in the woods

Posted on May 26, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

Underneath the cover of a dense forest canopy behind our office buildings on campus, there hides an old and forgotten greenhouse. In summer, it is almost invisible from the forest edge, as it is completely overgrown by a wild and dense … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Abandoned, Ecology, Forest, Garden, Gardening, Greenhouse, Nature, PhD, Photography, Science | 4 Comments

Follow your nose

Posted on May 18, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

In between the corrections of the reports of my students in the course on forest types, I took some free time roaming through little forest patches in the southern half of Flanders, close to the capital. It was in one of these patches that I stumbled on … Continue reading →