{"id":671034,"date":"2026-01-03T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671034\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:18:10","slug":"replanting-the-urban-jungle-in-restored-edinburgh-botanics-hot-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671034\/","title":{"rendered":"Replanting the urban jungle in restored Edinburgh Botanic&#8217;s hot houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And dating back to the late 1800s, that partition has been removed and what&#8217;s happened now is we&#8217;ve got this beautiful, huge open airy space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So that&#8217;s as it was originally intended and I think that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going to be most striking when people come in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New laminated and toughened glass has been installed to withstand the impact of storms, while deeper gutters and extra downpipes are better able to cope with flash flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fiona Inches, horticulturist and glasshouse manager, said the new, clean glass lets in more light now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There were cracked panes of glass and the iron work was down to a kind of skeleton, really, really in poor condition,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve now got every single pane of glass is replaced. It now shines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All the iron work has been restored, repainted, and the stone work has been reconditioned.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;And dating back to the late 1800s, that partition has been removed and what&#8217;s happened now is we&#8217;ve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-671034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115830895611448921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}