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…the National Galleries of Scotland as part of the Government’s Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme. They are on loan to the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh (RBGE) through a reciprocal arrangement…
…Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme. They are on loan to the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh (RBGE) through a reciprocal arrangement with the National Galleries. The bronzes have been on display…
…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…
…was Wallich who sent roots from the Calcutta Botanic Garden to William Roscoe in Liverpool, which first flowered in 1829. Wallich suggested naming the plant after the Honourable Edward Gardner,…
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…
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…
…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…
Tucked away behind the glasshouses of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a terrace that contains an exceptional collection of Chilean plants collected by RBGE staff and Chilean colleagues over…
…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…
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…
…(41) Horticulture (1,178) Edinburgh Botanics (988) The World of Palms Glasshouse Trail (17) Benmore Botanic Garden (26) Conifer Trail (15) Dawyck Botanic Garden (7) Logan Botanic Garden (22) Garden Wildlife…
…Silvaea and Silvianthus are named after Francis de Silva, botanical collector See in stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/3472 Andre Trombeta Silvaea and Silvianthus are named after Francis de Silva, botanical collector See in stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/34728…
…the foundation of botanical knowledge for this Himalayan country, and over 500 new species have been described using his collections. Buchanan-Hamilton took with him to Nepal a Bengali artist from…
…the Botanic Garden. The ‘wild’ corner of the Demonstration Garden, with a small area of semi-natural woodland, wetland and meadow, proved a perfect site to explore two questions: how can…
…traversing Bhutan to the capital Thimphu, to visit the Royal Botanic Gardens at Serbithang, before departing out of Paro airport. My appointment as ‘guest botanist’ was confirmed and with some…
6. Tacca chantrieri André DIOSCOREACEAE One of the so-called ‘bat flowers’, with brownish flowers surrounded by pairs of paler, petal-like bracts and drooping, thread-like bracteoles. This species occurs from Meghalaya…
4. Stephania glandulifera Miers MENISPERMACEAE An extensive climber, which grows from a large tuberous root; it is ‘dioecious’ (having male and female flowers borne on separate plants). This species is…
Red powder puff (Calliandra haematocephala) Family: Leguminosae Description: This is an evergreen shrub or small tree of 4 to 5 metres, which will grow as wide as it is high….
…on the 25th April 1915. Some of what these men went through there has been outlined a few times already in previous Botanics Stories dedicated to the memory of Fallow’s…
…International Journal for Botanic Garden Horticulture has been publishing the outcomes of this work, and that of horticulturists and plant scientists worldwide, since its establishment in 2003. 2020 is the…