Belfast Botanic Gardens
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Belfast Botanic Gardens |
| Botanic Garden Park, Belfast, BT7 1JP | |
| Tel: 01232 324902 | |
| Fax: 01232 324902 | |
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| Web site: | |
| Latitude: 54° 35' 0" N / 54.5858536 | |
| Longitude: 5° 56' 0" W / -5.9325576 | |
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| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1828 |
| Ownership: | Belfast City Council Parks Department |
| Garden code: | BELFA |
| Umbrella organisation: | PlantNetwork, National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens |
| i.e. PlantNet, BGCI, NCCPG; ICCP etc. | |
| Personnel | |
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| Reginald Maxwell | |
| Contact person: | Reginald Maxwell |
| Total Staff: | 10 |
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| Policies | |
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| Collections: | |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 20 m |
| Soil type: | Clay and sand |
| Aspect: | South and mostly flat |
| Total area: | 8.6 ha |
| Area heated: | 2075 m² |
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| Weather records | Records are kept |
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| Wind | |
| Direction: | South and west |
| Strength: | Below average |
| Rainfall | |
| Average annual: | 945 mm |
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| Plant collection | |
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| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| West Tropical Africa, West Central Tropical Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Northern South America | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Acanthaceae, Apocynaceae, Araliaceae, Bignoniaceae, Cyatheaceae, Compositae, Euphorbiaceae, Gesneriaceae, Moraceae, Fagaceae, Gramineae, Leguminosae, Malvaceae, Myrtaceae, Polypodiaceae, Solanaceae, Palmae | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Special collections: | |
| Slieve Donard plants, NCCPG | |
| Record Keeping: | Records kept Computerised |
| Record System: | Word 6 |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Index seminum |
| Identifications: | Undertakes free identifications for the general public. Internal verification of material |
| Teaching and Education: | Primary |
| Interpretation: | Supervised garden walks, lectures, signs |
| Friends Organisation: | Yes |
| Visitor facilities: | No |
| 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: 8am-sunset |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| The garden is a historic site with two fine glasshouses, the aims are to provide collections of plants for educational interpretation and public display. | |
| Location map | |
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