Scotland has some of the world’s finest collections. The National Tree Collections camperdown park of Scotland is an initiative to celebrate and conserve this tree trail important part of our heritage. come and explore Dundee’s historic tree collection

The National Tree Collections For more information about the National Tree Collections of Scotland was established by of Scotland, please visit: www.ntcs.org.uk Forestry Commission Scotland and the Royal Botanic Garden To find out more about Camperdown Park, please visit: Edinburgh to raise awareness of www.camperdownpark.com Scotland’s tree collections, and www.dundeecity.gov.uk to protect and enhance them for the future. tel:Birkhill 01382 434000 (Village) Directions to Camperdown Park KEY: Collections like this one at Entrance Information Camperdown Park are a living Parking /Disabled museum, testament to the skills, No 5 giant redwood Toilets Public road endurance and vision of the early Footpath hunters and landowners, Subway Tree trail area who laid the foundations of Scotland’s modern forestry Coupar Angus Road (A923)

industry. With our temperate Gourdie Brae Camperdown House climate and expertise in tree Faraday To Liff cultivation, Scotland has a Street vital role to play in securing the future of the world’s , a third of which are threatened by To City Centre West Kingsway habitat destruction and climate No 3 Himalayan birch Liff Road path from change in their native lands. Linton Rd Myrekirk Smeaton Road Road metres

path from 0 100 300 500 Balgarthno Rd The numbered along this trail (see inside map) (1815) the Battle of Waterloo after established was at the park entrance image - The Lime Avenue cover Front are part of Scotland’s trailblazing tree heritage. We hope you enjoy finding out more about them.

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from Coupar Angus Rd. This map is based Coupar Angus Road (A923) on Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Camperdown Ordnance Survey Follow this easy trail and find on behalf of the House Controller of Her out more about the magnificent PRIVATE Majesty’s Stationery from 15 Office © Crown trees along the way. They Gourdie Copyright. Unau- 16 thorised reproduc- Brae 17 tion infringes Crown Gourdie Brae 13 are a living monument to the 11 14 10 copyright and may 18 lead to prosecution intrepid Scots gardeners and 1 Duck Pond 12 from or civil proceedings. 100023371 2012. 6 9 Faraday St. naturalists, who searched the 5 2 8 world for new in the 7 19 4 19th century. 3 Camperdown House 18 hole Putting Course Green 20 KEY: Faraday Entrance To Liff Information Camperdown Park is an historic planted landscape. Street 21 Parking /Disabled The towering American conifers, weeping ashes and elms, pines Toilets and spruces, firs and , cedars and combine to 22 Public road create a display of arboreal beauty. Footpath 23 18 Tree trail

The mature trees you see today 24 25 are the legacy of visionary from Wildlife Centre & play area 19th century landowner Lord Robert Duncan. He built

the house and named it to 1 8 14 20 commemorate his father Admiral Adam Duncan’s victory No 25 Camperdown elm 2 over the Dutch Navy at the Oriental spruce 9 Japanese cedar 15 Alerce 21 Spanish chestnut Battle of Camperdown in 1797. Picea orientalis, Caucasus japonica Fitzroya cupressoides Castanea sativa 3 Japan & southern Europe To City Centre oak Among the 90 individual Lawson’s cypress Chilean plum yew Quercus robur, Europe 10 16 22 sycamore tree in the park, the 4 lawsoniana Prumnopitys andina Acer pseudoplatanus Himalayan birch Camperdown elm (Ulmus W N America Chile & Argentina Europe Betula utilis, Himalaya 23 glabra ‘Camperdownii’) is 5 11 katsura 17 cedar of Lebanon common lime Monterey pine Cercidiphyllum japonicum Cedrus libani Tilia x europaea Europe the most famous. Robert 24 , Pinus radiata China & Japan Near East & Lebanon Duncan’s head forester, David common beech 6 giant redwood western hemlock monkey puzzle Taylor, found a mutant elm 12 18 Fagus sylvatica, Europe giganteum Tsuga heterophylla Araucaria araucana tree in 1835. He dug it up coast redwood No 17 monkey puzzle USA (California) W N America Chile & Argentina 25 and replanted it in its present sempervirens 7 Caucasian wingnut Douglas fir Noble fir position. Parts were then 13 19 USA (California) Pterocarya fraxinifolia Pseudotsuga menziesii Abies procera grafted to produce a new Camperdown elm Caucasus W N America W N America cultivar which is grown all over Ulmus glabra Tasmanian cedar eucryphia purple oak the world. The original tree still ‘Camperdownii’ cupressoides Eucryphia x nymansensis Quercus robur ‘Purpurea’ Dundee(!) stands here at Camperdown. Tasmania garden origin Europe No 16 cedar of Lebanon Linton Road Liff Road Path

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