Students from North Kelvinside school wrote some beautiful poetry to celebrate the opening of our peace garden last summer. Thank you to all the young poets for their beautiful words […]

As we have come to expect, Alexandra delivered another brilliant tour! Even the weather was kind to us and although cold, it was a still, sunny morning when we set […]

Visit us and all our wonderful community groups exhibiting at Kelvin at the Kibble 7-20th April.

Richard Fortey shares two of my particular passions, geology and fungi, however he does so at a level I can only dream about. He also manages to write about these […]

Ernesto and Agustina in Mexico, and I described a newbutterwort species, Pinguicula brendae (Lentibulariaceae),from the State of Hidalgo, Mexico. It was officially published on the 8 of February 2026 in […]

A note to students who were admitted onto the Certificate of Practical Horticulture course scheduled for March-June 2026: Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Trustees of Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens […]

Trustees of Friends meet each month in the Botanics Offices usually for about an hour and a half when we discuss a packed agenda. In February we finalised plans for […]