Edinburgh Botanic Garden Jungle City

We had planned to see a little more of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, but with it winding down we changed our minds and headed to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - the other bonus was with it being Sunday car parking was free, this made it cheaper for us than taking the train there and back to the West coast.

I've been to the Edinburgh Botanics a couple of times namely related to one of my previous employment roles working in the built heritage and natural environment - a job I really loved.  I also got the opportunity to host an event at the Botanics, but today was purely for pleasure.  The Garden was hosting Jungle City.  Jungle City is a charitable event of major  conservation impact, with the aim to raise funds for these endangered animals and their jungle homes.

Jungle City Edinburgh features a host of life-sized animals ranging from Elephants, Orangutans, Crocodiles, Hornbills and Tigers. 

There were over 130 individual and brightly painted animals.  Here are some that attracted our attention.  Click on them, to see them in a little more detail. 

Gothic Hornbill



Psychedelic Tiger



Homely Orangutan

BBC Scotland featured Jungle City Edinburgh on the news a little while ago, if your interested to see more follow here. Please note that the Jungle City exhibition is not permanent and is due to move elsewhere at some point.

You know I was very impresseed with the variety of leaflets at the Garden,  I picked up three that interested me allotment by Jules Horne - a show I know I would have enjoyed watching, but sadly it now has ended; Can You Dig It? Comedy Songs About Growing Your Own by Jo Stephenson & Dan Woods - made the veg grower in me smile! I may just have to get myself a copy when funds permit; and finally Edible Gardening Project.  Shame, there appears to be nothing like this happening at the Glasgow Botanics as I know I would have enjoyed all of these immensely.