Just the best specimen in autumn Dawyck Botanic Garden Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh #horticulture well, one of them, not to show bias...

BOOK NOW for ‘Horticultural Appropriation’, an online discussion on 19 October between Head of Creative Programmes, Emma Nicolson and organic food grower and writer CLAIRE | RATINON on the necessity of bringing a decolonial lens to the practice of horticulture. eventbrite.co.uk/e/187558832517

This Sunday is our Bring & Buy Plant Sale A host of great value plants and shrubs to try out in your garden. Recycle your old plants too, pot them up or pop them in a bag, with a label, and hand them in between 2pm and 4pm on Sat 16th or bring them with you on the day. 10am-3pm

First time in the research collection Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for over a year. The amazingly diverse Begonia collection is doing well as we prepare for our glasshouse transformation under the BIOMES project. Here are B. isoptera (left and top), B. arfakensis (bottom) and B. labordei.

Great to see the project gaining momentum! #ssc_LichenConservation #IUCN_SSC

The Chinese-Scottish tartan. The blue of Scotland’s St Andrew's Cross mixes with the red of the Chinese Flag, while green bands interweave to symbolize the great co-operation between Chinese and Scottish botanists in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. UN Biodiversity

How UK and China's botanical cooperation is helping to preserve plant diversity Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh RBGE Press Office

Showing importance of partnership for @RBGE_Science Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Kunming Institute of Botany

At what age should we aim to start inspiring the next generation with the importance of plants? Join us for an insightful talk from Suzanne Hermiston who explores engaging nursery children with nature: tinyurl.com/2aucyzu4 University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum #obg400 #EducationisKey #OurFutureIsBotanic

Seasonal harvest from the kitchen garden Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh heading to the gateway café now! Leeks, squash, chard, edible flowers, spinach, mixed salad leaves, beetroot, purple sprouting broccoli and (surely the last?) courgettes

1yr ago today first shipment of precious samples down to Wellcome Sanger Institute for high-quality #genome sequencing and #DNA R&D for #DarwinTreeOfLife 🥳 12 shipments, 250 species later still excited @RBGE_Science to be part of this amazing project. And there's more to come 🌿🌳🌻🍄

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon welcomes Mapuche leader and Minga Indigena Lead Coordinator Claflin Lafkenche (left) alongside indigenous delegates at a ceremonial gathering at the Tramway, Glasgow in a symbolic gesture to mark a unified demand for climate justice #Glasgow #COP26

With a new season of #DarwinTreeOfLife fieldwork just around the corner, our scientists reflect on some species collected last year which they're excited to see full #genome sequence data from in 2022! 🧬 Wytham Genome Project Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Science at the Natural History Museum MBA - Marine Biological Association ow.ly/80Uv50HKk1v

MUST WATCH: this new video from Wellcome Sanger Institute features some of the amazing science and scientists working on #DarwinTreeOfLife🧬 It's a snapshot of the tireless work being undertaken by our partners the length and breadth of these islands. youtube.com/watch?v=szFdV9…

“Now is the time for scientists and conservation horticulturists to place greater priority on parasitic plants." - Chris Thorogood, Chris Thorogood Follow the link below to learn more: journals.rbge.org.uk/rbgesib/articl… 📷: Chris Thorogood with Rafflesia banaoana in the Phillipines

Important research out today:

7 ways to help reverse nature loss in summer ⬇️ Climate change and nature loss are huge global threats. In Scotland we've lost nearly 25% of our wildlife. But if we all take action and #MakeSpaceForNature we CAN make a difference. For 7 MORE ways go to nature.scot/makespace 💚

Starting tomorrow, visit Inverleith House for RBGE Creative Programmes's In The Eddy of the Stream. A Cooking Sections and #Sakiya collaboration where they create their own eddies; sheltered areas where water flows back upstream against the current. 👇 bit.ly/3OZX4QZ

As the importance of green spaces to human health becomes ever more apparent, a new free online course by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and University of Leeds shows how nature-based solutions can enhance the lives of those living in urban environments.  Find out more at bit.ly/3CbL4st

Commemorating Queen Elizabeth’s 70 yrs as sovereign & the importance of school gardening projects,planting was presided over by the research institute’s Regius Keeper Simon Milne MBE,who was appointed to RBGE by the late Queen in 2014.A great time was had by Purple Class & staff!