Where we work

RBGE is a highly international scientific botanic garden. Our science builds on collaborative partnerships, many established over decades or even centuries of working together. Our work is guided by key international policies including the…

What We Do

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh delivers world-leading plant science, conservation and education programmes.  Our mission is to ‘Explore, Conserve and Explain the World of Plants for a Better Future'.  All life is dependent on plants and…

Schools

Covid-19 Schools Update Our Schools programmes are currently on hold due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We’re working hard to get schools safely back to the garden as soon as possible. We have missed welcoming you and your classes to our gardens and…

Benmore Botanic Garden

For true drama visit Benmore Botanic Garden, renowned for its fine collections of rhododendrons and conifers grown to immense stature in a mountain landscape.  Benmore's 120 acres feature a world-famous collection of plants from the Orient and the…

Dawyck Botanic Garden

Dawyck Botanic Garden is a five star Garden renowned for its seasonal displays of snowdrops, bluebells, rhododendrons, azaleas, blue poppies and autumn colour. Located in the hills of the Scottish Borders, 65-acre Dawyck enjoys an almost…

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Botanic Garden grows links with Nepal

Two centuries of activity dedicated to the plants of the Himalaya has fostered a unique role for the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in the relationship between Nepal and the United Kingdom. Such was the declaration of His Excellency Dr Durga…

Celebrating 70 years of Indian Independence

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of Indian Independence with a self-guided trail of plants in the Garden, and the publication of a new book about the Indian botanical drawings in its collection.  It is…

International agreements for plant conservation

With over 20 per cent of plant species considered at risk of extinction, and many tens of thousands still awaiting discovery, three world-leading research institutes in Scotland and China have signed landmark agreements to address the challenges…

Celebrating partnerships in plants at Benmore and beyond

Shared experiences in art, science and horticulture spanning more than two centuries are brought bang up to date and celebrated in contemporary style with Flora of Nepal, this year’s summer exhibition at Benmore Botanic Garden until August…