Six of the best ARBORETA

Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire

erby Arboretum – Britain’s oldest public park – is often heralded as the blueprint for botanical tree gardens around the world, but The National Arboretum at Westonbirt in Gloucestershire pips it to the post in terms of age, having been planted by the Holford family 11 years earlier, in 1829. Taken on by the Forestry Commission in 1956, Westonbirt is