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The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is pleased to announce the completion of the cataloguing of Professor Mary Gibby’s archive! This marks an important first step in preserving and sharing Profe...

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Website for the International Conservation Translocation Conference 2026

The following blog was written by Rose Kent a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August 2024. Each digitiser i...

New plant-science scholarship removes financial hurdles for those looking to progress to masters level study in Scotland with RBGE.

Five of the UK’s most promising early-career academics have been selected by BBC Radio 4 and the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Website for the International Conservation Translocation Conference 2026

The Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Consortium of Rural Research Annual Peter Wilson Lecture

Project Repository Journal - PRj Vol.26 April 2026

We sequenced fungal DNA in barren soils sampled from 12 sites along a 1900-km transect through sub- and Maritime Antarctica and Patagonia. Using LASSO regression, we found air temperature - and notab...

Saxifraga hirculus in bloom at natural population within Caithness. (photo: B.Drew, 2023) This is it, the last planting for our project. I feel a mix of pride and sadness bittersweet, really, as we...

We always love walking in Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens at this time of year. The gardens have a large variety of rhodendrons and azaleas tha...

A meta-analysis of plant nuclear genomic data provides fundamental insights into the genomic nature of differences between plant species and informs future strategies for DNA-based identification of p...

Young people have a distinct intergenerational stake in the future of the planet and in the environmental decisions shaping it. Most now live in towns and cities, where everyday opportunities for enco...

The following blog was written by Lindsay Middleton a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August 2024. Each dig...