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Day 11: Eleven pipers piping – Hylocomiadelphus triquetrus, Pipe-cleaner moss

…by the path to the chapel at Dawyk Botanic Garden, on the 1st October 2020. With pale leaves that stick out from the reddish stems in all directions, it is…

Expedition to Tajikistan

Two horticultural staff from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, John Mitchell Alpine Supervisor and team leader with Richard Brown have been joined by a member of staff from the Royal…

Really Wild Veg – 2014 growing trials

…decking area outside the John Hope Gateway Building at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Redall Walled Garden, Edinburgh Hermitage Vegetable Garden, Edinburgh Cruickshank Botanic Garden, Aberdeen As we did last…

Persicaria affinis

…in 1802, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Hand coloured lithograph from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine t. 6472   RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19920222 Scientific Name:Persicaria affinis (D.Don)…

A visit to Leny Glen

…of Leny, Perthshire The ‘foreign plants’ included Himalayan ones supplied by Nathaniel Wallich, FBH’s indirect successor at the Calcutta Botanic Garden. As the first British botanist to have spent a…

Diamond is a researchers best friend- the evolution of the Edinburgh Journal of Botany

The Edinburgh Journal of Botany was established in 1900 by the then Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden (RBGE), Isaac Bayley Balfour. Published under the title, Notes from the…

International Day of Forests 2021 – Resilience Bench

…we reopened between national lockdowns in October 2020. Angus Ross, Resilience Bench, 2016 Scottish ash and ebonised oak from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. First exhibited in After the Storm,…

Seeds of Hope: Planting of Ginkgo trees grown from trees that survived the Hiroshima bombing

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Nursery have been growing on some very special seeds. In 2015 seeds were gifted to the City of Edinburgh as part of the international project…

Ephedra gerardiana

65. Ephedra gerardiana Wallich ex Stapf EPHEDRACEAE Hindi: Somlata, सोमलता Photograph of Ephedra gerardiana in wild in Nepal A dwarf Himalayan shrub, which occurs at high altitudes of up to…

Really Wild Veg – July update

…get going are now doing well. F1 kale ‘Reflex’ doing well at Cruickshank Botanic Garden in Aberdeen. At Cruickshank Botanic Garden the brassica bed had to be netted at the…

Tabernaemontana divaricata

7. Tabernaemontana divaricata (L.) R. Brown APOCYNACEAE Crepe jasmine, moonbeam, East Indian rosebay; Hindi: chandani, चांदनी This small tree is native to India but it is widely cultivated as an…

Flora of Nepal Expedition 2014

…Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; also going are Dr. Patrick Kuss from the Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich; Alan Elliott a PhD researcher at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and…

Rare plants and rare skills

…Grant based in Belize, which is led by Belize Botanic Gardens to develop and train local smallholders in agroforestry. As part of this project, RBGE is working with Belize Botanic

Polygonatum oppositifolium

32. Polygonatum oppositifolium (Wallich) Royle CONVALLARIACEAE This subtropical relative of the native European Solomon’s seal was discovered by Nathaniel Wallich on his expedition to Nepal in 1820 to 1821. It…

New plant for Midlothian found in Botanics

Discovery of a plant previously unknown in an area is not what you might expect to happen within a botanic garden. Such places have large managed collections of introduced plants…

BigPicnic at Parliament

The BigPicnic project, funded by an EU Horizon 2020 grant, has involved 16 botanic gardens working with people to explore the issue of food insecurity with the aim of getting…

Why I love Volunteering for Microsculpture & Talking About Insect Vision

As a life-long lover of insects, I jumped at the opportunity to volunteer at the Microsulpture exhibition at the Inverleith House Gallery at the Botanics .  I had moved home…

Disentangling the history of the Robert Brown specimens at RBGE

…were still held separate from the main collections. In 1837, Robert Brown became the first Keeper of the Botanical Department at British Museum and continued in post until his death…

Really Wild Veg – 2014 photo diary

…soil sample so that the influence of soil on plant chemistry can be assessed. Josh and Mark at the marquee in Cruickshank Botanic Garden. The Botanics buggy gets pressed into…

The Other Library, Archives & Photography Team

…of the world, detailed correspondence between sponsors of botanic ventures with their advice and their worries. Examples are: The 1850’s Oregon enterprise ending in the still unexplained disappearance of the…