Mount Usher Gardens
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Mount Usher Gardens |
| Ashford, Co. Wicklow, Ireland | |
| Tel: 353 (0)404 40205 | |
| Fax: 353 (0)404 40205 | |
| Email: mount_usher.gardens@indigo.ie | |
| Web site: www.mount-usher-gardens.com | |
| Latitude: 53° 01' N / 53.0110168 | |
| Longitude: 04° 05' W / -6.1083345 | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1868 |
| Ownership: | Private, Mrs Madelaine Jay |
| Garden code: | MTUS |
| Umbrella organisation: | Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Irish Garden Society, National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens |
| 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. | |
| Owner: | Mrs Madelaine Jay |
| Head Gardener: | Ms Maria Vlahos |
| Contact person: | Ms Maria Vlahos |
| Total Staff: | 6 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | 5 |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | That every plant introduced to the Gardens is given an accession number, and that details about its origin, collector, collector number, etc. are documented. |
| Collections: | To cultivate, when possible, three of every plant that is introduced to the Gardens; and that 25% will be natural-source material. To continue in the Mount Usher style of growing unusual and rare plants. |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 20 m |
| Soil type: | Loam, acid |
| Aspect: | South, mostly flat |
| Total area: | 8 ha |
| Area heated: | |
| Other sites of collection: | |
| Weather records | Records kept |
| Temperature | |
| Average daily: | |
| Av. monthly max: | |
| Av. monthly min: | |
| Absolute maximum: | 29 °C |
| Absolute minimum: | -7 °C |
| Wind | |
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| Rainfall | |
| Average annual: | 1000 mm |
| Month of maximum: | January |
| Month of minimum: | July |
| Plant collection | |
| Families: | 290 |
| Genera: | 500 |
| Species: | 3000 |
| Taxa: | 5000 |
| Accessions: | 10000 |
| Plants: | 12 000 |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Eucalyptus viminalis, E. urnigera, Cunninghamia lanceolata, Nothofagus dombeyi, N. moorei, N. fusca, N. nervosa, Pinus montezumae, Eucryphia moorei, E. x nymansensis 'Mount Usher', Cornus capitita and Lomatia ferruginea. | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Northern Europe, Middle Europe, Southwestern Europe, Southeastern Europe, East Europe, Northern Africa, Southern Africa, Siberia, Caucasus, China, Mongolia, Australia, New Zealand, Subarctic America, Northwestern USA, North-Central USA, Northeastern USA, Southwestern USA, South-Central USA, Southeastern USA, North and Central Mexico, Western South America, Brazil, Southern South America | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Nothofagus, Eucryphia, Eucalyptus | |
| Special collections: | |
| Nothofagus, NCCPG – 1 Genus. | |
| Record Keeping: | Kept since 1880 Computerised |
| Record System: | unknown |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | International and national |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | Approximately 140 specimens, mostly cultivated |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Garden catalogue |
| Identifications: | Undertakes identifications for the general public. Internal verification of material |
| Teaching and Education: | Primary and public education, potential for special courses |
| Interpretation: | Supervised garden walks, signs, brochures, guided trails |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | Restaurant, café, plant shop, book 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 |
| How many visitors do you get a year? | |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: 10.30am-6pm summer |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| No chemicals are used in the management of this garden. The Gardens will continue to exchange plants, in all forms, with other gardens, institutions, etc. with like-minded interests in both botanical and amenity pursuits. Mount Usher is a garden that welcomes visitors to enjoy the Robinsonian garden style and the plant treasures that grow within. | |
| Location map | |
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