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Just a quick update on the link to the Index Seminum seed exchange page, just click on the https://glasgowbotanicgardens.com/collections/index-seminum-2017/ We have reused last years page hence the mention of 2017 in the web address sorry for any confusion. This year it is online, please do fill out a contact email and postal address when completing…

We are now heading towards 2019 at a rapid rate of knots but it’s worth a quick glance back at some events and developments this year at Glasgow Botanic Gardens. It started very dramatically with the winter storms that deposited several inches of snow on the Gardens during January and February. It even led to…

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 to have orders processed by early 2019. The exchange is open only to those with an IPEN registration GBG

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 at 4.00pm The Gardens’ gates will shut at 5.00pm on Friday 26th October and Saturday 26th October. From Sunday 27th October until Sunday 11th November…

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 classes are free as they are funded by the Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens but you must book via eventbrite-search Habitat or email…

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 Gardens had to close completely; which is a rare event. The amount of branches and trees coming down on paths made this a necessity and,…

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 award was also made by the Baldernock Gardening Club to the ‘most improved’ student. The recipient was Karen, a student who traveled down every day…

  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 Palace after 7.00pm for a 7.30 pm start. Please contact Scott Donaldson at events_gswsbc@hotmail.co.uk to book your place.

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 250 year old Pollok Beech received about one year ago. As reported in many papers the Wishing Tree, which featured in Scotland’s 100 Heritage Tree…

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 weeping ash, was a gift to the original Glasgow Botanic Gardens (at Sandyford, near Sauchiehall Street) from nurseryman, Robert Austin.  Having been planted in 1818…