📣 On the anniversary of Robert Burns’ birth, #TeamRBGE staff will join e-Sgoil for a special #ScotlandsAssembly! Burns was ‘nature’s bard’; he loved, and wanted to protect, Scotland’s landscapes, plants and animals, making this the perfect date to learn about our native plants⬇️

Visiting varied natural pops of Yellow Marsh Saxifrage, we found the scarce and declining Woolly Feather Moss. So Becca & Olly are hunting for 19 sites for this moss looking for Sax translocation sites 🕵️Watch this space! #NatureRestorationFund #TeamRBGE #ScottishPlantRecovery

Seedlings of hope with RBGE Scottish Plants: stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/38488 #Scotland #Assynt #restoration NatureScot

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Planting Connections gave an interactive, virtual tour of our nursery to primary schools 🌿🍎📜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿! An adventure that jumped from poetry, to catching drones, to eating cardboard apples, to the plight of Scottish plants on the brink of extinction. Join the fun👇

BBC News - 'Lord of the Rings' tree joined by wych elm seedlings - BBC News bbc.com/news/articles/…

For all our Instagram followers, tune into Dr Max's live tour of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh this evening 6pm to find out about our Scottish Plant Conservation work🌱 instagram.com/rbgedinburgh Max will be appearing live each week 6pm Wed & 9am Thurs. Tune in live or watch back in your own time

🌳 Wonderful to see Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh' Scottish Plant Recovery project funding from the #NatureRestorationFund, managed by NatureScot, helping to protect and grow disease resistant saplings from the Beauly Elm - believed to be Europe's oldest wych elm. orlo.uk/Nature_Restora…

🍂🎶 From crisp autumn air to crisp singing notes, sign up to the Botanics Choir's new term and be a part of our singing community. Delve into a repertoire of plant-based songs inspired by the changing season! No experience necessary and no auditions 👉 rbge.cc/BotanicsChoir-…

Really important piece explaining why Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh' work on less-charismatic species and biomes is so vital. We expand knowledge of cerrado, savanna, tropical dry forests, monodominant stands, bryophytes, lichens, understorey herbs & fungi, among others! #biodiversity

🌿💼🐜 Come on a fieldtrip to Norway with RBGE Scottish Plants and @WoodlandTrust to investigate the Small cow-wheat – a threatened species in Scotland that is growing well in similar habitats in Norway. Part of Net Zero Scotland's #NatureRestorationFund programme with NatureScot 💚

It was an honour to present this keynote, and share NatureScot work on Gene Conservation Units for trees (with @scavers_at_wk and Tom Sim), improving habitat for range-edge Great Crested Newts (with Richard Lockett and Forestry and Land Scotland), and Aline Finger's work on Cicerbita!

Be more ant! Our RBGE Scottish Plants team will do whatever it takes to restore Scotland's threatened populations of #smallcowwheat. Read more in this #BotanicsStory: stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/39294 #generationrestoration

Conserving Scottish native plants Balmoral Castle in partnership with Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Wonderful team effort planting this week of Cicerbita alpina, commonly known as the alpine sow-thistle. #conservation

Booking is now open for the 2024 Scottish Botanists' Conference Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh! We have a great mix of talks, workshops and exhibits planned, and places are filling fast! #ScotBotanistsConf Head to bsbi.org/scottish-annua… to find out more and book your place.

Join us to learn about conservation work to preserve the beautiful but threatened Small Cow-wheat (Melampyrum sylvaticum), led by RBGE Scottish Plants. Fantastic photo by Bob Gibbons for the BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland photographic competition

Great to be continuing the work with the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh on the re-introduction of alpine blue sow-thistle to the estate. Based on the success of the planting to date, last week a further 250 plants were added to each of the Mar Lodge sites.

🌸 One of our rarest plants, the Alpine blue sow-thistle, is making a come-back thanks to some clever 'match-making' to produce healthy new seeds for planting. 📖 Check out the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh blog for the full story ➡️ orlo.uk/V0WrW #NatureRestorationFund

RBGE Scottish Plants kicking us off at #Scotbotanistsconf with a great talk on the threatened Small Cow-wheat, and how we can help its dwindling populations!

We're recruiting for an exciting new #PhD project in #mountain #woodland restoration! "The genetic diversity & adaptive potential of mountain birch in Scotland for high-altitude nature recovery" hosted by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, University of Stirling & Forest Research Apply here: iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/t…

Don't miss your chance to apply for this exiting horticulture job with Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh NRF Scottish Plant Recovery team, to help cultivation and restoration of some of Scotland's most threatened plants. More details here 👉 rbge.cc/Jobs Deadline midday tomorrow, 16 Jan!