We will be putting up our Index Seminum Seed Exchange List on the 10rd December 2018. The form will be available for completion online only this year and we hope […]

Due to the event taking place at the Botanic Gardens please note the following changes to opening hours. From Friday 26th October till Sunday 11th November the Glasshouses will shut […]

With the help from local artist Martha Orbach we are running a couple of drawing sessions and screen-printing workshops culminating in an exhibition in the Kibble Palace in December.   […]

The Humpbacked Bridge that joins the Gardens to the Kelvin Walkway was reopened in mid-September.   September didn’t leave without a violent goodbye, in the shape of Storm Ali. The […]

On Saturday, the students who completed the 2018 Spring course of the Certificate of Practical Horticulture were awarded their certificates in the South Wing of the Kibble Palace. A special […]

  On the 31st of August, as we slowly slip into Autumn, why not come along to the Bat and Moth Night at Glasgow Botanic Gardens. Meet near the Kibble […]

I know its technically Fagus sylvatica, but it’s a tricky business getting a funny title out of a scientific bi-nomial. 06/04/2018 What’s not funny was the poor treatment that the […]

Wee Hamish McDiddy, from just outside Liverpool, has sent in a request for ash related postings, it was wrapped in two pieces of bread and jam. Our tree, appropriately the […]

Sunrise on the first day of Spring. It wasn’t the usual journey to work today! We were a bit dismissive of the snow yesterday but overnight we received a sharp […]

  We were open this morning, as we have been for nearly 201 years, despite the ‘dusting of snow’. To ensure staff and public are cleared from the grounds safely, […]