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Edinburgh. 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.
The flora of Great Britain and Ireland is one of the best documented in the world. There are 1390 native species and over 1100 well-established non-natives documented on the islands. A bibliographic database of the species has been compiled by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. [1] The lists (spread across multiple pages due to size ...
In 2002 Plantlife conducted a "County Flowers" public survey to assign flowers to each of the counties of the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man. The results of this campaign designated a single plant species to a "county or metropolitan area" in the UK and Isle of Man. Some English counties already had flowers traditionally associated with them before 2002, and which were different from those ...
In the United Kingdom, public holidays are days on which most businesses and non-essential services are closed. Many retail businesses (especially the larger ones) do open on some of the public holidays. There are restrictions on trading on Sundays, Easter and Christmas Day in England and Wales and on New Year's Day and Christmas Day in Scotland.
No. of land border neighbours No. of maritime boundary neighbours Total no. of unique neighbours Neighbouring countries and territories (Territories without full sovereignty in italics) (L) = share only land borders (M) = share only maritime boundaries blank = share land borders and maritime boundaries United Kingdom: 1 : 8 8 Belgium (M)
Gained independence as Burma. Renamed Myanmar in 1989, but still officially known by the United Kingdom government as Burma. Nauru. 31 January. 1968. Independence from the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand on 31 January 1968. Nigeria. 1 October. 1960.
April 6 to 13: National Robotics Week. April 7 to 13: National Library Week. April 10 to 15: World Music Therapy Week. April 19 to 28: National Dance Week. April 21 to 27: National Volunteer Week ...
Before the Kingdom of Great Britain. Before the Union of England and Scotland in 1707, the Treasury of England was led by the Lord High Treasurer. By the late Tudor period, the Lord High Treasurer was regarded as one of the Great Officers of State, and was often (though not always) the dominant figure in government: Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (lord high treasurer, 1547–1549 ...