…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…
…The Botanics Cottage from Leith Walk that Don and his family would have stayed in during his time at RBGE is currently waiting to be reconstructed in the Demonstation Garden…
…Indian plants in larger Victorian gardens and parks. Seed was exported on a large scale from the Saharanpur Botanic garden from the 1840s onwards – 2000 lbs (900 kg) of…
…of Calcutta Botanic Garden and produced an abundance of plant material for admission to herbarium collections both at the Lloyd Botanic Garden and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Map of…
Logan Botanic Garden is the first garden in Dumfries & Galloway to join Silent Space – encouraging people to switch off their phones and truly relax. It follows Benmore Botanic…
…designed The Botanic’s Cottage. Mr D.P. Maclagan who handed in the section of trunk was the grandson of Andrew Douglas Maclagan, the noted toxicologist and contemporary of Regius Professor of…
…apprenticeship at the Botanics and in 1836 he took up the appointment of Curator of the Experimental Garden and moved with his family into this cottage. Under his leadership and…
…Strategy for Plant Conservation. In early 2012 Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG), the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) and the New York Botanical Garden…
Brian Lawrence ‘Bill’ Burtt (1913-2008) began his career as a taxonomist at Kew Gardens, before coming to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) in 1951. Throughout the course of his…
Richard Baines with the new charging point Logan Botanic Garden, one of Dumfries & Galloway’s leading visitor attractions, has underscored its commitment to saving the environment by being one of…
…Garden is nearing the completion of its rebuild – the Botanic Cottage. Eileen Dickie Friends of Hopetoun Crescent Garden. Javier García Herrera Buenas noches. Hace unos 19 años visité su…
…He retired to Wolfelee, Borders to continue his research and served as President of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh (now Botanical Society of Scotland) 1869-70. He visited Granny in April…
…research undertaken for the Flora of Bhutan at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Like the blue pine, its needles are in clusters of five, but it differs in its gracefully…
Really Wild Veg blind taste test at Cruickshank Botanic Garden. Autumn is the time when gardeners are planning the next year’s planting. The Really Wild Veg project will hopefully run…
…his career with Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh at Logan Botanic Garden in 1980 before transferring to Dawyck a few years later. His interest and initial basic skills for wood work…
…a work placement in the Library at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The RBGE Library is home to at least 20,000 original artworks, as well as prints, photographic material, and…
The first day I arrived in Logan Botanic Gardens I was stunned by the beauty of Meconopsis ‘Slieve Donard’, a blue sky-like flower, a purity you could only find in…
…of UK botanic gardens conducted by the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester. Last year BGCI supported three UK botanic gardens to develop their social roles through…
Combining genetics and ecology to save species from extinction. Dr Aline Finger is a conservation geneticist at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE). Her work focuses on generating evidence-based management…