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…Harvest Festival. During the Harvest Festival families dug the potatoes, cleaned them with brushes and added them to a display inside the Botanic Cottage. The excitement of digging potatoes for…
…in conversation with Chitra Ramaswamy at 12 noon on Sunday 20th in the Botanic Cottage. In case you are unfamiliar with Esther’s work we have asked artist Leo du Feu…
…botany by Professor John Hope in RBGE’s classroom of the Scottish Enlightenment – recently rebuilt as the ‘Botanic Cottage‘. During his year in Nepal, Buchanan-Hamilton put his botanical skills to…
…John Hope at RBGE, then at the Leith Walk site, in what is now the Professor’s Room at our Botanic Cottage. Dr Subedi was shown Buchanan-Hamilton’s memorial plaque, restored and…
…Common Shiny Woodlouse and Common Striped Woodlouse. Finally, last month’s unidentified snail continued adhering to the wall of the Botanic Cottage all month. Greater Bee-fly (Bombylius major) on Scilla, 28…
…24th. Finally, an as yet unidentified snail remained unmoved, and unmoving, on the Botanic Cottage from 11th onwards to the end of the month. Mating Common Drone Flies (Eristalis tenax),…
…opening of the Botanic Cottage, a ‘new’ 250 year old building – I was lucky enough to take a peek inside recently and it is going to be an amazing…
…discussed how well the different plant shapes had appeared. It is like an X-ray. The banner was processed back to the lecture hall. Past the cottage. Engaging with garden visitors….
…the field of botany, horticulture, garden design and botanical art. If you would like to see the original posts about the individuals below, please check out @BotanicsPride on Twitter. If…
…Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is 165m long and backed by one of Britain’s finest beech hedges. The border is a riot of colour designed in a rainbow spectrum ranging from hot…
…to the small pond near the Botanic Cottage site. The leafhopper had a very distinctive pattern of markings that allowed me to provisionally identify it as Eupterycyba jucunda from photographs…
On Thursday 2nd March the Thought for Food participants gathered at the Botanic Cottage for lunch and to discuss the next steps of the project. Soup was made from vegetables…
…in Scotland, which is why the trials are so important. The other advantage of growing them is that they link directly to current botanical research being carried out here to…
…Garden, initially amongst the community vegetable plots towards the east end. It then flew weakly and very low across to some Salvia flowers near the Botanic Cottage observation hut, where…
…John Muir Grove and the area around the Botanic Cottage. Places that Excite Points marked as exciting layered with heat map to emphasise clusters The exciting places were the Rock…
…her husband’s enormous botanical library. It was through these books that she realised how complicated the texts were for a novice such as herself . The ladies’ flower-garden of ornamental…
…the small pool near the Botanic Cottage, where Palmate Newt was also seen on 1st. Leistus rufomarginatus, a ground beetle species. Second Garden record, 20 October 2019. Photo Alan Crawford….
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….
…interesting books in the library (the oldest from 1582) come from his collection, as do 3000 botanical drawings made for him by Indian artists, and his herbarium of several thousand…
