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Benmore Botanic Garden
One of Britain's most spectacular botanic gardens, with a dramatic avenue of giant sequoias planted in 1863. Set in Cowal Peninsula with a stunning mountain backdrop.
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Scotland sequoia gardens
Benmore, Castle Kennedy, Cluny, and Dawyck.
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Castle Kennedy Gardens
Historic gardens in Dumfries and Galloway set on a peninsula between two lochs, with exceptional 19th-century conifers including giant sequoias among the oldest in Scotland.
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Cluny House Gardens
A remarkable woodland garden near Aberfeldy with exceptional giant sequoias including one of the tallest in Scotland, set within a naturalistic Himalayan-style planting.
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Dawyck Botanic Garden
A specialist arboretum in the Scottish Borders managed by RBGE, home to some of the oldest giant sequoias in Scotland, planted in the 1850s.
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