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…to Covid-19 restrictions we are not meeting as a group yet, but instead our Garden Social tutor Jaimie is producing a written blog. Over to Jaimie… Nature Reasons to be…
…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…
…simple ignorance, suppose The self same Power that brought me there brought you. Our Garden Socials at the Botanic Cottage are kindly supported by players of the People’s Postcode Lottery….
…to Covid-19 restrictions we are not meeting as a group yet, but instead our Garden Social tutor Jaimie is producing a written blog. Over to Jaimie… Autumn Equinox and Harvest-…
…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…
…country. The publication of this list as an Official Record of the Garden will preserve for all time the story of the loyalty of our Garden Staff, and will carry,…
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…
…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…
…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…
…the garden currently closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, our staff have written a related topic for July: the Edinburgh Coastline. A different view of Edinburghshoreline.org.uk: from the Firth of…
…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…
One of the most historically important plants in RBGE is currently in flower in the Woodland Garden, immediately to the west of the old sweet chestnut tree opposite the Caledonian…
…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…
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….
Two new books are shortly to be published by RBGE about one of the Garden’s most significant, but forgotten, benefactors – Hugh Cleghorn of Stravithie (1820–1895). Some of the most…
…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)….
…with shudders ever after.” Farrer, ‘My Rock Garden’, 1908, p8 The RBGE Rock Garden in c.1874 with Head Gardener James McNab. Roland Edgar Cooper was one of the gardeners who…
…— its close relative A. cucurbitina is already on the Garden’s list. The galls of nine gall-mites were found. Garden Snail was seen on 6th, 17th and 28th. Finally, a…
…Garden Edinburgh. It can be found online here: Garden Profile: National Botanic Garden of Nepal Epilogue Tony’s many friends were greatly saddened by the news of his passing on 23…