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[polldaddy poll=6923122] Over the last couple of weeks we have had the privilege of BBC2 Landward filming in The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. With the programme running over a four…
…course we are extremely excited about this. It means that we will be able to put loads more work into our veggies in the demonstration area at the Royal Botanic…
…RHS (Level 2) Principles of Horticulture course at the Royal Botanic Garden and I wished to continue my connection with RBGE so by happenstance, volunteered to assist in the library….
…UK sites (the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (RBGE), the Natural History Museum, London (NHM), and the National Botanic Garden of Wales (NBGW)). Here I share my observations, shining a light…
…well received. Anton Güntsch from Botanical Museum and Botanic Garden Berlin said that they had already discussed the paper and were planning to implement the identifiers within the next couple…
Could you identify these pollinators? A brand new, free, online course launches in March 2018. ‘Keep Edinburgh Buzzing’ is a joint venture between the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh (RBGE),…
…main station, and the one you want for the botanics, is Edinburgh Waverley. The second station for Edinburgh is called Haymarket. This is not so convenient for the botanics. There…
2. Dimocarpus longan Loureiro SAPINDACEAE Longyen, longan; Bengali: ashphal, आशफल A small tree related to the lychee and native of South and South-East Asia. It is cultivated for its timber…
…long association with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh becoming a student gardener studying whilst working in the Garden gaining the Edinburgh Diploma in Horticulture [DHE] in 1965. In 1964, he…
46. Rhododendron hodgsonii J.D. Hooker ERICACEAE This large shrub or small tree of the eastern Himalaya (Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan) was named by Joseph Hooker after Brian Houghton Hodgson who…
…at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Photographed by Lynsey Wilson. I’m always glad of an excuse to take a nosey at some of the content of our Library and Archive…
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…turned to the 2nd month of the project. Mandy Haggith will be in residence at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh throughout July. Her programme is posted on this blog (check…
…composition’. She tutored many aspiring botanical illustrators and painters through the Diploma in Botanical Illustration at RBGE. Her carefully-rendered works are held in numerous international collections, including our own in…
…a thick, brown crust. Every tree makes me feel happy, surprised and really small and we want to climb them. Strachur Primary School visit to Benmore Botanic Garden, 25 June…
…his building up of the Calcutta Botanic Garden and his commissioning of botanical paintings. Although the second to reach India, Roxburgh was the third holder of the Naturalist’s post, succeeding…
…climate emergency, is something that should concern us all, and scientists at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh are no exception. RBGE’s Tiina Särkinen and Brazilian colleague Domingos Cardoso of the…
…of Exeter, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Universidad Nacional Agraria, La Molina. Workshop participants from the UK, Peru, USA and from seven Latin American countries met to share their data…
…in the Leith Walk Botanic Garden, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s previous site, and transferred to Inverleith in the early 1820s. The bibby tree, as it is known locally, is…
…the Seychelles two centuries later, in 1768, that its association with a terrestrial palm tree was finally recognised. Coco de Mer seeds incubating The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Specimen…