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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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  • New Planting in Kibble Palace

    The Gardens have recently replanted a section of the Kibble Palace with a large range of South African plant species including Proteas, Aloes and Pelargoniums. So come and see this […]

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  • 10th Year for Bard in the Botanics

    Bard in the Botanics returns again to Glasgow Botanic Gardens with three of Shakespeare’s greatest works, The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet and As You Like It. The season kicks off with The […]

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  • Rare Chilean plant flowering in the glasshouses

    Puya alpestris is a species of bromeliad native to the Chilean Andes. Unfortunately when it has finished flowering the plant will die. This is known as monocarpic, but don’t worry as there are plenty of other offsets to […]

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