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…opening of the Botanic Cottage, a ‘new’ 250 year old building – I was lucky enough to take a peek inside recently and it is going to be an amazing…
…Garden, initially amongst the community vegetable plots towards the east end. It then flew weakly and very low across to some Salvia flowers near the Botanic Cottage observation hut, where…
…botany by Professor John Hope in RBGE’s classroom of the Scottish Enlightenment – recently rebuilt as the ‘Botanic Cottage‘. During his year in Nepal, Buchanan-Hamilton put his botanical skills to…
…in Scotland, which is why the trials are so important. The other advantage of growing them is that they link directly to current botanical research being carried out here to…
On Thursday 2nd March the Thought for Food participants gathered at the Botanic Cottage for lunch and to discuss the next steps of the project. Soup was made from vegetables…
…Botanic Cottage which accounted for two of the three sightings. Once again no barkflies or springtails were seen during the month. Two species of harvestman were seen: Leiobunum rotundum on…
…John Hope at RBGE, then at the Leith Walk site, in what is now the Professor’s Room at our Botanic Cottage. Dr Subedi was shown Buchanan-Hamilton’s memorial plaque, restored and…
…John Muir Grove and the area around the Botanic Cottage. Places that Excite Points marked as exciting layered with heat map to emphasise clusters The exciting places were the Rock…
…in conversation with Chitra Ramaswamy at 12 noon on Sunday 20th in the Botanic Cottage. In case you are unfamiliar with Esther’s work we have asked artist Leo du Feu…
…have been taught taxonomy in the upstairs room of the Botanic Cottage in its original location on Leith Walk before heading to India and Nepal. The tree is round headed…
…Hutton Institute, has focused on the so-called ‘crop wild relatives’ of potato. Potato display in the Demonstration Garden. Potato display with the Botanic Cottage in the background. The Commonwealth Potato…
…Harvest Festival. During the Harvest Festival families dug the potatoes, cleaned them with brushes and added them to a display inside the Botanic Cottage. The excitement of digging potatoes for…
…24th. Finally, an as yet unidentified snail remained unmoved, and unmoving, on the Botanic Cottage from 11th onwards to the end of the month. Mating Common Drone Flies (Eristalis tenax),…
…Common Shiny Woodlouse and Common Striped Woodlouse. Finally, last month’s unidentified snail continued adhering to the wall of the Botanic Cottage all month. Greater Bee-fly (Bombylius major) on Scilla, 28…
…art, gardening and stories centred around the Botanic Cottage and the Edible Gardening Project beds which should be looking at their sumptuous best in mid-June. Thanks to generous support from…
…the small pool near the Botanic Cottage, where Palmate Newt was also seen on 1st. Leistus rufomarginatus, a ground beetle species. Second Garden record, 20 October 2019. Photo Alan Crawford….
…session in the Demonstration Garden outside the Botanic Cottage? Want to see the produce we grow, get inspired and have the opportunity to ask questions about how to grow your…
One can only surmise that the description of Neoshirakia japonica in the Flora of China as “a treelet to 8 metres tall” refers to its diminished stature as a tree….
…interesting books in the library (the oldest from 1582) come from his collection, as do 3000 botanical drawings made for him by Indian artists, and his herbarium of several thousand…