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Springing into Action
Despite the continuing chilly weather, work is continuing around the garden. Find out what has been going on here.
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Three Good Things
Given the terrible weather recently I think we occasionally need a morale boosting story, so here’s three. Number One. For those that battled through the wind chilled streets of Glasgow […]
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A small crown jewel
A lot of new work is getting under way at GBG. Plans are being prepared for a change in the North American Arid House (Main Range 5) and the team […]
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Shortest Day and Best Wishes 20/12/2017
We are almost at the shortest day of the year, it’s dark and most of the collection outside are enduring cold temperatures and typical Glasgow conditions. The Weeping Ash, a […]
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Updates from around the garden
04/12/2017 It’s not just the managers that occasionally hit the roof at GBG. This Pandanus utilis [Common Screwpine] arrived in the collection in 1969 . The origin of the species […]
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Plant health update 01/12/2017
After a lot of hard work by the team at GBG the infected Rhododendrons at the Main Entrance have been removed or destroyed on-site. After the plants directly within the […]
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Important Plant Health News (Updated 05/11/17)
Update on the P. ramorum outbreak. We have now removed the plants that were identified, by laboratory testing, as being infected with the pathogen. Plant material was destroyed on site […]
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SCOTLAND’S RURAL COLLEGE (SRUC)
The SRUC has courses at Glasgow Botanic Gardens as follows: • Higher National Certificate (HNC) Horticulture • Higher National Certificate (HNC) Garden Design The courses are starting in September and […]
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Spring 2018 Certificate in Practical Horticulture Course dates released
Spring 2018 Course Details; Saturday 17th March 2018 – CPH01 Looking at Plants Saturday 24th March 2018 – CPH02 Soil Care Saturday 7th April 2018 – CPH03 Feeding and Watering Saturday 14th April 2018 – CPH04 Seed Propagation Saturday 21st April […]