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Eleventh hour hope for the planet lies in botany without boundaries
Eleventh hour hope for the planet lies in botany without boundaries
Joint work, international collaboration and equity are key to addressing environmental sustainability in our time. That is the message from Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), where against the backdrop of the global pandemic, scientists,…
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From the tiniest seedlings to the tallest trees
From the tiniest seedlings to the tallest trees
At over eight metres tall and several tonnes in weight, Trachycarpus princeps isn’t the daintiest of botanical specimens. Nonetheless, the palm, a rarity in cultivation and, therefore, one of the most important trees at the Royal Botanic Garden…
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351-year-old Botanics hosts the Antiques Roadshow
351-year-old Botanics hosts the Antiques Roadshow
What connects the Scottish Cup, a stunning opal necklace and the magnificent Victorian Palm House at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE)? The surprising answer is the ‘Antiques Roadshow’, the BBC’s popular, long-running series, where all…
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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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