The Archibald Archive Index

Plants raised from Archibald collections are growing around the world in the gardens of private individuals as well as many institutions and Botanic Gardens.  We list below useful information to allow you to trace plants in Botanic Gardens:

Jim lodged Herbarium Sheets at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, which record his collections over a period of around forty years.  You can look at over 2,300 individual herbarium sheets online at the RBGE Herbarium Catalogue via an RBGE Herbarium Catalogue Search.  You can also view a list of Archibald Herbarium Specimens (Excel .xlsm file).

The University of Canada Botanical Garden curates a collection of about 30,000 plants from around 8000 accessions representing 5000 taxa from temperate regions around the world. Temperate forest plants of British Columbia, eastern North America and Asia are curated in woodland gardens and a classic alpine garden displays the diverse flora of high-altitude regions of the world.

We are grateful to Panayoti Kelaidis and Ann Berthe of Denver Botanic Gardens, Colorado, USA for this list of 151 Archibald plants grown in the DBG (Excel .xlsm file).  You can use the Garden Navigator to search for plants in the garden.

English gardener and nurseryman, Dr. Tim Ingram, from Kent, UK, is a passionate believer in the importance of gardens, particularly in the context of organisations such as the SRGC and its sister organisations. He has written of his impressions of Bryn Collen, the garden of Jim and Jenny in Wales. You can find Tim's article in the September 2012 issue of International Rock Gardener.