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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…
…Dr Hewan studied botany at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, establishing a link with the Garden that still exists today in our herbarium and archives. Letter from Dr Hewan dated…
We Will Remember Them Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh Roll of Honour, 1914–1919 At the outbreak of war in August 1914 the appeal for H.M. Forces met with ready response from…
…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…
…on the family Acanthaceae. He had trained as a doctor at RBGE and was Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden from 1861 to 1869 when he had to retire through…
…the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh where his closest friend was one of the foreman gardeners. And, curiously, sitting on a shelf in the Rare Books Room of the RBGE Library…
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…
…believe in miracles, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Juergen Teller, ‘Cerith, Suffolk’, 2011 (Courtesy Studio Juergen Teller); Dan Colen, ‘Blowin in the wind’, 2013 (Courtesy of the artist, Gagosian…
…of the Saharunpur botanic garden in Uttar Pradesh. The epithet cornutus means ‘horned’ and refers to horn-shaped galls, caused by an insect, which frequently affect the fruits of the tree…
…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….
…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…
…“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”…
…in Nepal. Its flowering in Edinburgh in 1852 in a nursery garden at Comely Bank caused a minor sensation and was reported to the Botanical Magazine by John Hutton Balfour…
…Royal Botanic Garden. The names with an asterisk belong to those killed during the conflict. “At the outbreak of war in August 1914 the appeal for H.M. Forces met with…
…Natural Talent traineeship scheme (funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation) and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE). Frances Stoakley – is the 2015 Natural Talent Trainee based at the Botanic…
…Anderson, who studied botany at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh under John Hutton Balfour. Anderson noted that the Lepchas (the original inhabitants of Sikkim) dreaded touching the tree as it…
…was based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where she made line illustrations for Hooker’s Icones Plantarum and worked on Curtis’s Botanical Magazine for the Royal Horticultural Society. For this,…
…the research that went into the checklist the herbarium at Taiwan Forestry Research Institute provided information on type specimens collected by Japanese botanists in the 1920s and the Botanical Survey…
…of the troubled legacy of slavery and deportation and the provenance of the botanical specimens sent from the West Indies to the UK’s Botanical Gardens. Shiraz Bayjoo’s work explored similar…
33. Rhododendron dalhousiae J.D. Hooker ERICACEAE Lady Dalhousie’s rhododendron Native of the Eastern Himalaya, this species, which has fragrant flowers, often grows as an epiphyte on mossy tree trunks. In…