Information Map Admission: free THE Opening times HOMESTEAD Week days and Saturdays 9.00am Sundays 10.00am PARK Closing times 24 Oct - 6 March - 4.30pm TRAIL 7 March - 13 March - 5.30pm 14 March - 24 March - 6.00pm 25 March - 23 Oct - 7.00pm NOTE: The Play Area closes 45 mins before the main Park. Getting there The Homestead Park 40 Water End This information can be provided in your York Y030 6WP own language. Buses run frequently from York city centre. There is pedestrian access from Water End and Shipton Road, and a car park at the Shipton Road entrance. Park & Ride bus 2 stops at Clifton Green for access via Water End.

Contact It is also available in other formats (such as large print, Braille or audio) from the The Homestead reception Communications Department at JRF Tel 01904 615918 Tel: 01904 615905 Email: info©jrf.org.uk. The Gardens Office Tel 01904 406251 For any other assistance feel free to ask one of our Please recycle this leaflet when you have staff that can be seen around the park or finished with it. call the gardens office number above.

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We have created a tree trail around the park to show off 1 Yellow Route - Upper Meadow 2 Red Route - Long walk a range of some of our , some of which are rare. 1 Scots Pine - Pinus sylvestris 1 Tulip Tree - Liriodendron tulipifera For those who take an interest in wanting to learn what 2 Maidenhair Tree - 2 Himalayan Birch - Betula jacquemontii certain trees are and what they look like, this a fun way 3 Blue Atlantic Cedar - Cedrus atlantica `glauca’ 3 Handkerchief Tree - Davidia involucrata to learn and get you out in the fresh air. This tree trail 4 Dawn Red - Metasequoia glyptostroboides 4 Scots Pine - Pinus sylvestris `watereri’ also works well alongside our Forest Schools project 5 Tree of Heaven - Ailanthus altissima 5 Black Locust - Robinia pseudoacacia where local children learn about some of nature’s giants 6 Japanese Larch - Larix kaempferi 6 Golden Rain Tree - Laburnum vossii from an early age, by knowing what they look like (size 7 White Poplar - Populus alba and shape), the textures of the and varieties of 8 Bhutan Pine - Pinus wallichiana 3 Blue Route - Prairie Bed scents and colours. 9 Varigated Sycamore - Acer psuedoplatanus woreli 1 Willow Leafed Weeping Pear - 10 Lime - Tilia platyphyllos Pyrus salicifolia pendula As soon as you come into the park from the car park 11 Birch - Betula pendula 2 Snowy Mespilus - Amelanchier laevis area you see just a little minority of the range we have: 12 Roble - Nothofagus obliqua 3 Rowan - Sorbus hupehensis Himalayan Birch (Betula jacquemontii) with its striking white 13 Blue Spruce - Picea pungens `glauca’ 4 Japanese Maple - Acer palmatum 14 Tibetan Cherry - Prunus serrula bark. Weeping Ash (Fraxinus excelsior pendula) with its 4 Green Route - Cherry Walk / Main Lawn graceful drooping branches and winged fruits and Copper 15 Weymouth Pine - Pinus strobus 1 Yew - Taxus baccata Beech ( atropurpurea riversii) with its bristly 16 Hornbeam - Carpinus betulus Plantanus x hispanica 2. Cherry or Double Gean - Prunus avium plena fruits and leaves turning a deep purple in summer and brown 17 London Plane - 3. Sweet Gum - Liquidambar styraciflua in autumn. 4 Weeping Alaskan Cedar - Chamaecyparis nootkatensis pendula Taxodium distichum UPPER MEADOW 5 Swamp Cypress - (Deciduous in the pond area) Quercus rubra 1 Bog garden SHIPTON RD (A19) 6 Red Oak - Wildflower meadow Entrance for and picnic area vehicles and 7 Red Maple - Acer rubrum LOWER MEADOW pedestrians

2 Long walk 8 Cedar - Cedrus atlantica `glauca’ SERPENTINE4 WALK 9 Japanese Snowbell - Styrax japonicum Backhouse Main lawn pond Cherry walk Ball 10 Monkey Puzzle - araucana games Formal Under 7’s gardens 11 Beech - Fagus sylvatica Children’s play area Herbaceous and Play prairie borders equipment 3 Circle garden THE HOMESTEAD SALES OFFICES AREA

Waterend entrance for pedestrians