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A sneak preview of Edinburgh’s green gateway to botanic beauty

Where heritage is concerned, modernise at your peril, so Alan Bennell, head of visitor services at Edinburgh’s 300-year-old Royal Botanic Garden, will be a nervous man this morning.

He may even need a calming bowl or two of the briar pipe he keeps in his jacket pocket.