David Rae

The Living Collection

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

2011   |  275 × 220mm   |  240pp

A comprehensive account of the history, accession, care and maintainance of RBGE’s living plant collection across our four Gardens. In The Living Collection David Rae offers a new way of seeing the extraordinary diversity of plants cultivated outside or under glass. The former Director of Horticulture at RBGE also guides the reader behind the scenes to reveal the skilled work involved in caring for a world-famous collection and then explains exactly why it matters.