… you’re sure of a big surprise!”

Not only will you come across Killer Plants, but you’ll also discover the forgotten tracks of an underground railway station.

Then there’s the story of an infamous Victorian poisoning in 1857, and the subsequent trial which rocked Scottish society. Was Madeleine Smith guilty? The verdict? Not proven. If not she, then who did poison apprentice nurseryman Pierre Emile L’Angelier?

And what has an ingenious Victorian engineer, a man who invented a remarkable ‘floating bike’, have to do with the glorious glasshouse that is the Kibble Palace?

But most intriguing of all, what was the top secret WW2 project that went on down in the tunnels below the gardens? What was ‘The Research Institute For Flora-based Invasion Defences’ up to? Just how carnivorous can some plants be?

There’s a lot more to the Glasgow Botanical Gardens than meets the eye, and you can read all about it in issue 116 of iScot Magazine, April/May 2026