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…their source will all be added. Stanhopea saccata Bateman This plant was part of a lot bought through Protheroe & Morris, Auctioneers, London, that arrived in the garden on…
…book and on display in the John Hope Gateway were all prepared from plants growing in UK gardens or native habitats in Chile. Many of the plants used are growing…
…Smith became Keeper of the Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta. While in Calcutta, and then later in Lloyd Botanic Garden Darjeeling, Cooper studied botany and horticulture under the…
…the translocations. These lovely plants can be seen in the Rain Garden, Rock Garden and Demonstration Garden at RBGE as well as at Dawyck and Benmore botanic gardens! At the…
… Joined staff of Garden as Labourer, 26 May 1904. Enlisted Scottish Horse, 27 August 1914. Rank: Private. Demobilised, 16 October 1918. *Alan Menzies Joined staff of Garden as…
64. Cupressus himalaica Silba CUPRESSACEAE Weeping Himalayan cypress; Bhutia: chandang, tchenden Woodcut after drawing by J.D. Hooker, from Hooker’s Himalayan Journals This tree, with beautiful drooping foliage, occurs wild in…
…research undertaken for the Flora of Bhutan at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Like the blue pine, its needles are in clusters of five, but it differs in its gracefully…
…Wallich in memory of Sir James Edward Smith, the ‘late immortal President of the Linnean Society’. It was introduced to cultivation by George Govan, Superintendent of Saharanpur Botanic Garden, who…
…the beginning of the Garden’s three-year Scottish Plant Recovery project to restore ten threatened Scottish plant species. The work, supported by the Nature Restoration Fund, will see five trees, four…
…and it is still gin. 5pm recently made an ‘infographic’ about Scottish gin http://blog.5pm.co.uk/2015/08/are-the-best-gins-made-in-scotland-new-ginfographic-maps-out-scottish-gins/. 16 Scottish gins are listed and the combined list of botanicals includes over 35 plant species…
…(Scottish Labour) – Sponsor of the event; Patrick Harvie MSP (Scottish Green Party); Kezia Dugdale MSP (Scottish Labour); Claire Baker MSP (Scottish Labour) Culture, Tourism and External Affairs spokesperson; Michelle…
…the Garden by A. McL. May in an article titled “Birds of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh” published in Journal of the Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden Guild 1(1): 32-33 (1914)….
…Indian plants in larger Victorian gardens and parks. Seed was exported on a large scale from the Saharanpur Botanic garden from the 1840s onwards – 2000 lbs (900 kg) of…
…a weakened state, so this desirable plant proved hard to introduce to European gardens. Successful introduction was achieved by John Duncan (1751–1831) a Scottish surgeon at the English Factory in…
…advice on research needs and scientific direction through serving on a variety of Government (e.g. Defra, NatureScot, Scottish Government) and NGO (e.g. British Ecological Society, RSPB Scotland, Scottish Wildlife Trust)…
…British gardens in 1910 and 1966. Photograph of herbarium specimen collected by Roland Edgar Cooper in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, 1916 RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19693382 Scientific Name:Yushania…
…of ecological connectivity has been around in Scottish policymaking for well over a decade, it still has to gain sufficient traction before we see results,” Deborah says. Yet these results…
One can only surmise that the description of Neoshirakia japonica in the Flora of China as “a treelet to 8 metres tall” refers to its diminished stature as a tree….
…privately-held botanical garden), or any of the next gardens I will visit in my travelling. As all of what I produce, also the still not existing garden-audio-guide would be licensed…
…meticulously skilled detail of botanical paintings and illustrations, which have been contributed from around the world. Upstairs, you can meander from Wendy McMurdo’s Scottish Garden, through a Barbadian sugarcane plantation…