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…in our database. When this planting matures we hope that it will not only be appreciated for its floral display but also the stories that each plant can tell. …
One of the giant cypresses at Tokaling The International Dendrology Society is an organisation for tree enthusiasts from around the world, most of whom grow trees in their gardens and…
Cornus capitata FED 331 1995.2647 by Inverleith House In previous Botanics Stories I have written about the joys of Herbarium Angling, but fusty old botanists do occasionally emerge into the…
…University of Glasgow and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The project “Harvesting Collections for Social and Scientific Benefit: Hidden Stories at the Herbarium of RBGE” was funded by Scottish Crucible….
…memorial here, but I like to think that thanks to email enquiries, researchers, information gleaned form historic records and outlets such as Botanics Stories we can remember men like him….
…Edinburgh Living Landscape (ELL), the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is exploring Lichens as Air Quality Indicators. This is a joint project between The Conservation… Latest Stories RBGE Botanic Cottage Garden…
…One of these, a Yellowhammer, seen in the Ecological Garden area by one of the Visitor Welcome Team on 3rd (for more details see http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/13782), was a new post-1997 Garden…
The lawn is a wonderful thing; a living surface that acts as a foil to the plant collection. It serves as a meeting place for family gatherings and effectively fuses…
…Botanics Stories. In an earlier Botanics story –Tracing the source of the Tjipetir mystery – I talked about gutta percha blocks produced at the end of the 19th century from…
This last week we have all been enjoying the Campbell’s Magnolia (Magnolia cambellii ‘Charles Raffill’) that stands next to Inverleith House. It has been spectacular. Our specimen is adopted in…
…in the Garden. This will be a project that I will continue to look at and share through Botanics Stories and Facebook. I will also share a few words of…
…Edinburgh) & Roger Hyam (RBGE) All Project Soothe Stories What soothes you? We are excited to have created an exhibition with the Project Soothe team at the University of Edinburgh…
…a great way to break the ice and get thinking about food security in Scotland. Our collaborators, community members from North Edinburgh, all had different stories relating to food security…
National Tree Week marks the traditional start of the winter tree planting season. We are celebrating from the 23rd November to the 1st December. “National Tree Week is the UK’s…
I’ve spent the last few days working on the data pipeline I first mentioned in The Cloud Lottery that is Scottish satellite imagery. This pipeline consists of a series of…
…I had taken in order to compile the November Garden Wildlife Report for Botanics Stories, that I noticed that not all the barkflies I had thought were Ectopsocus briggsi were…
…of a sparrowhawk while strolling through the wooded areas of the garden. More sparrowhawk news to come and if you have any sparrowhawk stories of your own, please feel free…
…for sharing some of the genealogical research. For information on the Royal Scots in Gallipoli click here. To read all of the RBGE WW1 Botanics Stories posted so far, including…
…16 June had black legs and so were identified as Brachypterus glaber. “Species 700” was Tree Bumblebee, recorded on 6th July last year – see http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/12094 . It has therefore…
…pitch perfect timing so with minimum props you feel immersed within the ash forest at all seasons and in all weathers. The touching human stories are intertwined in a playful…