The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh The Royal Botanic Garden

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a scientific centre for the study of plants, their diversity and conservation, as well as a popular tourist attraction. The RBGE's living collection consists of more than 15,000 plant species, whilst the herbarium contains in excess of 3 million preserved specimens. The Edinburgh site is the main garden.

History The Edinburgh botanic garden was founded in 1670 at St. Anne's Yard, near Holyrood Palace, by Dr. Robert Sibbald and Dr. Andrew Balfour. It is the second oldest botanic garden in Britain after Oxford's. The Temperate Palm House, which remains the tallest in Britain to the present day, was built in 1858. The botanic garden at Benmore became the first Regional Garden of the RBGE in 1929. It was followed by the gardens at Logan and Dawyck in 1969 and 1978.

Some notable collections at the botanic garden Edinburgh include: Alpine Plants Chinese Hillside Cryptogamic Garden The Glasshouses Palmhouse Temperate Palms Tropical Palms Orchids and Cycads Ferns and Fossils Plants and people Temperate lands Rainforest Riches Arid Lands Montane tropical house Wet Tropical House Peat Walls The Queen Mother's memorial garden. Rock Garden Scottish Heath Garden Woodland Garden

Library RBGE's Library is Scotland's national reference collection for specialist botanical and horticultural resources. Housing around 70,000 books and 150,000 periodicals the research library is one of the country's largest . However, as a national reference collection, the Library is also open to members of the public, either in person or by telephone or e-mail.

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