Edinburgh Parks

With food security and food miles increasingly on people's minds, and lengthy allotment waiting lists, the Edib

The Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh (RGBE) has announced that is launching a new foodie festival this Spring - Science on a Plate.

Visitors to Holyrood Park in Edinburgh will be able to enjoy a safe, traffic-free environment during four days of road closures over the festive season.

Scottish Natural Heritage’s Isle of May reported an increased numbers of visitors and a few unusual ones this passed season.

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Edinburgh parks and green spaces have won three awards in the national horticultural campaign Britain in Bloom.

According to the Marine Conservation Society, Scotland had the highest average litter levels in the UK of six out of the seven sewage-related debris items: condoms, cotton bud sticks, nappies, tampons/tampon applicators, toilet fresheners, and sanitary towels/pantyliners/backing strips.

Given the amount of media time that has been spent talking about the boost to Edinburgh tourism from romcom One Day you'd think it was set in the city. While Edinburgh bookends the action, for the most part the affair plays out over the years in London, as well as Paris and France. There's really not that much of Edinburgh in it.

With the sun still with us it seemed like an opportune time to investigate the recently erected tented village at George Square.

Edinburgh’s parks and green spaces have earned twenty awards in this year’s Green Flag national competition.

One of the side-effects of this unusually dreich Edinburgh Summer, is that there have been fewer people meandering around Edinburgh's parks. Take Castlehill garden: I was walking in this rough, unkempt hillscape, smack in the middle of the city under Edinburgh Castle, a couple of evenings ago. The only sign of life, apart from the distant hum of buses on Princes Street, were a few rabbits munching in the undergrowth.

Edinburgh's floral clock, the famous blooming timepiece in Princes Street Gardens, will kick off the city's bid for this year’s Britain in Bloom.

Taking place between 11am and 3pm at the Holyrood Park Education Centre, this free event will recreate Royal leisure pastimes in days gone by when the Park formed a key part of the Holyrood experience for the visiting members of the Royal Family and their guests.

Anyone walking or cycling along the Water of Leith Walkway should notice some big differences following a series of upgrades to the path. The popular green corridor which snakes the 13 miles of the river from the Pentland Hills to the port at Leith, sees an estimated 120,000 people tramping and riding along it each year.

You could easily lose yourself for a day on Corstorphine Hill - but one of the main destinations is the tower erected to author Sir Walter Scott at the top of

Johnstone Terrace Garden, a tiny nature reserve just 50 metres below Edinburgh Castle Esplanade, is holding a one-off open day this Saturday.

The smallest and certainly the closest to Edinburgh city centre of the Scottish Wildlife Trust's nature reserves opens for one day only this afternoon.

A Massed Pipes and Drums Parade, from Edinburgh Castle to Holyrood Park, launches the DecAid Appeal to support members of the armed forces after 10 years in Afghanistan.  HRH The Duchess of Rothesay, Royal Patron of the DecAid Appeal, will be attending.

Edinburgh City Council proclaimed a recent "hard hitting" campaign to encourage dog owners to poop-scoop in the north of the city saw complaints drop by 80%.

The Meadows Festival is an annual, free community festival, that has been running since 1974, with sporting activities, local bands, stalls and family entertainment held on the West Meadows by Melv