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…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…
…Work of Robert Wight. Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Noltie, H.J. (2011). John Hope (1725–1786). Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Noltie, H.J. (2016a). The Cleghorn Collection: South Indian botanical drawings…
…have been conducted here at the Botanics, by the Edible Gardening Project team, and at Redhall Walled Garden and Hermitage Vegetable Garden. A newcomer for 2015 has been Glasgow Botanic…
Dr Alexander Demidov (Director of the Main Botanic Garden) & Ms Svetlana Potapova (Academic Secretary of the Russian Council of Botanic Gardens) visited the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbarium (E)…
…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…
22. Nelumbo nucifera Gaertner NELUMBONACEAE Sacred lotus, Egyptian Bean; Hindi: kamal, कमल This aquatic plant is important in Buddhist, Jain and Hindu iconography. The beautiful flower (which can be white…
…brings together new and commissioned works by contemporary artists alongside archival material and contemporary botanical drawings from the collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Presented here, Oliver Osborne and Laura…
…Monday of September and I am about to return to Edinburgh after a placement at the Botanic Garden in Gothenburg, Sweden. I travelled here during the summer holidays to learn…
…after a drawing by Matilda Smith, from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine https://stories.rbge.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Coelogyne-corymbosa.mp3 RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19822051 Scientific Name:Coelogyne corymbosa Lindl. Family:Orchidaceae Genus:Coelogyne Epithet:corymbosa Collector:Grierson, Andrew J.C….
…Chinese forms that were grown in India, which were first introduced in the 1850s by Robert Fortune (who had trained here at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh). Herbarium specimen collected…
Will Hinchliffe climbing 19241022*A for fertile material One aspect of the Sibbald funded verification project I’m involved with at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is the identification of plants that are…
Since September I have been working, on and off, on the fantastic collection of Indian botanical drawings at our sister organisation, Kew. This started out when asked to select some…
…of years. But, while the data in these collections are nearly always open (e.g., the Royal Botanic Garden Herbarium has shared specimens with any who so request since at least…
…“Botanic Garden” marked on it but no source referenced so I am not sure where it came from. By the buildings and the fact that it refers to “Botanic Garden”…
…As guardians of Scotland’s National Botanic Collection, they are doing an exceptional job under difficult and challenging circumstances. Even though the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is temporarily closed, our plants…
…as an exhibition hall for its flower shows, to be staged in the heart of the Society’s garden. From 1864 until 1964, it housed the Herbarium, the Royal Botanic Garden…
…a living on the margins, a food of the poor. In 1709 Robert Sibbald, co-founder of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, recommended seaweed as a famine food. This was wise…
…paper-making. Lithograph of Bambusa vulgaris from Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta 7: t. 4 RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19696227 Scientific Name:Bambusa vulgaris Schrad. ex Wendl….
…Edinburgh Living Landscape (ELL), the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is exploring Lichens as Air Quality Indicators. This is a joint project between The Conservation… Latest Stories RBGE Botanic Cottage Garden…
By Carole Papion My journey around Edinburgh Botanic Gardens started about four years ago, where in 2018 I enrolled in a practice-based PhD at the Edinburgh College of Art, to…