It's that ti- *Don't say it...* It's beginning to look a lot like Chri- *Like what?* WE'VEGOTANXMASGUIDEOUTNEXTWEEKHERE'STHEEVENTSGUIDE [dodges hail of mince pies] www.theskinny.co.uk/things-to-do... [ft @trontheatre.bsky.social @thebotanics.bsky.social @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social + more]

One of the more unusual items in our herbarium collection! This old leather boot is home to several types of lichen 🥾 It was collected on a beach in 1975 by Brian J Coppins in Ballantrae, Scotland. Read more on the weird and wonderful specimen here: stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40742

During our final networking session Gregory Kenicer, botanist from @thebotanics.bsky.social, told us about the food we've been eating today and highlighted the community kitchen garden which supplies 1 1/2 tonnes of produce for the garden's cafes. #FoodSecurity25

New #GBRedList for vascular plants is published today by a team led by @bsbibotany.bsky.social with partners @naturalengland.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @natreswales.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @plantlifeintl.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @thebotanics.bsky.social

Celebrating spooky season with botanical art 🎨 🎃 - The black bat flower (Tacca chantrieri) by Billy Showell, and Eve Reid Bennett (1932-2006) who taught botanical illustration at the Garden for many years. - Bat by Mungo Park (1771-1806) - Devil's pumpkin by an unknown artist

Real pleasure to be invited to speak at the British Pteridological Society meeting today. Brilliant mix of talks spanning evolution, conservation and botanical collections. And always great to have a tour of the wonderful @thebotanics.bsky.social collections! 🌿

Evaluation Lead – Learning & Engagement @thebotanics.bsky.social is seeking an experienced evaluator to consolidate existing data, identify gaps, and collaborate with their teams to build clear, user-friendly systems for future evaluation tinyurl.com/376tyas5 £45,712 pro-rata Edinburgh #charityjob

Could fungi help us tackle plastic pollution, protect crops, and discover life-saving medicines? 🍄🧬 New Scientist has just spotlighted Kew’s cutting-edge fungal research - from unravelling DNA in our world-leading Fungarium to finding fungi that can digest plastic and fight disease 🧵👇

Huge news from the Edinburgh Journal of Botany - its entire archive is now freely available online! 🥳 This moment has been years in the making. Explore more than a century's worth of scientific research 👇

Marking 125 years of #EJBotany #OpenAccess and its forerunner, Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, we are delighted to announce that ALL content is now freely available at journals.rbge.org.uk/notes and journals.rbge.org.uk/ejb

🌿 Fellowship opportunity: the AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions are open! From connections between biodiversity and social inclusion, to cultural contexts of plants in our collections, find our priorities and how to apply here 👇 www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Clustered Bonnets (Mycena inclinata) on fallen trunk in the Cryptogamic Sanctuary area of Dawyck Botanic Gardens, near Peebles. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Nature #Photography #Nikon #Dawyck @thebotanics.bsky.social

We're pleased to announce that Dr Julia Knights has been appointed as the 17th Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and will be joining us in January. Julia will succeed Simon Milne MBE, who will retire after more than a decade of visionary leadership. More: rbge.cc/regius-keeper

Fabulous opportunity to apply for a 2 year research fellowship with @ukri.org and @thebotanics.bsky.social. Come along to a townhall meeting to find out more www.vam.ac.uk/blog/project...

🌲🌲🌲 An exciting opportunity to work on #conifer #conservation research at RBGE @thebotanics.bsky.social: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #conservationjobs #botany #redlist #ICCP🌲🌲🌲

🌿 Rare opportunity! We’re partnering with the National Trust for Scotland to offer a paid, two-year traineeship in lichenology. Applications are open now. Find full details and apply by Friday 3 October: www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee... @n-t-s.bsky.social

Stately old trees this week at Benmore Botanic Garden @thebotanics.bsky.social

🌴 Our iconic Palm Houses are entering a new chapter. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look now the huge project is nearing competition. Our Garden teams will soon start landscaping and replanting more than 600 botanical specimens before we re-open the doors in 2026 🥳

Long-time fan of @thebotanics.bsky.social Edinburgh, so delighted to get to its outpost at Benmore. Curation top-notch, along with commitment to education and the arts. Loved the cultural/botanical counterpoint of whole Highland ridges devoted to Chile and Tasmania.

A new paper by @petermoonlight.bsky.social published in #EJBotany #OpenAccess @thebotanics.bsky.social on the names in the genus #Begonia published in Vellozo’s #FloraFluminensis: rbge.cc/47Q6wmL

📢 We're hiring! We're looking for a dedicated ICCP Researcher / Red Listing Co-ordinator to take a leading role in our renowned International Conifer Conservation Programme 🌲 Apply by midday on Friday 26 September: rbge.cc/jobs

The #herbaceousborder @thebotanics.bsky.social is still looking splendid just now - 165m long, designed in 1902 by the Regius Keeper Isaac Bailey Balfour and a rainbow spectrum of colour and structure. #botanicgardens #RBGE #Edinburgh #visitscotland #summercolour #perennialplants

Beautiful day @thebotanics.bsky.social #bloomscrolling

@thebotanics.bsky.social Congratulations Logan Botanic Garden #DumfriesAndGalloway

🎉 We're proud to have been shortlisted for Best Individual Giving Campaign at the Scottish Fundraising Awards for our Storm Damage Appeal. The emergency appeal was launched in response to the damage caused by Storm Éowyn earlier this year. We look forward to finding out the results in September!

