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Botanic Cottage Cook Club Early May 2021

…been freshly prepared by the group. Sadly, the Botanic Cottage is closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but we won’t let that stop us! Cottage Cook Club tutor Ailsa has…

Botanic Cottage Cook Club Late June 2021

…been freshly prepared by the group. Sadly, the Botanic Cottage is closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but we won’t let that stop us! Cottage Cook Club tutor Ailsa has…

Botanic Cottage Cook Club Late July 2021

…been freshly prepared by the group. Sadly, the Botanic Cottage is closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but we won’t let that stop us! Cottage Cook Club tutor Ailsa has…

Botanic Cottage Cook Club Concluding Blog 2021

…been freshly prepared by the group. Sadly, the Botanic Cottage is closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but we won’t let that stop us! Cottage Cook Club tutor Ailsa has…

The Botanic Cottage

…the Botanic Cottage was rebuilt here, overseen by Simpson & Brown Architects. It opened in 2016 as a community and education centre, inspired by its original use.   https://stories.rbge.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Buildings-botanic-cottage.mp3 In…

Botanic Cottage Garden Social September Blog

On the first Friday of each month the Botanic Cottage hosts a drop-in session for those living with dementia and their family members, always with an RBGE inspired theme. Due…

Cutting the turf for the Botanic Cottage

On Monday the 28th of April 2014 a momentous moment took place in the long project to rebuild the Botanic Cottage – we finally broke ground! To mark this occasion,…

Botanic Cottage Cook Club March 2020

Once a fortnight we hold a cook club at the Botanic Cottage. Anyone is welcome to join us to learn new cooking skills and to enjoy a healthy meal that’s…

‘Dig for Victory’ at the Botanic Cottage

…in the Botanic Cottage and the adult support from tutors and volunteers give confidence to teachers who don’t have prior gardening knowledge. Some of the pupils have never seen the…

The first photographic portrait of a professional horticulturist?

William McNab 1780-1848 This is the first professional photographic portrait of a professional horticulturist, the last horticulturist to live in the Botanic Cottage and the man who left the cottage

RBGE Botanic Cottage Garden Social July Blog

On the first Friday of each month the Botanic Cottage hosts a drop-in session for those living with dementia and their family members, always with an RBGE inspired theme. With…

Getting Ready for Schools in the Botanic Cottage

  Botanical artists Jacqui Pestell and Sharon Tingey create our backdrop As the opening of the Botanic Cottage is fast approaching props and resources are being made and tested for…

Getting ready for Botanic Cottage: Preparing the trees

With just a few months to go before work begins on the rebuilding of Botanic Cottage in the Demonstration Garden, site preparations are now beginning so that we are ready…

The Wardie Cottages: the deaths of Edward Forbes and John Goodsir

Intrigued by the recent Botanics Story concerning letters from the anatomist John Goodsir to his Edinburgh University professorial botanical colleague John Hutton Balfour, and involving their mutual friend Edward Forbes,…

Buildings – botanic cottage

“Buildings – botanic cottage”. Released: 2018….

Upcoming Talks during the Big Botanics BioBlitz this Saturday

…out the basics of bat biology and ecology, and discover which species are flying in our area. Saturday the 9th of June 4 pm Botanic Cottage     Big Botanics…

Hints and tips for Fair festivities

…a restful festive period from the Botanic Cottage and Edible Gardening Project. The Botanic Cottage programme and Edible Gardening Project are kindly supported by players of the People’s Postcode Lottery….

Routes to Roots

Growing a Network for Artists and Botanic Institutions By Siôn Parkinson The first Routes to Roots network gathering in the Botanic Cottage garden. Photo: Ross Fraser McLean, 2025. On 16…

Digging up the past

We recently completed an archaeological dig of the former site of the Botanic Cottage on Leith Walk, and it was wonderful to be able to see the past being uncovered….

Work begins!

After years of discussion and planning, building work on the Botanic Cottage finally started this morning. This is a really exciting moment for what is one of the most inspirational…