Autumn Colour

Red Oak tree

Red Oak has fantastic red and orange autumn foliage colour. In Britain the Red Oak is by far the most commonly planted American oak. It comes from eastern North Am...[more]

Blue Atlas Cedar tree, arboretum large

Blue Atlas Cedar-This robust blue-grey needled conifer is indispensable in most ornamental tree collections. It is the ideal foil for anything with golden or copper foliage, and even ...[more]

Cappadocium Maple tree, arboretum

The most striking feature of this maple is the way it suckers from the roots. In a short period of time after planting it may develop into a thicket. In a further 20 years it will become a small wood ...[more]

Cut-leaved Birch tree arboretum

The cut leaved birch with elegant and  fine graceful branches and drooping shoots. This is a good landscape plant having a bright silver and brown stem and light airy foliage. Al...[more]

Dawn Redwood tree

The Dawn Redwood is a straight, tall deciduous conifer originating from China.  The grass green summer foliage turns pink and golden brown in the autumn before falling....[more]

Double Gean Cherry arboretum tree

This is probably the best white cherry in cultivation. Like its parent the native wild cherry it makes a big tree. It is equally as floriferous as any white Japanese cultivar but does not have the stu...[more]

Golden Japanese Maple arboretum tree

Japanese Maple-This small picturesque distinctly Japanese tree brings a flash of gold to the arboretum throughout the summer months. It has rounded yellow leaves, each having about 11...[more]

Grey Snakebark Maple arboretum tree

The Grey Snake Bark Maple-The bark on young trees is smooth, olive-green with regular narrow vertical pale green to greyish stripes and small greyish lenticels:on old trees, it bec...[more]

Honey Locust arboretum tree

Usually rounded but often wide spreading, this is an elegant tree which becomes a special feature both in spring and autumn each year. It is worth a place in every lowland collection where space permi...[more]

Hop Hornbeam arboretum tree

This tree is native to Europe and Asia Minor, including southern Britain. It is superficially like beech but is more tolerant of frost and poor ground. The wood is white, hard and heavy, but not flexi...[more]

Hupeh Crab Apple Arboretum Tree

Spring flowers in pendulous clusters are a feature of this small tree. It has wide spreading branches which, in a good season, may be covered with white blossom. By late summer the whole tree is festo...[more]

Japanese Maple tree

This is perhaps the best known 'autumn colour' tree grown in Britain. Few if any other species can compare with it for richness of colour. Each individual plant will change to more or less a single...[more]

John Downie Crabapple

John Downie Crab Apple-The heavy fruiting crab apple 'John Downie' was raised in Lichfield England in 1875 by Mr E Holmes. It was named after his friend and fellow nurseryman John Dow...[more]

Joseph Rock Rowan tree

Joseph Rock -This mysterious mountain ash is probably of Chinese origin but that is by no means certain. It was given a collection number by Joseph Rock (1884-1962) an Austrian botani...[more]

Kashmir Rowan tree

Kashmir Rowan-Clusters of soft pink flowers in spring, followed in midsummer by heavy bunches of attractive pure white fruits which persist right into the winter, even after the le...[more]