Last updated: 22 November 2022
| Address and contact details |
| c/o Estate Office, Ardkinglas Estate, Cairndow, Argyll, PA26 8BH |
| Tel: 01499 600261, 01499 600372 |
| Fax: 01499 600241 |
| Email: ardkinglas@btinternet.com |
| Latitude: 56° 15' 0" N |
| Longitude: 4° 56' 3" W |
| Background to the collection |
| Ownership: | Private, J. Noble |
| Umbrella organisation: | National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, Scottish Natural Heritage |
| Personnel |
| David Gray |
| Mr J. Noble |
| Contact person: | David Gray |
| Total Staff: | 4 |
| Policies |
| Accessions: | It is not intended that the garden compete with purely botanical collections, and so individual plants are selected upon merit rather than a deliberate policy to collect specific taxa. |
| Collections: | Ardkinglas Woodland Garden contains a mixture of gardenworthy plants (predominately trees and shrubs) which include a random selection of material of known wild origin, it is hoped that in a small way these plants will be available to assist scientific research. It is proposed to increase the known-wild-origin material within the garden by approximately 10% over each of the next five years; however, once again, the selection will be random rather than the result of a specific acquisition policy. |
| Physical environment |
| Altitude: | 1-100 m |
| Soil type: | Sand |
| Aspect: | West |
| Total area: | 25 ha |
| Plant collection |
| Families: | 25 |
| Genera: | 50 |
| Species: | 150 |
| Taxa: | 225 |
| Accessions: | 145 |
| Plants: | 1750 |
| Notable plants within the collection: |
| Five champion trees including a Fitzroya cupressoides |
| Special families within the collections: |
| Pinaceae, Ericaceae, Cupressaceae |
| Special genera within the collections: |
| Abies, Picea, Rhododendron, Thuja, Fitzroya |
| Special collections: |
| Conifers, ICCP ,Two sites: House & Woodland Garden – 25 Genera, 40 Taxa, 40 Species, 188 Plants.
Abies, NCCPG – 33 Species.
Picea, NCCPG – 24 Species. |
| Record Keeping: | Kept since 1995 |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | No |
| Identifications: | No |
| Teaching and Education: | Primary, secondary, potential for taxonomic |
| Interpretation: | Brochures, guided trails |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | Café, plant shop, gift shop |
| Access to the collections |
| Public access: | Admission charge |
| Visitors per year: | 3500 |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: Daylight hours |
| Guiding principles behind the collection |
| To conserve and enhance the historic landscape character and associated plant collections whilst simultaneously extending the plant collection, where appropriate, to assist scientific research. |
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