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• Box of colour slides from the area of the Flora Zambesiaca
Sans titreFlowery expressions of Celia's loveliness & friendship.
Sans titrePoem, written in green ink on handmade paper and inserted into a folded card with ‘a contemplation’ on it. One one side of the paper is ‘Written by Katheryn’s bench by the southern border of the Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh on the afternoon of the second day of 2025. John Robertson
Together, a while
If all that remains of me
is a place for others to rest,
a place for others to think,
and to connect
and to see
and to be.
Then put my life down
to the simple achievement
of a humble wooden bench
with a quiet brass plaque,
and on it shall be written:
‘let us dance together, a while’
set away somewhere gentle
at Edinburgh’s Botanical Ceilidh.
John R. 02.01.2025
Sans titreAt present this series comprises the Garden Guide Daily Diaries but it is envisaged that documentation relating to the establishment and management of the initiative could also be added here.
Sans titre• Draft copy of an article titled ‘The New Plant Houses at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh’ (stored in the ‘R’ box)
• History and development of the garden
• Accounts, 1764-1876 (incomplete)
• Staff Records (incomplete)
• Probationer Gardener records (1889-1935)
• Records relating to education at RBGE
• Photographs
• Maps
• Papers relating to regional gardens – Dawyck, Benmore and Logan
• Plant flowering records (phenology registers)
• Plant records, including inventories, and registers of plants entering and leaving the garden
This collection features:
The Weed Collectors, by Julia Parks, 2023l 2nd copy (1st copy is in RBGE Library Collection: (right click, open link in new tab) https://rbge.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=206769&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A%20weed%20collectors)
2nd copy held in Archives in Ida Hayward collection as there is information there that relates to the collection in addition to a biography of Ida Hayward.
A collection of material from and relating to the plantsman and primula specialist Dr. John MacWatt including photographs, paintings, scrapbooks, papers, nursery catalogues, articles, medals and certificates.
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