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National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin
Last updated: March 2009
Address: Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland
Tel: 353 (0)1 804 0300
Fax: 353 (0)1 836 0080
email: botanicgardens@opw.ie
web address: www.botanicgardens.ie Latitude: 53° 22'20''N
Longitude: 06° 16'10''W

BACKGROUND TO THE COLLECTION
Year Founded: 1795
Ownership: Office of Public Works
Garden code: DBN

PERSONNEL
Director: Peter Wyse Jackson
Curator: Paul Maher
Taxonomist:
Librarian:
Supervisor Guide: Matthew Jebb
Alexandra Caccamo
Felicity Gaffney
Contact person: Matthew Jebb
Total Staff: 77
Total Horticultural Staff: 25

POLICIES
Accessions: A set of written Policies has been published in 2004
Collections: A set of written Policies has been published in 2004

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
Altitude: 23 m
Soil type: Clay
Aspect: Varied
Total area: 20 ha
Area heated: 4000 m²
Other sites of collection: Kilmacurragh Arboretum

WEATHER RECORDS Records kept
Temperature:
Average daily: 9.8 °C
Av. monthly max:
Av. monthly min:
Absolute maximum: 27.8 °C
Absolute minimum: -18.5 °C (1982)
Wind
Direction: West
Strength:
Rainfall
Average annual: 724 mm
Month of maximum:
Month of minimum:

PLANT COLLECTION
Families: 257
Genera: 1,432
Species: 5,374
Taxa: 8,290
Accessions: 11,753
Plants: 13 639
Notable plants within the collection:
Trachycarpus first to be planted outside (in 1870), Champion trees include Cedrus atlantica 'Pendula', Cupressus macnabiana, Pinus sabiniana, Polyothyrsis sinensis, Pyrus calleryana.
Geographical area(s) of specialisation:
Northern Europe, Southern Africa, Southwestern Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Mesoamerica, China, Northwestern USA, Eastern Asia, temperate South America
Special families within the collections:
Ericaceae, Saxifragaceae, Cupressaceae, Rosaceae, Pinaceae, Zamiaceae, Aquifoliaceae, Orchidaceae, Geraniaceae, Liliaceae, Taxaceae
Special genera within the collections:
Rhododendron, Garrya, Paeonia, Acer, Ilex, Pinus, Begonia, Pelargonium, Salix, Crinum, Arbutus, Potentilla, Quercus
Special collections: Conifers, ICCP – 3 Plants.
Garrya, NCCPG – 22 Accessions, .
Encephalartos – 9 Species, 20 Accessions.
Order Beds
Native plant collection
Vireya Rhododendrons

Phenological Garden: International Phenological Garden since 1964
Record Keeping: Kept since 1820s
Computerised
Record System: BG-Base (to 1992), Excel (to2006), BG-Recorder
Mapping web-based
Plant-collecting trips: International and national
Belize, Chile, China, Siberia

FACILITIES ON SITE
Herbarium: Approximately 600 000 wild collected and 5000 cultivated specimens. Code DBN in Index Herbariorum
Library: 40 000 items; floras, monographs, horticultural catalogues. Public access by appointment
Research facilities: General biological laboratories, including tissue culture facilities, DNA extraction and analysis
Publications: Index seminum, Glasra and Occasional Papers, Irish county Floras
Identifications: Undertakes free identifications for the general public. Internal verification of material
Teaching and Education: Primary, secondary, higher, taxonomic and public education.
Classes for the general public on gardening and Irish Botany
Interpretation: Supervised garden walks, signs, brochures, guided trails, lectures
Friends Organisation: No

Visitor facilities: Café. Restaurant and small shop, Gallery and regular exhibitions

ACCESS TO THE COLLECTIONS
Public access: Free
Visitors per year: 400 000
Public opening hours: Mon-Sun: 9am-6pm, 4.30pm in winter

GUIDING PRINCIPLES BEHIND THE COLLECTION:
The mission of the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland is to ensure that plant diversity is cherished and nutured in Ireland and throughout the world as our greatest renewable natural resource.
A key principle of the institution is to assist with capacity building for botanic gardens and plant conservation worldwide through educational, horticultural, research, conservation and training programmes.

