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2. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Isaac Bayley Balfour - Wikipedia

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   The woodland was taken over by the Forestry Commission, which dedicated the area around the glen to the memory of Sir Isaac, while the central part of the estate was opened in 1929 as the Younger Botanic Garden, the first outstation of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. In 1968 the Bayley Balfour Memorial Hut was restored, and moved to a new ...

4. Botanical Society of Scotland - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. William Ramsay McNab - Wikipedia

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   He was the only son, but had five sisters. William's father, James, was a horticulturist and principal gardener from 1849 of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. William's grandfather, also William McNab, was foreman at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

6. Gardening in Scotland - Wikipedia

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   The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh was founded in 1670, as a physic garden by combining the collections of doctor Robert Sibbald and botanist Andrew Balfour as a source of medicines. [2] A physic garden was founded at the University of Glasgow in 1703. [14]

7. New Town Gardens - Wikipedia

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   The New Town Gardens are a collection of around 30 mostly private gardens and parks within the Edinburgh New Town Conservation Area spread across the New Town and the West End, listed as a heritage designation since March 2001. The gardens comprise a series of 18th and 19th century town gardens, squares and walks, established contemporaneously ...

8. Stephen Blackmore - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

9. Douglas Mackay Henderson - Wikipedia

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   He worked at the Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitology in Cambridge, studying methods of plant virology, before joining the Department of Agriculture for Scotland in 1948 at their research establishment at East Craigs, Edinburgh. In 1951 he moved to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) as a Scientific Officer, becoming Principal ...