A south-west England route through public estates and gardens where Victorian planting and mild climate have produced memorable redwood stops across Devon, Somerset, and Dorset.
Victorian botanical garden and pinetum
National Trust estate with hillside sequoias
Broadclyst · Devon
A National Trust estate with fine giant sequoias in the historic hillside garden. Killerton was one of the earliest Devon estates to plant the newly introduced sequoias in the 1850s and 1860s. The trees stand prominently on the wooded hillside behind the house.
Victorian estate gardens near Bristol
Wraxall · North Somerset
A spectacular Victorian Gothic estate managed by the National Trust, with giant sequoias in the woodland gardens. Tyntesfield was built and planted by the Gibbs family in the 1860s–1880s and represents one of the best-preserved Victorian estates in England. The sequoias date from this period.
Subtropical garden stop on the Dorset coast
Abbotsbury · Dorset
Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens is a coastal Dorset garden shaped by a mild microclimate and nearly 300 years of horticultural history. Spread across more than 60 acres near the Jurassic Coast, it combines exotic planting, broad views, and specimen trees in a distinctive subtropical setting.
A starter route linking publicly accessible redwood places, from village avenues and historic parks to gardens and woodland sites.
A public route linking Forestry England sites where redwoods and allied conifers make the main visit memorable, from New Forest avenues to major arboreta in Gloucestershire, Kent, and Norfolk.
A long-form Scotland route linking public gardens with especially atmospheric redwood plantings, from lochside designed landscapes in the south-west to botanic and Highland gardens further north.
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