Weaver's Cottage
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Weaver's Cottage |
| Weaver's Cottage, 35 Streetly End, West Wickham, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 6RP | |
| Tel: 01223 892399 | |
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| Email: weaverscottage@tesco.net | |
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| Latitude: 52° 06' 26" N / 52.1971436 | |
| Longitude: 0° 21' 25" E / 0.0632507 | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | |
| Ownership: | Private, Sylvia Norton |
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| Umbrella organisation: | 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: | Sylvia Norton |
| Contact person: | Sylvia Norton |
| Total Staff: | 1 |
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| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 91 m |
| Soil type: | Clay, neutral |
| Aspect: | Mostly flat |
| Total area: | 0.2 ha |
| Area heated: | 10 m² |
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| Weather records | Are records kept ? (Y/N) |
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| Plant collection | |
| Families: | 1 |
| Genera: | 1 |
| Species: | 80 |
| Taxa: | 90 |
| Accessions: | 770 |
| Plants: | 1000 |
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| Leguminosae | |
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| Lathyrus | |
| Special collections: | |
| Lathyrus, NCCPG – 80 Species, 90 Taxa, 500 Accessions, 1000 Plants. | |
| Record Keeping: | Kept since 1992 |
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| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | Approximately 40 cultivated specimens |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | NCCPG Lathryus booklet |
| Identifications: | Undertakes free identifications for the general public. Internal verification of material |
| Teaching and Education: | Public education, potential for taxonomic |
| Interpretation: | No |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | Plant shop |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
| What are the conditions of Access to the collections? | |
| Public access: | Free to NCCPG members only |
| How many visitors do you get a year? | |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: By appointment only |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| To collect, secure and research as many species as possible within the genus Lathyrus. | |
| Location map | |
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