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| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Newhaven Botanic Garden |
| c/o Paradise Park, Avis Road, Newhaven, East Sussex, BN9 ODH | |
| Tel: 01273 512123 | |
| Fax: 01273 616005 | |
| Email: paradise@fastnet.co.uk | |
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| Latitude: 50° 48' 11" N | |
| Longitude: 00° 03' 11" E | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1997 |
| Ownership: | Newhaven Botanic Garden |
| Garden code: | NEWHN |
| Umbrella organisation: | Botanic Gardens Conservation International |
| 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. | |
| Gary Jones | |
| Jonathan Tate | |
| Contact person: | Gary Jones |
| Total Staff: | 4 |
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| Policies | |
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| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 0 m |
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| Area heated: | 1300 m² |
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| Plant collection | |
| Families: | 110 |
| Genera: | 460 |
| Species: | 4800 |
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| Plants: | 5000 |
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| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Southern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, North and Central Mexico, Northern South America, Western South America, Brazil, Southern South America | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Cactaceae, Mesembryanthemaceae, Aloaceae | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Mammillaria, Gymnocalycium, Conophytum, Aloe, Haworthia | |
| 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 Computerised |
| Record System: | BG-Recorder |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | No |
| Identifications: | Undertakes free identifications for the general public. Internal verification of material |
| Teaching and Education: | Primary, secondary, potential for higher, taxonomic and public education |
| Interpretation: | Supervised garden walks, signs, brochures |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | Restaurant, plant shop, book 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: | 80,000 |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: 10am-5.30pm |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| To act as a protective garden for the world's flora and to create greater interest and awareness within schools and the general public for the need for such collections to exist as a means of conservation. | |
| Location map | |
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