Arboretum

Planting of arboretum

The planting of the arboretum at Queenswood began in 1953 to mark the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.  It was funded by a public appeal 'The Queenswood Coronation Fund' launched by Sir Richard Cotterell who was then the Chairman of the Queenswood Management Committee and the Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire. 

Queenswood Arboretum is the middle 67 acres of Queenswood Country Park sitting on the top of Dinmore Hill at the centre of the beautiful Herefordshire landscape.

At Queenswood there is a collection of Californian Redwoods (which grow to over 100 metres tall in their native America), an avenue of 40 different species of Oak and the Autumn Garden where Japanese Maples display their spectacular coloured foliage in late October.

There are hundreds of other trees which have attractive blossom, foliage or berries which make the arboretum well worth a visit at any time of the year!

The Dendrology Stone at the centre of the Autumn Garden displays the Dendrology Award, which was presented to Queenswood Arboretum in 1981 by the International Dendrology Society in recognition of the quality of the collection of trees.