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BioBlitz finds hummingbirds at Logan

…of four to cover Edinburgh Botanics and all of the regional gardens. Apart from being great fun and engaging visitors with biological recording the Bioblitz events help garden managers to…

A fine fresh flower with botanical interest

…in the British Isles” notes “it has little or no merit for gardens but is interesting botanically.” Where better a place to cultivate than in a botanic garden? The botanical…

Polylepis australis – Tree of the Year Finalist 2018 -Please vote!

Help Make The Filo Pastry Tree at Logan Botanic Garden Woodland Trust Scotland’s Tree of the Year. Please help us to win this award by voting for the tree at…

‘Have you seen the octopus?’

…be possible to cultivate at Logan botanic gardens if sheltered in the glasshouse overwinter? I know it is not of conservation value but, it is an interesting fruit which I…

First Audio Leaflet: Dawyck Scottish Trees Trail

…at Dawyck Botanic Garden. It would consist of a eighteen trees with panels in the ground and a leaflet to guide you around. We decided to make an accompanying Audio…

Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania – Signatory to the Declaration of Independence

Benjamin Rush by Charles Wilson Peale. circa 1818. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has had its hand in shaping the careers and fortunes of many in our long history. We’ve…

Diminutive and demonstrative

…to Britain in 1923 by a Mr RN Parker who, in 1925, was the founder of the Botanic Garden annexed to the Forest Research Institute of Dehra Dun in northern…

Beauty and the beast

…However as a Botanic Garden we grow a wide range of botanical specimens that exhibit the diversity of the botanical world. Narcissus ‘Golden Cycle’ Narcissus ‘Telamonius Plenus’ Narcissus ‘Telamonius Plenus’…

Three white flowers to cheer us into midsummer week

A member of the Iris family, Iridaceae, Diplarrena latifolia has individual flowers of interesting shape composed of six tepals. The three largest pure white, the smaller tepals have distinctive purple…

Venus fly trap

Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula Family:-Droseraceae Description The Venus flytrap is a most remarkable and very recognisable plant. Its leaves are modified in an extraordinary way in order to trap and…

The Amazing Victoria Amazonica can be seen in the plants and people house of the glasshouses at the Edinburgh garden

Giant Water Lily Victoria amazonica Family: Nymphaeaceae Description The upper surface has a rather quilted appearance. The purplish-red under surface has a network of ribs, clad in abundant sharp spines,…

Review of the Year – 2018

Following on from a Met Office decreed White Christmas in 2017, Edinburgh had a day of snow and then Storm Dylan blew through on the 31st. Fortuitously, the wind speed…

Downward facing flowers; a benefit this wet season

The shepherds crook bend on the flower stalk of Cirsium purpuratum ensure the densely packed mass of flower parts are dry and attractive to bees who have no misgivings about…

Botanical Double celebrates the Britain-Nepal Bicentenary

…for conservation and sustainable use of Nepal’s natural resources. The Flora of Nepal botanical art exhibition is still running at RBGE and Nepal features prominently in this year’s Botanics Lights….

Loveliest of trees the cherry now

…after having discussed it with knowledgable Botanics people I feel is very likely, that Wilfred Owen would have visited the botanic garden during his stay at Craiglockhart Hospital. Norman Gould…

The Secret World of Rhododendrons – A talk by Dr Richard Milne

Botanical Society of Scotland together with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh invites you to a talk by Dr Richard Milne, University of Edinburgh on Thursday 30th November 2017 in the…

Traditional Sustainable Agriculture in Mexico

…Axolotyl. Many organisations such as UNAM Botanic Garden in Mexico City are working hard in the area to keep local people on the land and growing on the traditional Chinampas….

Top 10 Winter Harvests in the Edible Garden

Cold temperatures and low light levels in winter do not mean an end to fresh produce from the garden. Here at The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh we have been harvesting…

Will the Scottish Bluebell be Scotlands favourite plant?

…the Spear Thistle? In the last post we wrote about Sally Heron’s choice of plant, Rowan. In this post we have asked our Curator at Logan Botanic Garden Richard Baines…

Being Pine

For four months, The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has been hosting poets in residence in each of the Gardens. This month Mandy Haggith has been our poet in residence at…