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Botanics Stories Hosting Performance

As Botanics Stories is a live site we have a third party service monitoring its performance. The two graphs below show the performance over the last thirty days….

Greening the Garden

The Phenology Team are busy getting the Garden ready for summer. Every year they make sure that the Great Hedge separating the demonstration garden from the herbaceous border…

Featured Image: Botanics Heron

It is a pleasure to feature Alexis Manson‘s beautiful shot of the heron that often hangs out at Edinburgh botanics. If you wait long enough at this time…

Featured Image: Hepatica transsilvanica

Lovely photo of Hepatica transsilvania at our Edinburgh gardens by Magnus Hagdorn in our Flickr Group.

George V and Queen Mary visiting the Botanics in their Silver Jubilee year of 1935

This footage was found on a reel of 16mm cine film amongst our film collection which we thought consisted mainly of footage shot by plant collectors in the…

Travel for Science & Education Visitors

This page gives some travel information for visitors who are coming to meetings in the science buildings of the botanic gardens or who are attending courses here.

Variegated barrier

Forming a dense barrier of glossy evergreen leaves; Trachelospermum jasminoides ‘Variegatum’ is worth growing in a sheltered situation. The foliage of this cultivar has white banding and shows…

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Botanics Flickr Group

This is a demo post to show the integration of a Flickr ‘Group’ into a post. [AFG_gallery id=’2′]

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Hakone grass

Hakonechloa macra; is a perennial, clump forming, grass. It is named after Mt. Hakone, on the island of Honshu, Japan and is a monotypic genus. The foliage browns…

Sparrowhawks at the Botanics: 2012 montage

Selected highlights of the 2012 sparrowhawk breeding season at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

Plant Science and Horticulture – Growing Opportunities

A short film made during a visit by Inverkeithing High School biology students to explore career opportunities in plant science and horticulture.

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Garden Highlights