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Yushania anceps

…British gardens in 1910 and 1966. Photograph of herbarium specimen collected by Roland Edgar Cooper in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, 1916   RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19693382 Scientific Name:Yushania…

A treelet

One can only surmise that the description of Neoshirakia japonica in the Flora of China as “a treelet to 8 metres tall” refers to its diminished stature as a tree….

Professor Jaboury Ghazoul, University of Edinburgh and ETH Zürich

…or policy processes, leading to positive social and environmental change.” He appreciates, however, that impact can be direct – such as providing clear data on the most effective processes for…

Plant Pot Pride

Peter Wilkie reporting for RBGE Pride Group PRIDE 2019 The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is fully committed to supporting human as well as plant diversity. Since 2017, the Garden has officially taken part in the annual Edinburgh Pride march and…

Dr Rosalind Bryce, University of the Highlands and Islands

…we deliver the greatest number of benefits from our upland landscapes? In a time of substantial global and social change, how can we better deliver for biodiversity, alongside reviving rural…

Dr Kerry Waylen, James Hutton Institute

…them. It’s about exploring the lived reality, the processes, the messiness. Ecological systems are complex and messy, but – oh my goodness! – social systems are at least as much…

Hugh Cleghorn & Economic Botany

Two new books are shortly to be published by RBGE about one of the Garden’s most significant, but forgotten, benefactors – Hugh Cleghorn of Stravithie (1820–1895). Some of the most…

An 1850s major visitor attraction and other historical Garden wildlife records

…the Garden by A. McL. May in an article titled “Birds of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh” published in Journal of the Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden Guild 1(1): 32-33 (1914)….

Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour (1853-1922) – an appreciation

…with shudders ever after.” Farrer, ‘My Rock Garden’, 1908, p8 The RBGE Rock Garden in c.1874 with Head Gardener James McNab. Roland Edgar Cooper was one of the gardeners who…

June 2019 Garden Wildlife Report

…— its close relative A. cucurbitina is already on the Garden’s list. The galls of nine gall-mites were found. Garden Snail was seen on 6th, 17th and 28th. Finally, a…

Bergamo: House in the Mountains

…base of the very green Astino valley. Street Socials Out of the gardens, water fountains pose an opportune for social exchange, breaking the ice between Bergamo peoples and tourists alike….

First Audio Leaflet: Dawyck Scottish Trees Trail

…privately-held botanical garden), or any of the next gardens I will visit in my travelling. As all of what I produce, also the still not existing garden-audio-guide would be licensed…

Plant Collecting and the Lived Experience of Botany: Bill Burtt’s Malaysian Collecting

Brian Lawrence ‘Bill’ Burtt (1913-2008) began his career as a taxonomist at Kew Gardens, before coming to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) in 1951. Throughout the course of his…

Life in the Garden

…we hold. You can even share your experiences and images of the Garden or an event you went too on our social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Flickr). Enjoy!…

Walking with Poets at the four RBGE Gardens

…Botanic Cottage Garden Social July Blog July 20, 2020 A Pictorial Meadow at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh July 20, 2020 Monitoring the Health of the World’s Forgotten Forests July…

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

Garden Edinburgh. It can be found online here: Garden Profile: National Botanic Garden of Nepal Epilogue Tony’s many friends were greatly saddened by the news of his passing on 23…

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…

June 2018 Garden Wildlife Report

…Common Froghopper (throughout), and two water bugs recorded during BioBlitz pond-dipping, Common Pond-skater and Common Backswimmer. Water Cricket (15th May, previously unidentified) was a new Garden record. Other new Garden

Rhododendron campanulatum ‘Roland Cooper’

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

May 2016 Garden Wildlife Report

…two different parts of the Garden on eight dates throughout May, suggesting that one or more males may be holding territories. Normally in the Garden, Chiffchaffs hold territories, as do…