Benmore Botanic Garden

Dunoon, Argyll and Bute

Evidence-backed Giant Sequoia Ticketed

The 1863 Redwood Avenue of giant sequoias greets you at this hillside garden near Dunoon, Argyll. Ticketed.

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Last checked
20 Jun 2026
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Paid admission, adult ~£10.80 (under 15 free, £1 concession tickets); RBGE garden, seasonal opening

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Redwood species here

Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum)

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About this place

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Benmore Botanic Garden is a Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh outpost on the Cowal Peninsula near Dunoon, on Scotland's west coast. Its signature feature is the Redwood Avenue, an entrance drive lined with giant sequoias planted in 1863 — among the earliest of the species grown in Britain, and now home to some of the tallest giant sequoias in Europe. Paid entry; open seasonally (roughly March/April to October).

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Last updated: 20 Jun 2026

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