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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Garden Highlights

Agapetes odontocera

…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….

Worst-ever fire season shows the urgency of training in plant identification skills

…Orange sunlight filters through the wildfire smoke and the branches of a mighty Guanacaste tree (left). Normally, Belize Botanic Gardens is a lush paradise but by the end of May…

Fern Book Presents from Christmas Past – 2

…family had moved from Philadelphia to Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, where she began ‘serious botanical experimental work’ on a 95 acre farm. Gladwyne is now the Henry Botanic Garden, home to the…

Main Research Providers Inter-Institutional Post Graduate Research Competition

…pro-opiomelanocortin neurons Flávia Pezzini Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Phylogeny and biogeography of Ceiba Mill. (Malvaceae: Bombacoideae) using next-generation, targeted enrichment sequencing Laura Stoddart Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Sites of Nineteenth…

COP26 – What Now?

…Or was the whole event undermined by the compromises required to keep everyone on board? And what does this mean for the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), as the delegates…

A Calcutta botanical drawing of Hamiltonia suaveolens with an interesting provenance

…Elizabeth Margaret Hibbert and the date 21 August 1845. When I received the album it still contained a loose sheet with a manuscript list of the Canton botanical drawings it…

2020 Garden Highlights

…always a ‘plant of interest’ for every month of the year growing in the Living Collection at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Kirsty Wilson, Herbaceous Supervisor and keen photographer, highlights…

The Goodsir letters in RBGE archives’ John Hutton Balfour correspondence collection

…family. Photograph of Professor John Goodsir from the Botanical Society Club photo album, RBGE archives GB235 BSS/10/3. The Scottish botanist, Professor John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884) had a lifetime of botanical…

The Collectors of the Wallich (or East India Company) Herbarium

By Henry Noltie & Mark Watson Nathaniel Wallich was one of the most significant superintendents of the Calcutta Botanic Garden (now the AJC Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah), a post…

The Importance of Rain Gardens in a Changing Climate

In the past few years at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) we have experienced changing weather patterns that reflect how climate change will affect Scotland in the future. On…

Plant Collecting on Tay Con Linh Mountain, Vietnam

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…

BioBlitz record breaker

…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…

The People Behind the Plants

Portrait of gardener at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Thought to have been taken between 1910 and 1920. Photographer unknown. Some might argue that the greatest asset of the four gardens…

Erophila verna on a black ground: a miniature painting in the Lightfoot Herbarium at Kew

…was a ‘collage of coloured papers’. Specimen of Erophila verna in the Lightfoot Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew The glorious botanical paper mosaics of Mary Delany (1700–1788), almost a thousand…

Molineria capitulata

…etching of Molineria capitulata from Edwards’ Botanical Register t. 770   RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19696585 Scientific Name:Curculigo capitulata Kuntze Family:Hypoxidaceae Genus:Curculigo Epithet:capitulata Plant:19696585A Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced Plant:19696585B Location:/Living…

Sunshine for you!

…in our gardens and what a welcome treat after a long winter! The Gardens might be closed but Spring isn’t cancelled! The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and our three Regional…

Bergenia stracheyi

…on tropical deforestation and is the father of the Bloomsbury Group biographer Lytton Strachey. Hand coloured lithograph of Bergenia stracheyi from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine t. 5967   RBGE Living Collections…

Neera Joshi Pradhan

…Joshi. 1995 – MSc. Botany, Tribhuwan University, Nepal 2002 – Botanical Illustration, Marie Selby Botanical Garden, USA. 2007 – Botanical Art Classes, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Exhibitions 2020 – Special…