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Easily introduced to the garden when lifting and dividing Snowdrops from another area; Allium paradoxum is an invasive coloniser of cultivated ground. This form of wild garlic has a mild…
David Reid Tait (left) on Christmas Island When I was contacted by Dr Bill Lynch in August 2018 with a query about a former RBGE gardener called David R. Tait…
Up-ending drake Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), 21 December 2017. Photo Robert Mill. December 2017 was a mixture in terms of weather, with several cold snaps and frosty mornings, as well as…
As an intern at Logan, visitors often ask me questions about the garden while I’m working in the beds. One of the plants I am most frequently asked about is…
Worth a visit; the Alpine House is displaying the best of spring colour. It is undeniable that protected cultivation allows a display of colour and interest to get a month’s…
This Sunday, 2 June 2019, there is a chance to hear poetry read in the Botanic Cottage, with afternoon tea and nature-inspired poems from award-winning and widely published poets. Booking…
The Poppy Field at RBGE. Photo Tony Garn. With the dry, warm weather this autumn the Annual Poppy, Papaver rhoeas, has produced a timely show of flowers to add colour…
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…
Boat trip on Lake Tisza, Hungary during the final workshop – and imminent thunderstorm. Developing strategies to manage high-end climate change in Scotland and Europe IMPRESSIONS (Impacts and risks from…
The Scottish native wild apple (Malus sylvestris), like the Scottish wild cat, could be regarded as being under threat from interbreeding with its domesticated counterpart. In the cat’s case this…
Thanks to a project funded by the US National Science Foundation, a collaborative effort between Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) and New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) has enabled the digitisation…
As with all other aspects of our lives, the Coronavirus pandemic has impacted on the scholarly communication process. With most libraries closed, a number of publishers have made content that…
On the alpine wall with no appreciable rain forecast is a bright yellow composite. Baking in the heat and loving the root run through the free draining alpine wall Gazania…
Since September I have been working, on and off, on the fantastic collection of Indian botanical drawings at our sister organisation, Kew. This started out when asked to select some…
With the flowering of our titan arum for the third time this summer minds have been turning to how we can help our plant, fondly called New Reekie, to reproduce….
The tatties produced by the ‘Edinburgh potato’ were recently revealed to the world on BBC Landward and it’s fair to say this potato is not destined to be appearing in…
Euonymus are a genus of evergreen and deciduous woody plants. They have a habit of producing variegated sports which are then nurtured and bulked up by the nursery trade. Some…
Calder’s name on the First World War memorial in the reception at RBGE. Andrew Ewing Calder was born in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, on the 12th January 1884 to Robert Calder, a…
As Botanics Stories is a live site we have a third party service monitoring its performance. The two graphs below show the performance over the last thirty days. The site…
…through estimation of divergence times and ancestral areas for Caatinga lineages. This is important for clarifying the putative roles of dispersal, biome-shifting, and in situ speciation as well as their…