RHS Garden, Wisley
All three redwoods in Wisley's Pinetum near Woking, Surrey, its dawn redwoods among England's earliest from 1948 seed. Ticketed (RHS).
Collection
Coast Redwood Places
Places grouped because coast redwood is the main reason to go, especially across wetter western landscapes, gardens, and arboreta where the species reads differently on the ground.
39 places
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What this collection emphasises
Chatsworth House Garden
Ticketed Peak District garden near Bakewell whose 1830s Paxton pinetum—one of England's first—holds mature giant redwoods.
Bicton Park botanical garden
An 1839 Pinetum near Budleigh Salterton, Devon, where giant sequoias and coast redwoods top 40m beside dawn redwood. Paid entry.
Abbey Park
All three redwood types stand along the tree trail at this Victorian park in central Leicester. Free, open access.
Tortworth Court
Coast redwood survives in the old tree collection of this Victorian estate near Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, glimpsed from the footpath. Limited access.
Clyne Gardens
A giant redwood marks the signposted tree trail through these botanical gardens above Swansea Bay. Free entry.
Harris Garden
A mature giant sequoia and coast redwood among the woodland of Reading University's garden at Earley, Berkshire. Free, open from 8am.
Treborth Botanic Garden
Coast redwood and giant sequoia grow in Bangor University's teaching garden on the Menai Strait near Bangor, Gwynedd. Free.
Loton Park
Coast redwood and giant sequoia among the veteran oaks of this private Shropshire deer park near Shrewsbury. By arrangement.
Wynkcoombe Arboretum
A private Sussex collection near Fittleworth with all three redwoods, including a 'Blue Wellingtonia' giant sequoia. Free, open year-round.
Durham University Botanic Garden
Coast redwood opens the North American arboretum, with a grove of dawn redwoods beyond, in this wooded university garden on the edge of Durham. Ticketed.
Calderstones Park
A 19th-century estate tree collection in south Liverpool, with all three redwoods on its heritage tree trail. Free, open access.
Attingham Park
Coast redwood grows among the conifers on this Shropshire estate near Shrewsbury, though cedars lead its Mile Walk. Ticketed (NT).
Exbury Gardens
Victorian giant sequoia with coast and dawn redwood among the rhododendrons of this New Forest woodland garden, Hampshire. Ticketed.
Crawfordsburn Country Park
A coast redwood stands among estate exotics in the wooded glen above Belfast Lough, near Bangor, County Down. Free.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
All three redwoods at Kew, including a coast redwood that is the gardens' tallest tree at around 40 metres. Ticketed, southwest London.
Dudmaston Estate
Giant sequoia and coast redwood among the ornamental conifers of this Shropshire parkland near Bridgnorth. Paid entry (NT).
Langley Country Park
Giant sequoia in avenues on the high ground, plus coast redwood, in this Capability Brown park near Iver, Buckinghamshire. Free.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
The John Muir Grove of 1920s giant sequoias at Edinburgh's botanics in Inverleith, with coast and dawn redwoods too. Free (glasshouses ticketed).
Stourhead
Ticketed National Trust landscape garden near Mere, Wiltshire, where giant redwoods and a flared-trunk coast redwood flank the famous lake.
Valley Gardens
Giant sequoia and coast redwood line the wooded walks of this Windsor Great Park garden near Englefield Green, Surrey. Free, paid parking.
Sir Harold Hillier Gardens
All three redwoods grow at this Hampshire arboretum near Romsey, where the dawn redwood is the garden's own emblem. Ticketed.
Wakehurst
Kew's wild Sussex garden where giant redwoods in Horsebridge Wood grew from seed of the famed General Grant tree. Ticketed, near Ardingly.
Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens
A sheltered Dorset valley near Chesil Beach where a broad-girthed coast redwood grows beside sequoia and dawn redwood. Ticketed.
Royal Victoria Park
Giant sequoias from the trees' first arrival in Britain stand in Bath's 1830 arboretum park, with coast redwood alongside. Free, open access.
Eden Project
A grove of around 40 coast redwoods, cloned from ancient trees, grows at this former clay pit near St Austell, Cornwall. Ticketed.
Sheffield Botanical Gardens
A Grade II listed 1836 garden near Sheffield city centre where giant sequoia and coast redwood join the conifers. Free.
Bodnant Garden
Ticketed National Trust garden near Tal-y-Cafn, Conwy, with towering coast redwoods lining the River Hiraethlyn in the Dell.
Trebah
A 30-metre coast redwood with a gnarled trunk stands on Badger's Walk in this Helford ravine garden near Mawnan Smith, Cornwall. Ticketed.
Nymans
Ticketed National Trust garden near Handcross whose pinetum holds a giant sequoia said to be the tallest tree in Sussex.
Biddulph Grange Garden
Ticketed National Trust garden near Stoke-on-Trent with a Victorian pinetum and a redwood-lined Wellingtonia Avenue.
Millichope Park
Giant sequoias frame the lake views in this private 19th-century Shropshire park near Craven Arms, with coast redwood too. By arrangement.
Sandringham Royal Parkland
Waymarked woodland trails through the royal estate near King's Lynn, Norfolk, pass mature giant sequoia, coast and dawn redwoods. Free, open access.
Dartington Hall Gardens
Ticketed Grade II*-listed gardens near Totnes, with densely planted coast redwoods in the estate's North Wood.
Bedgebury National Pinetum
One of the world's great conifer collections in the Kent Weald, with totem-pole coast redwoods among sequoia and dawn redwood. Free.
Harcourt Arboretum
Some of Britain's older giant sequoias, plus coast and autumn-red dawn redwoods, at Oxford's arboretum near Nuneham Courtenay. Ticketed.
Leighton Hall Sequoia Grove
Coast redwood and giant sequoia grown from 1857 California seed, with the Naylor pinetum, east of Welshpool, Powys. Limited access.
Rhinefield Ornamental Drive
The Tall Trees Trail loops past towering redwoods on this Victorian forest drive near Brockenhurst in the New Forest. Free, open access.
Westonbirt, The National Arboretum
All three redwoods at England's national arboretum near Tetbury, with Victorian giant sequoias by the entrance. Ticketed, Gloucestershire.
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