A dark-edged bee-fly on a holly leaf. It's a fly, but its furry body mimics a bee. The front edge of the wing has a dark pattern, giving its common name.
My first dark-edged bee-fly (Bombylius major) of the year at The Botanics yesterday.
I only saw it basking on this holly leaf. I'm hoping to catch it visiting flowers today.
#RBGE #Edinburgh #RbgeNature
A comma, a predominantly orange butterfly, in the foreground and a peacock (mostly red with eye patterns on its wings) out-of-focus behind it. Both are inverted and feeding on the small blue flowers of grape hyacinth.
Comma and peacock butterflies on grape hyacinth at The Botanics today.
#Edinburgh #RBGE #RbgeNature#butterfly #ScotButterflies #UKButterflies #UKWildlife
Benmore Botanical Gardens (working title). Reduction linocut, 32x50cm. CaligoSafewash on 300gsm Somerset Satin.
#printmaking #linocut #printmakersofscotland #rbge #landscape #scotland
A hairy-footed flower bee feeding on a small pinky-purple pulmonaria flower. The ginger hairs on the bee indicate that it is a male. The males emerge before the black-haired females. Long, fine hairs are just visible on the middle leg. These hairs give the bee its common and scientific names, plumipes translates to "feather foot".
A hairy-footed flower bee (Anthophora plumipes) on pulmonaria.
The first I have seen this year, there was maybe another, soon there will be many around this flower bed in The Botanics.
#bees #RBGE #RbgeNature #Edinburgh #UkWildlife #wildlife
🙋 Saturday morning, 10.30-2pm
(then spend a great afternoon in the #Botanics - 🌞 is forecast!)
#Edinburgh #RBGE
Pond
Inverleith House with crocuses in the foreground
Snowdrops and crocuses
Birch trees
Had a stroll in the Botanics in the sun
#RBGE #Edinburgh
Pond
Inverleith House with crocuses in the foreground
Snowdrops and crocuses
Birch trees
Had a stroll in the Botanics in the sun
#RBGE #Edinburgh
‘After Rain’
Edinburgh Botanical Gardens
A walk in the Botanics
#Blipfoto #photography #AfterRain #RBGE #Reflection #walk
www.blipfoto.com/entry/346723...
Snowdrops with raindrops.
Snowdrops in a large group around the base of a tree.
Snowdrops with raindrops.
Snowdrops with raindrops.
A few snowdrops in the botanical gardens.
#snowdrops #Edinburgh #botanics #RBGE
#NationalSnowdropDay
‘Coiled, February’
Went for a walk in the Botanics at lunchtime, spotted the buds on a horse chestnut tree. Lovely and sticky - all coiled up and ready to ‘spring’!
#Blipfoto #photography #RBGE #bud #winter #February #tree #horsechestnut #spring
www.blipfoto.com/entry/346469...
Strobili (reproductive cones) and microphylls (proto-leaves) of Selaginella involvens.
A #fernFriday friend this week. Selaginella involvens, a sub tropical lycophyte from South east Asia #BritishFernSociety #BPS #RBGE
Thin green bifurcating fronds with small pinna climbing out into the space between tropical plants at the #RBGE
Something a bit warmer for this #FernFriday. Sticheropsis truncata, an upland fern from Indonesia. The fronds appear to fork, but actually extend continuously, with a hidden bud in the fork allowing the plant to spread out seeking light in forest gaps. #BritshFernSociety #BPS #RBGE
Some of my students' graduation show #RBGE #BotanicalArt #Painting #art #Watercolour #watercolor #SciArt
www.rbge.org.uk/learn/diplom...
Herbaceous border at the botanic gardens
Rudbeckia spp.
Crocosmia spp.
The #herbaceousborder @thebotanics.bsky.social is still looking splendid just now - 165m long, designed in 1902 by the Regius Keeper Isaac Bailey Balfour and a rainbow spectrum of colour and structure.
#botanicgardens #RBGE #Edinburgh #visitscotland #summercolour #perennialplants
Still Life with Mouth
#Blipfoto #photography #mouth #stilllife #senses #plants #RBGE #surreal #incongruity #unsettling #surrealphotography
www.blipfoto.com/entry/338862...
Read more about this Scottish oasis at:
www.weewalkingtours.com/post/dawyck-botanic-garden
#DawyckBotanicGarden #AzaleaTerrace #RBGE @thebotanics.bsky.social #VisitScotland #BotanicGarden #Flowers #Summer #Scotland
Come celebrate Summer Solstice on an epic journey to Dawyck Botanic Garden (part of @thebotanics.bsky.social)-
www.weewalkingtours.com/post/dawyck-botanic-garden
Have a lovely Summer Solstice! Hyvää juhannusta kaikille!💙🏴💙🇫🇮
#DawyckBotanicGarden #RBGE #VisitScotland #SummerSolstice #Juhannus
Purple mountain saxifrage at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
Purple mountain saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia) at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh #Edinburgh #RBGE
Lots of brilliant job vacancies @thebotanics.bsky.social just now, including Horticulturalists, Pollinator Ecologist & the Big Boss post (Regius Keeper)🌿🍄🌳🌼: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #hortjobs #horticulture #RBGE #ecologyjobs #botanyjobs
Magnolia flowers - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
The Campbell's magnolia at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
#Edinburgh #RBGE
A single small white flower against a green blurry backdrop. The white flower head looks like a bell.
It’s coming 🥰 🌸🌺🌷🌻🌼🪻☀️
Good morning from Scotland 🏴
First signs of spring. Spent a bit of time in the Botanics between meetings and captured some #snowdrops
#snowdrop #schneeglöckchen #flower #flowerphotography #TTArtisan #winter #RBGE
TT Artisan 100mm f2.8
