Birmingham University Botanical Gardens

[Stuart Estell]

As you've probably read in the journal, Birmingham branch are helping out with the university botanical gardens' collection at Winterbourne. Last time I went down I took a few photos.

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I've created a flickr set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oceanrain/ ... 290784098/, you may have to bear with me till I get the captions sorted...

[Ray_M]

Thanks for taking the time to photograph and show us those plants Stuart.What's the tall spindly plant in the first photo,and the gasteria in the last please?Cheers mate.

[Cactus Jack]

:DGreat photos , thank you

[iann]

A Gasteria? Shows how much attention I was paying! I was too busy looking at the monstrose grusonii

[BrianMc]

So they dont grow many 'other succulents' !

Or is that a reflection on the photographer's creative eye?;)

Nice pics, nice plants, nice set-up(tu)

[Stuart Estell]

I think the spindly thing in with the melocacti may be an arrojadoa or something similar; the gasteria is G. brachyphylla.

[Stuart Estell]

There are other succulents, but they're in quite a minority - less than a third of the collection all told. Very, very few mesembs, some haws and aloes, and ascleps, plus the usual MLTs (miscellaneous leafy things)

[Thord]

Is this collection open to the public or is it just for study and reference?

[Stuart Estell]

The collection is a reserve collection, but is open to the public on special open days I believe. The arid house (the wooden g/h in some of the pics) is open whenever the gardens are.

[Chris43]

That looks a good collection, Stuart, thanks for doing this. They look in pretty good nick.
Do you know the level of documentation of the plants? Do they all have provenance, like collector's numbers or habitat details?