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| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | City of Liverpool Botanic Gardens |
| c/o Greenhill Nursery, Nursery Lane, Garston, Liverpool, Merseyside, L19 6PR | |
| Tel: 0151 427 6039 | |
| Fax: 0151 494 1756 | |
| Email: | |
| Web site: | |
| Latitude: 53° 22' 57" N | |
| Longitude: 2° 53' 30" W | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1964 |
| Ownership: | Liverpool City Council |
| Garden code: | LIVC |
| Umbrella organisation: | 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. | |
| Bob Meath | |
| Contact person: | Mike Brown |
| Total Staff: | 20 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | |
| Collections: | |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 0 m |
| Soil type: | Sand |
| Aspect: | Flat |
| Total area: | 3.5 ha |
| Area heated: | 0.3 ha |
| Other sites of collection: | Calderstones Park (outdoor plants)
Sefton Park Palm House (temperate glass) |
| Weather records | Records kept |
| Temperature | |
| Average daily: | 10 °C |
| Av. monthly max: | 13.1 °C |
| Av. monthly min: | 6.7 °C |
| Absolute maximum: | 34.7 °C |
| Absolute minimum: | -13.9 °C |
| Wind | |
| Direction: | West |
| Strength: | |
| Rainfall | |
| Average annual: | 894 mm |
| Month of maximum: | October |
| Month of minimum: | February |
| Plant collection | |
| Families: | 120 |
| Genera: | 400 |
| Species: | 2200 |
| Taxa: | 2800 |
| Accessions: | 3000 |
| Plants: | 9000 |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Bromeliaceae, Marantaceae, Agavaceae, Orchidaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Begoniaceae, Malvaceae | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Aechmea, Calathea, Dracaena, Dendrobium, Paphiopedilum, Codiaeum, Begonia, Hibiscus | |
| Special collections: | |
| Aechmea, NCCPG, – 29 Species, 44 Taxa, 45 Accessions, 159 Plants. Calathea and relatives, NCCPG, – 6 Genera, 38 Species, 64 Taxa, 64 Accessions, 200 Plants Codiaeum, NCCPG, – 1 Species, 58 Taxa, 60 Accessions, 500 Plants. Dendrobium, NCCPG, – 33 Species, 67 Taxa, 70 Accessions, ca.600 Plants. Dracaena, NCCPG, – 11 Species, 41 Taxa, 44 Accessions, 420 Plants. Paphiopedilum NCCPG, – 9 Species, 49 Taxa, 52 Accessions, ca.80 Plants | |
| Record Keeping: | Kept since 1963 Computerised |
| Record System: | BG-Recorder |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Index seminum |
| Identifications: | Undertakes fee identifications for the general public |
| Teaching and Education: | Potential for primary, secondary, higher, taxonomic and special courses |
| Interpretation: | Signs, supervised garden walks |
| Friends Organisation: | Yes |
| Visitor facilities: | Café |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
| What are the conditions of Access to the collections? | |
| Public access: | Free |
| How many visitors do you get a year? | |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: 10am-4pm Sefton Palm House (Calderstone Park to 6pm) |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| Location map | |
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