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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…
…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….
…Logan was gifted to the nation (1969) and became a regional garden of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Rhododendron meddianum var. atrokermesinum Rhododendron meddianum var. atrokermesinum Rhododendron meddianum var. atrokermesinum…
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…
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…
…using HTTP URIs. The implementation of this mechanism at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E) is used as an example. Advantages of this approach include near universal support amongst web-connected…
…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…
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…
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…
…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…
…that exist and producing a more finely tuned assessment of rarity for each taxon. * CNCFlora/JBRJ is the National Centre for Flora Conservation/Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden its role is…
…along to Edinburgh and see what else there is to be seen among the plantings and pavements at the Botanics. With your trail-guide, you can borrow a magnifying lens to…
There are very few bryophytes growing in the living collections of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. What I mean by this is that there are very few bryophytes that we…
…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….
…they can only be addressed together. To highlight the role of nature in climate solutions, the Environment and Economy Leaders’ Group including the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, NatureScot and other…
…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,…
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…
…islands conditions become harder for growth. Conservation measures are in place in Socotra, but botanic gardens around the world are growing a few specimens of the Dragon’s Blood Tree to…
…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…