Batsford Arboretum
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Batsford Arboretum |
| Batsford arboretum, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, GL56 9QF | |
| Tel: 01386 701441, 0731 8008512 | |
| Fax: 01368 6701829 | |
| Email: batsarb@batsfound.freeserve.co.uk | |
| Web site: www.batsford-arboretum.co.uk/ | |
| Latitude: 52° 0' 10" N / 52.0042419 | |
| Longitude: 1° 43' 39" W / -1.7279934 | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | |
| Ownership: | The Batsford Foundation |
| Garden code: | BATSF |
| Umbrella organisation: | PlantNetwork, National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens |
| 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. | |
| Director: | Mr Stuart Priest |
| Head Gardener: | Mr Matthew Hall |
| Contact person: | Mr Matthew Hall |
| Total Staff: | 6 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | 14 |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | Firstly, plants from Asia and the Far East; secondly, plants which will add to the aesthetics of the Arboretum. Using wild collected accessions where possible. |
| Collections: | To maintain collections at a representative level and to improve and complete, as far as practicable, the collections of Pinus and Japanese flowering cherries and bamboos. |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 5-235 m |
| Soil type: | Clay |
| Aspect: | South |
| Total area: | 25 ha |
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| Weather records | No records kept |
| Temperature | |
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| Wind | |
| Direction: | West |
| Strength: | Below average |
| Rainfall | |
| Average annual: | 750 mm |
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| Plant collection | |
| Families: | 91 |
| Genera: | 229 |
| Species: | 1133 |
| Taxa: | 1663 |
| Accessions: | 963 |
| Plants: | 3249 |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Juniperus drupacea, Syrian juniper; Champion trees: Fraxinus americana, American white ash and Torreya californica, Californian nutmeg, Chusquea breviglumis, Cercidiphyllum japonicum, Davidia involucrata, Cryptomeria japonica, Taiwania cryptomerioides. | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| China, Eastern Asia, Indo-China | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Pinaceae, Fagaceae, Rosaceae, Aceraceae, Magnoliaceae, Gramineae | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Acer, Abies, Quercus, Magnolia, Picea, Pinus, Prunus, Sorbus | |
| Special collections: | |
| ICCP Conifer Conservation Sato-Jakura (Japanese cherries) | |
| Record Keeping: | Kept since 1992 Computerised |
| Record System: | unknown |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | International |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Garden catalogue |
| Identifications: | No |
| Teaching and Education: | Public education, potential for primary, secondary, higher, taxonomic |
| Interpretation: | Supervised garden walks, guided trails |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | Restaurant, 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: | 55000 |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: 10am-5pm (1st Feb-14th Nov) |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| The Arboretum is administered and supported by the Batsford Foundation for the education of the public and for research and conservation. | |
| Location map | |
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