Six years, hundreds of plants and one tree casualty - Edinburgh's Palm House returns
The Palm House at Edinburgh's Botanic Garden is finally restored and ready for the public.
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"I think whenever you move a plant and you take it out of the ground and then you stick it in a pot, it's going to suffer or it's going to get under stress."
— Sadie Barber , Executive
"So what the palm houses are doing is helping to protect so many of these species, and many of them of course have medicinal properties for human health."
— Prof Julia Knights , Academic
"Hopefully, because we've planted it in this glass house which is a bit taller than where it was previously, hopefully it will last a bit longer than the previous one did."
— David Knott , Executive
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The Palm House at Edinburgh's Botanic Garden is finally restored and ready for the public.
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