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…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…
…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…
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…
…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…
…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 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…
…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…
…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’…
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 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…
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,…
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…
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…
…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….
…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…
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…
…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….
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…
…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…
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…