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…new Garden record (the 750th, as previously reported in Botanics Stories: http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/16009) and the weevils Phyllobius maculicornis and Polydrusus formosus made their annual appearance on the hornbeam hedge in the…
…and 1932. He tells of his experiences as he travels through the country, and I hope to be able to share some of his stories from his letters, in particular…
…usually fruitless, but this time it wasn’t long before I actually did spot a name still familiar to everyone, especially now that his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes are…
…more such stories of the trees of the gardens. William Hinchliffe Thank you for commenting. Explore the rest of of the Botanics Stories Archive for more interesting stories about the…
…attract endemic geckos ( more information here – https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/25796 ) Based on literature it is endemic birds which is similar to the hummingbird pollinators in Central and South America. I…
…– Botanics Stories (2020) Barcoding Britain’s Liverworts – progress to date – Botanics Stories (2017) A mixed message on PCR additives in Aneura – Botanics Stories (2016) The Aneura Working…
…Botanics flour. At the first meeting of the group it was decided to explore the use of video for communicating stories of food, in particular the barriers to nutritious food…
In August 2017 Dr Colin Pendry led an expedition to Bajura, a remote district of Nepal. This short film is about the challenges of reaching the higher altitudes where the…
…and Mark Hughes from our Tropical section, Dr Michelle Hart and myself from Scientific and Technical Services and Drs Kuo-Fang Chang and Yu-Hsin Chen from the Academia Sinica, Taiwan. https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/16411…
…records (in books, journals and online databases), summarised in another Botanics Story (https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/28661, posted on 3 May) yielded a further 5 mammals, 21 birds, one butterfly, one moth and 25…
Ellie Harrison’s Early Warning Signs, Sign 1/4 outside Inverleith House, RBGE, 2021. Photograph by Tom Nolan. In a time of such unpredictable global conditions, we can’t pull ourselves away from…
…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…
…landscape http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/24333 Campylopus introflexus, an invasive alien on the glasshouse roof http://stor/ies.rbge.org.ukarchives/24359 The trials and tribulations of a moss in the lab: DNA extraction http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/24399 Copying moss DNA in the…
Last week we reported a branch failure in the Nothofagus betuloides in the Secret Garden: https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/28644 The decision was made to remove this tree and a Nothofagus solandri due to…
…bead-to-sample to reduce the adaptor peaks in the libraries that we used for sequencing. Hybridisation Pool 4: before and after bead-cleaning (1:1 bead-to-sample ratio) https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/29728…
…stories? Roscoea humeana from RBGE’s glass plate negative collection. David Hume David Hume was born on the 12th September 1888 at 30 Colville Place, Edinburgh to Peter and Davina Hume….
…Our next step will be to clean some of the IK31 DNA extraction and repeat the sonication experiment, to see if the results become more consistent between replicates. https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/29771…
…100% pass rate. RBGE also delivers 2 undergraduate courses for ESALA which have their own stories! The team working on this project were: Education – Greg Kenicer, Monika Polak, Kate…
A short video by Dr Linda Neaves about the challenges of finding giant panda poo in the mountains of China, and how poo samples can unlock the mystery of the…
As 2018 nears its end, here are a couple of blogposts telling the stories behind two fern books from the shelves of the Royal Botanic Garden Library. Both books were…