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| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Cluny House |
| By Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Tayside, PH15 2JT | |
| Tel: 01887 820795 | |
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| Latitude: 56° 38' 25" N | |
| Longitude: 3° 49' 41" W | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | |
| Ownership: | Private, Mr J & Mrs W Mattingley |
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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: | Mr John and Mrs Wendy Mattingley |
| Contact person: | Mr John and Mrs Wendy Mattingley |
| Total Staff: | 4 |
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| Policies | |
| Accessions: | Cluny should be maintained in an informal way, as a 'wild' garden with a heavy accent towards Himalayan plants grown from seed-collecting expeditions. No chemicals (unless natural) should be used on the garden. |
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| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | |
| Soil type: | Acid |
| Aspect: | East |
| Total area: | 2.4 ha |
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| Weather records | No records kept |
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| Absolute maximum: | 21 °C |
| Absolute minimum: | -20 °C |
| Wind | |
| Direction: | West |
| Strength: | Below average |
| Rainfall | |
| Average annual: | 35-40 inches |
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| Plant collection | |
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| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Greatest girthed Wellingtonia in the British Isles | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| China, Indo-China | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Meconopsis, Trillium, Erythronium, Nomocharis, Primula | |
| Special collections: | |
| Collections of Ludlow and Sherriff, Asiatic Primula – 120 Species | |
| Record Keeping: | No records kept |
| Computer Program used: | |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | National |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Index seminum |
| Identifications: | Undertakes free identifications for the general public |
| Teaching and Education: | No |
| Interpretation: | Supervised garden walks, signs, brochures, guided trails |
| 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: | Admission charge |
| Visitors per year: | 4,000 |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: 10.00-18.00 |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| The garden aims to raise plants from wild-collected seed. The plants are planted out in an informal way. No chemicals should be employed. | |
| Location map | |
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