1. The Royal Botanic Garden
Edinburgh
The Royal Botanic Garden

2. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a scientific centre for the study of plants, their diversity and conservation, as well as a popular tourist attraction. The RBGE's living collection consists of more than 15,000 plant species, whilst the herbarium contains in excess of 3 million preserved specimens. The Edinburgh site is the main garden.

4. History
The Edinburgh botanic garden was founded in at St. Anne's Yard, near Holyrood Palace, by Dr. Robert Sibbald and Dr. Andrew Balfour. It is the second oldest botanic garden in Britain after Oxford's. The Temperate Palm House, which remains the tallest in Britain to the present day, was built in 1858.
The botanic garden at Benmore became the first Regional Garden of the RBGE in It was followed by the gardens at Logan and Dawyck in 1969 and 1978.

5. Some notable collections at the botanic garden Edinburgh include:
Alpine Plants
Chinese Hillside
Cryptogamic Garden
The Glasshouses
Palmhouse
Temperate Palms
Tropical Palms
Orchids and Cycads
Ferns and Fossils
Plants and people
Temperate lands
Rainforest Riches
Arid Lands
Montane tropical house
Wet Tropical House
Peat Walls
The Queen Mother's memorial garden.
Rock Garden
Scottish Heath Garden
Woodland Garden

6. Library
RBGE's Library is Scotland's national reference collection for specialist botanical and horticultural resources. Housing around 70,000 books and 150,000 periodicals the research library is one of the country's largest . However, as a national reference collection, the Library is also open to members of the public, either in person or by telephone or .

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