Mount Stewart
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Mount Stewart |
| Mount Stewart Estate, Grey Abbey, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT22 2AD | |
| Tel: 012477 88387 | |
| Fax: | |
| Email: phil.rollinson@nationaltrust.org.uk | |
| Web site: | |
| Latitude: 54° 33" N / 54.5572319 | |
| Longitude: 5° 38" W / -5.5946441 | |
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| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | |
| Ownership: | The National Trust |
| Garden code: | |
| Umbrella organisation: | National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, The National Trust |
| i.e. PlantNet, BGCI, NCCPG; ICCP etc. | |
| Personnel | |
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| Head Gardener: | P.Rollinson |
| Contact person: | P.Rollinson |
| Total Staff: | 8 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | As for The National Trust. |
| Collections: | As for The National Trust. |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 0-25 m |
| Soil type: | Sand and loam |
| Aspect: | South and west |
| Total area: | 32 ha |
| Area heated: | |
| Other sites of collection: | |
| Weather records | No records kept |
| Temperature | |
| Average daily: | 7.2 °C |
| Av. monthly max: | |
| Av. monthly min: | |
| Absolute maximum: | 25 °C(1994) |
| Absolute minimum: | -9 °C(1981/82) |
| Wind | |
| Direction: | South and west |
| Strength: | Above average |
| Rainfall | |
| Average annual: | 788 mm |
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| Month of minimum: | |
| Plant collection | |
| Number of families: | |
| Genera: | 350 |
| Species: | 1200 |
| Number of taxa: | |
| Number of accessions: | |
| Number of plants: | |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Eucalyptus regnans, Weinmannia trichosperma | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Southern Africa, China, Eastern Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Southern South America | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Phormiaceae, Myrtaceae, Ericaceae | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Eucalyptus, Leptospermum, Rhododendron, Camellia, Pittosporum, Pseudopanax, Olearia, Hydrangea, Griselinia, Hoheria, Acer, Fuchsia, Rosa, Pinus, Pseudotsuga, Abies, Dianella, Agapanthus, Lilium, Geranium, Meconopsis | |
| Special collections: | |
| Phormium, NCCPG – 1 Species, 2 Taxa, 46 Plants. | |
| Record Keeping: | Kept since 1983 Computerised |
| Record System: | National Trust's Woody Plant Catalogue |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | International and national |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Garden guide |
| Identifications: | Internal verification of material |
| Teaching and Education: | Potential for primary and secondary |
| Interpretation: | Supervised garden walks, brochures |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | Restaurant, 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: | 100,000 |
| Public opening hours: | Lakeside - All year round, 10am-sunset Formal areas: May-Sept, 10am-8pm April, Oct 10am-6pm March 10am-4pm, weekends Nov-Feb closed |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| Location map | |
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