Greenbank Garden
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Greenbank Garden |
| Flenders Road, Clarkston, Glasgow, Strathclyde, G76 8RB | |
| Tel: 0141 6393281 | |
| Fax: 0141 6160550 | |
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| Latitude: 55° 46' 53" N / 55.7830200 | |
| Longitude: 4° 17' 41" W / -4.2992616 | |
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| Background to the collection | |
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| Ownership: | The National Trust for Scotland |
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| Umbrella organisation: | 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. | |
| Gardening Instructor: | James May |
| Contact person: | James May |
| Total Staff: | 3 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | 3 |
| Policies | |
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| Collections: | To identify the old Narcissus here and to add relevant modern cultivars |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 160 m |
| Soil type: | Clay |
| Aspect: | Varied |
| Total area: | 7 ha |
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| Plant collection | |
| Families: | 1 |
| Genera: | 1 |
| Species: | 15 |
| Taxa: | 367 |
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| Narcissus | |
| Special collections: | |
| Narcissus, – 15 Species, 367 Taxa. | |
| Record Keeping: | Kept since 1978 Computerised |
| Record System: | unknown |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Garden guidebook |
| Identifications: | Undertakes identifications for the general public. internal verification of material |
| Teaching and Education: | Special displays, exhibitions in season |
| Interpretation: | Supervised garden walks |
| Friends Organisation: | Yes |
| Visitor facilities: | Café, 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: | 25-35,000 |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: 9.30am-dusk |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| The major part of our collection is to show what is available to the general public, even if it is rather unusual. We hold well over 3000 different plant forms, covering a wide range of genera. I have completed the form with details of the Narcissus species and cultivars, many collected in the 1920s and the 1930s. | |
| Location map | |
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