Did you get out for some ☀️ last weekend?! Our Scotland for Newcomers group were lucky enough to enjoy the gorgeous @thebotanics.bsky.social for a relaxing afternoon exploring nature, chatting, and soaking up the sunshine.. 🌿🌼 #friendshipgroups

📢 We have a rare and exciting opportunity to become the Curator of Dawyck Botanic Garden in the Scottish Borders. This is a key role responsible for the overall vision, management, and presentation of the Garden. Find more details and apply: rbge.cc/Jobs Please share with your networks!

Only one mile from Edinburgh’s city centre and deep within the heart of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, a dazzling transformation is taking place | Fiona Inches

NEW PAPER: Research has uncovered an archive of information about Benmore Botanic Garden's Victorian fernery. The building played a significant role in the Scottish expression of the Victorian craze for ferns. 🌿 Read the paper by David Gray, Senior Horticulturist at the Garden: rbge.cc/fernery

Blooming marvellous! This Regal corner of @thebotanics.bsky.social is only open at weekends at the moment. #gardens #flowers #Edinburgh

Heavenly blooms @thebotanics.bsky.social today #bloomscrolling

Two different benches, same herbarium. Attendees at the Tropical East Asian Savanna workshop funded by @royalsoced.bsky.social had an intro to the @thebotanics.bsky.social herbarium followed by a crash course in grass ID with Krich. I think we can all spot a spikelet now! 🌏🌐 #grass #botany

While you're getting to know us, here’s one of our long-standing partnerships we’re really proud of - a weekly gardening group at @thebotanics.bsky.social 🌿 New Scots get hands-on with growing food on a dedicated plot, and the sessions run right through the growing season until October. 🌱

Applications are now OPEN for our brilliant paid Biodiversity Ambassador Traineeship, open to applicants across Scotland. Enhance your understanding of biodiversity and community engagement, share your learnings with community groups and improve your employability skills. Apply here 👉 rbge.cc/Jobs

These beautiful foxgloves have appeared across the Garden - not by design, but by nature. By choosing to manage areas less intensively, we’ve created space for wildflowers to thrive naturally 🌿

Come celebrate Summer Solstice on an epic journey to Dawyck Botanic Garden (part of @thebotanics.bsky.social)- www.weewalkingtours.com/post/dawyck-botanic-garden Have a lovely Summer Solstice! Hyvää juhannusta kaikille!💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🇫🇮 #DawyckBotanicGarden #RBGE #VisitScotland #SummerSolstice #Juhannus

🌱 Ready to grow your skills? We’re delighted to launch our exciting new programme of short courses. From horticulture and garden design to botanical painting, you’ll be supported by our experienced educators. Explore the full programme: www.rbge.org.uk/learn/short-...

The rare Puya alpestris has bloomed again at Logan Botanic Garden - and this time it's a giant. The plant, native to Chile, is clocking in at a mighty 12 feet! 😲 It bloomed for the first time at Logan in 2024 (at around 4 feet) making it the first outdoor flowering of the species in Scotland.

Famed botanical artist Lilian Snelling was born #otd. Recently a cache of her long-lost botanical illustrations returned to the @thebotanics.bsky.social - www.pressreader.com/uk/western-m... The works, originally created at the Garden, were rediscovered at auction by Cornish bookseller Tim Loe

Let's hear it for our amazing volunteers - we couldn’t do it without you! 👏 Over 250 volunteers help keep our four Gardens thriving, from tending to the Gardens, to assisting in our galleries. This #VolunteersWeek, we’re celebrating their incredible passion, skills, and impact 💚

Huge S/o to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for having a beautiful and informative herbarium exhibit! At a time when herbaria are being defunded and erased, exhibits like this are crucial for the public to understand their value! 🌍🌻🌱 @thebotanics.bsky.social

It's that time of year again. The Garden is awash with blue, with the return of the Himalayan poppies (Meconopsis). Catch the iconic bright blue bloom while they last! 💙

If you're interested in working in #ScotlandsRainforest, or know a young person who is, how about this as an excellent way to get started: Bryophyte Trainee with @thebotanics.bsky.social. Our rainforest woodlands contain hundreds of species of mosses and liverworts! buff.ly/dBxC7Y0

@thebotanics.bsky.social is a big pair of lips!

Opening tomorrow! An exciting new exhibition from our friends at V&A Dundee explores the importance, history, and future of gardens 🌱 Naturally, we cannot wait to see it 💚

There's less than one month left until #VADGardenFutures opens! 🌿 This immersive exhibition tells the story of how gardens shape our lives, communities and the world around us. Book now. Members and kids go free: va.scot/4hpMGzZ

We're proud that all four of our sites across Scotland are taking part in #NoMowMay and leaving areas of the Gardens uncut 🌱 Alongside our existing biodiversity initiatives, allowing areas of longer grass helps to provide refuge and resources for all kinds of wildlife. Are you taking part?

Open call 📣 Artists, makers + designers based in Scotland are invited to submit expressions of interest for Earth Matters, a major exhibition at Inverleith House Gallery, @thebotanics.bsky.social. 🗓 Deadline 9am, 23 May ➡️ bit.ly/chartserm 📸 Soil survey map, 1962, part of The James Hutton Institute

A sea-rious success for marine restoration. 🦪 With help from volunteers, #RestorationForth has deployed 10,000 more European flat oysters into the Forth - now over 40,000 in total! Oysters are true power players in the fight against biodiversity loss, creating thriving habitats for marine life. 💙

Well worth a wander through @thebotanics.bsky.social at the moment. It’s my favourite time of year