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Antiques Roadshow shines a light on Botanics' rare Darwin specimen
Antiques Roadshow shines a light on Botanics' rare Darwin specimen
A botanical specimen collected by Charles Darwin and preserved at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is one of the rare objects examined by Fiona Bruce in this week’s episode of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow. The gentian Gentianella…
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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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Secret identity of a renowned Sabal revealed
Secret identity of a renowned Sabal revealed
A much-loved palm, nurtured over two centuries at one of the world’s leading plant science and conservation institutes, has been unveiled as a botanical enigma. Nearly a year after it was felled at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), experts…
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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…