Last updated: 23 June 2020
| PlantNetwork member | |
| Address and contact details | |
| The Eden Project, Bodelva, Cornwall, PL24 2SG, Cornwall, UK | |
| Tel: 01726 811900 | |
| Fax: 01726 811912 | |
| Web site: www.edenproject.com | |
| Latitude: 50° 18' 28" N | |
| Longitude: 4° 47' 22" W | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1997 |
| Ownership: | Eden Trust |
| Garden code: | EDEN |
| Umbrella organisation: | PlantNetwork |
| Personnel | |
| Chief Executive: | Gordon Seabright |
| Director of Horticulture: | Paul Stone |
| Contact person: | Paul Stone |
| Total Staff: | 395 full-time equiv. |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | 37 plus 7 scientific |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | Yes, Apply to Curator |
| Collections: | Yes, Apply to Curator |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 80 m |
| Soil type: | Artificial soils consisting of sand, composted greenwaste/composted bark and lignitic clay on top of china clay and bedrock. |
| Aspect: | In a 60 m deep pit, south facing |
| Total area: | Area of pit 15 ha, Area of site 50 ha. |
| Area heated: | 2,5130 m² |
| Other sites of collection: | Watering Lane Nursery |
| Weather records | Records kept |
| Plant collection | |
| Families: | 229 |
| Genera: | 1637 |
| Species: | 4451 |
| Taxa: | 7359 |
| Accessions: | 11395 |
| Plants: | 1424692 |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Hold a large collection of ethno-botanical plants, not as individual plants, but group planted. | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Covers three of thew world's climate zones Humid Tropics (Malaysia, Oceanic Isl;ands, Seycehelles and St. Helena endemics, Amazonia, West Africa and crops of the tropics), Warm Temperate (Circum-Mediterranean, California, South Africa and crops of the tropics) and Temperate (Cultivated European Flora, Steppe and Prairies, Wild Cornwall and crops of Temperate climates). | |
| Special collections: | |
| ICCP International Conifer Conservation Programme, ex-situ collection of plants from Chile. – 55 Genera, 83 Species, 87 Taxa. Musa spp. (INIBAP) Ananas spp. (USDA) Oryza spp. (IRRI) Zea spp. (CYMMIT) Kniphofia (National Collection) | |
| Record Keeping: | Kept since 1997 Computerised |
| Record System: | BG-Base |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | Limited |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Yes |
| Identifications: | Yes Yes |
| Teaching and Education: | Yes, association with Duchy College in teaching of ND and Foundation Horticulture Degree; also supervision of PhD students. |
| Interpretation: | Speciality in arts and performance-based interpretation. Use of guides and signage, the latter is held on a database. |
| Friends Organisation: | Yes |
| Visitor facilities: | Yes |
| Access to the collections | |
| Access conditions: | Apply to curator |
| Public access: | Entry fee applies |
| Visitors per year: | Approx. 1 million |
| Public opening hours: | From October 30 to March 25 the gates open at 10am and close at 4.30pm with the last entry at 3pm. From March 26 to October 28 the gates open at 9am, the site at 9.15am and we close at 6pm with the last entry at 4.30pm. |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| To celebrate, study and promote an understanding of the complex and critical relationship between people, plants and resources, and to enable us individually and collectively, both locally and globally, to manage this relationship to secure a balance between the productivity needed to improve the quality of human life while assuming responsibility for the stewardship of nature. | |
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