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The legacy of the Sabal Palm
The legacy of the Sabal Palm
Following the decant of the Living Collection, the last remaining specimen in the Palm Houses, the sabal palm (Sabal bermudana), was removed on 28 September. The two-hundred-year-old palm, which first grew at the Garden’s previous site at Leith…
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Local schools to benefit from Botanics’ construction works
Local schools to benefit from Botanics’ construction works
Staff and pupils at Trinity Primary School were excited to welcome an unusual delivery to the school gates this week – five tonnes of quality topsoil from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE). In total, 50 tonnes of earth, excavated from the…
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Transforming of a unique global treasure
Transforming of a unique global treasure
The true value of Scotland’s investment in environmental innovation, conservation, education and support for wellbeing has been at the heart of a visit by Mairi McAllan MSP, Minister for Environment, Biodiversity and Land Reform to the Royal…
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Heritage Fund awards £4 million to restore historic glasshouses
Heritage Fund awards £4 million to restore historic glasshouses
Funding will support re-display of rare and endangered historic plants The two A-Listed Victorian Palm Houses and a modernist range of 1960s glasshouses at the heart of the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh (RBGE) are to be restored thanks to a £4…
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Construction technology helps to protect the Botanics’ iconic trees
Construction technology helps to protect the Botanics’ iconic trees
While hard hats and diggers can be considered at odds with nature conservation, an innovative tree protection system at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), is combining the latest in construction technology with the need to protect a…
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Fire regimes challenge global theories on landscape degradation
Fire regimes challenge global theories on landscape degradation
Unprecedented levels of landscape degradation, centring on fire, have been making adverse headlines for the mega diverse habitats of Madagascar. Yet, while burn scars from past blazes are certainly a feature of the landscape, recent research…
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Counting the cost of summer storms
Counting the cost of summer storms
Winter in Scotland, bringing high levels of snow, ice, wind and rain, has long had a destructive effect on our natural and built environments. Increasingly however, it is the impact of freak summer weather – a consequence of climate change – which…
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Restoration contract awarded to Balfour Beatty
Restoration contract awarded to Balfour Beatty
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) – a world-leading centre of excellence in plant science, conservation, horticulture and education – has selected Balfour Beatty to restore its Grade-A Listed, Temperate and Tropical Palm Houses. The…
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Botanics' massive tree ferns on the move to Logan
Botanics' massive tree ferns on the move to Logan
Marking the start of Scotland's Climate Week 2022, a glade of seven-metre-tall Dicksonia antarctica tree ferns, growing for nearly 150 years in the temperate heat of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE)’s Glasshouses, will embark on an epic…
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Revealing a vision for the best practice of botanic gardens
Revealing a vision for the best practice of botanic gardens
New detail is being revealed on the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s radical £70m initiative to uphold its status as a world-leading centre for plant sciences, horticulture and conservation. Arguably the most ambitious undertaking of the Garden’s…