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| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Lakeland Horticultural Society, Holehird |
| Holehird Gardens, Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 1NP | |
| Tel: 01539 446008 | |
| Fax: | |
| Email: | |
| Web site: | |
| Latitude: 54° 24' 00" N | |
| Longitude: 2° 54' 32"W | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | |
| Ownership: | Lakeland Horticultural Society |
| Garden code: | |
| 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. | |
| Chairman: | Mr J. Davenport |
| Garden Co-ordinator: | John Ashley |
| Contact person: | Ian Sandwell |
| Total Staff: | 40-50 (all volunteers) |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | |
| Collections: | |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 120-140 m |
| Soil type: | Clay, acid |
| Aspect: | West |
| Total area: | 3.5 ha |
| Area heated: | 100 m² |
| Other sites of collection: | |
| Weather records | No records kept (but planned for the future) |
| Temperature | |
| Average daily: | 9.33 °C |
| Av. monthly max: | |
| Av. monthly min: | |
| Absolute maximum: | 27 °C |
| Absolute minimum: | -5 °C (1979) |
| Wind | |
| Direction: | Southwest |
| Strength: | Average |
| Rainfall | |
| Average annual: | 1500 mm |
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| Plant collection | |
| Number of families: | |
| Number of genera: | |
| Number of species: | |
| Taxa: | 4000 |
| Number of accessions: | |
| Number of plants: | |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Davidia involucrata one of largest in the country | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Erica, Calluna, Hosta, Rhododendron, Hydrangea, Astilbe, Polystichum | |
| Special collections: | |
| Hydrangea, NCCPG – 250 Taxa. Astilbe, NCCPG – 200 Taxa. Polystichum, NCCPG – 60 Taxa. | |
| Record Keeping: | Records kept Computerised |
| Record System: | unknown |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | International and national |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | Yes, for Astilbe, Hydrangea and Polystichium |
| Library: | Yes |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Yes |
| Identifications: | Undertakes free identifications for the general public (for Astilbe, Hydrangea and Polystichium only). Internal verification of material |
| Teaching and Education: | Higher and public education. Potential for primary, secondary and taxonomic |
| Interpretation: | Supervised garden walks, brochures, lectures |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | Visitor reception area when warden on duty |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
| What are the conditions of Access to the collections? | |
| Public access: | Free |
| Visitors per year: | 30,000 |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: Dawn-dusk, warden 11am-5pm, March-October |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| The garden aims to collect and cultivate plants suitable for conditions in the Lake District, with its variable climate and generally acid soils. | |
| Location map | |
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