In our October Coffee Chat, Emily Hazell, Curator at Chelsea Physic Garden, takes on an exploration of the Garden’s diverse collections, from its living plants and historic herbaria to library materials, archives, and works of art.
Emily shares how these collections have developed over time and how they are cared for, documented, and used today. She also explores the role of collections management in curating the living collection and keeping Chelsea’s historic collections relevant, resilient, and useful in the face of changing climate and biodiversity challenges.
The map below shows the gardens and arboreta represented by those who registered for the Coffee Chat - home offices not taken into consideration.
A few slides from Emily's Presentation:
Q&A
Q: How do you integrate biodiversity data with your collection?
A: The Observation Module is a great way to include biodiversity data that is related to specific accession items. See our Observation Module tutorial for more details.
Another way to record this information is in the item (status) comments field.
Q: How to accession wild seed mixes?
A: Wild seed mixes can be given one accession number with a dummy taxon name (genus = Unknown, cultivar = [mixed seeds]).
Q: How do you record depreciating provenance?
A: Provenance is important and should be used correctly:
Wild: Material (plants, seeds) collected in the wild or vegetative propagation (cuttings) of wild material.
Garden-wild: Material (seeds) collected in the garden from wild accessions. Should be new accessions. Parentage can be recorded.
Garden: All material that is not wild or garden-wild.
Q: How do you record the licencing and copywrite information for images in IrisBG?
A: You can record an image's provider, license information and more in the Images screen. See our tutorial on Images.
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