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Dining on the dark side

…attend a meal where dishes made with black nightshade were going to be the centrepiece? This is exactly the position I was in recently at an Edible Gardening Project volunteer

Herbarium Recuration & Increasing the Resolution of South Asia

…project started in 2015 and has been carried out predominantly by Herbarium volunteers with staff focusing on the more complicated areas of the herbarium such as the Ericaceae, the family…

Protecting Scottish trees and herbs for the future at Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank

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…

Looking at After Hortus Malabaricus

Image courtesy of Caterina Salvi As a Gallery Volunteer it has been my privilege to spend a good number of hours looking at the diverse range of objects in the…

These are a few of our favourite things

…        Sally King Digitisation Officer/Herbarium Volunteer Coordinator Choosing a favourite thing from the Herbarium was impossible because it’s such a treasure trove! I chose a sentimental object,…

The Other Library, Archives & Photography Team

A series of posts from our volunteers … Helen Bennett Helen Bennett in her garden A period of secondment from Scottish Arts Council in 2006 confirmed my ambition to volunteer

Apple Day 10th anniversary

…thanks to Nick Edwardson and 84 varieties were included this year. Apple Day display from Scotland’s National Collection. A team of volunteer “choppers” from The Caley kept visitors supplied with…

Evidence, action, inspiration – how nature-based solutions help combat the climate emergency

…Country, Scotland’s most important terrestrial carbon sink. Hands-on involvement is key to full engagement, and our volunteer phenology programme, regular ‘Bioblitzes’ and citizen science events bring people face to face…

In memory of Sergeant George Cruickshanks Fallow (1890-1915)

…Prof then asked if anyone would volunteer to talk on any of the subjects… only one stood up and that was George Fallow. The following morning George was called up…

International Women’s Day 2017: Jane Gardner

Jane has enjoyed careers in university administration, learning support and one-to-one tutoring. She started at the RBGE Library as a volunteer book cleaner, and since 2016 has also worked with…

The Other Library, Archives & Photography Team

A series of posts from our volunteers … Laura Gunstensen – Library Volunteer Laura Gunstensen The ‘Botanics’ have always been a very special place for me since I arrived, fresh…

A Blueprint for Wellbeing

volunteer positioned. Different plants were added to the banner with details of their properties. Sheets of perspex kept the plants and labels flat. After about ten minutes everything was removed….

Sarah Watts, Corrour Estate and University of Stirling

…to volunteer at my local NNR, and am fortunate that this happened to be Ben Lawers NNR, which is owned and managed by the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) and…

International Women’s Day 2017: Lady Regina Davidson

Regina was a Software Enablement Program Manager at IBM both here in the UK and Paris. She is a volunteer in the Library at RBGE researching many of the art…

Busy at the Botanic Cottage

…It’s been pretty busy! We’ve had cooking sessions for community groups to dementia socials, volunteer lunches to public talks, charity meetings to community fun days, school sessions to nursery activities,…

Part 1/2: ‘Sensing and Presencing the Imperceptible’, Siân Bowen’s Micro-conference

…was on display in Inverleith House, RBGE, from Jan 10th 2020. We have posted our volunteer Alessandra Leruste’s take on the discussion-filled afternoon of the conference, click here to read…

‘Dear Mary’ – An Echo of a Past Love from the RBGE Special Collections

…with Mary, and tell more of John’s story on another day. Reggie Davidson, RBGE Library volunteer, has created a table of the specimens in the album and also transcribed the letter….

Highlights: 26.11.07

volunteer for this task? Tucked to the back of a bed north of the Linnaeus memorial is C. paradoxa, the leaves modified to cladodes, flat, angled and also vicious with…

Restored footbridge makes a grand impression at Dawyck Botanic Garden

…the end of November. Please visit our website for more information http://www.rbge.org.uk/the-gardens/dawyck Pictures by Gavin Harris, Volunteer Photographer at Dawyck Botanic Garden and David Knott Curator of Living Collections.  …

The Life and Achievements of Dr Archibald Hewan

…Maternity Pavilion in Edinburgh is named in his honour.  ***** Researched by Graham Hardy, RBGE’s Serials Librarian and Margaret Dunn Communications Volunteer, and written by Paula Bushell Head of Marketing…