Cultivation and Display of Native Species

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Experiences of Gardens with native displays

  • Benmore Botanic Garden – Rare plant Trail: Wet and Wild
  • Dawyck Botanic Garden – Rare plant Trail: Cool Customers
  • Logan Botanic Garden – Rare plant Trail: Local Heroes
  • Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Rare plant Trail: Rock garden area for Target 8 species
  • Bristol Zoo Gardens – Avon Gorge & Downs
  • Cambridge University Botanic Garden – Native Display Beds
  • Durham University Botanic Garden – Magnesian limestone, meadows and woodland
  • Eden Project – Wild Cornwall
  • National Botanic Gardens of Ireland – Native Beds
  • Royal Botanic Gardens Kew – The Parterre Beds
  • University of Bristol Botanic Garden – Rare and Native threatened Plants
  • University of Dundee Botanic Garden – Ben Lawers to the sea

Gardens with Plans for new Native Displays

  • National Botanic Gardens of Wales
  • National Botanic Gardens of Ireland

The new native planting area is still being discussed at the gardens.
It will comprise a limited number of ecological habitat displays, and a pot collection which will attempt to cover as much of the flora as possible.
Habitats will include:
WOODLAND

  • Atlantic Oak woodland (Sessile Oak, Holly, Arbutus) merging into a display of Alpines / Lusitanians
  • Oak-Hazel (Pedunculate Oak) woodland merging into Hazel scrub, merging into Exposed calcareous rock. Burren pavement, with Dry Stone Wall (Limestone).
  • Ash-hazel woodland merging into Dry calcareous grassland (Esker);calcareous scree and loose rock.
  • Mixed lowland Cherry-Oak-Ash
  • Willow-alder Carr (existing): Willow collection, merging into marsh.
  • Birch-Pine-S.aucuparia upland woodland merging into montane heath.

WETLANDS

  • Freshwater Lake Pond
  • Watercourse, Riparian vegetation
  • Fen Raised bog
  • Blanket bog