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A step-by-step guide to adding images to the RBGE collections image management system.
I’ve just had fun giving a presentation on the how and why of blogging to the Science Research Club. After a few slides about the benefits of writing…
[polldaddy poll=6923122] Over the last couple of weeks we have had the privilege of BBC2 Landward filming in The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. With the programme running over…
It is Recycle Week 2013 and Kate Hughes has been organising some meetings for the staff to make sure everything goes in the right bin. Over 25 members…
Now is the time to be cutting hedges for the first time this season. Where a formal appearance is required then trim using sharp hand shears. The fastigiated…
The recent warm weather has pushed on all our recently pricked out seedlings, so we have been able to get more plants out into the developing bed of…
We have a small planting of Hyoscamus niger (Henbane) that has just started flowering in the Target 8 bed. As a biennial it takes two years to flower,…
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…
Last Thursday we had an excellent launch of the ‘Moving forward from ash dieback project’ at the Edinburgh Botanics. Over 40 people attended, with representatives from Scottish Government,…
By gardenpoets This morning as I was getting ready to venture out into the garden I was given some midge repellent to apply. On the packaging it said:…
By gardenpoets Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley’d & thunder’d; Storm’d at with shot and shell Alfred, Lord…
This beautiful Magnolia sieboldii ssp. sinensis is currently flowering in the copse area of RBGE. Click photos to enlarge.
The Scandinavian countries, which have a similar flora to Scotland, are interesting ethnobotanically but attendance at a four day congress in Gothenburg City on science communication didn’t seem…
I was pleased to be able to entertain a party of five visitors from South Korea yesterday: Seok Young Kim, Ryu jae wook, Kim Taeho, Kyu S. Oh,…
On the 4th & 5th of June 2013 we held a workshop at the Botanics on using stable HTTP URIs (sometimes called URLs) for specimens. This was the…
I’m always glad of an excuse to take a nosey at some of the content of our Library and Archive collection at the Botanics. Our librarians have such…
RBGE are contributing plant material to a community project celebrating the lives of five 19th century botanists from Angus, including a former principal gardener of the garden here…
Yesterday Mark Watson and Colin Pendry met the President of Nepal, Ram Baran Yadav, at the President’s Office in Shital Niwas, Kathmandu. During the one-hour meeting Mark and…
Gaultheria hookeri, a mass of prostrate evergreen twiggy growth that covers mountainsides and as undergrowth to Rhododendron species in the Himalayas and Western China. It is now flowering…