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Botanic gardens conserve crop diversity too

…this blog lately. Tiina Sarkinen’s review of the issues for Botanics Stories on 24th July highlighted how limited the knowledge and conservation collections of many CWRs are. Even seed banks…

84 Year old Cherry felled in last nights winds at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

…by RBGE staff (Dickson, Brown and Tricker 2015) from Yunnan. It was planted out in 2017 and is growing on the Oak lawn in Edinburgh and at Benmore Botanic Garden….

Tony Schilling, horticulturist, receives recognition from the Government of Nepal – Updated

…recognised botanic garden. As far as I know, it’s the only botanic garden in the world which has banned the use of plastic, showing the rest of the world where…

Rhododendron thomsonii

…now my valued travelling companion in Eastern Himalaya’. Thomson (1817–1878) went on to become Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden and, with Hooker, was joint-author of the Flora Indica of…

Vietnam Expedition, 2016

…undeniable. Further botanical surveys in subsequent springs and autumns would uncover further diversity and new discoveries, I am sure. We were successful in collecting a good sample of the flora…

Rhododendron campanulatum ‘Roland Cooper’

Gavin Harris 19170014C is growing well at Dawyck Botanic Garden….

Big Picnic: Thought for Food

…project will get underway on Thursday 2nd February with help from community food initiatives in Pilton sharing their thoughts at the Botanics Cottage over some soup prepared with vegetables grown…

Ten years of seasonal plants of interest – 12 that flower or colour reliably year on year.

…spinosa – A Chilean native with hanging tubular red and yellow flowers September: Anemone x hybrid – A classic cottage garden favorite October: Cimicifuga simplex- Long musty scented spikes of…

Harry’s Gates

Every day, hundreds of visitors pour into the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, many of them through our East Gate. To do this, one must pass through two sets of gates,…

First bees of the year at the Botanics

…laid to grass prior to the Botanics Cottage development starting. The latter sighting was only reported to me by him yesterday (7 March) while we were both walking round the…

John Richard Ferisy; “old soldier he”

…and William Ferisy, who was a gardener, and he was brought up with his brothers and sisters in a small thatched farm cottage called Forest Hall just north of Craiglockhart…

Honesty enduring

Perennial Honesty is a plant of the cottage garden. Scented flowers reliably produced on this herbaceous member of the Cruciferae family. The plant of Lunaria rediviva in this image was…

Estates Update 2016/2017

…works such as those completed this year; John Hope Gateway decking improvements and handrails, Pine Cottage Kitchen Logan, café and patio refurbishment and water main upgrade at Benmore, as well…

On some botanical mondegreens and Hobson-Jobsons

…Kilby, my earliest botanical guru, in the pretty magnesian-limestone village of Boston Spa, unwittingly introduced me to two. She explained that the English name ‘gallant soldier’ for a scruffy little…

Sir George Watt (1851-1930)

…bungalow. [c. 1880] Sir George Watt’s Indian images. Archive Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh ‘Coolies plucking’ [c. 1880s] In Sir George Watt’s Indian images. Archive Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh    …

A day across at Benmore Botanic Garden

Last monday (2nd March 2015) I headed across to Benmore Botanic Garden with Martin Gardner & Nye Hughes (designer and web developer at Dalrymple), while there I saw (and photographed)…

Really Wild Veg – Cruickshank Botanic Garden

…for the Really Wild Veg plots at Cruickshank Botanic Garden. In order to fulfill the rquirements of his degree Joshua has extended the project beyond the original aims of seeing…

Two little-known temporary Superintendents of the Calcutta Botanic Garden: George Swinton and James William Grant

…of sculpture both of whom I was somewhat surprised to learn had been temporary holders of the post of Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. Near contemporaries they turn out…