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A new chapter for Edinburgh’s iconic Palm Houses

A new chapter for Edinburgh’s iconic Palm Houses

After four years of vital conservation work, a new chapter is unfolding at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, as Horticulture teams prepare to return hundreds of remarkable botanical specimens home to the historic Palm Houses. Now unified into one…

The Cape Floristic Kingdom: BSS Lecture

The Cape Floristic Kingdom: BSS Lecture

The Botanics looks forward to hosting the Botanical Society of Scotland's next lecture on 16 October featuring Spencer C.H. Barrett. Many well-known ornamental groups have originated from the Cape. During the talk Spencer will include examples…

Sibbaldia: The International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture

Sibbaldia

Sibbaldia is a diamond open access journal which provides an opportunity for horticulturists and others in botanic gardens worldwide to share their expertise in maintaining and managing living collections. Horticulture in botanic gardens is…

A Green View at Logan Botanic Garden

Green Logan

Conservatory In 2014 a Victorian-styled conservatory was built. It was the first public glasshouse in the UK to be entirely heated by green energy sources. The Conservatory, which is also Logan’s first public glasshouse, generates its own heat…

Regulations - Library and Archives

General Library Regulations

The Library and Archives of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) are national reference collections and, as such, are open to all. Access to the collections is on the understanding that you agree to abide by our regulations which are essential…

Travel trade and groups

Groups and travel trade

Garden 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…

Our history

Our history

Founded near Holyrood Abbey in 1670 as a physic garden growing medicinal plants, to its present day role as a global centre for biodiversity science, horticulture and education, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has had a remarkable history over…