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…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…
…eastwards to Bhutan, where it can reach a height of 40 metres. Its name commemorates the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich, who was Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden from 1817…
Rhododendron mogeanum Argent. CASK 63 Accession Number:20110220*A Photo: Lynsey Wilson. Rhododendron mogeanum has flowered in the Vireya research collection at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for what we think is the…
Now two full years have passed since our Nature Play: Nature Conservation project to explore the idea of informal, child-led play within an area of native vegetation in the Botanic…
Installation shot of Patchwork Meadow exhibition, Gateway Gallery, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Wild plants are not only part of our landscape, they are integral to our culture and history. Plantlife’s…
The International Conifer Conservation Programme was established at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1991. Since then it has worked to conserve threatened conifers across the globe through a world-leading…
…to the Botanics? The Edinburgh potato first came to the world’s attention at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh sometime after 1850 and was named after the Garden in 1911 by…