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The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is a scientific centre for the study of plants, their diversity and conservation, as well as a popular tourist attraction. Founded in 1670 as a physic garden to grow medicinal plants, today it occupies four sites across Scotland— Edinburgh , Dawyck , Logan and Benmore —each with its own specialist ...
The Royal status of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is intrinsically linked to the issue of a Royal Warrant to the first Intendant of the Gardens in 1699. Since that date, the appointment of each new Director of RBGE has required the assent of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, the appointee receiving the unique title Regius (= royal) Keeper.
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The 2020 Hallmark Movies & Mysteries film Meet Me at Christmas sees Joan (Catherine Bell) and Beau (Mark Deklin) team up to coordinate her son Liam's (Luke Bilyk) and his niece Katie's (Sage ...
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The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) was looking for a place to take the large collection of plants which the botanist George Forrest had brought from China, and the high rainfall at Benmore was ideal. In 1929 the Younger Botanic Gardens were opened as the first outstation of the RBGE. [5]
He was president of the Botanical Society of Scotland from 1984 to 1986. [3] In 1997, Watling received the honour of Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to science. [4] In 1998, the Royal Society of Edinburgh awarded him the Neill Medal, a triennial distinction recognising outstanding work by a Scottish naturalist.