keep an eye out for posters in the visitor’s centre or our website for details and remember, if you can’t make it to one of our activity days then there are always children’s activities and trails that can be picked up from the visitors centre.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wedding Reception.

Rachel Deighton and Andrew Fox were married on 7 July at Coneysthorpe Chapel by Rev John Richardson. Rachel is Event and Sales Manager at Castle

A different kind of family tree!The Abies

 Wollemi Pines

Prince’s Trust

At a dinner held in Castle Howard, to raise funds for the Princes Trust, the Arboretum Trust donated 10 rare trees for sponsorship.The trees were grown

Fun for the whole family

This year has seen the Arboretum host several fun packed family activity days

Experts return

We were very pleased to welcome 50 members of the International Dendrology Society when they made a return visit on 1^st June.Many of the

Guided tours

We have two Arboretum guides who are a great addition to our team of volunteers. Roy Ward has been guiding tour throughout 2007 and one glorious afternoon in May, Roy and the Wild About Ryedale group spent over 3 hours just walking and talking trees in the sunshine.

We are also delighted to welcome Myra Minns as a new tour guide, Myra, who has moved north from Gloucestershire, was for many years, a tour guide at Westonbirt, the national arboretum. Myra will be a great asset to the Trust and we hope she will enjoy guiding with us.

Date for your diary

Oddsocks return July 6th to perform

‘Much Ado About Nothing’

during the school holidays. Children brought along their mums, dads and grandparents to take part in a whole host of activities delivered by Katherine, our Education Development Officer and at times it was hard to tell who was having the most fun! We plan to hold plenty more family activity days in the future so

from seed collected between 1999 and 2003 by expeditions from RBG Kew to central China. The seed was propagated by RBG Kew and transferred as seedlings to the arboretum where they are now planted out and flourishing.

Howard and Andrew is a Senior Account Manager at On-Communications Group based in Sheffield.

‘We all had a great time at the Arboretum and it is such a beautiful setting. We did think at one point the marquee was going to be floating on the lake, but thankfully the weather turned just in time!’ said Rachel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

concolor ‘Wattezii’, planted in 1979, was adopted in July 2006 by Norma Butlin and Helena Coroneo in memory of their parents.

The picture shows Norma Butlin, her son Ian and two granddaughters Polly and Crea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Wollemi Pines loved the rain!

We reported their acquisition in our 2006 newsletter and they were held over winter in the shade tunnel.

The photograph shows one which was planted out in early spring on Bracken Hill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

society had been on the visit in 2004 and were delighted with the progress which has been made in the arboretum in three years.

The visit was organised as part of a week long tour in Yorkshire by Sir Richard Storey and his team at Settrington House

After coffee at Castle Howard and a welcome from The Honourable Simon Howard, the group visited Ray Wood in parties lead by Sir Richards’s Head Gardener Lin Hawthorne and our Plant Records Officer Joyce Kingman.

The group then enjoyed a picnic lunch by the arboretum lake. The day became very warm, so that during the afternoon tour of the arboretum, shade was very welcome. Some members of the group eventually succumbed to the temptation of tea and cake and a seat on the terrace at the arboretum café.

It was a particular pleasure to meet Adolphe and Ghislaine, Vicomte and Victomtesse Spoelberch, from Belgium.  Adolphe is a second cousin of Philippe, who is generously sponsoring the work of labelling the collection in Ray Wood. The administration of this support is now handled by Dr. Koen Camelbeke, Director of the Stiching Arboretum, Wespelaar, Belgium.