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Walk with poet Jean Atkin at Logan

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…

BioBlitz at Logan

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…

Stable Citations for Herbarium Specimens on the Internet

…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…

From Indonesia to Edinburgh – An orchids story

…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…

Walking With Mandy

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…

Ian Hedge

…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…

Four Weeks, Three Species, One Mission: A Riparian Rescue

…the country. As previously described in this Botanic stories article, there is an existing theory that M. sylvaticum’s decline has also been caused by a lack of natural seed dispersers,…

Connecting with plants

…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….

Leratiomyces ceres- the Redlead Roundhead

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…

Happy Hypocenomyce & Dog lichens

…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…

November 2015 Garden Wildlife Report

…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…

British Art Show 8: Pablo Bronstein

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…

#myurbanlichen

…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…

What exactly is a lichen?

…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…

Poppies at the RBGE

…in regard to beautiful blooms from cornflower and daisies. I have bought various mixed seed packets, but cannot seem to get the mix i desire. On walking through the Botanic