Ventnor Botanic Garden

Ventnor Botanic Garden
The Australian section within The Gardens, February 2007.
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TypeBotanic
LocationVentnor, Isle of Wight
Coordinates50°35′21″N 1°13′40″W / 50.5892°N 1.2278°W / 50.5892; -1.2278
Opened1970
Owned byFreehold owned by Isle of Wight Council, leased to Ventnor Botanic Garden CIC
Operated byVentnor Botanic Garden CIC
Websitebotanic.co.uk

Ventnor Botanic Garden is a botanic garden located in Ventnor, Isle of Wight. It was founded in 1970, by Sir Harold Hillier, and donated to the Isle of Wight Council.

Its collection comprises worldwide temperate and subtropical trees and shrubs organised by region. The garden's unusual climate is more akin to the Mediterranean and enables a wide variety of plants considered too tender for much of mainland Britain to be grown. These grow in the open air, and benefit from the moist and sheltered microclimate of the south-facing Undercliff landslip area on the Isle of Wight coast. When frost does occur it is usually of short duration and not of great severity.[1]

  1. ^ http://www.botanic.co.uk/pages/the_garden_introduction.htm Archived 20 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine Ventnor Botanic Garden website: introduction