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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 collection.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The main site is in Edinburgh at Inverleith, with three "Regional Gardens": Benmore Botanic Garden in Argyll, formerly known as the Younger Botanic Garden; Dawyck Botanic Garden in the Scottish Borders; Logan Botanic Garden in Galloway
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Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; S. Robert Sibbald This page was last edited on 15 July 2016, at 20:00 (UTC). Text ...
The first Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA) opened in August 1960 in Inverleith House, a Georgian building set in the middle of Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden. In 1984 the SNGMA moved to the former premises of the John Watson's Institution on Belford Road in the west of the city, a large neo-classical building which was ...
He was the 15th Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 1999 until 20 December 2013, [3] and was appointed His Majesty's Botanist in Scotland in 2010. [ 4 ] Blackmore has received three awards from the Linnean Society of London: the Trail-Crisp Medal Award in 1987; [ 5 ] the Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society in 1992; [ 1 ...
The Botanic Garden was established in 1869 and was gifted to Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1969. [5] [1] The gardens were built around the ruins of Balzieland Castle. [6] A new glasshouse was built at Logan in 2014. [7] [8] The building was designed as a Victorian architecture conservatory. [7]
BSS is the only British botanical society with a keen interest in both flowering and non-flowering plants (e.g. ferns, mosses and algae) and fungi. This wide range of interest is reflected in its programme of monthly lectures during winter months, held mainly at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Field meetings are held during summer and ...