the Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens
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Blogs at the Botanics
Over the coming months we aim to develop a number of blogs composed by staff, students and volunteers at the Gardens. Blogging is a great way to communicate what is going on the Gardens and allows reader a sneak peek behind the scenes. The first blog is written by Lizy Mittell, a PhD student with Glasgow
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(Archive) Belle & Sebastian Back Botanics Hub Appeal
Momentum is growing under the campaign to raise funds for the development of a Tree Hub in Glasgow Botanic Gardens. Glasgow based indie pop band Belle and Sebastian are yet another high profile name to voice their support for the campaign to raise £100,000 for the project. The appeal is aimed at the thousands of
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Commonwealth Collection
Are you keen to learn more about the Commonwealth community? The new Commonwealth Collection pamphlet is available in the Kibble Palace or by clicking here. The pamphlet includes details about plants from 24 Commonwealth nations following a trail around the glasshouses and gardens.
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Tree Trail
The Gardens have just had a new tree trail installed throughout the Garden, allowing visitors to follow the trail (Tree Trail Leaflet PDF) and learn about our important tree collections. The trail will also serve to encourage people to explore the Gardens, pointing them around exciting and fascinating tree specimens and helping them to make
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Index Seminum (Archive 2014)
Glasgow Botanic Gardens’ Index Seminum for 2014 has been published and distrubuted to botanical institutes worldwide. If you represent a garden enrolled in the Index Seminum programme and did not receive a copy please follow the link below to download and XPS format version: [LINK] What is Index Seminum? In the summer of 1682,
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Herbaceous Border Rejuvenation (Archive 2013)
If you visited the Gardens in the past month you may have seen a hive of activity going on at the top section of the herbaceous border. A couple of weeks ago the grounds team carried out a final fork over the area to remove any perennial weeds like the dreaded bindweed and then it
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Glasgow Botanic Gardens Herbarium Exhibition 2013
Glasgow Botanic Gardens (GBG) is holding a herbarium exhibition in the tea room gallery until 30 September. The exhibition shows a range of examples taken from our herbarium. GBG’s herbarium currently has approximately 3,000 specimens, covering over 200 plant families, including flowering plants, ferns, mosses and liverworts. Specimens include historical collections dating from the 19th and
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Sweet Scented Jasmine
Jasminum rex can be seen flowering at the moment in the Palm House, it has an amazing sweet scent.
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Trees Planted in Arboretum
The Gardens’ arboretum has seen around a hundred new trees being planted into it over the last year. The most recent trees have been a varied selection of Pines, Sorbus (Rowans) and Acers. We hope these trees will be in the Gardens for many years to come to be enjoyed by future generations. Come and visit these