Sibbaldia has been published by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) since 2003 at a rate of one volume per year. It is the journal dedicated to botanic garden horticulture and is written by horticulturists and others who work in botanic gardens. The content is intended primarily for these horticulturists but it is also of value to botanic garden and plant collection managers. The content also appeals to a wider audience including horticultural students, plant enthusiasts and conservationists. Sibbaldia aims to cover all aspects of horticulture relevant to botanic gardens including cultivation, propagation, plant records, conservation, policies, strategies and conventions, interpretation, education, and landscape use and management.

The importance and role of horticulturists will increase with the adoption of international agreements such as the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. Botanic gardens are increasingly credited with being the valuable resource that they are for crucial education in biodiversity and conservation issues and those who develop and maintain these environments need to both communicate their work and maintain and improve their networks for learning from each other. It is very common for skilled and knowledgeable staff in botanic gardens across the world to hold specialist knowledge of particular plant groups, and this knowledge is used to create spectacular botanic gardens. However, it is not common for this knowledge to be written down and communicated to others outside of the establishments. Sibbaldia aims to provide a vehicle for this knowledge to be passed on.

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