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…spells within the designed space. Knautia arvensis (Scottish native) Maintenance of the Rain Garden The Rain Garden at RBGE has been designed to be low maintenance and this is the…
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…
…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…
…most majestic native trees. Newly germinated wych elm seedlings in the Garden’s Scottish Plant Recovery facilities supported by the Nature Restoration Fund. What has been so encouraging to see in…
…posted on the Garden’s blog under the category Scottish Plant Recovery. This project is supported by the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund, managed by NatureScot. Twitter @TheBotanics Twitter @nature_scot Twitter…
…the RBGE Experimental Garden, photo: Scott Arlow If you’d like to come and see this elusive prima donna yourself, the trials can be seen in the Experimental Garden (previously the…
…these species have very limited and highly disjunct global distributions. For example, some have their only non-Scottish populations in in the Himalayas and on a few oceanic islands widely scattered…
Peplomyza litura on elm leaf, RBGE Rock Garden, 23 August 2016. Photo Robert Mill. Note smoky wings darker towards the rear, and red eyes. One day in August this year…
…— 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…
…as a result show a fair bit of variation in colour and form. The original scientific description of R. campanulatum was published in 1821 by the Scottish Botanist David Don…
…were a Garden Warbler on 8th during the staff’s early morning bird walk led by Cathy Bell, and a Green Woodpecker calling on 8th. The first Garden records for 2014…
This year RBGE staff and volunteers have collected seeds from 14 trees and 29 conservation priority herbs, to help deliver Scottish species into the UK National Tree Seed Project and…
…is this ability to spread that the Garden’s Scottish Plant Recovery project is trying to restore to ten threatened Scottish plants. Funded by NatureScot, through the Nature Restoration Fund, the…
…Scottish Rock Garden Club, preparing seed for distribution to members, and in addition, he was a long-term member of the Scottish Rock Garden Club Expedition Committee. He gained the prestigious…
…at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Her work is supported by the Scottish Government Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division, NatureScot, the players of the People’s Postcode Lottery…
…sustainability, local food and of course, growing crops. His restaurant, Cafe St Honore in Edinburgh even has its very own vegetable garden on site. Neil Forbes in the Edible Gardening…
…very large flowering double pink Camellia. One of the finest Camellias to grow in a Scottish garden as it has the hardiest of buds and flowers of any type of…
2013 sees a very special partnership between the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) and the Scottish Poetry Library. From June to September, each RBGE Garden will host its very own…
…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…
…new habitat for wildlife. Edinburgh’s Wool Carder Bees were numerous in the Fruit Garden/Demonstration Garden area throughout the month and there was possible evidence from flight paths that their nest…