{"id":80107,"date":"2026-07-16T11:53:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/restored-victorian-palm-houses-set-to-reopen-in-edinburghs-royal-botanic-garden\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:53:50","slug":"restored-victorian-palm-houses-set-to-reopen-in-edinburghs-royal-botanic-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/restored-victorian-palm-houses-set-to-reopen-in-edinburghs-royal-botanic-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Restored Victorian palm houses set to reopen in Edinburgh&#8217;s Royal Botanic Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The A-listed palm houses opened in the 1800s to store and display RBGE&#8217;s vast collection of tropical plants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Water ingress caused by historic wear and tear to the facility, combined with increasingly extreme winter weather conditions, risked the long-term health of the plants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The refurbishment work, which forms part of the wider Biomes Project, also saw partitions removed to open up the space and the restoration of rusting metalwork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 40,000 plants were removed from the hothouses at the start of the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some were stored in another hothouse during that time, under close monitoring by horticulturists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c36z2zy87pxo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">replanting project<\/a>, which began in January, saw the gardens&#8217; experts use pioneering techniques to restore the plants to their previous home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, some did not survive the move.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c62v3l66lw4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A-listed palm houses opened in the 1800s to store and display RBGE&#8217;s vast collection of tropical plants. Water ingress caused by historic wear and tear to the facility, combined with increasingly extreme winter weather conditions, risked the long-term health of the plants. The refurbishment work, which forms part of the wider Biomes Project, also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[21239,18300,611,8012,17883,371,6543,1331,86,21238],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80109,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80107\/revisions\/80109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}