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🎉👏 Celebrating one million specimens in our digital Herbarium! Available online for free, our collection provides essential data to classify plants and fungi, understand biodiversity change and build a positive future for plants, people and the planet 👉
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Pat Clifford teaching our intern Hazel how to remove the older leaves of the Giant water lily
#rbgehort
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We are so delighted to announce that our four Gardens will reopen on Wednesday 1 July. It is an ideal opportunity for communities local to the Gardens to reconnect with the wonderful world of plants. Read our reopening update here:
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🍃🏷️ PART 2 – See how a collection is made for a Herbarium specimen! We're back in the Sarawak rainforest with Tropical Botanist
@Scaphium
to see how a botanical collection is pressed in the field before it is ultimately incorporated into the Sarawak and Edinburgh herbaria.
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Take a virtual walk through our Azalea Lawn which is bursting with colour right now. 🌺
#virtualspring
📷:
@meadowmania
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A fleeting highlight of the spring season, our Campbell's Magnolia (Magnolia campbellii) has been admired by many visitors in the Edinburgh Garden's Silent Space this week.
Here are a few facts we think you should mag-know-lia about these magnificent trees 🌸🔽
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It’s re-opening day! We are delighted to welcome you back to our Gardens. We’ve missed you. For those visiting Edinburgh, here is a sneak peek of what to expect as you re-explore the Garden.
#welcomeback
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The
#EdinburghBiomes
will soon become reality following £50m investment from the
@scotgov
Low Carbon Fund. The commitment will address a failing infrastructure, provide societal benefit & help us tackle the climate change and biodiversity crisis. More here
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Narcissus ‘Jet Fire’ and Prunus x yedoensis blowing in the spring breeze.
#VirtualSpring
📷
@meadowmania
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The skies might be grey but our Azalea Lawn is full of colour.
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💙 Join a guided walk to learn more about the Living Collection at our Edinburgh Garden, led by our garden guides!
Tours start daily at 11am from the John Hope Gateway and cost £8 per person. No advanced booking necessary 👉
📷 Meconopsis 'Slieve Donard'
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These Meconopsis ‘Slieve Donard’ are looking rather marvelous at the minute. 🌟
#virtualsummer
📷:
@meadowmania
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The
#paintedlady
butterflies have definitely arrived in
#Edinburgh
. There's an incredible influx of them enjoying
@thebotanics
right now
@savebutterflies
#butterflycount
📷 Lynsey Wilson.
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Today we welcomed Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE).
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Our aquatic plant experts and scientists have uncovered a new water lily, hiding in plain sight! 💮
The beautiful yellow water lily has now been identified as a hybrid between the introduced Nuphar advena & the native Nuphar lutea.
Read more here:
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🎉🎈It's the moment we've been waiting for! New Reekie, our supreme Titan Arum, is beginning to bloom and you can come and see it.
Entry to the Glasshouses is free and ticketed, with time slots on Thu 1 Aug and Fri 2 Aug between 11am and 5.30pm 👉
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We’re thrilled to welcome Lisa Roet’s Golden Monkey to
@RBGECreative
👏
The sculpture takes the form of a snub-nose monkey, highlighting the plight of the increasingly endangered primates and the urgent action needed on climate change.
Discover more at:
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#teamrbge
gathers to celebrate our 350th anniversary at today’s staff conference
#Botanics350
- Responding to the
#BiodiversityCrisis
and
#ClimateEmergency
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Royal recognition for the
@BotanicCottage
. Officially opened this morning by HRH The Princess Royal
@RoyalFamily
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Nelumbo nucifera, often called the sacred lotus, is flowering at the moment in our glasshouses.
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We support
@Botanygeek
for starting conversations about race in horticulture and for speaking out about his own experiences of racism.
At the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, we are working hard to create a more just and equal future:
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We are so excited about the BBC’s new series
#GreenPlanet
🌿by Sir David Attenborough, starting this Sunday.
