Cruickshank Botanic Garden

Aberdeen City

Field-checked Giant Sequoia Public access

Giant sequoia rises in the arboretum of Aberdeen University's botanic garden in Old Aberdeen. Free, open access.

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Access: Open to the public
Last checked: 20 Jun 2026
Visitor information: abdn.ac.uk/botanic-garden

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Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum)

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Credit: watty62 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Species: 1

About this place

Cruickshank Botanic Garden is the University of Aberdeen's botanic garden in Old Aberdeen, an 11-acre site of borders, a rock and water garden and an arboretum founded in 1898. Among its arboretum conifers is giant sequoia. Free entry.

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