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…“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,…
…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…
…him via Italy, so the link with India is probably very indirect. The Dutch were among the pioneers of Indian botanical exploration and plants were sent back to the botanic…
…Cave was director of the Lloyd Botanic Garden in Darjeeling, from where he made many excursions to Sikkim, collecting numerous interesting plants many of which are preserved in the herbarium…
…a society aimed at advancing botanical science. The Botanical Society of Edinburgh promoted several objectives: to facilitate the exchange of botanical knowledge through meetings and the publication of transactions; to…
…trained at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and is best known for his efforts to introduce tea plants to India from China. Photograph of a Cryptomeria japonica cone, RBGE herbarium…
…Wallich in memory of Sir James Edward Smith, the ‘late immortal President of the Linnean Society’. It was introduced to cultivation by George Govan, Superintendent of Saharanpur Botanic Garden, who…
…(41) Horticulture (1,179) Edinburgh Botanics (989) The World of Palms Glasshouse Trail (17) Benmore Botanic Garden (26) Conifer Trail (15) Dawyck Botanic Garden (7) Logan Botanic Garden (22) Garden Wildlife…
…the ten things I’m looking forward to in 2016 – see separate post). My 2015 Highlights 1.Bees Spring at the Royal Botanic Garden was all about bees, trying to raise…
Objects from the Temperate Palm House, an exhibition using remnants of historic palm trees once grown in the Botanic Garden’s Victorian palm houses will open at Bargain Spot project space…
…a colleague from the Bogor Botanic Garden, Prima Hutabarat, we set off early to the village of Cipetir (Tjipetir is the old Dutch spelling). Three hours later we started to…
Helleborus orientalis (20091439A) Two different collections of Helleborus orientalis can be seen in the woodland garden. Both collected from Georgia. The smaller, with petals shaded pink and red was growing…
…Early Industrial Landscape, 2016 (detail) and The Birth of the Skyscraper from Botanical Architecture, 2015), Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Courtesy of the artist and Herald St, London. 2…
…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…