PlantNetwork > DIRECTORY of Botanical Collections in Britain and Ireland > Index

National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin Last updated: March 2009
Address:	Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland Tel: 353 (0)1 804 0300 Fax: 353 (0)1 836 0080 email: botanicgardens@opw.ie web address: www.botanicgardens.ie Latitude: 53° 22'20''N Longitude: 06° 16'10''W
BACKGROUND TO THE COLLECTION
Year Founded:	1795
Ownership:	Office of Public Works
Garden code:	DBN
PERSONNEL
Director:	Peter Wyse Jackson
Curator:	Paul Maher
Taxonomist: Librarian: Supervisor Guide:	Matthew Jebb Alexandra Caccamo Felicity Gaffney
Contact person:	Matthew Jebb
Total Staff:	77
Total Horticultural Staff:	25
POLICIES
Accessions:	A set of written Policies has been published in 2004
Collections:	A set of written Policies has been published in 2004
PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
Altitude:	23 m
Soil type:	Clay
Aspect:	Varied
Total area:	20 ha
Area heated:	4000 m²
Other sites of collection:	Kilmacurragh Arboretum
WEATHER RECORDS	Records kept
Temperature:
Average daily:	9.8 °C
Av. monthly max:
Av. monthly min:
Absolute maximum:	27.8 °C
Absolute minimum:	-18.5 °C (1982)
Wind
Direction:	West
Strength:
Rainfall
Average annual:	724 mm
Month of maximum:
Month of minimum:
PLANT COLLECTION
Families:	257
Genera:	1,432
Species:	5,374
Taxa:	8,290
Accessions:	11,753
Plants:	13 639
Notable plants within the collection:
	Trachycarpus first to be planted outside (in 1870), Champion trees include Cedrus atlantica 'Pendula', Cupressus macnabiana, Pinus sabiniana, Polyothyrsis sinensis, Pyrus calleryana.
Geographical area(s) of specialisation:
	Northern Europe, Southern Africa, Southwestern Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Mesoamerica, China, Northwestern USA, Eastern Asia, temperate South America
Special families within the collections:
	Ericaceae, Saxifragaceae, Cupressaceae, Rosaceae, Pinaceae, Zamiaceae, Aquifoliaceae, Orchidaceae, Geraniaceae, Liliaceae, Taxaceae
Special genera within the collections:
	Rhododendron, Garrya, Paeonia, Acer, Ilex, Pinus, Begonia, Pelargonium, Salix, Crinum, Arbutus, Potentilla, Quercus
Special collections:	Conifers, ICCP – 3 Plants. Garrya, NCCPG – 22 Accessions, . Encephalartos – 9 Species, 20 Accessions. Order Beds Native plant collection Vireya Rhododendrons
Phenological Garden:	International Phenological Garden since 1964
Record Keeping:	Kept since 1820s Computerised
Record System:	BG-Base (to 1992), Excel (to2006), BG-Recorder Mapping web-based
Plant-collecting trips:	International and national Belize, Chile, China, Siberia
FACILITIES ON SITE
Herbarium:	Approximately 600 000 wild collected and 5000 cultivated specimens. Code DBN in Index Herbariorum
Library:	40 000 items; floras, monographs, horticultural catalogues. Public access by appointment
Research facilities:	General biological laboratories, including tissue culture facilities, DNA extraction and analysis
Publications:	Index seminum, Glasra and Occasional Papers, Irish county Floras
Identifications:	Undertakes free identifications for the general public. Internal verification of material
Teaching and Education:	Primary, secondary, higher, taxonomic and public education. Classes for the general public on gardening and Irish Botany
Interpretation:	Supervised garden walks, signs, brochures, guided trails, lectures
Friends Organisation:	No
Visitor facilities:	Café. Restaurant and small shop, Gallery and regular exhibitions
ACCESS TO THE COLLECTIONS
Public access:	Free
Visitors per year:	400 000
Public opening hours:	Mon-Sun: 9am-6pm, 4.30pm in winter
GUIDING PRINCIPLES BEHIND THE COLLECTION:
	The mission of the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland is to ensure that plant diversity is cherished and nutured in Ireland and throughout the world as our greatest renewable natural resource. A key principle of the institution is to assist with capacity building for botanic gardens and plant conservation worldwide through educational, horticultural, research, conservation and training programmes.