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| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | High Beeches Gardens |
| High Beeches Handcross Haywards Heath Sussex RH17 6HQ | |
| Tel: 01444 400589 | |
| Fax: 01444 401543 | |
| Email: gardens@highbeeches.com | |
| Web site: www.highbeeches.com | |
| Latitude: 51° 3' 49" N | |
| Longitude: 0° 10' 56" | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1906 |
| Ownership: | High Beeches Gardens Conservation Trust (Reg Ch: 299134) |
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| 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. | |
| Manager: | Sarah Bray Gardener-in-chargeRussell Yates. |
| RecorderAnne Boscawen Voluntary: | |
| Contact person: | Sarah Bray |
| Total Staff: | 2 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | 2 |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | When possible, wild collections with provenance. Increasing the species diversity and interest of the collection, with deference to requirement of English Heritage not to change the landscape. |
| Collections: | |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 145m to 99m |
| Soil type: | Ph5.7-5.8 |
| Aspect: | South West |
| Total area: | 30 acres |
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| Weather records | No records kept |
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| Direction: | South West |
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| Average annual: | 710mm |
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| Plant collection | |
| Families: | 83 |
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| Plants: | 2500 See website |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Fine collection of old trees | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| N. America, W. China | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Rhododendron species. | |
| Special collections: | |
| Natural, acid Wildflower Meadows. SNCI. 50+ species. We do not introduce plants to the meadow. Nat: coll: Stewartia species. Wilson Collection Plants. 4 under original numbers. Many more of interest. | |
| Record Keeping: | Some manual records from 1914. Computerised from 1995 |
| Record System: | Access |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | Not recently |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | Yes, Not accessible to public |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Guide Book. Leaflets. Website. |
| Identifications: | Yes |
| Do you have a Teaching and/or Education programme? | |
| Interpretation: | Labelling and leaflets. Trails. Guided Walks |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | Gift shop, restaurant, café, plant shop |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
| What are the conditions of Access to the collections? | |
| Do you charge an entry fee? | |
| How many visitors do you get a year? | |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Tues; Thurs-Fri (closed Wed): 13-00 to 16-30. Sat: 13-00 to 16-30. Sun: 13-00 to 16-30. |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| Maintaining the landscape essentially as declared 'Outstanding' by English Heritage. Increasing the diversity and interest of the plant collections. Making them available to for the interest and enjoyment of the public, if compatible with the other objectives | |
| Location map | |
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