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The Praeger Centre was launched at the National Botanic Gardens on Saturday morning during a visit by the Dublin Naturalists Field Club (DNFC), along with representatives of the Belfast Naturalists Field Club (BNFC). The Garden’s Director, Dr Matthew...
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The H. H. Bloomer Award is given by the Linnean Society of London each year. It was established in 1963 from a legacy by the amateur naturalist Harry Howard Bloomer, and is awarded to an amateur naturalist who has made an important contribution to biological...
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On the 18th May, HRH Queen Elizabeth was presented with a bouquet of flowers at Trinity College these comprised plants selected from the collections of the National Botanic Gardens, including Achillea ‘Moonshine’, Geranium ‘Johnson’s...
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Meet the Loneliest Plant in the World and other surprising stories about plants, people and places… New technology brings the Botanic Gardens to life The world’s loneliest male. Vicious plants that can eat sheep. The philosopher’s stone (where...
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The Gardens continue to be involved in the forefront of understanding global and national plant biodiversity. Each year about 2000 new species of plant are discovered and named. Last year, Matthew Jebb, along with his colleague Hajo Esser from Munich, described the...
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Noeleen Smyth published an article on Abutilon pitcairnense in Curtis’ Botanical Magazine, which included a portrait painted by botanical artist, Susan Sex (right). This species is teetering on the brink of extinction, but alive and well under the care of our...
