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Monthly dementia friendly garden social

…simple ignorance, suppose The self same Power that brought me there brought you. Our Garden Socials at the Botanic Cottage are kindly supported by players of the People’s Postcode Lottery….

Botanic Cottage Garden Social August Blog

…to Covid-19 restrictions we are not meeting as a group yet, but instead our Garden Social tutor Jaimie is producing a written blog. Over to Jaimie… Nature Reasons to be…

Botanic Cottage Garden Social September Blog

…to Covid-19 restrictions we are not meeting as a group yet, but instead our Garden Social tutor Jaimie is producing a written blog. Over to Jaimie… Autumn Equinox and Harvest-…

RBGE Botanic Cottage Garden Social July Blog

…the garden currently closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, our staff have written a related topic for July: the Edinburgh Coastline. A different view of Edinburghshoreline.org.uk: from the Firth of…

Meet the orchid centenarians

…their source will all be added.   Stanhopea saccata Bateman This plant was part of a lot bought through Protheroe & Morris, Auctioneers, London, that arrived in the garden on…

How can botanic gardens grow their social role?

One of the biggest changes to take place in botanic gardens in the 21st century has been the adoption of an expanded social role. Botanic gardens remain about plants and…

Plants from the Woods and Forests of Chile – linking our collections

…book and on display in the John Hope Gateway were all prepared from plants growing in UK gardens or native habitats in Chile. Many of the plants used are growing…

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…

Finding new species on social media

…via blogs or social media! Citizen scientist spend a huge amount of time taking photos and posting them on different social media. Scientists from RBGE have recently described two new…

Harvesting Collections for Social Benefit: Hidden Stories at the Herbarium of RBGE

…of years. But, while the data in these collections are nearly always open (e.g., the Royal Botanic Garden Herbarium has shared specimens with any who so request since at least…

Local network, social media and a new generic ginger record for Nepal

…we had shown him of E. linguiformis and contacted Nilmani. He had collected the plant in the nearby forest two years previously and planted it in his garden because of…

RBGE World War One Service Roll

…country. The publication of this list as an Official Record of the Garden will preserve for all time the story of the loyalty of our Garden Staff, and will carry,…

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…

Cupressus himalaica

64. Cupressus himalaica Silba CUPRESSACEAE Weeping Himalayan cypress; Bhutia: chandang, tchenden Woodcut after drawing by J.D. Hooker, from Hooker’s Himalayan Journals This tree, with beautiful drooping foliage, occurs wild in…

Picea smithiana

…Wallich in memory of Sir James Edward Smith, the ‘late immortal President of the Linnean Society’. It was introduced to cultivation by George Govan, Superintendent of Saharanpur Botanic Garden, who…

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…

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Dr Janet Fisher, Edinburgh University School of Geosciences

…bridges geography, ecology and social science, she has become particularly interested in growing understanding of the social dynamics underlying the nature and climate crises, “to help society approach these crises…

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…

Moutan Paeonies

One of the most historically important plants in RBGE is currently in flower in the Woodland Garden, immediately to the west of the old sweet chestnut tree opposite the Caledonian…