#Didyouknow
40% of plants are estimated to be threatened with extinction? In this race against time, our work has never been more important.
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Our Himalayan Blue Poppies (Meconopsis "Slieve Donard") flowering in the Woodland Garden today
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Passiflora alata filling the Lowland Tropics glasshouse with their scent 🌸
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Pulsatilla grandis, commonly known as the greater pasqueflower, blooming near the alpine glasshouse.
📷
@meadowmania
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The distinctive “signature” of the zigzag elm sawfly (Aproceros leucopoda) might conjure images of Zorro, but RBGE scientists confirm it heralds the arrival of a new pest in the UK and could threaten elm-dependent insects
#planthealth
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#DidYouKnow
Scotland has its own rainforests and that they are home to more than 1,500 different species of lichens? 🍃
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Hidden World of Mosses by bryologist Dr Neil Bell will be published on 31 March!
This guide explores the intriguing environments of these plants that have their own miniature forests filled with grazers and predators 🍃
Available from Friday:
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📣👀 New Reekie, our Amorphophallus titanum, is expected to flower this week and we're inviting you to come and see it.
The plant will keep us guessing up until the last minute, so the dates are still TBC! We'll let you know how to book your free, ticketed viewing slot soon.
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Congratulations to Prof Pete Hollingsworth, Director of Science and Deputy Keeper
@TheBotanics
, awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours for services to botanical sciences. More here:
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Take a deep breath… The shaggy locks of lichens adorning the trees at Dawyck is an indicator of very clean air.
#Lichens
don’t harm the trees. They do add to the biodiversity of habitats, helping to keep ecosystems healthy and more resilient.
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Our four Gardens will reopen on Wednesday 1 July with new health and safety measures in place. If you are planning to visit the Edinburgh Garden, you must book a time slot online in advance. Book a time slot today for visits up to 15 July at .
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#DYK
that Waverley station stands on the former site of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh between 1675 – 1763? Originally founded near
#HolyroodPalace
in 1670, a larger site was leased at Trinity College Hospital near the Nor Loch, enabling the Garden to expand
#Botanics350
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We're delighted to share some wonderful news - we have been awarded £375,000 from People's Postcode Lottery 🤩
A huge thank you to the players of
@PostcodeLottery
for their support. The funding will enable our Edible Gardening Project to keep on growing!
👉
@EdibleGarden1
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Here's some colourful Rhododendron obtusum to brighten up your Saturday. ☀️🌺
📷:
@meadowmania
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What better way to start off the new week than with the beautiful Magnolia sieboldii ssp. sinensis? 🌼
#virtualspring
📷:
@meadowmania
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Highlights from
#NewReekie
's full, glorious (& stinky) bloom last night. It's still looking good this morning but might flag towards the end of the day, especially if pollination was successful. Follow
@TitanArumRBGE
to see how it's looking throughout the day
📷
@duncanreddish
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The beautiful Yoshino cherry, Prunus x yedoensis, flowering by the East Gate
#VirtualSpring
📷
@meadowmania
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It might be a dreich day out there today, but our Rhododendron Walk is offering a welcome display of colour this afternoon 🌧️🌺
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While the Garden remains closed until further notice, we will work to share stories from our collections and showcase the spring highlights from our four Gardens with you, as best we can.
Image: Magnolia campbellii ‘Charles Rafill’, currently flowering next to Inverleith House
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💚💪 Time for Scotland to weigh in on the action!
We take on the
#WaterlilyWeighOff24
, as challenged by
@denverbotanic
. With a very Scottish twist up our sleeves (we're looking at you
@irnbru
) and a guest appearance from Marley, the Botanics cat, do we have what it takes to win?
