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These species rich hanging gardens are home to a diverse and luxuriant mix of dwarf shrubs, tall herbs, bryophtyes, sedges and grasses. This plant community is restricted to…
Hedges are integral to the design and ecology of the garden. Forget the quick fix provided by larchlap panels, take time to make a choice of the many…
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…
Willow scrub is the highest altitude tree dominated vegetation in the UK. It is now restricted to rocky slopes and ledges which offer protection from grazing animals. The steep topography…
Scotland’s sea cliffs are not only home to seabird colonies, but also to hardy plants that cling to rocky ledges and form grassland communities on the cliff tops….
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink! This line from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge illustrates the dilemma faced by plants…
In the high mountains of Scotland, above 750m altitude, in areas where snow can lie late into the year, strong winds and snow cover influence what species can…
Although limestone outcrops occur at relatively low altitudes in Scotland, strong winds make this a very tough environment for plants. Grikes and crevices in the limestone rock create…
March 2014 came in like a lamb but the ‘lion’ arrived around the first weekend with high winds that closed…
Strongylodon macrobotrys (Jade Vine) Family: Leguminosae Description The Jade Vine is named for its spectacular hanging trusses of blooms, up to 3m in length, that are made up…
This, a deciduous suckering shrub, native to the Pacific coast of North America making a straggling untidy plant. Oemleria cerasiformis, leafs out from the last days of February….
On a walk around the garden on Saturday it was not only the people who were enjoying the plants. The birds were enjoying the garden too. We were…
Over the past four weeks, the John Hope Gateway has been host to an exhibition created by the artists from the Scottish charity Garvald, which supports adults with…
Primula juliae, a photo by small-things on Flickr. As an experiment we are featuring occasional images from our Flickr group as posts within Botanics Stories ~ starting with…
The days are getting longer and all the lovely weather this week has got everyone thinking about the garden. So here is a quick guide to veg growing jobs…
A mass planting of Chrysosplenium macrophyllum in the woodland garden is looking its best with a profusion of flowers. Botanically, a terminal cymose inflorescence, a selection of Chrysoplenium…
I saw a Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) on the Camellia in front of the glasshouse range on 6 March. Heather McHaffie saw a bumblebee on the rhododendron beside…
The warm spring sunshine at lunchtime today brought out not just one but three different species of hoverfly, the first ones seen in the Garden this year. The…
Birds Thirty-seven species of birds were recorded in the ‘Botanics’ in February 2014. Highlights were one or two Goosanders on the Pond on three days (9th, 10th,…
With just a few months to go before work begins on the rebuilding of Botanic Cottage in the Demonstration Garden, site preparations are now beginning so that we…