Brodick Castle Garden
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Brodick Castle Garden |
| Brodick, Isle of Arran, Argyll, PA23 8SE | |
| Tel: 01770 302202 | |
| Fax: 01770 302914 | |
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| Latitude: 55° 34' 27" N56.0002670 | |
| Longitude: -4.9519515 | |
| (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. | |
| Nigel Price | |
| Contact person: | Nigel Price |
| Total Staff: | 4 |
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| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 10-50 m |
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| Aspect: | Varied |
| Total area: | 50 ha |
| Area heated: | 200 m² |
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| Plant collection | |
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| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Eastern Asia, Southern South America, Australasia | |
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| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Rhododendron, Eucryphia | |
| Special collections: | |
| Conifers, ICCP – 4 Genera, 12 Species, 27 Plants. Rhododendron subsection Falconera, NCCPG – 20 Taxa. Rhododendron subsection Grandia, NCCPG – 39 Taxa. Rhododendron subsection Maddenia, NCCPG – 32 Taxa. | |
| 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: | Garden guide, Index seminum |
| Identifications: | No |
| Teaching and Education: | Special courses, taxonomic |
| Interpretation: | Supervised garden walks, guided trails, brochures |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | Restaurant, plant shop, book shop |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
| What are the conditions of Access to the collections? | |
| Public access: | Admission charge |
| How many visitors do you get a year? | |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: 9.30-sunset |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| Location map | |
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