Bath Botanic Garden
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Bath Botanic Garden |
| Royal Victoria Park, Bath, Somerset, BA1 1LZ | |
| Tel: 01225 477000 | |
| Fax: 01125 480072 | |
| Email: lin_pickford@bathnes.gov.uk | |
| Web site: www.bathnes.gov.uk | |
| Latitude: 51° 22' 49" N / 51.3816719 | |
| Longitude: 02° 21' 33" W / -2.3596082 | |
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| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1779 |
| Ownership: | Bath & NE Somerset Council |
| Garden code: | BHBG |
| Umbrella organisation: | National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens |
| i.e. PlantNet, BGCI, NCCPG; ICCP etc. | |
| Personnel | |
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| Heritage Parks Manager: | Glenn Humphreys |
| Contact person: | Glenn Humphreys |
| Total Staff: | 4 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | 4 |
| Policies | |
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| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 30 m |
| Soil type: | Marginally alkaline clay (7.5) |
| Aspect: | 8 |
| Total area: | 2 ha |
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| Weather records | No records kept |
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| Average annual: | 768 mm |
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| Plant collection | |
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| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Tallest Ailanthus altissima in England, 9 other record trees | |
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| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Scilla | |
| Special collections: | |
| Scilla, NCCPG – Plants in alkaline conditions, | |
| Record Keeping: | No records kept |
| Computer Program used: | |
| 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: | Not at present, education centre by 2008 |
| Interpretation: | Supervised garden walks, lectures, Guide book, leaflets |
| Friends Organisation: | Yes, formed 1993 300 |
| Visitor facilities: | By 2008 |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
| What are the conditions of Access to the collections? | |
| Public access: | Free |
| How many visitors do you get a year? | |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: Dawn-dusk all year |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| Garden of horticultural and botanical interest rather than a formal Botanic Garden. | |
| Location map | |
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