The Quinta Arboretum and Nature Reserve
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | The Quinta Arboretum and Nature Reserve |
| Swettenham, Cheshire, CW12 2LF | |
| Tel: | |
| Fax: 01270 664367 | |
| Email: Rtaylor715@btinternet.com | |
| Web site: www.tattongardensociety.co.uk | |
| Latitude: 53° 12' 3" N / 53.2012978 | |
| Longitude: 2° 18' 14"W / -2.3009043 | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1950 |
| Ownership: | Tatton Garden Society |
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| Umbrella organisation: | Tatton Garden Society |
| 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. | |
| Curator: | R. Taylor |
| Contact person: | R. Taylor |
| Total Staff: | 1 p.t plus volunteers |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | 1 p.t plus volunteers |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | The genus and species listed in Bean |
| Collections: | Fraxinus and Pinus |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 63 m |
| Soil type: | Sandy loam |
| Aspect: | Westerly |
| Total area: | 11 hectares |
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| Weather records | Are records kept ? (Y/N) |
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| Plant collection | |
| Families: | 113 |
| Genera: | 320 |
| Species: | 836 |
| Taxa: | 2704 |
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| Special families within the collections: | |
| Fagaceae, Oleaceae, Pinaceae | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Fraxinus, Pinus and Quercus | |
| Special collections: | |
| Conifer, ICCP Families 3; Genera 12, species 24, taxa 102. Pinus, NCCPG Fraxinus, NCCPG | |
| Record Keeping: | Computerised |
| Record System: | Bg-Base (Pear Technology Arboretum DB) |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | Yes |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Yes |
| Identifications: | internal Ids only |
| Teaching and Education: | No |
| Interpretation: | Noticeboard, Interpretive panels and plant labels |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | None |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
| What are the conditions of Access to the collections? | |
| Public access: | Every day of the year apart from Xmas day Honesty Box |
| How many visitors do you get a year? | |
| Public opening hours: | 9am until dusk every day 7 days per week |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| A representative collection of trees and shrubs that are hardy in northern England | |
| Location map | |
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