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Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses

United Kingdom - West Midlands - Birmingham
Institution Code: BMBG
International Agenda Registration: Y
BGCI Member: Y
About the Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses
Birmingham Botanical & Horticultural Society, an educational charity manage the gardens, which were opened in 1832. Designed by J. C. Loudon the general layout is much the same today. The glasshouse ranges are mid-nineteenth century. The garden has also had a zoological collection since 1910, which is currently entirely ornithological.

Main Address:
Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses
Westbourne Road
Edgbaston
Birmingham
West Midlands B15 3 TR United Kingdom
Telephone: 44 (0)121 454 1860
Fax: 44 (0)121 454 7835
URL: www.birminghambotanicalgardens.org.uk
Primary Email: admin@birminghambotanicalgardens.org.uk

Staff Details

  • Director's Name: J.W.Wheeler BA
    Curator's Name: J.W.Wheeler BA
    Plant Records Officer's Name: S. Gulliver BSc MSc MIHort MIfL
  • Total Staff:
    Horticultural Staff Number: 12
    Educational Staff Number: 2
    Research Staff Number:
    Administration Staff Number: 19

About the Garden

  • Institution Type: Botanic Garden
  • Status
  • Status: Private: N
    Status: State: N
    Status: Educational: Y
    Status: Municipal: N
    Status: Satellite: N
    Status: Trust: Y
  • Date founded: 1829
  • Physical Data
  • Natural Vegetation Area: N
  • Landscaped Area: Y
    Landscaped Area: Size: 3 Hectares
  • Total Area: 5 Hectares
    Latitude: 52.466492
    Longitude: -1.929637
    Annual Rainfall: 750 mm
    Altitude: 143.00 Metres
    Total area of glasshouses: 878 Metres

Features and Facilities

  • Herbarium: N
    Arboretum: N
  • Micropropagation/ Tissue Culture Facilities: N
    Seed Bank: N
    Published Plant Catalogue: N
    Computer Plant Record System: Y
  • Open to public: Y
    Friends society: Y
    Retail Outlet: Shop: Y
    Retail Outlet: Plant Sales: Y
    Disabled access: Y
  • Number of Visitors: 150000
    Number of Volunteers: 50

Plant Collections

  • Accession Number: 7500
    Cultivation Taxa Num: 5100
  • Special Collections:General tropical and temperate collections, with an emphasis on economic and food plants to support our educational role.

    Lilium, Cyclamen, Pelargonium species, E.H.Wilson plants, plants with connections to the Midlands of England

    National Collection of Bonsai: (Co-ordinated by the Friends of the National bonsai Collection)

    ICCP partner
  • Invasive Species Monitoring: Y
    Invasive Species Policy: N
    ABS Policy: Y
    Plant Collection Policy: Y

Conservation Programmes

  • Conservation Programme: N
    Medicinal Plant Programme: N
    Ex Situ Conservation Programme: Y
    Reintroduction Programme: N

Research Programmes

  • Biotechnology: N
    Plant Breeding: N
    Conservation - Biology: N
    Conservation - Genetics: N
    Data Management Systems and Information Technology: N
    Ecology: N
    Ecosystem Conservation: N
    Education: Y
    Ethnobotany: N
    Exploration: N
    Floristics: N
    Horticulture: Y
    Invasive Species Biology and Control: N
    Molecular Genetics: N
    Pollination Biology: N
    Restoration Ecology: N
    Seed/Spore Biology: N
    Systematics and Taxonomy: N
    Sustainability: N
    Pharmacology: N
    Agriculture: N
    Land Restoration: N
    Urban Environments: Y

Education Programmes

  • Visitor/Education Centre: Y
    Education Signs in Garden: Y
    Public Lectures/Talks: Y
    Education Booklets/Leaflets: Y
    Guided Tours: Y
    Permanent Public Displays: Y
    Special Exhibitions: Y
    Courses for School Children: Y
    Courses for University/College Students: Y
    Courses for General Public: Y
    Education Programme: Y
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