Explore the Arboretum on a FREE tour!
We’ve laid on a range of tours specifically to introduce you to the wonders of the arboretum. If you’d like to join one of these “Taster-Tours” please sign up at The Arboretum Trust marquee (marked “L” on the map). Each tour lasts approximately 30 minutes.
1) Lakes
This is a varied and interesting walk round the lake, along Tercentenary Wood (native trees, including Spindle with its surprisingly exotic fruit) to Furniture Makers’ Walk (a superb vista of 14 major furniture trees). Enjoy the wonderful views across the lake to
Main Vista, showing the importance of trees in landscaping. Botanically, the highlights are the many different Acers, good specimens of Beech, Deodar cedars and Wingnut.
2) Bracken Hill
This walk introduces a number of rare species of trees and shrubs in one of the highest areas of the arboretum. It affords excellent views along Main Vista to the lakes and provides opportunities to discuss some of the main principles underlying the design and management of the arboretum, including boundary considerations, structural planting and the use of colour.
3) Cherry Vista
This walk introduces the roles of education and volunteering at the arboretum. We see familiar native species including Oak, and foreign counterparts such as rare Whitebeams and Gingkos, thought to have become extinct. We return through Furniture Makers’ Walk, a fine vista giving wide northerly views to the wooded horizon. |
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