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Be part of our 350th-anniversary celebrations🎉 Find out more about our year-long programme of events to celebrate the scientific and horticultural achievements of the past 350 years at
#Botanics350
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Opening this weekend 🎉
These otherworldly images are from
#WeirdPlants
, an exhibition of illustrations by
@thorogoodchris1
, from the
@OBGHA
@kewgardens
book, which reveal the weird, wonky and sinister plant specimens encountered during his travels
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25-year-old mystery solved 🔎 🔬
A new species of plant has been named after the late botanist Rose Clement, more than 25 years after her research indicated that it was probably unknown to science.
Read the full story at:
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💚👩🔬 Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
!
Back in 1892, the first women gardeners were employed at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – two of whom went on to establish the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women.
As of March 2024, women now make up 59% of our staff body! ⬇️
#TeamRBGE
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Following yesterday's announcement from the First Minister, the Botanics remains open for local outdoor recreation and exercise.
Full information on visiting the Garden can be found at:
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🔬🌱 Celebrate International Day of Women in Science with our series From Biomes to Botany, spotlighting some of the brilliant women in the
@RBGE_Science
team delivering high-impact research on biodiversity and conservation programmes around the world👉
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Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas from everyone at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh🌟
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Artist Işık Güner, shows the scale of the
@TitanArumRBGE
triptych, despite them being 3/4 of the real plant size.
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Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh ✨🎄
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We're celebrating all the wonderful trees in our care for
@scottishgdns
first
#ScottishTreeFestival
with
@VisitScotland
. Head to one of the 70+ events taking place across Scotland 👉 For more info about Scottish gardens, visit
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World’s oldest Floral Clock blooms in honour of the RBGE's 350th anniversary. This year’s intricate design was unveiled by Frank Ross, Edinburgh’s Lord Provost, Simon Milne, RBGE’s Regius Keeper, Council Parks’ team & RBGE Horticulturists.
Read more at:
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💚 Blooming marvellous! These amazing photographs were taken inside the Glasshouses last night as New Reekie reached its peak bloom – and stench.
We're so excited to welcome 1400 visitors into the Glasshouses over the next two days to view our magnificent Amorphophallus titanum!
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It's only one day until we re-open our gates. To give you a sneak peek of what you have missed, our resident photographer, Lynsey Wilson, has captured a series of shots of the flowers currently in bloom in our Edinburgh Garden
#welcomeback
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The lollipop flower heads of Primula denticulata from the Himalaya, currently flowering in the lower woodland garden.
#VirtualSpring
📷
@meadowmania
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The Sabal Palm – the last specimen to be removed from the Palm Houses 🌴
Standing alone in the Tropical Palm House following the decant of the Living Collection, the Garden’s oldest known plant, the Sabal Palm (Sabal bermudana), will be felled on 28 September.
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The beautiful Galanthus ‘Ailwyn’.
Three graceful outer petals frame a neatly packed rosette, making it one of the loveliest double snowdrops to be found. Discover it this weekend in the Alpine House.
#ScottishSnowdropFestival
#SnowdropFestival
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As spring unfolds, we want to bring the seasonal highlights of our four Gardens to everyone at home, courtesy of our horticulture staff on site who are caring for our world-leading collection of plants. See more at . We will share more as the bloom unfolds
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The Rock Garden looking fantastic in the sunshine this afternoon.
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Exploring the weird and wonderful plants in our Glasshouses today is botanist and artist of
#WeirdPlants
exhibition,
@thorogoodchris1
.
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We're excitedly awaiting the opening of
#TheLostWords
exhibition feat. original artwork & letterpress poems by
@RobGMacfarlane
&
@JackieMorrisArt
. It launches on 19 May with a nature writing festival feat. an impressive array of literary & artistic talent
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Join us for our first ever festival of nature writing & illustration 19/20 May. A unique opportunity to (re)connect with the natural world through inspirational talks, lively Q&A sessions, workshops & tours against the backdrop of
#TheLostWords
exhibition
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In honour of The International
#WomenInScienceDay
, we would like to thank all the incredible women ensuring RBGE continues to excel as a world-class scientific institution, being at the forefront of plant science and horticulture 🌱🔬👩🔬
#teamrbge
#February11
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The renovation of the iconic Palm House has hit a new milestone with the restoration of glass, iron and stone now underway!
