Isabella Plantation
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Isabella Plantation |
| Holly Lodge, Richmond Park, Richmond, London, Surrey, TW10 5HS | |
| Tel: 020 8948 3209 | |
| Fax: 020 8332 2730 | |
| Email: | |
| Web site: | |
| Latitude: 51° 27' 07" N / 51.4518471 | |
| Longitude: 0° 16' 48" W / -0.2824152 | |
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| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | |
| Ownership: | The Royal Parks Agency |
| Garden code: | |
| Umbrella organisation: | National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens |
| i.e. PlantNet, BGCI, NCCPG; ICCP etc. | |
| Personnel | |
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| Director: | Chief executive |
| Royal Parks Agency: | |
| Park Superintendent: | Simon Richards |
| Contact person: | Jane Braham |
| Total Staff: | 5 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | |
| Collections: | To acquire and identify correctly all the cultivars originally introduced as the 'Wilson 50' Kurume azaleas. Plants are held in age and provenance batches. |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 30-40 m |
| Soil type: | Clay & sand, acid |
| Aspect: | North & west |
| Total area: | 17 ha |
| Area heated: | |
| Other sites of collection: | |
| Weather records | Records kept |
| Temperature | |
| Average daily: | 10.72 °C |
| Av. monthly max: | 14.65 °C |
| Av. monthly min: | 6.78 °C |
| Absolute maximum: | 31 °C (1997) |
| Absolute minimum: | -8 °C (1997) |
| Wind | |
| Direction: | West |
| Strength: | Below average |
| Rainfall | |
| Average annual: | 656 mm |
| Month of maximum: | September |
| Month of minimum: | March |
| Plant collection | |
| Families: | 1 |
| Genera: | 1 |
| Number of species: | |
| Taxa: | 34 |
| Number of accessions: | |
| Plants: | 500 |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Rhododendron | |
| Special collections: | |
| Rhododendron Kurume Azalea 'Wilson 50', NCCPG – 34 Taxa, 500 Plants. | |
| Record Keeping: | Kept since 1991 |
| Computer Program used: | |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Guide to Isabella Plantation |
| Identifications: | Undertakes identifications for the general public. Internal verification of material |
| Teaching and Education: | Potential for public education |
| Interpretation: | Supervised garden walks |
| Friends Organisation: | Yes. Friends of Richmond Park |
| Visitor facilities: | No |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
| What are the conditions of Access to the collections? | |
| Public access: | Only by appointment |
| How many visitors do you get a year? | |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: Dawn-dusk by appointment |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| The garden aims to build up the complete 'Wilson 50' Kurume azalea collection; As these plants have proved susceptible to a blackspot disease, the Wilson 50 will be held as a small collection within the nursery as a horticultural resource. | |
| Location map | |
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