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
Standout Historic Groves
Picked places where old planting stories and strong redwood structure come together especially well.
14 places
About this collection
What this collection emphasises
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.
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.
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.
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.
Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens
A sheltered Dorset valley near Chesil Beach where a broad-girthed coast redwood grows beside sequoia and dawn redwood. Ticketed.
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.
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.
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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