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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Historic Plantings
Places where the Victorian planting story is still easy to feel on the ground, not just read about afterwards.
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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).
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.
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.
Wavertree Botanic Gardens
A Victorian botanic park in Liverpool, laid out in the 1830s, with a dawn redwood that turns copper in autumn. Free public park.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Victoria Embankment Gardens
A dawn redwood among the mature trees of this riverside strip beside the Thames in central London. Free, open to all.
Exbury Gardens
Victorian giant sequoia with coast and dawn redwood among the rhododendrons of this New Forest woodland garden, Hampshire. Ticketed.
Croft Castle and Parkland
Victorian Wellingtonias among the ancient trees of this 1,500-acre Herefordshire estate near Leominster. Ticketed (NT).
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.
Langley Country Park
Giant sequoia in avenues on the high ground, plus coast redwood, in this Capability Brown park near Iver, Buckinghamshire. Free.
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.
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.
Croxteth Park
Dawn redwood, bronze in autumn, grows in the woodland of this 500-acre country estate on Liverpool's edge. Free, open access.
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.
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.
Millichope Park
Giant sequoias frame the lake views in this private 19th-century Shropshire park near Craven Arms, with coast redwood too. By arrangement.
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.
Leighton Hall Sequoia Grove
Coast redwood and giant sequoia grown from 1857 California seed, with the Naylor pinetum, east of Welshpool, Powys. Limited access.
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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