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From Darwin To Dinosaurs: Edinburgh Welcomes World’s Natural History Experts
From Darwin To Dinosaurs: Edinburgh Welcomes World’s Natural History Experts
A network of international experts, unable to meet since 2019, will finally gather in Edinburgh next week to discuss how best to preserve and manage the world’s priceless natural history collections. In the post pandemic world, awareness is higher…
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New Chair and Trustees appointed to Botanics Foundation Board
New Chair and Trustees appointed to Botanics Foundation Board
A new Chair and four Trustees have been appointed to the board of the Botanics Foundation, a charity formed to support the work of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE). Duncan Menzies, appointed as Chair, is joined by Trustees George…
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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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Go ahead for Edinburgh Biomes
Go ahead for Edinburgh Biomes
Go ahead for plans to safeguard the priceless collections of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has won the backing of city councillors to proceed with an ambitious £70m initiative to safeguard Scotland’s…
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Alpine Garden Society award for RBGE Horticultural Supervisor
Alpine Garden Society award for RBGE Horticultural Supervisor
Amongst the most popular areas of the Edinburgh Garden are the Rock Garden, Woodland Garden, Alpine Houses and Alpine Courtyard, which are home to plants from the mountains of the world, from the North American Penstemon to the South African…
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Compelling art gets to root of cultural removal and plant introductions
Compelling art gets to root of cultural removal and plant introductions
Consequences of bygone deeds reverberating down the centuries are explored in Shipping Roots, an exquisite, insightful and globally relevant new exhibition by Keg de Souza at Inverleith House from Friday, March 24 to Sunday, August 27. Occupying…
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Infested spruce can muster D-Day hope for health of trees
Infested spruce can muster D-Day hope for health of trees
Plant health experts have gathered at Dawyck Botanic Garden, in the Scottish Borders, to witness the dismantling of a century-old Brewer's weeping spruce (Picea breweriana), the latest casualty of Britain-wide infestations of the virulent pest, the…
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Advancing partnerships for Papua New Guinea and Scotland
Advancing partnerships for Papua New Guinea and Scotland
Warm welcomes were followed by long awaited catchups and planning exercises when research partner Thomas Magun from the Forest Research Institute, in Lae, Papua New Guinea (PNG-FRI) arrived at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) to meet…
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Indian botanical art captures plants on the move
Indian botanical art captures plants on the move
Historical drawings from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s rich collection of Indian botanical art, being showcased for the first time in a new exhibition, provide an insight into how plants have crossed the world, connected regions and left…
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Edinburgh Botanics retains Plant Healthy certification
Edinburgh Botanics retains Plant Healthy certification
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has retained its Plant Healthy accreditation, a year after it set new standards by becoming the first UK public garden to be part of the horticultural assurance scheme. At a time when the impact of pests…