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…Early Industrial Landscape, 2016 (detail) and The Birth of the Skyscraper from Botanical Architecture, 2015), Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Courtesy of the artist and Herald St, London. 2…
…a society aimed at advancing botanical science. The Botanical Society of Edinburgh promoted several objectives: to facilitate the exchange of botanical knowledge through meetings and the publication of transactions; to…
…a colleague from the Bogor Botanic Garden, Prima Hutabarat, we set off early to the village of Cipetir (Tjipetir is the old Dutch spelling). Three hours later we started to…
…the ten things I’m looking forward to in 2016 – see separate post). My 2015 Highlights 1.Bees Spring at the Royal Botanic Garden was all about bees, trying to raise…
…trained at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and is best known for his efforts to introduce tea plants to India from China. Photograph of a Cryptomeria japonica cone, RBGE herbarium…
…(BO), Brunei Forestry Centre (BRUN), Naturalis, Netherlands (L), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K), Singapore Botanic Gardens (SING), Forest Research Institute, Malaysia (KEP) and the South African National Biodiversity Institute (PRE)….
…the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, RBGE’s peer-reviewed journal about the horticulture and related activities of botanic gardens and other heritage and conservation gardens and landscapes, has published its…
…of the Saharunpur botanic garden in Uttar Pradesh. The epithet cornutus means ‘horned’ and refers to horn-shaped galls, caused by an insect, which frequently affect the fruits of the tree…
…on the family Acanthaceae. He had trained as a doctor at RBGE and was Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden from 1861 to 1869 when he had to retire through…
…that the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh had been running a project for almost twenty years to save endangered native alpine plants. On further investigation, I discovered that one of these plants was…
…herbarium at RBGE collected on 1 December 1814. Specimen of Magnolia coco collected in the Calcutta Botanic Garden in 1814 by Francis Buchanan Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh It seems worth…
…was based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where she made line illustrations for Hooker’s Icones Plantarum and worked on Curtis’s Botanical Magazine for the Royal Horticultural Society. For this,…
…in 1848 on the border of Eastern Nepal and Sikkim, and introduced to cultivation, via the Calcutta Botanic Garden, as a choice garden plant. It first flowered in a British…
…Natural Talent traineeship scheme (funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation) and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE). Frances Stoakley – is the 2015 Natural Talent Trainee based at the Botanic…
…Cave was director of the Lloyd Botanic Garden in Darjeeling, from where he made many excursions to Sikkim, collecting numerous interesting plants many of which are preserved in the herbarium…
33. Rhododendron dalhousiae J.D. Hooker ERICACEAE Lady Dalhousie’s rhododendron Native of the Eastern Himalaya, this species, which has fragrant flowers, often grows as an epiphyte on mossy tree trunks. In…
…Dr Hewan studied botany at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, establishing a link with the Garden that still exists today in our herbarium and archives. Letter from Dr Hewan dated…
…made arrangements for the sale of botanical and zoological specimens to the Natural History Museum and obliged the Royal Horticultural Society and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, as well as…
…the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh where his closest friend was one of the foreman gardeners. And, curiously, sitting on a shelf in the Rare Books Room of the RBGE Library…
Four years ago, we took an overnight trip to one of the four gardens of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: Benmore, in Argyll (Sunday 2nd – Monday 3rd February 2014)….