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1st of the new red labels to highlight Rhododendron of Conservation Concern going out Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Being part of the Botanic Gardens Conservation International Global Conservation Consortium for Rhododendron making us reappraise how we manage & communicate the significance of our #Rhododendron collection.

Not many more pre-dawn runs to go, couple more weeks and we can ditch the head-torch 😊

Abies pinsapo ssp. marocana Glasgow Botanic Gdns planted in 1994 - among the finest in cultivation!

A 15 year old tree of Abies cilicica ssp. isaurica from Turkey's Taurus Mountains thriving the relative warmth and sandy soils of Tyninghame Estate in East Lothian Tom Christian

Prumnopitys andina - Endangered Chilean endemic conifer. This is no normal hedge being cut by Duncan Young Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. It comprises 50 individuals from 30 wild trees - but most no longer survive in Chile due to logging and flooding of valleys for hydroelectric power!

Nothofagus alessandrii featured on the front cover of a new soft back Spanish language edition of 'Plants from the Woods and Forests of Chile' - now being sold in bookshops in Chile

Hedge in a box! Today 45 plants of Prumnopitys andina were sent to Blijdenstein Arboretum in the Netherlands for the establishment of a conservation hedge.

The late Jimmy Ratter was an indefatigable botanist working mostly in tropical South America. The giant fern Acrostichum aureum did not faze him. Here RBGE_Herbarium is his collection of this fern from Brazil comprising 8 samples from an entire 2.5 m frond

A short thread on Hedge flailing. This hedge has just been flailed. All of the berries that could have helped feed winter birds have been shaved off. Valuable structure eg from brambles growing at the base, has also been removed.

Excellent day for Climate Change deniers - with such low temperatures here in Scotland they must be right #bs

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Rayenia malalcurensis - a remarkable new monotypic genus in the Escalloniaceae from the Andes of South-Central Chile doi.org/10.11646/Phyto…

Experience: I’m a tree hugger theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

This entire tweet and it's replies are a collection of beautiful stories about surprised cat owners and the cats who have surprised staff 😂❤️

Instead of using chemicals Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh hort. staff are using a mixture of oilseed rape and coconut oil to eradicate weeds David Knott Hazel France Mostly Plants