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…perfect location for (L-R) botanical artists Sarah Roberts, Işik Gűner and Jacqui Pestell to paint their triptych of Sabal mexicana, which had been housed in the Tropical Palm House for…
…previously explored the wildlife of our regional gardens at Logan Botanic Garden in 2014, followed by Dawyck Botanic Garden in 2015 and Benmore Botanic Garden in 2016. We began our…
A full view of the research and propagation glasshouses at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. (Photo: Sadie Barber) As part of my apprenticeship at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, I have…
http://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00024207 © Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 2020 CC BY 4.0 license. The Dreadnought, 104 Guns, until recently lying off Greenwich (repro ID pu6061). By Edward William Cooke, circa 1857 ©…
…To begin addressing this knowledge gap, a collaborative project funded by US National Science Foundation between the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), New York Botanic Garden (NYBG), Wildlife Conservation Society,…
…he went to the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow, where he was able to study under the tutelage of W.J. Hooker, who later went on to become the director at Kew…
…the south side of the house, plans were made to move five of the Dicksonia antarctica tree ferns to Logan Botanic Garden. Although they appear to be the type of…
19. Carex baccans Nees CYPERACEAE Whereas most sedges have green or brown fruits, this species is unusual in having brightly coloured ones. Although the specific name ‘baccans’ means bearing ‘berries’,…
In collaboration with New York Botanic Garden, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is producing the first botanical inventory of the highly diverse Northern Forest Complex in the Hkakaborazi-Hponganrazi landscape, Myanmar….
27. Crinum asiaticum L. AMARYLLIDACEAE Hindi: Nagadamani, नागदामिनी This large, bulbous herb is widely cultivated in the tropics, and as a hothouse plant in temperate regions. It is native to…
…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…
61. Rhododendron macabeanum Watt ex I.B. Balfour ERICACEAE Plate by Stella Ross-Craig, from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine One of the most handsome of the large rhododendrons, which can reach a height…
Emile de Bruijn What a wonderful example of living botanical heritage. In my research into Chinese wallpaper imported into Britain I have found that wallpapers featuring paeonies, shown together with…
…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…
…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…
…most extensive and important distribution of plant specimens ever made. It is particularly valued as the basis of botanical documentation in many parts of south and southeast Asia, especially Bangladesh,…
Despite the cold weather colour is coming into the garden. This is Rhododendron X praecox growing by Imverleith House. RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19698794 Scientific Name:Rhododendron Praecox grex…
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…
…wild plants. Harvesting of the trial plots in Edinburgh at the Botanics, Hermitage Vegetable Garden and Redhall Walled Garden will happen on the 10th of September. The Cruickshank Botanic Garden…
45. Clematis montana De Candolle RANUNCULACEAE A widespread and very variable Sino-Himalayan species, this is one of the best-known Himalayan plants in British gardens, occurring in a variety of forms…