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1 folder containing a Creative Nature booklet outlining activities compiled for the Year of Natural Scotland 2013 which included the event 'Walking with Poets' held at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and its three regional gardens of Benmore, Logan and Dawyck; and Cove Park, June - September 2013. " This year poets Sue Butler, Mandy Haggith, Jena Atkin and Gerry Loose have taken up poetry residences at the four gardens of the RBGE as well as at Cove Park. Walking with Poets provides a chance for these poets to immerse themselves in the magnificent environments and share their awareness, their practice, and their vision of nature with communities around Scotland and the world. The residencies will take place throughout the year and there will be a special closing event held at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on St Andrew's Day 2013. Each of the poets will be blogging about their residency at: walkingwithpoets.wordpress.org ." This was a partnership between the Scottish Poetry Library, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Cove Park. Inserted into the booklet are four postcards, one for each poet, signed and featuring a quote.
GB 235 RJF/1/5/1: letter dated Dec 6 from Reginald Farrer to Mrs Parker found in a donated copy of 'English Rock Garden' by R. Farrer. GB 235 RJF/1/5/2: Historic England Report, 2016, on assessment of restoration of Farrer's rock garden at Clapham by Rebecca Pullan, HE Research Report Series no.7-2016 GB 235 RJF/1/5/3: Articles by Graham Avery, yet to be listed
folder containing printed email outlining wording of signs at entrance to Dawyck Botanic Garden accompanied by printed photographs on A3 pages showing the locations of existing and potential interpretation signage at Dawyck.
A4 draft comprising text for an interpretation panel at Dawyck's Cryptogamic Sanctuary, accompanied by 2 draft illustrations / maps showing where the Sanctuary is. There is also a 3.5" disc labelled Crypto Sanct panel; Crypto leaflets x3; General text for back page of leaflets.
Folder containing two versions (annotated and corrected) of text for interpretation leaflets(?) for Dawyck Botanic Garden - 'The Biodiversity of Heron Wood Cryptogamic Sanctuary and Reserve'. There are also black and white line illustrations of fungi and nematodes, numbered 1-4 (Microglossum, Lectialabella(?), soil amoeba and eel-worm) to accompany the text, and 2 35mm slides
Theatre programme for the play 'Plant Hunter: The Tibetan Journeys of Joseph Rock' which was performed at RBGE during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1996 by Theatrum Botanicum, Theater of Plantes. The programme has Rock's Naxi bookplate on the front cover and a timeline of Rock's life inside. The play was written using Rock's diaries which are held in the RBGE Archives, and Evan-Wentz's Tibetan Book of the Dead.
GB 235/ASH/1/1-16: 1 box of 16 mounted photographs showing the felling of the Ash tree in 1992; and GB 235 ASH/2: part of one of the tree limbs sliced into sections by Tim Stead to show the damage done internally by fungus; tree limb sections can be arranged to form an artistic sculpture.
•1 box of general correspondence from 1990-92 (now in Registry, SFC/1/1 and SFC/1/2) •1 box of general correspondence from 1993 (now in Registry, SFC/1/3 and SFC/1/4) •2 folders of information regarding the Society of Flora of China’s Joint Editorial Meeting, Edinburgh, April 1995 (now in Registry, SFC/2/2) •Signed posters from 1995 and final 2013 meeting, with photographs relating to the latter.
Small collection of papers dating to 1969-1970 that reference John McLaren and the centenary celebrations of the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, filed under “San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, Centenary”
68 typed foolscap pages in a clutch folder belonging to John D. Main on the Genus Primula, Synonyms of the Genus Primula from other Genera, Species and Synonyms of the Genus Primula and Primula Synonymy. Possible course notes? On the front is 'J.D. Main' and 'Primula' in Dymo tape. John D. Main was a student at RBGE before becoming Head of Horticulture.