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The Arboretum

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An Arboretum is a collection of trees and bushes. The arboretum covers most of the Garden’s grounds, and surrounds all the other exhibited plant collections. In every season, you will find something beautiful to see and contemplate among the Garden’s trees and bushes.

The arboretum contains more than 900 different species, subspecies and cultivars, and there are more than 1200 trees altogether. Ever since the Garden was established 200 years ago, the trees have been planted according to a certain system. Trees in the same family are usually found near each other, although with many exceptions.

Strolling through the arboretum, you may find trees in spectacular bloom, each to its season. There are cherry trees, yellowwood, dove trees, robinias, catalpa, linden, elder and mock orange – and last but not least, the magnolia trees, some of which open their large white flowers in early spring before their leaves unfold.

On the western slopes you find  the conifers. The walnut trees with their huge, pinnate leaves contribute an exotic look to the area, and the Garden’s only white mulberry tree is also found here. One of the unusual trees you’ll find in the Garden is the Temple Tree, Ginkgo biloba, native to East Asia. Ginkgo is a solitary survivor of an ancient kind of trees, it has no close relatives on Earth. The specimen next to the Victoria House was planted in 1870.  Another “living fossil” is the dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides. The whole genus was assumed to be extinct, until this one species was found alive and well in a secluded valley in China in 1946.

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Location of the Arboretum

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