Botanics vegetable book available
Growing your own vegetables is a new title from the staff at RBGE written by members of our Education department and the team behind the Edible Gardening project. It is full of hints and tips, space-saving ideas and information for those starting out. Whatever the space you have available this book will help you grow the food you want to eat and keep you harvesting all year round.
Green Universe - A Microscopic Voyage into the Plant Cell
Professor Stephen Blackmore, Regius Keeper RBGE, Published in association with Papadakis Publisher
In Green Universe, RBGE Regius Keeper Stephen Blackmore takes us on a journey through time and space – from the origin of the first cells more than three billion years ago, through their complex intertwined history, to the myriad forms they now take and the perfectly-adapted organs and organisms they make up. Although we cannot live without them we tend to take plants for granted, as though they were all more or less the same, when nothing could be further from the truth. The more closely we look at the world around us, the more we can understand our own place in the complex web of life.
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Wild Flowers book available
Wild Flowers: a sketchbook by Charles and John Raven, edited by Henry Noltie has been published by RBGE and is available to buy in the shop. Click here to buy, or here for more information.
The book includes drawings made between 1930 and 1935, largely the work of the remarkable father-and-son team: Canon Charles Raven (1885-1964), who was a distinguished theologian, naturalist and historian of science, and his son John (1914-1980), a classics don and passionate field botanist. In 1942 the Ravens wrote ten chapters intended to accompany a selection of their drawings, explaining how the collection was made. The chapters are published here for the first time, 70 years after their conception, in time to celebrate the centenary of Mary Raven, who made some of the early drawings. The book has an Introduction by Henry Noltie.
Sibbaldia 9 published
The latest edition of our Horticultural Journal Sibbaldia is now available to buy. Click here for further details and contact us to buy.
Living Collection book available
Our latest project The Living Collection is now available to buy through the publications department, in our Botanics Shops and through the buy online facility. To order a copy contact us here or visit the General Interest Page for more information.
New Forest book published
In celebration of the International Year of the Forest 2011 and with support from Forestry Commission Scotland we have produced a book of Tales from the Forest. Nine traditional stories accompanied by original illustrations from Edinburgh based illustrator Eri Griffin. The book will be used at the Garden to help us celebrate the Scottish Internation Storytelling Festival in October so look out for upcoming events.
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Hope Book revised
To accompany the summer exhibition at Inverleith House RBGE was pleased to bring out a revised version of Alan G. Morton's Memoir of a Scottish Botanist, an updated and expanded edition of the life and work of Regius Keeper John Hope. The work reflects new and important discoveries made by the author, Henry Noltie, during work on the Hope archives.
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