so many varieties
On the southern side of the River Brue is an area known as Arboretum A where only indigenous trees are grown. Since 1982 almost every year different varieties of oak trees have been planted. Behind the main road hedge is a section planted in 2000, called The Millennium Planting, again using indigenous varieties. On the old fairway is an oval shaped area into which trees have been planted most of which have been grown from seed brought back from abroad by staff. Above the Far Green a large number of hazel trees are regularly coppiced to make fencing and adjacent to the High Ropes field is a Hazel Platte (the correct name for a cobnut orchard!) with some special varieties of Kentish cobnuts. There are also three orchards with a few plum and pears but mainly excellent eating apples and some cookers. |
Our planned tree planting includes all the indigenous trees of Britain. In addition many splendid individual trees, such as Wellingtonia Sequoiadendron giganticum, and the Coast Redwood Sequoia sempervirens, Metasequoia glyptostroboides (prior to 1946 known only in fossil form as the Dawn Redwood!), Ginko biloba, the Golden Rain Tree Koelreuteria, Cedar of Lebanon Cedrus libani etc (a list too long to put here!) are scattered throughout the 20 acres of Mill on the Brue.
