The following blog was written by Chris Knowles a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August…
The jeweller Susan Cross from Edinburgh College of Art has been in the herbarium recently working on a project about lace. This brought to mind a ‘natural’ source…
RBGE has been a place that I have visited since I was little, with my parents, with friends or often by myself. It’s a place where one can…
The following blog was written by Rose Kent a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August…
We are proud to announce that the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives are officially now an Accredited Archive Service – a result of many years of hard work…
The following blog was written by Rebecca Camfield a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August…
On my daily walk to Wardie Bay I pass a curiosity shop of an almost extinct type, whose proprietor Dorian Hiram has the measure of my eclectic tastes….
It surprises me that, despite all the advances in AI, computers cannot easily and accurately separate crowns of individual trees in a tropical forest seen from space. It…
The following blog was written by Linde Hess a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August…
The following blog was written by Rebecca Camfield a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August…
By Madeleine E. Dugan My name is Madeleine Dugan and I am an Art History Mlitt student. As part of my studies at the University of Glasgow, I…
By Madeleine E. Dugan My name is Madeleine Dugan and I am an Art History Mlitt student. As part of my studies at the University of Glasgow, I…
March and April saw the completion of a marathon planting exercise by the Scottish Plant Recovery team to give a helping hand to two threatened native tree species…
The following blog was written by Linde Hess a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August…
In September 2024 Lesley Scott exhumed a slightly sinister box from the RBGE Long Store. It contained a bundle of unmounted specimens and was labelled: “Flora of India….
An online discussion about exchanging seeds of a new species called Meconopsis jiajinshanensis led to the Chinese botanical website iplant.cn and the page for Meconopsis balangensis var. atrata….
The following blog was written by Courtney Kemnitz a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity with the goal of getting to 1…
By Isabella Luciani When I first applied for the Biodiversity Ambassador Traineeship, I saw it as a great opportunity to gain hands-on community engagement experience as well as…
The Garden is now being used as a test bed to explore some of the challenges and unanswered questions involved in returning threatened Scottish plants to wild sites….
The following blog was written by Rebecca Camfield a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August…