Late Autumn Trail

C200 Japanese Maples Acer palmatum B341 Mountain Maple Acer spicatum B405 Shagbark Hickory Carya ovata As you pass through the Autumn Garden you will is maple is not from Japan but Eastern North When in full colour you can’t miss this Hickory see many varieties of mature Japanese maples. America, ranging widely across the far north and from North America, where it is the most ese maples were planted in the 1960s as part of spreading south along mountain ranges. e tree important nut producing (although rarely the original planting scheme under the guidance grows as understory beneath canopy in moist produces in the UK). Its timber is also valuable of Sir Richard Cotterell then the Chairman of woods on rocky hillsides and along streams. being close grained, very hard, strong and  exible, Queenswood Coronation Fund. Sir Richard was the used for tool handles, athletic goods and interior driving force behind establishing the arboretum  nishing. and it’s to his love and knowledge of trees that we C203 Vine Maple Acer circinatum owe the presence and appearance of the mature Another American maple, but this time from the B494 Coral Bark Maple Acer palmatum ‘Sango kaku’ trees in the Arboretum today. e maples are of a American Paci c Northwest. Although noted for its coral coloured bark this number of di erent varieties for which records particular example provides a brilliant  ash of have not survived. bright golden yellow foliage through the trees when viewed from Lime Avenue. C203 Oak Avenue C200 B341 Oak Avenue contains a wide variety A675 Japanese Maple ‘Bloodgood’ of oaks from around the world, Acer palmatum ‘Bloodgood’ G366 is cage has two red-leaved Japanese you will  nd these at various B405 stages of colouration Maples of the Bloodgood variety F447 B494 depending on their with more Coral Bark Maples variety and when you nearby. are visiting. A675

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G366 Scarlet Oak Quercus coccinea One either side at the beginning of the avenue, perhaps the brightest of the Suggested route oaks, from Central and Eastern Tree(s) of particular interest North America the turning bright scarlet in Large Group F447 Japanese Sorbus commixta is cage contains the  rst of our Japanese Also known as Japanese Mountain Ash, giving deep Beech Wood Fagus sylvatica Maples. ere are hundreds of varieties of red autumn colours in both the leaves and berries. is area of Beech was planted in the 1950s. Beech Japanese Maples, having been bred and crossed woods do occur naturally in the UK but not in this to create dazzling coloured leaves or bark or part of the country. In contrast to the Oak woodland exotic shapes. F69 Japanese Maples Acer palmatum there is no understory, this is typical of Beechwoods You will pass another small collection of mature which tend to shade out other trees and shrubs. is A722, 723, 724 Coral Bark Maples Acer Japanese Maples. area is covered in Bluebells in spring. palmatum ‘Sango kaku’ e brilliant coral colour of the bark is the Native woodland outstanding feature of this maple and gives it its Redwood Grove Sequoia sempervirens, Quercus petraea, Fraxinus excelsior, Corylus avellana name which means ‘coral tower’. Leaves are green Sequoiadendron giganteum is area of more natural wood gives contrast with a reddish margin which turn to an overall Not known for their autumn colour! (they are between the more managed areas (where we mow the golden yellow colour in autumn. e younger the conifers and will retain their green leaves (needles) areas around the individual specimen trees each year). tree the brighter the colouration. throughout the winter). ey do however have Here Ash and hazel are growing up as an understory reddish trunks and when the low Autumnal sun to the canopy Oak trees. is area is probably how A681 Japanese Maple ‘Suminagashi’ Acer catches them, they glow spectacularly red. ese are Queenswood would appear if we were to let it palmatum ‘Suminagashi’ found on the West coast of North America and grow develop without any intervention. A distinctive bright purple leaved variety turning to be the tallest and biggest trees in the world. crimson in the autumn.

B5 Sargeants Rowan Sorbus sargentiana A719 Japanese Maple ‘Tamuke yama’ Acer From Western China. e leaves are the largest of any palmatum ‘Tamuke yama’ rowan turning deep red late in autumn. Produces Another red leaved Japanese Maple, new leaves small bright red berries in large numbers, which are a changing from deep crimson to very dark purple popular food source for birds such as rushes and red and  nally bright crimson in autumn. Blackbirds.