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Amazon fires; RBGE action

…climate emergency, is something that should concern us all, and scientists at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh are no exception. RBGE’s Tiina Särkinen and Brazilian colleague Domingos Cardoso of the…

Finding The Lost Words at Logan

…Inverleith House Gallery at RBGE until September and is not to be missed! Our Schools’ team were at Logan Botanic Garden for a week in April to welcome 367 children…

Rhododendron horlickianum

Rhododendron horlickianum Kingdon-Ward 9403 I have a fair interest in Rhododendron because the are such a ubiquitous Scottish garden plant, but at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh we have a world…

Beauty and the beast

…However as a Botanic Garden we grow a wide range of botanical specimens that exhibit the diversity of the botanical world. Narcissus ‘Golden Cycle’ Narcissus ‘Telamonius Plenus’ Narcissus ‘Telamonius Plenus’…

Rhaphidophora glauca

20. Rhaphidophora glauca (Wallich) Schott ARACEAE This is a climbing member of the aroid family. It resembles a smaller form of the familiar Swiss-cheese plant (Monstera deliciosa), a popular house-plant…

CETAF – ISTC Meeting

…well received. Anton Güntsch from Botanical Museum and Botanic Garden Berlin said that they had already discussed the paper and were planning to implement the identifiers within the next couple…

Florilegium: A gathering of flowers

…composition’. She tutored many aspiring botanical illustrators and painters through the Diploma in Botanical Illustration at RBGE. Her carefully-rendered works are held in numerous international collections, including our own in…

Time travel

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Funding news and potato deliberations

…course we are extremely excited about this. It means that we will be able to put loads more work into our veggies in the demonstration area at the Royal Botanic

A visit to Leny Glen

…of Leny, Perthshire The ‘foreign plants’ included Himalayan ones supplied by Nathaniel Wallich, FBH’s indirect successor at the Calcutta Botanic Garden. As the first British botanist to have spent a…

Expedition to Tajikistan

Two horticultural staff from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, John Mitchell Alpine Supervisor and team leader with Richard Brown have been joined by a member of staff from the Royal…

Rhododendron hodgsonii

46. Rhododendron hodgsonii J.D. Hooker ERICACEAE This large shrub or small tree of the eastern Himalaya (Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan) was named by Joseph Hooker after Brian Houghton Hodgson who…

Lipstick and lichens

…Bees which put much new material into cultivation through private gardens in Britain. His garden on the Wirral was gifted to Liverpool University becoming known as Ness Botanic Garden. Cooper…

CHERISHED PLAN: The Story of Puck’s Hut at Benmore – Precis by Mike Thornley (Younger Benmore Trust)

…will be familiar to visitors, but probably few realise that, if buildings spoke, this modest structure would tell how the garden became an integral part of the Royal Botanic Garden…

Hot Summer in the Microscopy Labs

…Serena Lee from the Singapore Botanic Gardens and for my summer project. I’m working on a sub group of Boletus, the Xerocomoids. I am simply loving the use of the…

Dryopteris wallichiana

49. Dryopteris wallichiana (Sprengel) Hylander DRYOPTERIDACEAE A fern, very similar to the native British male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas), first described from Nepal, where this specimen was collected. It has a…

RBGE Complex Thalloid Liverwort Symposium, July 14th-15th 2015

…cycads, Blasia has a symbiotic relationship with internalized colonies of photosynthetic blue-green algae Nostoc. Blasia with flasks, photographed by David Long The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has a long…

Really Wild Veg – 2014 growing trials

…decking area outside the John Hope Gateway Building at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Redall Walled Garden, Edinburgh Hermitage Vegetable Garden, Edinburgh Cruickshank Botanic Garden, Aberdeen As we did last…

John Main DHE, NDH [MHort RHS], FCIHort, SHM

…long association with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh becoming a student gardener studying whilst working in the Garden gaining the Edinburgh Diploma in Horticulture [DHE] in 1965. In 1964, he…

Pinus wallichiana

…eastwards to Bhutan, where it can reach a height of 40 metres. Its name commemorates the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich, who was Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden from 1817…