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| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Crathes Castle Garden |
| Crathes, Banchory, Aberdeenshire, AB31 5QJ | |
| Tel: 01330 844 525 | |
| Fax: 01330 844797 | |
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| Web site: | |
| Latitude: 57° 4' 5" N | |
| Longitude: 2° 26' 19" W | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | |
| Ownership: | The National Trust for Scotland |
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| Umbrella organisation: | PlantNetwork (NT) and Individual, National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, The National Trust for Scotland |
| 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. | |
| Head Gardener: | Mr Callum A. Pirnie |
| Contact person: | Mr Callum A. Pirnie |
| Total Staff: | 12 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | 6 |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | Specific policy for national collection of Malmaison carnations. |
| Collections: | |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 75 m |
| Soil type: | Acid |
| Aspect: | Southeast |
| Total area: | 40.5 ha |
| Area heated: | 300 m² |
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| Weather records | No records kept |
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| Wind | |
| Direction: | West |
| Strength: | Below averagee |
| Rainfall | |
| Average annual: | 825 mm |
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| Plant collection | |
| Number of families: | |
| Genera: | 410 |
| Number of species: | |
| Number of taxa: | |
| Accessions: | 2500 |
| Plants: | 4000 |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Taxus baccata topiary from early 1700s | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| China, Northwestern USA, Northeastern USA, E. Siberia | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Viburnum, Rosa, Clematis, Dianthus, Taiwania, Berberis, Deutzia, Philadelphus, Taxus, Iris, Lonicera, Thalictrum, Phlox, Paeonia, Davidia, Arthrotaxis, Abies | |
| Special collections: | |
| Malmaison carnations, NCCPG, – 12 Accessions, 30 Plants. | |
| Record Keeping: | Kept since 1929 Computerised |
| Record System: | Q&A |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Yes |
| Identifications: | Undertakes identifications for visitors and members. Internal verification of material |
| Teaching and Education: | Primary, secondary, public education |
| Interpretation: | Supervised garden walks, brochures, lectures |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | Restaurant, plant shop, gift 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: | 70,000 |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: 9am-dusk |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| As defined by the founding principles of The National Trust for Scotland and specified by the NTS Gardens' Department/Garden Committee. | |
| Location map | |
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