Fota Arboretum & Gardens
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Fota Arboretum & Gardens |
| Fota Island, Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork, Ireland | |
| Tel: 353 (0)21 4812728, 353 087 7907299 | |
| Fax: 353 (0)21 4812728 | |
| Email: | |
| Web site: www.heritageireland.ie | |
| Latitude: 51° 54' 0" N / 51.8961105 | |
| Longitude: 08° 21' 00" W / -8.3013887 | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1840 |
| Ownership: | Office of Public Works |
| Garden code: | FOTA |
| Umbrella organisation: | |
| 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. | |
| Park Superintendent: | Cormac Foley |
| Head Gardener: | David B. O'Regan |
| Contact person: | David B. O'Regan |
| Total Staff: | 5 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | 5 |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | |
| Collections: | The implicit policy is to conserve and restore the present collection while extending it where appropiate. |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 0 m |
| Soil type: | Loam, acid |
| Aspect: | varied |
| Total area: | 12 ha |
| Area heated: | none |
| Other sites of collection: | |
| Weather records | No records kept. Information below from Roches Point weather station |
| Temperature | |
| Average daily: | 10.2 °C |
| Av. monthly max: | 15.6 °C |
| Av. monthly min: | 5.4 °C |
| Absolute maximum: | 27.5 °C |
| Absolute minimum: | -7.2 °C |
| Wind | |
| Direction: | Southwest |
| Strength: | |
| Rainfall | |
| Average annual: | 1052 mm |
| Month of maximum: | August |
| Month of minimum: | July |
| Plant collection | |
| Families: | 100 |
| Genera: | 380 |
| Species: | 485 |
| Taxa: | 900 |
| Number of accessions: | |
| Plants: | 1200 |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Tallest in British Isles Liriodendron chinense, Phoenix canariensis, Cryptomeria japonica 'Spiralis', Phyllocladus trichomanoides; tallest in Ireland Pinus wallichiana; greatest girth known Torreya californica; Tallest in Ireland Abies pindrow, Picea spinulosa, Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca', Magnolia macrophylla, M.kobus, M.hypoleuca, M.wiseri. | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Agavaceae, Palmae, Pinaceae, Platanaceae, Taxaceae, Taxodiaceae, Myrtaceae | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Cedrus, Cinnamomum, Gevuina, Liriodendron, Magnolia, Metasequoia, Phoenix, Sequoia, Sequoiadendron, Torreya, Phyllocladus. | |
| Special collections: | |
| Conifer, ICCP – 7 Genera, 13 Species, 13 Taxa, 17 Plants. | |
| Record Keeping: | Kept since 1840 Computerised |
| Record System: | unknown |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Garden catalogue (1995), Index seminum |
| Identifications: | No |
| Teaching and Education: | Primary, potential for secondary, higher, taxonomic, and public education |
| Interpretation: | Supervised garden walks, brochures |
| Friends Organisation: | Yes |
| Visitor facilities: | Yes, Fota House, teashop. |
| 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-Fri: 9am-5pm Sat-Sun: 10am-5pm |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| To conserve the present collection and extend it where appropiate. | |
| Location map | |
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