Ardkinglas Woodland Garden
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Ardkinglas Woodland Garden |
| c/o Estate Office, Ardkinglas Estate, Cairndow, Argyll, PA26 8BH | |
| Tel: 01499 600261, 01499 600372 | |
| Fax: 01499 600241 | |
| Email: ardkinglas@btinternet.com | |
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| Latitude: 56° 15' 0" N / 56.2539864 | |
| Longitude: 4° 56' 3" W / -4.9386463 | |
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| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | |
| Ownership: | Private, J. Noble |
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| Umbrella organisation: | National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, Scottish Natural Heritage |
| i.e. PlantNet, BGCI, NCCPG; ICCP etc. | |
| Personnel | |
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| David Gray | |
| Mr J. Noble | |
| Contact person: | David Gray |
| Total Staff: | 4 |
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| Policies | |
| Accessions: | It is not intended that the garden compete with purely botanical collections, and so individual plants are selected upon merit rather than a deliberate policy to collect specific taxa. |
| Collections: | Ardkinglas Woodland Garden contains a mixture of gardenworthy plants (predominately trees and shrubs) which include a random selection of material of known wild origin, it is hoped that in a small way these plants will be available to assist scientific research. It is proposed to increase the known-wild-origin material within the garden by approximately 10% over each of the next five years; however, once again, the selection will be random rather than the result of a specific acquisition policy. |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 1-100 m |
| Soil type: | Sand |
| Aspect: | West |
| Total area: | 25 ha |
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| Weather records | Are records kept ? (Y/N) |
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| Plant collection | |
| Families: | 25 |
| Genera: | 50 |
| Species: | 150 |
| Taxa: | 225 |
| Accessions: | 145 |
| Plants: | 1750 |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Five champion trees including a Fitzroya cupressoides | |
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| Special families within the collections: | |
| Pinaceae, Ericaceae, Cupressaceae | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Abies, Picea, Rhododendron, Thuja, Fitzroya | |
| Special collections: | |
| Conifers, ICCP ,Two sites: House & Woodland Garden – 25 Genera, 40 Taxa, 40 Species, 188 Plants. Abies, NCCPG – 33 Species. Picea, NCCPG – 24 Species. | |
| Record Keeping: | Kept since 1995 |
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| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | No |
| Identifications: | No |
| Teaching and Education: | Primary, secondary, potential for taxonomic |
| Interpretation: | Brochures, guided trails |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | Café, plant shop, gift shop |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
| What are the conditions of Access to the collections? | |
| Public access: | Admission charge |
| Visitors per year: | 3500 |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: Daylight hours |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| To conserve and enhance the historic landscape character and associated plant collections whilst simultaneously extending the plant collection, where appropriate, to assist scientific research. | |
| Location map | |
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