Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news

[jomowi]

It is a real giant, isn't it?  Thank goodness the pong wasn't too bad.

Actually, I was a bit disappointed not to sample the pong!  I expected it to be all part of the experience.  I had to made do with the all pervading smell of "Auld Reekie's" brewery on my train-replacement bus journey into town.  I don't think the arum would have been any worse, if a different type of smell.

A few more pics hurriedly snatched while in the greenhouse and adjoining one. You weren't allowed long, so I was unable to write down names.  Correct me if I'm wrong, Maggi, but I think the 1st 3 are Vireya Rhodos? Then comes an orchid and Streptocarpus

[Maggi Young]

pix 1 and 3 are lovely Vireyas, yes - but I'm not sure what pic 2 ( * P6278868.jpg) is.

[jomowi]

All 3 were close - I assumed the second pic was one in seed?  Not necessarily so of course, just because they were all together.

[Roma]

Gaultheria?

[Maggi Young]

Yes, Roma - I think Gaultheria is likely - but not a species I know.

[Otto Fauser]

Maggi , it looks like Vaccinium  glaucoalbum , still with lots of berries here in my wintry garden .-edible but the birds do not feed on them .

[Maggi Young]

Not a plant I know, Otto - but I thought the open end of the fruit looked more gaultheria-like 

[Maggi Young]

The Titan Arum, "New Reekie" at RBGE has collapsed now  but there is more than the thousands of  photos taken to remember it by :
Three very talented botanical artists associated with RBGE have collaborated to paint it-   Sharon Tingey, Işık Güner  & Jacqui Pestell 

.... see the painting - and its progress here in various photographs  : ( you do not need to me a member of Twitter to see this)
 
https://twitter.com/TheBotanics/status/616185337526779905/photo/1

[Maggi Young]

News from RBGE - The Botanics gives open access to the new  issue of 'Sibbaldia'
http://journals.rbge.org.uk/index.php/rbgesib/issue/view/17

 includes the articles :
 THE HISTORY OF THE ROCK GARDEN AT THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH  by Robert Unwin
   
FORWARD PLANNING FOR SCOTTISH GARDENS IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE by  Chris Smart, Alan Elliott

and   
BOTANIC GARDEN PROFILE: BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, NORWAY  by Axel Dalberg Poulsen

[alanelliott]

News from RBGE - The Botanics gives open access to the new  issue of 'Sibbaldia'
http://journals.rbge.org.uk/index.php/rbgesib/issue/view/17

Open access to all of Sibbaldia start to finish! Releasing all is underway

[David Nicholson]

The World stands poised

[Maggi Young]

Just terrific to see the degree to which RBGE is helping to give open access to these resources - a very good thing!

[alanelliott]

The World stands poised

world of botanical horticulture perhaps. Which the SRGC very much is...

[Maggi Young]

Hello Alan  - must take this chance to say congratulations on being elected to the SRGC Council - I foresee  a great future for the club with the likes of you and Matt Topsfield  getting involved.   

[alanelliott]

Hello Alan  - must take this chance to say congratulations on being elected to the SRGC Council - I foresee  a great future for the club with the likes of you and Matt Topsfield  getting involved.   

The press gang were out...

Thanks looking forward to it. It was a pity I couldnt make the AGM I ended up having to work on Saturday, needs must to keep me in gin.