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On Saturday I am leading an exhibition tour inspired by the peoples featured in the stunning ‘no strangers’ photograhic exhibition currently on show in the John Hope Gateway…
Even on holiday many RBGE staff are on the lookout for interesting plants. On a trip to Cyprus one…
After years of discussion and planning, building work on the Botanic Cottage finally started this morning. This is a really exciting moment for what is one of the…
In memory of Private David Hume, who was killed in action 100 years ago today, on the 26th August 1914, a few weeks short of his 26th birthday….
As a fan of eminent plant collector George Forrest (1873-1932), I’d long known that two of his plant introductions had been named after former RBGE gardeners killed in…
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….
July 2014 was sunny, sunny, sunny, and WARM. By the end of the month, despite a few days with some early mist and even some rain, things were…
4th August 1914 – collections on the day that war was declared between Britain and Germany On the 4th August 1914 the tension was building during the day…
We recently completed an archaeological dig of the former site of the Botanic Cottage on Leith Walk, and it was wonderful to be able to see the past…
The first half of June 2014 was rather unsettled with quite a lot of rain but the second half was much more settled and summery with some quite…
Early this morning on my way in to my office I had a look at some of the annual plants that are appearing near the north boundary of…
On 15 June I posted a blog entry here, “Tree Bumblebee – Coming to a garden near you, and maybe a Garden near you” (see http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/11851). David Adamson,…
We are hosting a small two-day workshop at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh on the 11th-12th September 2014 to discuss issues around morphologically cryptic species, whether we can…
Yesterday morning I saw a male Wool Carder Bee, Anthidium manicatum, defending the Stachys alpina edging around the Fruit Garden against bumblebees. I first recorded the Wool…
This morning while walking through the top part of the Chinese Hillside on the way to my office I heard an unusual ‘chup-chup’ call that I had not…
Tree Bumblebee, Bombus hypnorum, first arrived in Britain from the Continent in 2001. From its initial base in south-east England it has spread northwards rapidly, and the first…
May 2014 was rather warm but also rather dull for much of the time, at least weather-wise. However it was anything but dull in terms of the wildlife…
First of all I need to apologise for the lateness of this report! The May monthly report will follow in the next few days. Birds — Thirty-seven species…