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Latest blog stories connected with horticulture at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
With the days lengthening and the soil warming; growth, especially in herbaceous plants, is shooting away. Helleborus vesicarius is looking promising with flowers colouring optimistically. Opening green these…
On Friday (3 Feb 2012) Jessie, Sara and I embarked on constructing timber floor for our anti-mice cage. Although we ran into some technical difficulties – surprisingly the…
Carpentry is not as easy as it looks. Especially for 5 untrained horticulture students with little previous construction experience. It is a lot of fun, though. Especially when…
Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii ‘John Tomlinson’ is brought to life after rain. The droplets collect on the grey blue waxy cuticle of the leaf and reflect light. Arranged…
It looks like my beans were attacked by mice. The Edible Garden Project team noticed that thriving community of mice is living near the polytunnel. Together with my…
Our native Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) with one of out Arboricultural Team at the top, as it is dismantles to make itsafe in the Upper Woodland Garden after…
I had a look at my broad beans today (24th Jan) and noticed to my astonishment that some unwelcome guests made a feast of them! The intruders must…
On Friday (20th Jan) I sowed some extra broad beans into pots. I sowed them into individual 8cm pots using a mix of John Innes Seed compost, coir…
The weekend of 14 – 16 January brought the coldest weather of the winter, so far, quite a shock to the system given the weather pattern this winter….
The aboricultural and Alpine teams tackle the removal of one of 35 large trees lost on the 3rd. Quercus robur, the Common Oak (Pedunculate Oak, English Oak) was…
Luckily the Nursery suffered less damage to its infrastructure than the main Garden. However, the skin of one of the largest tunnels was completely blown off. Fortunately, there…
Temperatures reaching double figures have been a daily occurrence this month and so too through December. Even the overnight minimum does not often drop below zero. Apart from…
Perhaps one of the most important trees lost was part of our historic Chinese collections. The original seed for this plant came from The Arnold Arboretum in the…
“The worst storm for a decade” said the weather forecaster following a day of violent winds and heavy rain. Wind speeds in excess of 100mph were recorded in…
My tiny plot has been looking sad through the winter. Covered mostly with black polythene to keep the soil warm. The only exception were the vegetable beds with…
As many of you may have seen in newspapers or on the TV the RBG experienced extensive damage in the recent gales. Below are some photographs of the…
Euclinia longiflora, this tropical West African native is a deciduous small tree growing in the tropical Palm House where it appreciates a humid atmosphere. At the end of…
Hello and welcome to Kasia’s blog. It is a blog about my first own gardening project – a small plot of land on grounds of the Royal Botanic…
Following the coldest and snowiest December (2010) on record, the respite from fresh snow over the New Year period lasted until 6.00pm on the evening of January 7th….
Preparing the site for the new alpine house involves taking stock of the existing plant collection and then embarking on ground clearance. Within the Hamamelis Border some plants…