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Routes to Roots brought artists and collections staff together at RBGE to ask what meaningful collaboration inside botanic institutions looks like, and what artists need in order to work well with living and preserved collections.
Throughout the summer preparations have taken place across the relevant Glasshouses for the manoeuvre and removal of the large plants destined for the Palm Houses with hard relandscaping, design planning and large-scale repotting to name a few.
This article was written by Eloise Fenton, graduate of the 2024/2025 RBGE Masters programme in Biodiversity and Taxonomy of Plants. Building on the role of urban trees in…
The NRF (Nature Restoration Fund) Scottish Plant Recovery Project at RBGE aims to restore genetically diverse populations of our endangered Scottish native plants around the country. Whilst rewarding,…
By John Wilkins Professor Emeritus of Greek Culture, University of Exeter Botanists will be familiar with the names of Theophrastus and Dioscorides who organised the description of plants…
RBGE has been a place that I have visited since I was little, with my parents, with friends or often by myself. It’s a place where one can…
We are proud to announce that the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives are officially now an Accredited Archive Service – a result of many years of hard work…
Over the summer of 2024, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh welcomed the return of one of the plant world’s most spectacular plants: the giant Victoria water lilies, specifically…
Explore more Botanic Stories covering the Ferns and Fossils Glasshouse decant below. Stories from the Biomes: Fern House decant begins – Botanics Stories Stories from the Biomes: The…
On Friday 14 June 2024, RBGE experienced 11mm of rain in the span of 8 minutes. To put into context, a typical rainy day (≥ 1mm precipitation, of…
The following blog posts on moss evolution are written by Diego Sánchez-Ganfornina (early career researcher).Migrations, extinctions, rainforests and climate change: the pressures and situations that led tree mosses…
The following blog posts on moss evolution are written by Diego Sánchez-Ganfornina (early career researcher).Migrations, extinctions, rainforests and climate change: the pressures and situations that led tree mosses…
The following blog posts on moss evolution are written by Diego Sánchez-Ganfornina (early career researcher).Migrations, extinctions, rainforests and climate change: the pressures and situations that led tree mosses…
The sharing of plants between botanic gardens has long been an essential tool in the cultivation and display of the world’s rare and threatened flora. The plants generously…
A new Postcards from the Biomes following the move of the last fern to leave the Ferns and Fossils Glasshouse at The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
You can read more about the journey of the tree ferns in the BBC article below. BBC News – Giant plants make epic journey from Edinburgh to Port…
Read Marc Gilbert’s full article on air layer propagation here. Discover more from our other articles and journals here.
In 2022, the Horticulture team fixed their attention on the Ferns and Fossils Glasshouse, home to an impressive species diversity from an ancient group of plants. Read about the successes and challenges of moving this collection, from one of the team who carried out the work.
Our current programme of digitisation, funded by the RBGE Foundation, seeks to digitise 420,000 specimens from our collections leading to 1 million records (approximately one third of the…
While the Edinburgh Biomes Project involves the more noticeable decanting of both Victorian Palm Houses and the Front Range Glasshouses, there are several research collections going through an equally significant change behind the scenes.