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| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | David Welch Winter Gardens |
| Duthie Park, Polmuir Road, Aberdeen, AB11 7TH | |
| Tel: 01224 585310 | |
| Fax: 01224 210532 | |
| Email: wintergardens@aberdeen.net.uk | |
| Web site: www.aberdeencity.gov.uk | |
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| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1899 |
| Ownership: | Aberdeen City Council |
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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. | |
| Facility Manager: | Alan Findlay |
| Principal OfficerContact person: | Alan Findlay |
| Total Staff: | 12 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | 10 |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | None at present |
| Collections: | None at present |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 10m |
| Soil type: | Medium loam |
| Aspect: | South |
| Total area: | 1ha |
| Area heated: | 1 ha |
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| Aloe NCCPG Genera 1 accessions 40 | |
| Special collections: (i.e. ICCP International Conifer Conservation Programme; IPGRI International Plant Genetic Resources Institute; NCCPG National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens; SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest) | |
| Special collection 1: For each collection please give Nos. of Genera, species, taxa, accessions & plants. Also any official status. | |
| Special collection 2: Please add a row for each collection. | |
| Record Keeping: | Records kept manual & computer |
| Record System: | unknown |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | No |
| Identifications: | Yes |
| Teaching and Education: | No |
| Interpretation: | Interpretation Boards |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | Restaurant, Plant & Gift Shop |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
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| Do you charge an entry fee? | |
| How many visitors do you get a year? | |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: from 9.30am; closing varies throughout the year |
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