Objects from the Temperate Palm House

The Temperate Palm House was an exhibition using remnants of historic palm trees once grown in the Botanic Garden’s Victorian palm houses, at Bargain Spot project space in Edinburgh city centre.

The exhibition engaged eleven contemporary artists from Scotland, UK and Europe who presented new, existing and commissioned work alongside these artefacts from the collection of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

The artefacts include a variety of species originating in South America and the Asia-Pacific regions including Archontophoenix alexandrae, and the now threatened species Cryosophila nana, as well as sections of Livistona australis which was in 1960 the tallest palm in Britian at 72ft.