Royal Botanic Garden - details and images
Situated in north downtown, Royal Botanical Garden is the second oldest botanical garden in the British Isles.
Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a scientific center for the study of plant diversity and conservation cestora and a popular tourist attraction. It was founded in 1670 as a garden for growing herbs.
Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a very important player in a worldwide network of institutions that wish to ensure that biodiversity is no longer eroding. RBGE is actively involved in and coordinates various projects in situ and ex situ conservation, both in the UK and internationally. The three main themes of the RBGE scientific works are: Scotland's Biodiversity, and Conservation of Plants and climate change.
About 36,000 plants are grown in the Botanical Garden of Edinburgh or in its three satellite gardens (known as Regional Gardens) located in other parts of Scotland. They are nearly 15,000 different species around the world, or about 5% of all known plant species.
Gardens include an exhibition of plants, a tropical greenhouse with exotic orchids, a collection of cacti, an alpine greenhouse, a garden and all species of heather Calluna vulgaris growing in Scotland, a collection of rare giant trees (Himalayan America North and Chile), a greenhouse with colorful azaleas, camellias, rhododendrons, hydrangeas and mouse eyes, a greenhouse with tropical water plants, water lilies and lily of the Indian and South America.
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