Arduaine Garden
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Arduaine Garden |
| Arduaine, By Oban, Argyll, PA34 4XQ | |
| Tel: 01852 200366 | |
| Fax: 01852 200366 | |
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| Latitude: 56° 14' 06" N / 56.2322655 | |
| Longitude: 5° 33' 12" W / -5.5488019 | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
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| Ownership: | The National Trust for Scotland |
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| Umbrella organisation: | National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, The National Trust for Scotland |
| i.e. PlantNet, BGCI, NCCPG; ICCP etc. | |
| Personnel | |
| Please include actual titles in brackets after the name i.e. Owner, Director/Manager, Curator/Head gardener. If you have other administrative staff, i.e. taxonomists, education officers etc. please add extra rows. | |
| Maurice Wilkins | |
| Contact person: | Maurice Wilkins |
| Total Staff: | 3 |
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| Policies | |
| Accessions: | As for The National Trust for Scotland |
| Collections: | To continue to expand the Rhododendron collection, particularly sections Azaleastrum, Chionastrum and subsections Boothia, Edgeworthia and Maddenia; also plants from South America, especially Chile. |
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| Aspect: | South and varied |
| Total area: | 8 ha |
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| Weather records | Are records kept ? (Y/N) |
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| Plant collection | |
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| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Tallest Gevuina avellana, Eucalyptus urnigera, Rhododendron protistum, and Thujopsis dolobrata var. hondae in the British Isles | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Eastern Asia, Southern South America | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Ericaceae, Gesneriaceae, Podocarpaceae, Magnoliaceae, Araliaceae, Iridaceae, Hydrangeaceae | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Rhodendron, Mitraria, Asteranthera, Podocarpus, Gevuina, Lomatia, Embothrium, Magnolia, Pieris, Libertia, Hydrangea | |
| Special collections: | |
| Conifer, ICCP, – 2 Genera, 2 Species, 2 Taxa, 2 Plants. Chile, ICCP – 21 Genera, 21 Species, 2 Taxa, 34 Plants. | |
| Record Keeping: | Records kept Computerised |
| Record System: | Q&A |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Guide Book and 75 Significant Plants |
| Identifications: | No |
| Teaching and Education: | Primary, secondary |
| Interpretation: | Brochures, guided trails, lectures, signs, supervised garden tours |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | No |
| 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: | 21,000 |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: 9.30am-sunset |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| The Trust will ensure the permanent preservation of Arduaine Garden as a garden of outstanding horticultural and artistic value for the benefit of the nation. | |
| Location map | |
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