Read the full update
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Our
@TitanArumRBGE
flowered for the 4th time in its 20 years of life this June. Watch the video below to watch it
#floweringdigitally
.
More information 👇
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We’re admiring the warming colours of Siebold’s maple (Acer sieboldianum) on this chilly Edinburgh afternoon 🍁
Grab your raincoat and visit the Rock Garden to see the maple in all its splendour...
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Happy New Year! 2020 marks the 350th anniversary of RBGE. We hope you’ll join us in celebrating with our year-long programme of events, as we trace our progress from 17th century physic garden to world-leading botanic garden
#botanics350
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💙 Cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus) were once an unwelcome sight in Scottish fields. Farmers cursed the weeds' tough stems for blunting sickles at harvest.
Today it's endangered in the wild. Its seeds have long since been cleansed from grain and Scottish farmers curse it no more!
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Saturday morning sunshine at the Botanics ☀️
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We are delighted to have secured a major
@OutsetArt
Award, announced today, which will allow Inverleith House to transform into
#ClimateHouse
for a three year arts programme including collaborations with
@SerpentineUK
. Read more at
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Botanic Lights is back with a magical new illuminated trail. 13 Oct - 6 Nov (exc Mondays).
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Victoria amazonica, otherwise known as the giant waterlily, has long been part of botanical garden collections around the world.
#DidYouKnow
, we have a dedicated team that sows their seeds in January so they can spectacularly unfurl in summer?
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It’s
#WorldMentalHealthDay
🌳
Spending time outdoors can greatly benefit mental and physical well-being, so even if the sun doesn’t shine this weekend, we hope you can find some time to enjoy the magic of being outdoors...
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For the past 12 weeks a huge effort has been made behind the scenes to care for our Collections. This film shows how a small team of horticultural staff across our four Gardens have worked tirelessly on a rotational basis to tend the Living Collection 👉
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We have published a new hardback telling the story of 100 fascinating plant species, all threatened with extinction in the wild. World of Plants, Stories of Survival features stunning images and tells the story of each plant. Buy it now:
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...and it's still growing!
#NewReekie
has grown another 5cm in the past 24 hours.
@TitanArumRBGE
now stands at a whopping 281cm
#weirdplants
#amorphophallustitanum
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In a difficult year for tourism, we welcomed more visitors than any other attraction in Scotland, reflecting the role that the Garden was able to play in providing a safe, green space for people to enjoy during Covid-19.
Continue reading at:
@alva_uk
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Primula denticulata, flowering in the Woodland Garden.
Did you know that on the east coast of Scotland this species is known as the Kirrie Dumpling?
The name is derived from the shape of flower head displaying a resemblance to a dumpling and its link to the town of Kirriemuir.
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Tonight's the night,
@TitanArumRBGE
is blooming! To share this botanical spectacle, we’re staying open late this evening. Visit 7pm - 10pm (last entry) and snap a selfie with
#NewReekie
the Third
#corpseflower
#Amorphophallustitanum
#ScotlandIsNow
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Is the long-held fear of losing the beloved British bluebell unfounded?
New research from
@RBGE_Science
& partners published today
@plantspplplanet
indicates that the threat to native
#bluebells
from the Spanish ‘invader’ is not what we thought it was 👉
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We are privileged to hold a number of exquisite paintings by botanical artist Lilian Snelling completed during her time
@thebotanics
(1916-1922)
#CultureInQuarantineMW
#collectionsunited
Illustrations taken from our latest book
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Opening today! See
@thorogoodchris1
's extraordinary illustrations of botanical oddities in our new exhibition
#WeirdPlants
, in collaboration with
@OBGHA
&
@kewgardens
Open daily, free entry
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