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George Don sr. (1764-1814)

…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…

Cedrus deodara

…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…

Students’ Stories: “George Herbert Cave” by Dean Blake, 3rd Year Horticulture with Plantsmanship student at RBGE

…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…

Silent Space at Logan Botanic Garden

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

Things in cupboards – Rhododendron arboreum

…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…

The East Gate Lodge & the former RCHS Experimental Garden

…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…

World Flora Online Conference

…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…

Plant Collecting and the Lived Experience of Botany: Bill Burtt’s Malaysian Collecting

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…

Growing greener credentials at Logan Botanic Garden

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…

The Oldest Palm in Edinburgh – Sabal bermudana L. H. Bailey (The Sabal Palm)

…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…

Granny and her visitors – a specimen with ‘cult following’

…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…

Pinus bhutanica

…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 – Cruickshank Botanic Garden October update

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…

Restored footbridge makes a grand impression at Dawyck Botanic Garden

…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…

Meconopsis ‘Hensol Violet’ by Sam Stapleton

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…

Communities in Nature – the social role of botanic gardens

…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…

Dr Aline Finger, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

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…

3 newly described Aframomum (Zingiberaceae) species in the Living Collection at Edinburgh

Aframomum fragrans 19982770*A A new monograph of Aframomum by David Harris and Alexandra Wortley , from Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, was published at the beginning of 2018. The monograph includes…

Iris clarkei

…contributors to the great seven-volume Flora of British India edited by Sir Joseph Hooker. Hand coloured lithograph by W.H. Fitch, after a drawing by Matilda Smith, from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine…

Aristolochia griffithii – a curious climber flowers at Logan Botanic Garden by Katy Merrington

Surreptitiously snaking up the north-facing wall of Logan’s walled garden, this intriguing climber has a fascinating flower, which unfolds its pale exterior to reveal a blood red throat. The flower’s…