RBG Edinburgh

www.rbge.org.uk

Visited on September 24, 2007

Although the weather was generally good for most of our tour, the day trip to Edinburgh was extremely wet.  So much so, that our visit to the Royal Botanic Garden was pretty much restricted to the tropical glass houses. 

Since one of my classes at Tidewater Community College focused on Plants and Society, I was particularly interested in the display containing several tables of tropical plant products for food, medicine, and other social applications.

The varieties ranged from some common plants that we all have had had in our homes (e.g., Spathithyllum), to exotics that you will only see in the wild or at a major centre such as this.