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31/12/2025

🌟 Happy Hogmanay! 🌟

We want to thank everyone who has supported our exhibitions and events throughout the year; we couldn’t have done it without you!

Our exhibitions have highlighted the importance of RBGE’s world-leading Herbarium, showcased 50 years of trailblazing artwork by iconic feminist artist Linder Sterling, and celebrated the fusion of art and science.

For the first time we held not one, but two Botanics Lates evenings during the summer months, as well as hosting monthly walks, talks and tours.

🔗 Look out for what’s to come by signing up for our monthly newsletter via the link in the bio✨

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Image 1: In the Garden of Smiles installation during the June Late. Photo: Sally Jubb

Image 2: Installation shot of Danger Came Smiling. Photo: Sally Jubb

Image 3: A volunteer delivering a spotlight talk in Pressed for Time. Photo: Eva Madden
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Edinburgh Art Festival Hayward Gallery Edinburgh Science Festival

09/12/2025

Start 2026 with a spring in your step by joining Botanics Choir 🎵

Welcoming seasoned sopranos and novices alike, the choir celebrates all things plants through song. Why not try a new hobby in the new year?

Tickets are now live for the new term; choose from a half or full term, beginning on 13 January.

👉 For more information and to book your spot now follow the link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975823786132?aff=oddtdtcreator
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📅 Tue 13 Jan - Tue 31 March 2026
⏰ 5.30pm - 7pm
📍 Science Buildings, 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR
🎟️ £25 - £66
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Image: Botanics Choir pop-up in the Fungi Forms exhibition, 2024. Photo: Eva Madden
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

08/12/2025

December Poster Highlight

Celia Rosser is a prominent Australian Botanical artist, best known for her three-volume series depicting every species of Banksia. This took 25 years to complete and was finally printed in 2000.

In recognition of her dedication to banksias, Celia has a species of banksia named after her: Banksia rosserae. ⁠

💷 £15

👉To purchase this poster, follow the link below: https://rbgeshop.org/products/the-banksias-by-celia-rosser?_pos=1&_psq=celia+ro&_ss=e&_v=1.0
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Image: 'The Banksias' by Celia Rosser exhibition poster, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

05/12/2025

🌱 World Soil Day 2025 🪱

It’s been 2 weeks since we hosted Soil Song: a event with poet JL Williams and RBGE’s Dr Max Coleman. Jennifer shared some new work with us and we discussed the importance of soil health for all life on earth.

Beneath asphalt, buildings, and streets lies soil that, if permeable and vegetated, helps absorb rainwater, regulate temperature, store carbon, and improve air quality. But when it's sealed with cement, it loses these functions, making cities more vulnerable to flooding, overheating, and pollution.

The UN soil day invites everyone—from policymakers to citizens—to rethink urban spaces from the ground up, to build greener, more resilient, and healthier cities.
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Image: Jennifer and Max holding the discussion in Inverleith House. Photo: Eva Madden.
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Scottish Book Trust

25/11/2025

This National Tree Week we are celebrating Around a Tree’s return to the garden! 🌳🪵

Last August we hosted the installation for the duration of Edinburgh Art Festival in collaboration with Colombian artist collective Más Arte Más Acción.

The table – constructed from a diseased Lebanese Cedar and placed around a young Portuguese Oak – acted as a site for discussions around ecology, botany and the arts. 🌱

Recordings made during the festival were later shared at the UN’s Biodiversity COP16 in Colombia and the Climate COP30 in Brazil. This intervention builds on MAMA’s 2022 contribution for Documenta fifteen in Germany and Possible Dialogues for COP26 in Glasgow.
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Image: Setting up for an event at the table. Photo: Tiu Makkonen
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Edinburgh Art Festival Más Arte Más Acción

14/11/2025

Luke Fowler (b. 1978) is an artist, 16mm filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. He creates cinematic collages that have often been linked to the British Free Cinema movement of the 1950s.

This exhibition featured a collaboration with the Japanese sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda and explored the artists’ shared curiosity about mechanics of perception and the ways in which worldly phenomena are typically received and understood.

🕰️2012
💷£10.00

👉 To purchase this poster, follow the link here: https://rbgeshop.org/products/ridges-on-the-horizontal-plane-2011-by-luke-fowler-toshiya-tsunoda
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Image: ‘Ridges on the Horizontal Plane’, poster from Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

07/11/2025

🍂 Soil Song 🪱

Make yourself at home in Inverleith House for an inspiring exchange between soil, science and poetry.

This Book Week Scotland, botanist and science communicator Max Coleman will be in conversation with poet JL Williams, about their shared interest in earth and its vitality.

As a prelude to the 2026 exhibition in Inverleith House, Earth Matters, this event will illuminate the beauty and brilliance of soil - our buried treasure.

👉 Visit Eventbrite for more details & book your spot now!
https://soil-song.eventbrite.co.uk
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📅 Friday 21 November 2025
⏰ 2pm – 3.30pm
📍 Inverleith House
🎟️ Free event
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Image: Inverleith House in autumn. Photo: Charlotte McDonald
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

06/11/2025

📣 Job Opportunity

Apply to become a Creative Programmes Assistant at RBGE!

We are looking for an enthusiastic Creative Programmes Assistant with a passion for people, plants and art to join our small, dynamic team. You will support the organisation and operation of art exhibitions and events within a renowned botanic garden.

The working hours will generally be 9am to 5pm, Friday to Tuesday (5 over 7 days).

👉 For more information and how to apply for this role, please visit our website:
https://www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/jobs-and-volunteering/vacancies/

❗ Deadline to apply is 9am on Friday 28 November.
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Image: Shipping Roots preview in Inverleith House. Photo: Sally Jubb.
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Edinburgh Art Festival
Creative Scotland
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

15/10/2025

📢 Fungi Sessions Spotlight Talk

Join us for a spotlight talk in the John Hope Gateway exploring the themes of Fungi Sessions.

The tour will be led by one of our wonderful Creative Programmes Volunteers and aims to give you a deeper insight into the exhibition, enabling you to be immersed in both sound and science.

👉 Book your FREE ticket here: https://STFungiSessions.eventbrite.co.uk
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📍John Hope Gateway
📅Thursday 30 October
⏰2pm - 2:30pm
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Image: Arnillaria (Honey Fungus) still, Fungi Sessions 2025. Photo: Patrick Hickey
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🍄 Fungi Sessions
📅 2 August 2025 – 11 January 2026
⏰ Open daily 10am – 5pm (4pm Nov – Jan)
📍 John Hope Gateway
🎟️ Free exhibition
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

14/10/2025

Last chance! Don’t miss Linder: Danger Came Smiling, a journey through 50 years of pioneering art .

📅 Open until Sunday 19 October at Inverleith House Gallery. Free entry, recommended for audiences aged 16+.

11/10/2025

🎶 Join Botanics Choir for a half term and pick up a cosy new hobby just in time for autumn!

From choir enthusiasts to first-time singers, all are welcome. No singing experience is required, and you do not need to audition or read sheet music as parts will be taught in person each week.

👉 Visit the link below for more details and to sign up for the second half of the Autumn 2025 term. https://BotanicsChoirAutumn25.eventbrite.co.uk
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📅 Tue 28 October – Tue 9 December 2025
⏰ 5.30 – 7pm
📍 Science Buildings, 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR
🎟️ £35 - £42
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Image: Botanics Choir, 2024. Photo: Lousie King
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