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…Pieris formosa from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine t. 8283 RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19734168 Scientific Name:Pieris formosa (Wall.) D.Don Family:Ericaceae Genus:Pieris Epithet:formosa Collector:Ludlow, Frank; Sherriff, George & Elliot,…
I finally got round to visiting the two largest herbarium collections in the UK, The Natural History Museum London (NHM) and Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, to work on the Clematis…
…staff. Walter Henry Morland was the catalyst behind the formation of the Guild, having come from Kew Botanical Gardens and seeing for himself how effective their Guild was. He became…
…more challenging due to increased diversity of species. I am not wrong. Although it doesn’t have the mind-boggling diversity of lichens found at the nearby Dawyck Botanic Garden, it certainly…
Recently we have been working with The Scottish Poetry Library on exciting Poet residencies coming to all four gardens in the next few months. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh will…
…a kind of Who’s Who for botanists. Smith was an orchidologist and horticulturist whose career was split between what is now Bogor Botanical Gardens in Indonesia and Hortus Botanicus Leiden…
…Landscape initiative & the TCV Natural Talent scheme The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has an active research programme to discover, protect and restore Scotland’s lichen diversity. Click here for further…
After the success of the BioBlitz last year at Edinburgh there will be another one at LOGAN BOTANIC GARDEN starting at 5 p.m. on Friday 27 June and running till…
…Collections to their present-day home in the new purpose-built Herbarium and Library on Inverleith Row, in time not only for the 1964 International Botanical Congress, but also for Her Majesty…
Here at Inverleith House we are very much enjoying Pablo Bronstein’s botanically-inspired artwork, The Birth of the Skyscraper from Botanical Architecture, 2015 (detail), and Early Industrial Landscape, 2016 (wallpaper), made…
…Greg Kenicer’s recent publication Plant Magic here. Recording with Greg Kenicer, Marjorie Lotfi Gill and Max Coleman beside the Aeolian Harp in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Photo: Amy Porteous….
…Edinburgh Living Landscape initiative & the TCV Natural Talent scheme. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has an active research programme to discover, protect and restore Scotland’s lichen diversity. Click here…
…week of the month when they returned to the main Pond. It is possible that they may have been affected in some way by the Botanic Lights installations in the…
Leratiomyces ceres is a common and easily recognised fungus which can be found throughout the Botanics from summer to late autumn. It grows mainly on woodchip mulches but can occasionally…
…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…
Jean Atkin has now taken up residence at Logan Botanic Garden! Check out www.walkingwithpoets.com to see her blogs and photos. She’s also got a wonderful range of events planned- all…
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…
…palm was unknown to science until 2008, when it was discovered by a French cashew plantation owner, whose photographs were passed on to researchers from the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew….
With the Fringe here August is one of the busiest months of the year at The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. With jammed packed events, I will be blogging and photographing…