{"id":3780,"date":"2026-03-31T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:40:15","slug":"edinburgh-palm-house-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/edinburgh-palm-house-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Palm house restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic A-listed Palm Houses at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, which have been closed since 2021 for major restoration work, are now almost ready to reopen.<br \/>800 plants including towering palms and tree ferns were removed and planted in Air-Pot containers, allowing them to continue to thrive and maintain healthy root structure.<br \/>The specialist renovation work included repairing 600m\u00b2 of corroded ironwork, replacing 5,750 panes of glass and installing a new carbon neutral geothermal heating system.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-attachment-id=\"3783\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/edinburgh-palm-house-restoration\/pic-3-returning-palms-to-the-palm-house-at-rbge-in-air-pot\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pic-3-Returning-palms-to-the-Palm-House-at-RBGE-in-Air-Pot\u00ae.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1666\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Pic 3 Returning palms to the Palm House at RBGE in Air-Pot\u00ae\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pic-3-Returning-palms-to-the-Palm-House-at-RBGE-in-Air-Pot\u00ae-1024x682.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pic-3-Returning-palms-to-the-Palm-House-at-RBGE-in-Air-Pot\u00ae-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pic-3-Returning-palms-to-the-Palm-House-at-RBGE-in-Air-Pot\u00ae-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pic-3-Returning-palms-to-the-Palm-House-at-RBGE-in-Air-Pot\u00ae-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pic-3-Returning-palms-to-the-Palm-House-at-RBGE-in-Air-Pot\u00ae-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pic-3-Returning-palms-to-the-Palm-House-at-RBGE-in-Air-Pot\u00ae-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pic-3-Returning-palms-to-the-Palm-House-at-RBGE-in-Air-Pot\u00ae-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pic-3-Returning-palms-to-the-Palm-House-at-RBGE-in-Air-Pot\u00ae-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pic-3-Returning-palms-to-the-Palm-House-at-RBGE-in-Air-Pot\u00ae-1980x1319.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Replanting has now started and the gardeners have been amazed at the speed of establishment. Within three weeks of replanting the tree ferns have put on significant growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe use of the Air-Pot\u00ae system has been a complete gamechanger for our horticulture team, transforming how we cared for our largest plants during the Palm House restoration works.These statuesque palms and ferns are an important part of our Living Collection, so a system that protected both plants and root systems was essential.The Air-Pot\u00ae container delivered exactly what we needed. Their ingenious design kept the plants in excellent condition, even after years in containers, ready for their safe return home to the Palm Houses this year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sadie Barber, Deputy Curator, Glasshouses, Indoor Living Collection at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic A-listed Palm Houses at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, which have been closed since 2021 for major restoration work, are now almost ready to reopen.800 plants including towering palms and tree ferns were removed and planted in Air-Pot containers, allowing them to continue to thrive and maintain healthy root structure.The specialist renovation work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Palm-house-3-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3786,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions\/3786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air-pot.com\/nursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}