Colombia is one of the most biodiverse countries on earth. Practically every kind of ecosystem can be found within its borders. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s Colombian research program aims to determine how historical processes have affected diversification in those ecosystems. We also aim to inform the public about Colombian biological and cultural diversity through multiple media.

Recent RBGE Colombia Posts

• Hedlundia in a spin September 5, 2023
• Students’ Stories: “George Herbert Cave” by Dean Blake, 3rd Year Horticulture with Plantsmanship student at RBGE September 4, 2023
• Postcards from the Biomes: Using air layering as a propagation method. August 24, 2023
• Growing in Plain Sight: Women in the British Lichen Society Archives August 3, 2023
• Golden jewel July 18, 2023
• Stories from the Biomes: The Fern House Decant July 8, 2023
• Scottish Plant Recovery June 28, 2023
• One in a thousand June 17, 2023
• Caroline Henry June 15, 2023
• Next gen elms June 13, 2023
• New Archives Acquisition: the MacWatt Primula Papers, with thanks to Elizabeth Farquharson (1915-2023), the remarkable daughter of a distinguished horticulturalist June 6, 2023
• The South Indian cereal drawings of P. Mooroogasen Moodelliar June 5, 2023
• Two liliaceous drawings by Stella Ross-Craig April 17, 2023
• Planting with Nature – A guide to sustainable gardening April 13, 2023
• Digging into the details through digitisation: the poppy family April 5, 2023
• Grow and Magnify: An Illustrator’s Journey with Mycologists and Fungi March 28, 2023
• The Wardie Cottages: the deaths of Edward Forbes and John Goodsir March 27, 2023
• Stories from the Biomes: My Experience with the Biomes Decant, by Horticulturist Szymon Drozdek March 21, 2023
• Alchemists and gardeners March 20, 2023
• A tangled Calcutta-Caledonian web: James Kerr, John Fleming and John Hope’s engravings of asafoetida March 7, 2023
• Narrowing down Aneura pinguis February 16, 2023
• The Goodsir letters in RBGE archives’ John Hutton Balfour correspondence collection February 11, 2023
• When is a Nepalese pine not a Nepalese pine? February 3, 2023
• Stories from the Biomes: A Year in Photos February 1, 2023
• A Snowdrop Tour with a Difference – Galanthus nivalis poculiformis January 23, 2023
• COP15: a ‘Paris moment’ for nature December 22, 2022
• Professor Mathew Williams, Chief Scientific Adviser December 19, 2022
• Dr Joan Cottrell, Forest Research December 15, 2022
• Sarah Watts, Corrour Estate and University of Stirling December 15, 2022
• Dr Neil Bell, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh December 15, 2022