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Palm Houses Open

Palm Houses Open

This completed a landmark point in the most ambitious restoration project in the Garden's 356-year history, ensuring the protection of a unique and globally important plant collection. Amongst the top four botanic gardens in the world, the Garden…

Ferns and Lycophytes

Ferns

Ferns and lycophytes include horsetails, clubmosses, spikemosses and quillworts. They are ancient groups, with fossil evidence for lycophytes appearing 420 million years ago and ferns 360 million years ago. Around 90% of current diversity in these…

Guided walks at Logan

Guided walks at Logan

Accessibility

Access

Logan welcomes all visitors and aims to provide the best possible access to everyone in order that they enjoy their visit whatever their specific requirements. Logan provides: A map with designated route for wheelchair and mobility scooter…

Travel trade and groups

Groups and travel trade

Guided tours

Garden tours

Moving our Living Collection

Moving our Living Collection

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is home to some of the world’s rarest and most threatened plants, with a third of the collection growing in the Glasshouses. To safeguard this globally important plant collection, the celebrated Grade A Listed…

Protecting endangered species

Protecting endangered species

Did you know that almost one third of the Botanics’ magnificent Living Collection of plants is grown behind-the-scenes in our 17 Research Glasshouses? The facilities support RBGE’s core activities including the conservation and propagation of…

Return of the Living Collection

Return of the Living Collection

How do you get a nine-metre-high plant through a two-metre-high doorway? After four years of restoration work, our Horticulture team is finally replanting the Palm Houses, starting with large palms and tree ferns including an enormous Trachycarpus…