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…me are interested in public engagement. The botanic garden in Oslo has created a interpretative garden based around a children’s play area with a Viking theme. A sunken Viking longboat…
The carrot ‘Long Red Surrey’ at Cruickshank Botanic Garden. Thanks to Josh at Cruickshank Botanic Garden for providing a further update on progress with the Really Wild Veg growing trials….
…oceanic climate, Scotland’s native bryophyte flora is of genuinely global significance and almost certainly our most valuable botanical asset. “In terms of biodiversity, many bryophyte species have their main European…
The garden is really coming alive despite the cold weather. This Viburnum collected in Japan in 2003 caught my eye and the iPhone 6 camera does a really good job…
…filming in Edinburgh’s botanic garden in December meant a chance to see the structure, texture and character of the trees here in a faded winter light. Also an opportunity to…
We are very pleased to see the much loved outdoor sculpture, Girl, by Reg Butler return to the Botanic Gardens. The sculpture, which is on extended loan from the National…
Nestled between folds in the low hills facing Loch Long the Linn Botanic Garden is one of Scotland’s lesser known botanical treasures – a remarkable collection of plants demonstrating the…
39. Cupressus torulosa D. Don CUPRESSACEAE Twisted cypress When Hugh Cleghorn was surveying the timber resources of the Western Himalaya in the early 1860s, he noted that this species had…
…bungalow. [c. 1880] Sir George Watt’s Indian images. Archive Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh ‘Coolies plucking’ [c. 1880s] In Sir George Watt’s Indian images. Archive Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh …
…for the Really Wild Veg plots at Cruickshank Botanic Garden. In order to fulfill the rquirements of his degree Joshua has extended the project beyond the original aims of seeing…
Last monday (2nd March 2015) I headed across to Benmore Botanic Garden with Martin Gardner & Nye Hughes (designer and web developer at Dalrymple), while there I saw (and photographed)…
I’ve been in the privileged position to spend the last week with Chicago Botanic Garden’s Green Youth Farm Programme. There are a handful of these farms located around the city…
…Botanic Garden November 11, 2013 Cryptogamic Sanctuary November 11, 2013 Original Dawyck Beech November 11, 2013 Map Original Dawyck Beech Cryptogamic Sanctuary Garden Features – Dawyck Botanic Garden …
…grasslands as anthropogenic systems puts the entire landscape under threat. Writing in 2021 with Cédrique Solofondranohatra from the Université d’Antananarivo and Maria Vorontsova at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, she…
Kunming Botanic Garden. Photo by Leigh Morris From 14th – 22nd November 35 staff from 20 of China’s Botanical Gardens have been attending a horticulture training course at Kunming Botanic…
…the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Co-Chair of the IUCN Lichen Specialist Group. Her work is supported by the Scottish Government and others. Find out more here. This post is…
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) will mark the centenary of the start of the First World War by creating a poppy field at the centre of its Edinburgh site….
Josh and Mark at the marquee in Cruickshank Botanic Garden. On the 11th September the Really Wild Veg event at Cruickshank Botanic Garden was fortunate to have gorgeous sunny weather….
…botanic gardens of Saharunpur and later of Calcutta. Photograph of one of the type specimens of Himalayacalamus falconeri, collected (in flower) by Nathaniel Wallich in Nepal, 1821 Photograph of one…
Arthur Conan Doyle’s signature in the 1877 Botany Class Roll held at RBGE. In amongst the institutional archives of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh are items relating to the teaching…