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 Mistletoe Day) will be on Saturday 7th December. Details still to be confirmed, for updates see https://www.tenburymistletoe.org/ One definite fixture is the druid mistletoe ceremony at 3.00pm on the Burgage.
This year’s Tenbury Mistletoe Auctions will be on Tuesday 26th November and Tuesday 3rd December at Burford House Garden Centre, Burford, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8HQ. For details see https://nickchampion.co.uk/auctions/holly-and-mistletoe/
Other mistletoe events, beyond Tenbury Wells, are available! But Tenbury is the location everyone asks about.
Other mistletoe activities this season:
The exciting MistleGO mistletoe project is continuing – this is a citizen science project to record location and quantity of mistletoe. Run by the Tree Council and Oxford University – for details, and to take part, see https://treecouncil.org.uk/be-a-mistlego-pioneer-help-us-find-the-uks-mistletoe-this-winter/ – soon to be updated for this winter
My Mistletoe Matters consultancy is available for outline advice and media input, but is taking some time off practical work this season. See info at https://www.mistletoe.org.uk/mmatters/
The English Mistletoe Shop will also be operating on a smaller scale than usual, but still selling mistletoe books and grow-kits. For details see https://englishmistletoeshop.co.uk/live/
General mistletoe information
For general mistletoe information visit https://www.mistletoe.org.uk/
And for a full review of the current status of mistletoe in the UK in botanical and ecological terms see these two papers:
Briggs, Jonathan (2021). Mistletoe,Viscum album (Santalaceae), in Britain and Ireland: a discussion and review of current status and trends British & Irish Botany Dec 2021 3(4): https://www.britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bib/article/view/108/139
Thomas, P. A., Dering, M., Giertych, M. J., Iszkuło, G., Tomaszewski, D., & Briggs, J. (2023). Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Viscum album. Journal of Ecology, 111, 701–739. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2745.14036