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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…
Let me tell you about a hero of mine, and the focus of one of the most requested collections stored in the Archives of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE)…
Logan Botanic Garden At the south-western tip of Scotland lies Logan, the country’s most exotic garden. Warmed by the Gulf Stream, southern hemisphere plants flourish in this plantsman’s paradise near…
…in a wild corner of the Demonstration Garden in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Last week I presented these findings at the International Botanic Garden Education Congress at Missouri Botanic…
Jamie Taggart, who with his father Jim Taggart created the inspiring Linn Botanic Garden on the Rosneath peninsular, disappeared during a plant hunting expedition in North West Vietnam on 31…
…in the wild. Fortunately several UK Botanic Gardens including the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh have had success growing and persuading it to flower. Strongylodon macrobotrys April Magnolia stellata is categorised…
At the National Botanic Garden of Nepal (NBG)[1] there is a grove of Cyathea spinulosa which draws crowds of visitors and the tall plants are the backdrop of many visitor’s…
…a recent merge with Botanical Software, Candide continue to grow and develop more digital tools with botanical gardens and organisations, and warmly welcome new potential collaborators. Despite the many challenges…
…and Conservation at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Her work is supported by the Scottish Government’s Rural and Environmental Science and Analytical Services Division, the Players of the People’s Postcode…
Family: Mimosaceae Description Acacia dealbata is an evergreen tree with noticeably angular shoots and bears true bipinnate filigree effect, blue-green leaves. The highly fragrant pom pom flowers are arranged in…
44. Mahonia acanthifolia Wall ex. G. Don BERBERIDACAEAE This shrub, which has attractive, scented, yellow flowers, occurs from Uttarakhand in India to South-West China, at altitudes of 2000 to 3000…
…Park with great success. Here at The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh we have sown this annual mix on the bed next to the public display glasshouses where the proposed Edinburgh…
58. Anemone trullifolia J.D. Hooker & Thomson RANUNCULACEAE A widespread Sino-Himalayan plant occurring in alpine turf at altitudes of 3500 to 4500 metres from Nepal to South-West China, including the…
…‘amateur’, was in a state of flux in the early nineteenth century. While Wallich occupies an interesting position in what is called the professionalisation of science (paid for his botanical…
Michelia yunnanensis With a long weekend approaching, take a tent or book yourself some accommodation on the Mull of Galloway. Logan Botanic Garden grows a wealth of more unusual plants….
…that many people ‘feel better’ after a walk in the Botanic Garden but very little actual evidence-based research on the therapeutic value of botanic gardens compared with other green spaces….
…by William Griffith in the 1830s. This collection was made in the same hills, 140 years later, by David Chamberlain, a rhododendron expert working at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh….
Expedition to Northern Vietnam, October 2019 Tay Con Linh Participants (UK) Richard Baines: Expedition leader and Curator of Logan Botanic Garden Will Ritchie: Curator of The National Botanic Garden of…
…off at 4 pm on Friday 15 July with a team of over 20 expert recorders. The Benmore Botanic Garden event was the fourth in a series of Bioblitz events…