Royal Horticultural Society Garden Rosemoor
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Royal Horticultural Society Garden Rosemoor |
| Rosemoor, Great Torrington, Devon, EX38 8PH | |
| Tel: 01805 626811 | |
| Fax: 01805 624717 | |
| Email: | |
| Web site: | |
| Latitude: 50° 56' 35" N / 50.9430161 | |
| Longitude: 4° 08' 07" W / -4.1374006 | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | Gifted to the RHS in 1988, and opened to visitors in 1990. |
| Ownership: | Royal Horticultural Society |
| Garden code: | |
| Umbrella organisation: | PlantNetwork, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, 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. | |
| Director of Horticulture: | Jim Gardiner |
| Director of Gardens: | James Rudoni |
| Curator: | Jonathan Webster |
| Plant Records Officer: | Sue Costa |
| Principal Education Officer: | Sarah Chesters |
| Contact person: | Jonathan Webster |
| Total Staff: | 40 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | |
| Collections: | Yes, in accordance with the Royal Horticultural Society's Mission Statement. |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 6 m |
| Soil type: | Clay, acid to neutral |
| Aspect: | Southwest |
| Total area: | 50 ha |
| Area heated: | |
| Other sites of collection: | [link id='3497' text='RHS Garden Wisley'] [link id='3567' text='RHS Garden Hyde Hall'] [link id='3500' text='RHS Garden Harlow Carr'] |
| Weather records | Records kept |
| Temperature | |
| Average daily: | |
| Av. monthly max: | 20 °C |
| Av. monthly min: | 30 °C |
| Absolute maximum: | 28 °C |
| Absolute minimum: | -10 °C |
| Wind | |
| Direction: | South west |
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| Rainfall | |
| Average annual: | 1,100 mm |
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| Plant collection | |
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| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Tallest Eucalyptus glaucescens in the British Isles | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Special collections: | |
| Cornus, NCCPG – 32 Species, 75 Taxa. Ilex, NCCPG – 1 Genus, 37 Species, 157 Taxa. | |
| Record Keeping: | Records kept Computerised |
| Record System: | BG-Base |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | Approximately 20,000 wild collected & 55,000 cultivated specimens (at Wisley). Code WSY in Index Herbariorum |
| Library: | Small, horticultural library (Society library based in London) |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Garden guide, catalogue available on the Internet, The Garden, The New Plantsman, Orchid Review |
| Identifications: | Undertakes identifications for the general public. Internal verification of material |
| Teaching and Education: | Secondary, public education |
| Interpretation: | Supervised garden walks, signs, brochures, guided trails |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | Restaurant, 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 |
| Visitors per year: | 120,000 |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: 10am-6pm (5pm October-April) |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| The encouragement and the improvement of the science and practice of horticulture in all its branches. | |
| Location map | |
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