…(who was brought up in Botanic Cottage, where his father George was for a time RBGE Superintendent) quoted specimens collected at Narainhetty by Hope’s student Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, but Don also…
Larkspur is an easily grown annual that repays the cost of a packet of seed many times over. Sow early spring under glass and transplant into moist soil in a…
…and equipment serve more than one purpose. She also improved her farm by building a cottage for her foreman, improving her own cottage and building additional storage and picking sheds,…
…last minute due to adverse weather conditions Botanics Wild Walk and Breakfast 7 am Saturday the 9th of June Enjoy entering the Botanics, through the Botanics Cottage, before the garden…
…by the beauty, different colours, sounds and smells” of the gardens. We headed towards the oldest… but newest building in the Gardens, the Botanic Cottage. It travelled, brick by brick…
…Smith became Keeper of the Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta. While in Calcutta, and then later in Lloyd Botanic Garden Darjeeling, Cooper studied botany and horticulture under the…
…throughout the month with numbers steadily increasing especially in the area around the Stachys plants in the Fruit garden near the Botanic Cottage. Late flowering of the Sempervivums in the…
…the Botanic Cottage. One particularly interesting group was Nari Kallyan Shangho (NKS), a group focused on the welfare of South Asian women living in Edinburgh, who I found had fascinating…
We’ve been kept up to date about the about the exciting Botanic Cottage project happening in the Demonstration Garden at the Botanics by Community Engagement Coordinator Sutherland Forsyth here. The…
…1879). As well as teaching diagrams made for Hope, there are drawings relating to his Leith Walk Garden in celebration of the recent rebuilding of Botanic Cottage. Balfour’s teaching diagrams…
…Herbarium, Archives, Inverleith House and finally pausing for thought and discussion at the Botanic cottage, on the 28th February 2020 it brought together a wide range of people, (including artists,…
…damage. Jan and Liz with a selection of Andean potatoes from the 2018 harvest. The potato patch that was beside the Botanic Cottage during 2018 will be given over to…
…the natural world. At our Edinburgh Garden, the Botanic Cottage (rebuilt stone-by-stone in 2016 from material salvaged from our previous site at Leith Walk) is a thriving community hub, supporting…
…lasting impact. As part of the planned redevelopment of the demonstration garden around the site of the soon to be restored Cottage, two large Tsuga heterophylla hedges are to be…
In the next few weeks the site which was once home to the Botanic Cottage and one of the remaining fragments of the long lost Leith Walk Botanic Garden, will…
…be useful to keep this concept in mind as we discuss the other themes. A slide from speaker Joel Fisher’s presentation, in the Botanic Cottage, Photograph courtesy of Caterina Salvi THE…
…representatives from North Edinburgh at the Botanics Cottage here in the Garden to begin the process of co-creating an exhibition about access to nutritious food. After a hearty soup prepared…
…2025 Botanical Drawings made for Nathaniel Wallich at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh August 27, 2025 Towards 3 million: Reef Point Gardens August 26, 2025 Viral or Cultural? A Mini…
In just a few weeks work will have begun on the rebuilding of the Botanic Cottage, the only surviving building of the long lost 18th century incarnation of the Royal…