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A cottage garden favourite

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…

The Big Botanics BioBlitz presents Botanics Wild

…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…

Thought for Food: Reflections

…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…

Roland Edgar Cooper (1890-1962)

…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…

Thought for Food: Broadening your horizons

…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…

2022 Garden Highlights

…and botanical drone pilot, highlights her favourites from the past twelve months. © Sarah Grant – The Botanic Cottage In Spring 2022 15,000 tulips emerged in front of the Botanic

July 2016 Garden Wildlife Report

…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…

What is happening in the demonstration garden?

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…

Cleghorn drawings to feature in a forthcoming exhibition

…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…

Part 1/2: ‘Sensing and Presencing the Imperceptible’, Siân Bowen’s Micro-conference

…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,…

Anticipating the new potato season

…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…

RBGE 1970-2020

…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…

Student Heritage Apple Project in the Demonstration garden

…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…

Part 2/2: ‘Sensing and Presencing the Imperceptible’, Siân Bowen’s Micro-conference

…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…

The last dig

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…

Thought for Food: Overcoming barriers

…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…

Garden Highlights 2023

…found in Central Southern Asia, particularly Iran and Afghanistan. April Spring wouldn’t be the same without tulips! A delightful display in front of the famous Botanic Cottage supplied by our…

A masterful monument

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…

2021 Garden Highlights

…Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Kirsty Wilson,   Herbaceous Supervisor, keen photographer and botanical drone pilot, highlights her favourites from over the past twelve months. The Shell Grotto in the Queen Mother’s…

A newly discovered J.D. Hooker letter about Draba aizoides

…and inhabitant on Leith Walk of the Botanic Cottage that has recently been rebuilt at RBGE. Two of the Don rarities mentioned by Hooker had made it into English Botany,…