Last updated: 22 November 2022
| Address and contact details | |
| Swettenham, Cheshire, CW12 2LF | |
| Email: Rtaylor715@btinternet.com | |
| Web site: www.tattongardensociety.co.uk | |
| Latitude: 53° 12' 3" N | |
| Longitude: 2° 18' 14"W | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1950 |
| Ownership: | Tatton Garden Society |
| Umbrella organisation: | Tatton Garden Society |
| Personnel | |
| Curator: | R. Taylor |
| Contact person: | R. Taylor |
| Total Staff: | 1 p.t plus volunteers |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | 1 p.t plus volunteers |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | The genus and species listed in Bean |
| Collections: | Fraxinus and Pinus |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 63 m |
| Soil type: | Sandy loam |
| Aspect: | Westerly |
| Total area: | 11 hectares |
| Weather records | Y |
| Plant collection | |
| Families: | 86 |
| Genera: | 243 |
| Species: | 826 |
| Accessions: | 2428 |
| Plants: | 2428 |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Fagaceae, Oleaceae, Pinaceae | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Fraxinus, Pinus and Quercus | |
| Special collections: | |
| Conifer, ICCP Families 3; Genera 12, species 24, taxa 102. Pinus, NCCPG Fraxinus, NCCPG | |
| Record Keeping: | Computerised |
| Record System: | Pear Technology Arboretum DB |
| Phenological records: | No |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | No |
| Identifications: | internal Ids only |
| Teaching and Education: | No |
| Interpretation: | Noticeboard, Interpretive panels and plant labels |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | None |
| Access to the collections | |
| Access conditions: | By arrangement with the Curator |
| Public access: | Every day of the year apart from Xmas day Honesty Box |
| Visitors per year: | 5,000 approximately |
| Public opening hours: | 9am until dusk every day 7 days per week |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| A representative collection of trees and shrubs that are hardy in northern England | |
| Location map | |
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