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Four Prominent Botanical Institutions Announce Plans To Create First Online World Flora

Shauna Hay — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:16:17 +0100

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) and the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG), have announced plans to develop the World Flora—the first modern, online catalog of the world’s plants—to be made available by the year 2020.

New conservation initiative in Iraq

Alice Jacobs — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:00:02 +0100

Thanks to a £300,000 Grant from Defra’s Darwin Initiative, a major new three year conservation programme is starting in Iraq. Focusing on the mountainous region of Kurdistan the project will involve experts from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) and BirdLife International (BirdLife), in partnership with Iraqi NGO Nature Iraq (NI).

Science on a Plate

Sandra Donnelly — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:29:25 +0000

Foodies are in for a treat this spring with the launch of Science on a Plate, Scotland’s first Festival of Science and Food. Organised by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RGBE), thanks to a Scottish Government science engagement grant, the festival will explore science and gastronomy with hands-on events for everyone to enjoy. With Neil Forbes, chef director of Edinburgh’s Café St Honoré revealed as the festival’s figurehead.

Goverment aid for Botanic Garden

Sandra Donnelly — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:24:14 +0000

As clear-up operations continue to make good the storm-lashed grounds of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), the Scottish Government has announced funding of £128,183 to help tackle urgent repair costs across the organisation’s four sites.

The Nature of Metal at Dawyck Garden

Sandra Donnelly — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:10:43 +0000

Jackie Roberts was born in Castleford, West Yorkshire but spent eighteen years in Scotland before mo

Botanic Garden clear-up is boosted by Government aid

Hamish Adamson — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:54:32 +0000

Storm clear-up continues

Shauna Hay — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:04:51 +0000

The clear up operation at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is continuing in the wake of the severe weather on Tuesday, January 3. However, the Garden is open as usual.

Members' 2012 Tour and Day Visits Announced

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:50:41 +0000

Information on the 2012 Members' Tour and Day Visits is now available.

Royal honours for Regius Keeper

Charlotte McDonald — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:55:13 +0100

Twenty-ten brought royal recognition for the man who has intensified the national and international profile of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh this century.

Members' North Yorkshire Tour Report

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:38:18 +0100

41 Friends enjoyed a garden tour of North Yorkshire, 4-7 July, ably led by Nicola Lowe and Caroline Pearson. Accommodation was in two excellent hotels in the pretty village of Helmsley. Travel was by train to York and then coach.

The group was fortunate with the weather – the only appreciable rai