Sizergh Castle
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Sizergh Castle |
| Kendal, Cumbria, LA8 8AE | |
| Tel: 015395 60070 | |
| Fax: 015395 61621 | |
| Email: | |
| Web site: | |
| Latitude: 54° 16' 53" N / 54.2834930 | |
| Longitude: 2° 45' 54" W / -2.7724290 | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | |
| Ownership: | The National Trust |
| Garden code: | |
| Umbrella organisation: | English Heritage, National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, The National Trust |
| 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. | |
| Mr M. Hutcheson | |
| Contact person:: | |
| Total Staff: | 4 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | As for The National Trust. |
| Collections: | As for The National Trust. |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | |
| Soil type: | Loam, neutral |
| Aspect: | Mostly flat |
| Total area: | 0.8 ha |
| Area heated: | |
| Other sites of collection: | |
| Weather records | Records kept |
| Temperature | |
| Average daily: | 8 °C |
| Av. monthly max: | 18 °C |
| Av. monthly min: | 2.0 °C |
| Absolute maximum: | 33 °C (1985) |
| Absolute minimum: | -12 °C (1986) |
| Wind | |
| Direction: | South and west |
| Strength: | Average |
| Rainfall | |
| Average annual: | 1235 mm |
| Month of maximum: | February |
| Month of minimum: | April |
| Plant collection | |
| Number of families: | |
| Genera: | 4 |
| Species: | 25 |
| Taxa: | 45 |
| Number of accessions: | |
| Plants: | 300 |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Special collections: | |
| Hardy fern collection, NCCPG – 4 Genera, 25 Species, 45 Taxa, 300 Plants. | |
| Record Keeping: | No records kept |
| Computer Program used: | |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | No |
| Identifications: | No |
| Teaching and Education: | No |
| Interpretation: | Supervised garden walks, signs, brochures |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | 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 |
| Visitors per year: | 50,000 |
| Public opening hours: | Sun-Thurs: 12.30-5.30pm |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| The Hardy Fern collection was planted in our rock garden during its redevelopment in 1926 and is kept as part of the decorative side of the whole garden. | |
| Location map | |
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