Eden Project
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Eden Project |
| The Eden Project, Bodelva, Cornwall, PL24 2SG, Cornwall, UK | |
| Tel: 01726 811900 | |
| Fax: 01726 811912 | |
| Email: | |
| Web site: www.edenproject.com | |
| Latitude: 50° 18' 28" N / 50.3595963 | |
| Longitude: 4° 47' 22" W / -4.7427845 | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1997 |
| Ownership: | Eden Trust |
| Garden code: | EDEN |
| Umbrella organisation: | PlantNetwork |
| 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. | |
| Chief Executive: | Tim Smit |
| Director of Horticulture: | Sue Minter |
| Contact person: | Sue Minter |
| Total Staff: | 395 full-time equiv. |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | 33 plus 7 scientific, 1 research, 2 Hort. Admin. |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | Yes, Apply to Curator |
| Collections: | Yes, Apply to Curator |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 80 m |
| Soil type: | Artificial soils consisting of sand, composted greenwaste/composted bark and lignitic clay on top of china clay and bedrock. |
| Aspect: | In a 60 m deep pit, south facing |
| Total area: | Area of pit 15 ha, Area of site 50 ha. |
| Area heated: | 2,5130 m² |
| Other sites of collection: | Watering Lane Nursery, Pentewan, St Austell, Cornwall, PL24 25G. |
| Weather records | Records kept |
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| Plant collection | |
| Families: | 257 |
| Genera: | 1804 |
| Species: | 4915 |
| Taxa: | 7040 |
| Accessions: | 10204 |
| Plants: | 979 842 |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Hold a large collection of ethno-botanical plants, not as individual plants, but group planted. | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Covers three of thew world's climate zones Humid Tropics (Malaysia, Oceanic Isl;ands, Seycehelles and St. Helena endemics, Amazonia, West Africa and crops of the tropics), Warm Temperate (Circum-Mediterranean, California, South Africa and crops of the tropics) and Temperate (Cultivated European Flora, Steppe and Prairies, Wild Cornwall and crops of Temperate climates). | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Coffea, Araucaria | |
| Special collections: | |
| ICCP International Conifer Conservation Programme, ex-situ collection of plants from Chile. – 55 Genera, 83 Species, 87 Taxa. Musa spp. (INIBAP) Ananas spp. (USDA) Oryza spp. (IRRI) Zea spp. (CYMMIT) | |
| Record Keeping: | Kept since 1997 Computerised |
| Record System: | BG-Base |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | Limited, for botanical painting only so far (Eden Florilegium Society) |
| Library: | Yes |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Yes |
| Identifications: | Yes |
| Teaching and Education: | Yes, association with Duchy College in teaching of ND and Foundation Horticulture Degree; also supervision of PhD students. |
| Interpretation: | Speciality in arts and performance-based interpretation. Use of guides and signage, the latter is held on a database. |
| Friends Organisation: | Yes |
| Visitor facilities: | Yes |
| 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: | From October 30 to March 25 the gates open at 10am and close at 4.30pm with the last entry at 3pm. From March 26 to October 28 the gates open at 9am, the site at 9.15am and we close at 6pm with the last entry at 4.30pm. |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| To celebrate, study and promote an understanding of the complex and critical relationship between people, plants and resources, and to enable us individually and collectively, both locally and globally, to manage this relationship to secure a balance between the productivity needed to improve the quality of human life while assuming responsibility for the stewardship of nature. | |
| Location map | |
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