Phenological Monitoring at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by Geoff Harper, David Mann, Roy Thomson

“…Phenological monitoring at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) began in the mid 19th century, and is now being developed as a number of projects. …”
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Biodiversity Recording at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by Robert Mill

“…The results of recording wildlife at the Edinburgh site of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) are presented in partial fulfilment of the Garden’s obligation to deliver the Scottish Biodiversity Duty. …”
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Four gardens in one : the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh / by 384586 Bown, Deni, Bennell, Alan P., Gregory, Norma M.

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Garden Profile: The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh at 350 by David Knott

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The History of the Rock Garden at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by Robert Unwin

“… The Rock Garden at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is well known and loved by alpine plant enthusiasts worldwide. …”
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Data Capture Project at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by Natacha Frachon, Martin Gardner, David Rae

“…The Data Capture Project at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is an attempt to document specific aspects of the plant collections so that the information captured can be of use to the research community even after the plants have died. …”
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Micropropagation of Heritage Rhododendron Collections at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by Neil Davidson

“… The most recent efforts at micropropagation of Rhododendron species started at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 2013. This paper outlines the methods and practices adopted, and highlights some of the problems and pitfalls encountered throughout the process. …”
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Winter Protection of Tree Ferns at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by Andrew Ensoll, Louise Galloway, Alastair Wardlaw

“… Ten plants of six species of tree fern were trialled for frost hardiness during the winter of 2005/06 when they were planted outdoors in the ground of an interior courtyard at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The species were Culcita macrocarpa, Cyathea dealbata, Cyathea dregei, Cyathea smithii, Dicksonia antarctica and Thyrsopteris elegans. …”
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Collection and Curation of Trillium Species at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by Robert Unwin

“… The genus Trillium are spring-flowering woodland plants which thrive at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The rationale, planning and collection details of a field trip to the eastern states of the USA in 2011 are described. …”
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Tree Fern Apical Temperatures at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by Alastair Wardlaw, Louise Galloway, Andrew Ensoll

“…The present study of tree-fern apical temperatures during winter was carried out on five trunked specimens of Dicksonia antarctica that had been grown satisfactorily out of doors for several years, while planted in the ground of a courtyard at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE). The plants were never wrapped or otherwise protected with thermal insulation during the winter months. …”
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The Renovation of the Lower Woodland Garden at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by Robert Unwin

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Arbuscular Mycorrhiza in the Living Collections at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by Christopher Walker

“…During several decades of casual observation in the research greenhouses at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), such clumps of spores from several species of AMF have been recorded. …”
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The Development of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh ‘Certificate in Practical Horticulture’ by Leigh Morris, Laura Cohen

“… The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has a long history of delivering high-quality practical horticultural training within the UK and abroad. …”
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Hydrological and planting design of an experimental raingarden at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by David A. Kelly, Kirsty Wilson, Aravindan Kalaichelvam, David Knott

“… A new experimental raingarden has been created at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) to help cope with the impacts of more frequent and intense rainfall events. …”
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Data Capture and Taxonomic Determination of Cycadales at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by James Clugston

“… This paper discusses a curatorial review of the Cycadales in the Living Collection at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) following the methodology described by Frachon et al. (2009). …”
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Developing a Carbon Management Plan for the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by Kate Hughes, Kerstin Price, Ian Lawrie

“… Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh joined the Carbon Management-Lite Programme run by the Carbon Trust in November 2009. …”
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A New Approach to Targeting Verifications at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by Robert Cubey, Martin F Gardner

“…Verification is the process of identifying and accurately naming the plants in the Living Collections. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has had a well organised system for verifying plants in place for many years but, despite this, only 26% of the Living Collections has been verified. …”
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Maintaining and Managing the Diversity of the Living Collection at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh : by Tony Garn

“… In a botanic garden it is the record-keeping, the labelling and the facility to trace the lineage of individual plants that sets it apart from other gardens. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has a rich and diverse Living Collection of plants. …”
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The History and Cultivation of Etlingera – The Torch Gingers – at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by Helen Yeats

“…The collection at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has been actively researched since the 1950s (Newman, 2000) and taxonomists from a variety of institutions around the world have discovered, described, verified, named and renamed many taxa within this diverse group of plants. …”
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The Value of Community Engagement in Botanic Gardens with Examples from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by Jenny Foulkes

“…The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has community engagement at its core. …”
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