RHS monitoring of native and naturalised plants and animals at its gardens and surrounding areas
Citation
Royal Horticultural Society (2021). RHS monitoring of native and naturalised plants and animals at its gardens and surrounding areas. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/mjksef accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-10-13.Description
The data set consists of records gathered predominantly by staff of the Royal Horticultural Society of native and naturalised plants and animals from its gardens and surrounding areas.
Purpose
To record the wildlife and native flora that RHS gardens support.
Sampling Description
Quality Control
Data quality is good. Most records are verified by expert RHS staff members. Grid references have been checked against site names.Method steps
- Records of native and naturalised plants and animals have been collated from RHS gardens and some surrounding areas since 1909. Data has been gathered from various sources, including paper archives and the RHS insect collection. Many modern records (post 1997) have been submitted directly to the Recorder software.
Taxonomic Coverages
Geographic Coverages
Royal Horticultural Society Gardens and Surrounds.
RHS Garden Wisley and Wisley Village, Surrey and surrounding area
RHS Garden Hyde Hall, Rettendon, Essex
RHS Garden Rosemoor, Great Torrington, Devon
RHS Garden Bridgewater, Salford GReater Manchester
RHS Garden Harlow Carr, Harrogate, North Yorks
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
originatorRoyal Horticultural Society
metadata author
Royal Horticultural Society
distributor
NBN Atlas
27 Old Gloucester St, Holborn
London
WC1N 3AX
London
GB
email: admin@nbnatlas.org
Andrew Salisbury
administrative point of contact
email: andrewsalisbury@rhs.org.uk