We've gone 21st Century. The Kindle version is now up and running as well as the good old-fashioned paperback version. Nice reviews coming in too! Thank you.

Only a few days left to see the Graduate Diploma Show! In this beautiful exhibition of botanical painting, graduates show their collections of gorgeous botanicals, with themes from seaweeds, allotment cabbages, plants found in fairy tales, lichens and more. Ends Sunday #RBGEgrad

#GingerPlantOfTheWeek is Zingiber recurvatum collected by staff Mark Newman @RBGE_Science in Thailand and flowering now in the research glasshouse Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh: data.rbge.org.uk/living/1999115…

Just remember..... That in order to plant trees we need to grow those trees and to do that we need skilled people to grow those trees. #horticulture matters..... #ClimateChange google.com/url?sa=t&sourc…

Listen to the scientists

18th international conference and AGM of Friends of Soqotra, Palermo

Let's all follow Palermo Botanic Garden's example

Wonderful to see conservation project of Araucania trees from #Chile at @BenmoreBotGdn on #GardenersWorld with Martin Gardner Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Thanks Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and the Oman Botanic Garden team Oman Botanic Garden ليلى الحارثية| Laila Al Harthy for a fascinating and inspiring evening.

Overjoyed to introduce Dr Laila Al Harthy, latest graduate from my lab, who passed her viva today. Her thesis deals with conservation planning for poorly-studied high-altitude plant communities in Oman. An amazing woman to work alongside.

The use of plant resources & conservation of biodiversity go hand in hand on the Soqotra Archipelago. CMEP Tony Miller and Sabina Knees discuss the sustainable uses of plants with students Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh #UNESCO #connect2socotra #friendsofsocotra Learning @ The Botanics @RBGE_Science

Important new study of extinction threat for tropical African plants (with co-authors David Harris and Barbara Mackinder from @RBGE_Science )

Pleased Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh have been able to transfer some PPE and cleaning products to Western General Hospital. Every little helps. Thanks Michelle and Agron

Well done Brenda, we all depend on people like you!!

Chloris Via-Melvilliana – addendum, June 2020 Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/33619…

Missing blue skies & warmth? Me too, here's that photo again of Annette (OBG) & Sabina (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh) dressing appropriately for sun-scorched fieldwork in Oman doi.org/10.1017/S09604… 📷Heiko Patzelt

Fantastic news about our Coronavirus Emergency Appeal - we are now up to 81% Please help us get to 100%. Acting now is crucial for the survival of the indigenous groups of the Brazil and Colombian Amazon. justgiving.com/campaign/Rainf… Photo: Tribes Alive-supplies arriving at a village

Hedge in a box! Today 45 plants of Prumnopitys andina were sent to Blijdenstein Arboretum in the Netherlands for the establishment of a conservation hedge.

The late Jimmy Ratter was an indefatigable botanist working mostly in tropical South America. The giant fern Acrostichum aureum did not faze him. Here RBGE_Herbarium is his collection of this fern from Brazil comprising 8 samples from an entire 2.5 m frond