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…100% pass rate. RBGE also delivers 2 undergraduate courses for ESALA which have their own stories! The team working on this project were: Education – Greg Kenicer, Monika Polak, Kate…
…Botanics flour. At the first meeting of the group it was decided to explore the use of video for communicating stories of food, in particular the barriers to nutritious food…
…bead-to-sample to reduce the adaptor peaks in the libraries that we used for sequencing. Hybridisation Pool 4: before and after bead-cleaning (1:1 bead-to-sample ratio) https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/29728…
As 2018 nears its end, here are a couple of blogposts telling the stories behind two fern books from the shelves of the Royal Botanic Garden Library. Both books were…
…well as in a 2016 MSc project, where RBGE student Tom Dawes investigated the genetic difference between the two UK Anthoceros species, A. punctatus and A. agrestis. https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/21097…
The following post was first published in July 2019. It has been updated on receipt of the sad news of Tony Schilling’s death on 23 November 2022. Dr Mark Watson…
…work has been lying in the archives until the day that I rediscovered and recognized it. Pelargonium cotyledonis Inside the RBGE Library and Archive collections there are numerous stories like…
…Big Botanics BioBlitz such a success. We would really like to do more events of this type in the future so please follow our Botanics Stories, Twitter and Instagram feeds….
…Our next step will be to clean some of the IK31 DNA extraction and repeat the sonication experiment, to see if the results become more consistent between replicates. https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/29771…
In August 2017 Dr Colin Pendry led an expedition to Bajura, a remote district of Nepal. This short film is about the challenges of reaching the higher altitudes where the…
…have any more stories about him, could you pass it on? I am trying to build up a picture of my husband’s relatives. Thanks! Amy Sturt Hello Kay, Henry William…
Nature writing can begin with a sense of wonder and curiosity about the world. We have brought together a diverse group of writers for our first Botanics nature writing festival…
Painting by Jackie Morris; photo by Jamie Woodley, Compton Verney “Wow this is really super awesome!” Parents will recognise this as the greatest accolade that you can ever hope for…
The dry and montane forests of the Andes are vital for the lives of tens of millions of people in western South America. Their socio-economic worth in cycling water, providing…
Logan Botanic Garden is the first garden in Dumfries & Galloway to join Silent Space – encouraging people to switch off their phones and truly relax. It follows Benmore Botanic…
The iconic Sweet Chestnut on the NW corner of the Rock Garden has sustained damage to the canopy over the years. The westerly storm force winds have ripped out large…
Once a fortnight we hold a cook club at the Botanic Cottage. Anyone is welcome to join us to learn new cooking skills and to enjoy a healthy meal that’s…
Burning plant material in situ to prevent spreading the disease Visitors to the gardens will be familiar with the foot baths at all entrances. These foot baths are just one…
Cornus capitata has produced a satisfactory crop of fruit this year. A deciduous wide canopied tree from China. Growing here at RBGE in the shelter of the east gate lodge….