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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Botanical Treasures: Objects from the Herbarium and Library of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
This wonderfully illustrated book is a snapshot of our extensive national collection of botanical books, herbarium specimens and archival material. With more than three million preserved plant specimens and 70,000 books to choose from, the selection is just a sample of the treasures we hold, offering a glimpse into this unique collection. From objects that tell tales of daring plant collectors, to specimens of plants now extinct, historical maps and diaries, a letter from Charles Darwin and innovative nature printing techniques, this book showcases an international collection that reflects the rich scientific history of Scotland and is still used every day in our work to explore, explain and conserve the world of plants. This book won runner up in the Best New Publications category of the Association for Cultural Enterprises Awards 2015.
£12.50
Flame Tree Publishing Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Wall Calendar 2025 Art Calendar
This delightful wall calendar features 12 beautiful botanical watercolours of plants by Charlotte Cowan Pearson, examples of whose paintings are held in an album in the RBGE's Library. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next monthâs views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.
£10.99
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Flora of Bhutan: Volume 1, Part 3
In 1975 the Royal Government of Bhutan commissioned the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to produce the first-ever Flora of this fascinating country.The 9 published volumes provide in-depth information on 230 families of plants including descriptions, keys
£12.80
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah and Govindoo ( 3 volumes)
This 3-volume work forms the second in a series of monographs by Henry Noltie documenting the more important collections of Indian botanical drawings in the Library of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Book 1, The Life and Work of Robert Wight, provides the definitive biography of Wight. Book 2, Botanical Drawings by Rungia & Govindoo: the Wight Collection. Book 3, Journeys in Search of Robert Wight, describes the author's travels as he carried out the research that underpins his work.
£43.20
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Maisie's Botanic Activity Book
Join the infamous Maisie Mackenzie for puzzles, colouring in and adventures in her Botanics Activity Book. Includes quizzes, crosswords and spot the difference as well as 2 pages of colour stickers. Fun for children and grown ups.
£7.37
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Maisie and the Botanic Garden Mystery
She's been to New York, Paris and Japan, she's even visited the rainforest... Now Scotland's favourite kitten comes to RBGE in her adventure Maisie and the Botanic Garden Mystery. Join Maisie and see if you can help her crack the ultimate mystery, who ate all the pies? Beautifully crafted by Aileen Paterson especially for RBGE this hilarious picture book is a must for all Maisie fans and for those who have not yet met her. A purrfect storybook for all ages.
£7.78
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbology
A fully illustrated and authoritative guide to herbology by Catherine Conway-Payne, the Course Director for the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s Herbology diploma. A full guide to numerous herbology recipes, best practise and history. Organised by season. Fully illustrated with both photography and artwork showing plants in the wild and the end results of numerous recipes.
£31.50
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh The Hidden World of Mosses
Mosses have a spectacular diversity of beautiful and surprising forms. They are nearly always, what we as humans would consider, small; but they play a critical role in climate change prevention and have an ability to hold and control water in forests, uplands and valleys. Hidden World of Mosses explores the tiny, intriguing environments of these plants that have their own miniature forests filled with grazers and predators, and their own ecological norms and mechanics.
£22.50
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh The Cleghorn Collection: South Indian Botanical Drawings 1845 to 1860
The Cleghorn Collection reproduces more than 200 of the drawings from the Cleghorn Collection in colour, for the first time. These include drawings from nature, copies based on European prints, and Nature Prints made from herbarium specimens. They are the work of several South Indian artists and of pupils of the pioneering Madras School of Art.
£20.00
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Threatened Plants of Central and South Chile
This beautifully designed model account includes important new information which will not only be of great interest to botanists, conservationist and horticulturists but also to local people who are dependent on the diminishing natural habitats in central and southern Chile.
£20.00
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Growing Your Own Vegetables
This practical guide explains the techniques you need to grow a variety of vegetables in any available space. Along with methods, tips and horticultural expertise there are lots of inspirational ideas to keep you eating your own crops all year round, particularly in the Scottish climate.
£10.00
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Shipping Roots
Plants have always moved between land masses with human aid. European colonialism accelerated this, and its legacy can be seen in landscapes across the world and the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. In in this companion book to the exhibition, Shipping Roots, Keg de Souza creates a narrative around plant species relating to her own cultural removal, drawing from her experiences as a person whose ancestral lands were colonised. The exhibition explores how plants moved over oceans and lands, transported in the hulls of ships, all part of the colonial legacies of the British Empire. Specifically, these stories link Australia, India and the UK and shows us that the entanglement of plants and people are tied to understanding place and belonging. This book includes high quality photography of the exhibition as well as essays and recipes by numerous contributors.
