Plants and Trees

Plants and Trees at Batsford

The collections at Batsford cover a wide range of plants from around the world but have an emphasis on the Far East.
There are over 2850 labelled specimens including about 1300 different trees, shrubs and bamboo.
Prominent collections are listed below.

Acer

Another large and diverse genus. This is really a collection within a collection; there are the species and the Japanese Maples.

Bamboo

The bamboo collection has an interesting historical importance in that it was one of the first comprehensive collections in the UK.

Magnolias

One of the most beautiful and stunning of plants when in flower, all the more so in that the large flowers often open before the leaves and are therefore very obvious.

Pinus

This genus gives an important all-year-round evergreen interest to the arboretum and is representative of the genus from around the Northern Hemisphere.

Prunus

In particular the group known as the Sato-Zakura or Japanese Cherries. This collection is an important one at Batsford giving a mass of spring colour with the blossoms and unfurling leaves.

Quercus

This genus is extremely variable with some species being no more than a large bush and others which become magnificent specimens nearly a hundred feet (30m) tall and capable of living to a great age.

Sorbus

These very ornamental trees split very roughly into two groups; the Mountain Ash that have divided or 'pinnate' leaves and the Whitebeam group that have entire leaves only occasionally lobed.

Plants and Trees at Batsford

Acer

Bamboo

Magnolias

Pinus

Prunus

Quercus

Sorbus

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