Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh began near Holyrood Abbey in 1670 as a physic garden growing medicinal plants. The move to its present Inverleith setting began in 1820. The Edinburgh visitor collection includes the Rock Garden, Alpine Houses, Woodland Garden and Chinese Hillside, alongside rhododendrons and Scottish native plants in the Heath Garden.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh began near Holyrood Abbey in 1670 as a physic garden growing medicinal plants. The move to its present Inverleith setting began in 1820. The Edinburgh visitor collection includes the Rock Garden, Alpine Houses, Woodland Garden and Chinese Hillside, alongside rhododendrons and Scottish native plants in the Heath Garden.
Editorial interpretation: distinguish the institution’s medicinal origins from the later Inverleith landscape. Comparing the rock garden and geographically themed plantings offers a way to read different approaches to arranging living collections.
Written by Le Roi du Jardin. It sets out what is documented, not what is worth seeing.
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