Getting reacquainted with nature could be as easy as a walk in your local park, thanks to a new concept for creating informal botanical gardens throughout cities.
Tag - Botanic Gardens
Dale Maylea
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Botanical gardens act as artificial oases for butterflies in arid urban areas
Botanical gardens provide access to vital plants and water for butterflies in the southwest US. This will only become more important as the climate becomes warmer and drier.
Alun Salt
Botanists develop a model for times when a plant thriving in a garden is a matter of life and death
A new model can help botanic gardens discover where they should source endangered plants when they want to aid conservation efforts.
Approaches for orchid conservation at the U.S. Botanic Garden
The United States Botanic Garden combines science and education to keep orchids safe in their collections and in the wild.
Celebrating Botany’s 400th birthday!
Roots to seeds: 400 years of Oxford botany by Stephen A Harris 2021. Bodleian Library Botanic gardens are important resources, both for plants and people. For example they have a major role in helping humanity manage...
Nigel Chaffey
Population genetics may unlock the origins of living cycad specimens
The strategy may pave the way for reintroduction work in the future.
Erin Zimmerman
Saving a blueprint of the Tree of Life
Access to legally acquired, high-quality DNA and tissue samples is often elusive for those undertaking genomic research. Seberg et al. report on an initiative to tackle this problem. The Global Genome Biodiversity...
botanyone
Botanists on the move
We reveal a traveling merry-go-round and highlight the exploits of some of our fellow botanists!
If you cut the scientists from a Botanic garden, is it still a ‘Botanic’ garden?
Bad news via the Botanical Society of America [fullclear]…but what is it that makes a garden a botanic garden? Botanic gardens were originally set up to classify plants for science. Is the presence of name labels...
I feckin love the Dead Zoo
The public perception of plants as second rate science is not a new phenomenon.
AJ Cann
Prizes for plant sites
Since late in 2012, Singapore Botanic Gardens has had ‘Tentative’ UNESCO world heritage status, but now wants to attain full recognition.
What I did on my day off
I visited Biddulph Grange Garden, a National Trust Property in Staffordshire. As visits go it wasn’t a huge success. The sky was solid cloud that hammered the light flat, meaning there was no real light and shade...