£9.99
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Lillian Snelling
This book is based on an exhibition of the paintings of Lillian Snelling in 2007. This was the first exhibition of these drawings, by an artist considered to have been 'the greatest botanical artist of her time.'
£10.03
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Gardening the Earth: Gateways to a Sustainable Future
In this frank, but highly readable book, Professor Stephen Blackmore, former RBGE Regius Keeper, strips away the mystique and complexity that often shrouds the subject of climate change. No longer is it a topic exclusively for scientists and politicians to debate.
£14.40
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Plants from the Woods and Forests of Chile
Plants from the Woods and Forests of Chile is a volume of high-quality botanical art depicting the rich diversity and beauty of Chile’s unique forested areas where for the last 25 years the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has engaged in collaborative research and conservation initiatives. Featuring 81 unique watercolour paintings painstakingly and accurately record the minutest of details to bring alive the beautiful plant life of a fascinating part of the world.
£31.50
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Guide to Collecting Living Plants in the Field
In a time of continuing habitat destruction and species loss it is vitally important to ensure that fundamental botanical work is being carried out in order to identify, assess and conserve biodiversity around the world. Much of this work is dependent on the collection of living plant material that can then be made available for current and future research.More than 17,500 unique types of plants are grown in the four gardens (Edinburgh, Benmore, Dawyck and Logan) of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and, on average, more than half of these are of known wild origin. Written by the team that is responsible for this collection on a day-to-day basis and from the field to the glasshouse, Guide to Collecting Living Plants in the Field provides a best practice standard for making good living plant collections in the field.Subjects covered include permits, equipment, data collecting and the aftercare of collected specimens. Individual sections cover the collection of seed and fruit, spores, cuttings, plants and seedlings and rhizomes, tubers and bulbs.This pocket-sized booklet presents the basic information in a clear, concise format making it an essential guide for students and early career researchers, as well as botanists and ecologists who may not have been trained in collecting techniques. The design of Guide to Collecting Living Plants in the Field means that it can fit into a pocket, making it easy to take into the field as an informative quick reference guide to collecting living plants.
£6.72
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Will Purdom: Agitator, Plant-hunter, Forester
In a short life full of quiet endeavour, Will Purdom rose to become a key figure in China's struggle to repair the ecology and sustainability of it forests after decades of ruinous logging.
£18.99
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Edible Gardening in Scotland
This practical guide, an updated edition of Growing Your Own Vegetables, draws on the experience and knowledge of the RBGE's Edible Gardening team to provide simple and concise instructions that will have you eating your own crops all year round.
£10.04
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Plant Magic
An informative and entertaining look at why plants have been used in magic and what that tells us about people and plants in a post-magic world.
£13.35
ACC Art Books The Dapuri Drawings: Alexander Gibson & the Bombay Botanic Gardens
This lavishly illustrated book is about a remarkable collection of botanical drawings in the collection at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
£23.40
Ebury Publishing Gardeners World A Year in a Small Garden
Frances Tophill is a British horticulturist, conservationist, author, and television presenter known for her contributions to Love Your Garden and Gardeners' World. She studied for a bachelor's degree in horticulture with plantsmanship from the Scottish Agricultural College and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. A Year in a Small Garden is her sixth book.
£23.40
Abrams The Hidden Beauty of Seeds & Fruits: The Botanical Photography of Levon Biss
A highly original collection of high magnification photographs that unlock the hidden beauty of seeds and fruit, from the author of Microsculpture The Hidden Beauty of Seeds & Fruits is a photographic study that celebrates the wonders of nature and science in mind-blowing magnification. Levon Biss’ striking photography captures the breathtaking and beautiful details of the world of carpology, the study of seeds and fruits. Each picture reveals minute features and textures that are normally invisible to the naked eye, providing the audience with an insight into strange and often bizarre adaptations that have evolved over thousands of years. After spending months searching through the carpological collection at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Biss selected over a hundred striking samples to be featured in this book. Captioned with scientific text that provides the backstory for each specimen, The Hidden Beauty of Seeds & Fruits is guaranteed to amaze, entertain, and educate.
£27.00