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The front cover of the Yokohama Nursery catalogue
10 Sept 2024

Plant Journeys blog post #12 – Plant collecting and Yokohama Nursery

Plant Journeys is a blog series, exploring East Asian plants in the garden of Broughton House.

A garden in full bloom in the sunshine with a stone building behind.
10 Sept 2024

Plant Journeys blog post #11 – Plants for different months and seasons

Plant Journeys is a blog series, exploring East Asian plants in the garden of Broughton House.

Two rocks have been split open and are displayed side by side on a piece of white tissue paper. Inside each rock is a fossilised creature. On the left, it looks a bit like a large beetle. On the right, it looks like a squashed thin butterfly.
10 Sept 2024

Dingwall Museum donates fossil specimens

Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Cottage & Museum has welcomed a donation of fossils from Dingwall Museum that is set to delight visitors to the former home of the renowned Scottish geologist.

A woman sits at a table and clasps her hands. Laid out in front of her is a cream embroidered panel, with pink Glasgow-style roses and other geometric shapes on it.
3 Sept 2024

Stitched puts spotlight on 200 years of textiles

An exhibition shining a light on the often-overlooked art of embroidery runs in Edinburgh from 25 October 2024 until 18 January 2025.

A view looking across a neat lawn to the white Inverewe House. A garden bench stands in the foreground. Tall trees surround the lawn and house.
27 Aug 2024

Emotive artwork at Inverewe’s new exhibition

An exhibition exploring the innate character and possibility of beauty is taking place at Inverewe Garden, part of our new arts programme.

Two people one wearing hi-vis and both wearing helmets and microphones sit in a helicopter next to the window.
26 Aug 2024

Your Gift in Action – autumn 2024

The Trust relies on the generosity of supporters like you to protect the special places we all cherish.

Three young women sit at a table, leaning over a gilt composition frame, cleaning dirt from it using cotton wool swabs.
19 Aug 2024

All that glitters: conservation of gilded frames

Our fifth blog in the Ramsay & Edinburgh Fashion series takes a look at the conservation of the gilded frames that contain artworks for the exhibition.

A photo of a garden on a summer's day with a blue cloudy sky and lots of trees and flowers in full bloom. A glasshouse sits at the bottom of the garden.
13 Aug 2024

The PLANTS Project: Roses at Malleny Garden

Roses bring a lot of colour to your garden in the summer. Here, the PLANTS Project inventory team pick a few favourites from Malleny Garden. 

8 Aug 2024

Plant Journeys blog post #10 – Maple: a feast of colour

Plant Journeys is a blog series, exploring East Asian plants in the garden of Broughton House.

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