Come Dino With Me!! an event linked to Dippy on Tour: Glasgow.
Join fern specialist Stevie Jakusz at Glasgow Botanic Gardens as he takes you on a tour of the ferns, cycads and other plants that could have made up the menu
Join fern specialist Stevie Jakusz at Glasgow Botanic Gardens as he takes you on a tour of the ferns, cycads and other plants that could have made up the menu
Our main speaker will be Alasdair Hood, ex-curator of Dundee Botanic Gardens, who will taking about his 20 years at Dundee along with other events in his Life in Horticulture.
Don’t forget this weekend, 11/05/19 and 12/05/19, its the Orchid Fair at the Kibble Palace. There are stalls with some amazing plants to purchase and also loads of advice and […]
Join University of Glasgow PhD students, University of Strathclyde engineers and biologists from the Royal Society of Biology in the Kibble Palace to explore energy and the natural world.
Meet in the Kibble Palace South Wing at 2.00pm for a staff lead tour of the ongoing developments in the two arid houses of the main range. This is an […]
Hannah Wilson, Botanist from Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh explore the background to the continuing research into the multidiverse Genus of Begonia
The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity with Professor Alexandre Antonelli, Director of Science, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Thursday, 21 September 2023, 7.30pm University of Glasgow, Boyd Orr Building (Lecture Theatre C) Lecture […]
The Atlantic Rainforest with Laura Gusberti, The Woodland Trust Thursday, 16 November 2023, 7.30pm University of Glasgow, Boyd Orr Building (Lecture Theatre C) Offered jointly with Glasgow Natural History Society and Glasgow Treelovers’ […]
Join us at 7pm on Tuesday, 10 September for the lecture from Dr Hannah Wilson on the Past, Present and Future of Conifer Conservation. Dr Wilson is a horticulturalist at […]
Join us at 7pm on Tuesday, 22nd October for the lecture on the Orchids of Crete by Christine Nicolson, orchid propagator at Glasgow Botanic Gardens. Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens […]
Join us at 7pm on Tuesday, 12 November for a lecture from journalist and author Ann Lindsay: David Douglas, plant collector- the best kind of clever, adventurous and energetic Scot. […]
Mammals, the furry, milk-giving group to which humans also belong, can trace their origins back to the Mesozoic. Fossils from the Isle of Skye in Scotland in particular, are providing new insights, revealing how their evolution alongside the dinosaurs set the foundations of their survival and success after the mass extinction 66 million years ago. In this talk, we will find out about fieldwork in Skye uncovering exceptionally preserved fossils, and the new analytical techniques revealing how mammals lived, grew, and flourished in the Jurassic.