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).
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Giant Sequoia Places
Places where giant sequoia is the main draw, from major avenues to specimen trees worth a special trip.
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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.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden
A 1949 dawn redwood by the Lake, one of Britain's first, stands near an early giant sequoia in central Cambridge. Ticketed.
Wimpole Estate
Dawn redwood and giant sequoia among the specimen trees in the pleasure grounds of this grand Cambridgeshire estate. Ticketed (NT).
University of Leicester Botanic Garden
A giant sequoia anchors the Cedar Grove, with a dawn redwood nearby, at this teaching garden in Oadby near Leicester. Free.
Abbey Park
All three redwood types stand along the tree trail at this Victorian park in central Leicester. Free, open access.
Farnborough Hall
Mature giant sequoias along the terrace walk of this 18th-century Trust estate in rural Warwickshire. Ticketed, seasonal opening.
West Park Local Nature Reserve
A giant sequoia stands among the grassland and woodland of this nature reserve on the edge of Uckfield, East Sussex. Free, open access.
Clyne Gardens
A giant redwood marks the signposted tree trail through these botanical gardens above Swansea Bay. Free entry.
Havering Country Park
A 19th-century carriage-drive avenue of giant sequoia on the ridge above Romford, east London. Free, open at all hours.
National Botanic Garden of Wales
A ring of dawn redwoods circles a water sculpture on the Broadwalk in the Tywi Valley near Carmarthen, with giant sequoia nearby. Ticketed.
Knighton Park
A marked tree trail with all three redwoods — giant sequoia, dawn and coast — in this postwar public park in Leicester. Free.
Harris Garden
A mature giant sequoia and coast redwood among the woodland of Reading University's garden at Earley, Berkshire. Free, open from 8am.
University of Oxford Botanic Garden
Britain's oldest botanic garden grows a dawn redwood from the original 1940s Chinese seed, plus a giant sequoia. Ticketed, central Oxford.
Treborth Botanic Garden
Coast redwood and giant sequoia grow in Bangor University's teaching garden on the Menai Strait near Bangor, Gwynedd. Free.
Oxburgh Hall
Giant sequoia rises in the Victorian grounds of this moated NT manor near Swaffham, Norfolk, though the parterre is the draw. Ticketed (NT).
Cragside
Ticketed Victorian estate near Rothbury whose Pinetum holds towering giant redwoods, including a record-breaking specimen.
Wellingtonia Avenue, Crowthorne
Free public B3348 lined with over a hundred giant sequoia near Crowthorne — one of the world's finest Wellingtonia avenues.
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.
Calderstones Park
A 19th-century estate tree collection in south Liverpool, with all three redwoods on its heritage tree trail. Free, open access.
Etal manor and Grounds
Giant sequoia and dawn redwood among the rhododendrons of this private Joicey family garden in north Northumberland. By arrangement.
Wellingtonia Avenue, Heatherside
Free Victorian avenue of giant sequoias planted 1865, winding through the Heatherside estate near Camberley.
Bradgate Park
Giant sequoia stands among the ancient oaks of this historic deer park in Charnwood Forest, near Leicester. Free.
University of Bristol Botanic Garden
Giant sequoia and the fossil-relic dawn redwood feature in this teaching garden at Stoke Bishop, Bristol. Ticketed.
Holehird Gardens
Giant sequoia and dawn redwood among the specimen trees of this hillside society garden near Windermere, Cumbria. Free, donation welcomed.
Exbury Gardens
Victorian giant sequoia with coast and dawn redwood among the rhododendrons of this New Forest woodland garden, Hampshire. Ticketed.
Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens
Ticketed Grade I valley garden near Horsham with nine 1850s giant sequoias, one a TROBI-Remarkable champion.
Croft Castle and Parkland
Victorian Wellingtonias among the ancient trees of this 1,500-acre Herefordshire estate near Leominster. Ticketed (NT).
Castlewellan Forest Park (Annesley Garden & Arboretum)
Free to walk in (parking charge for cars): the Annesley Garden's extraordinary 19-trunked giant sequoia, near Castlewellan, Co Down.
Evington Park
All three redwoods recorded together in the mature parkland of this former manor on Leicester's eastern edge. Free, open access.
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).
Lynford Arboretum
Walk the 1800s Sequoia Avenue, a double row of giant sequoias in Thetford Forest near Mundford, Norfolk. Free, open access.
Stourhead
Ticketed National Trust landscape garden near Mere, Wiltshire, where giant redwoods and a flared-trunk coast redwood flank the famous lake.
Stratfield Saye House
Limited seasonal opening near Basingstoke: the Duke of Wellington's estate has a remarkable layered giant-sequoia clump in its Pleasure Grounds.
Chelsea Physic Garden
London's oldest botanic garden, a walled plot by the Thames in Chelsea, grows a dawn redwood and a giant sequoia. Ticketed.
Thorp Perrow Arboretum
The mid-19th-century Milbank Pinetum holds a broad-girthed giant sequoia at this arboretum near Bedale, North Yorkshire. Ticketed.
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.
Jesmond Dene
Giant sequoia and dawn redwood among the exotic conifers Lord Armstrong planted in this wooded river valley in Newcastle. Free.
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.
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.
Cruickshank Botanic Garden
Giant sequoia rises in the arboretum of Aberdeen University's botanic garden in Old Aberdeen. Free, open access.
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.
Hughenden Park
Three towering giant redwoods stand across the bridge in this municipal parkland below the NT's Hughenden estate, near High Wycombe. Free.
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.
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.
Benmore Botanic Garden
The 1863 Redwood Avenue of giant sequoias greets you at this hillside garden near Dunoon, Argyll. Ticketed.
Castle Kennedy Gardens
Giant sequoia joins the champion trees and grand avenues of this historic garden near Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway. Ticketed.
Cluny House Gardens
This woodland garden near Aberfeldy, Perthshire, holds a giant sequoia over 11m round, the UK's widest conifer. Paid entry.
Dawyck Botanic Garden
Giant sequoias well over 50 metres are among the tallest trees in this hillside arboretum near Peebles, Scottish Borders. Ticketed.
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.
Scone Palace
Mature giant sequoias anchor the celebrated Victorian pinetum on this historic estate near Perth. Ticketed (Apr-Oct).
Sheffield Park Garden
Giant sequoia line the Big Tree Walk through this lakeside Capability Brown landscape in East Sussex, with dawn redwood too. Ticketed (NT).
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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