Harcourt Arboretum (University of Oxford)
Historic pinetum and woodland on acidic soil, with old redwoods, rhododendron glades and wild meadows.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Harcourt Arboretum, the University of Oxford's tree collection outside the city, treats the oldest part of the grounds as something made rather than grown. It follows an archbishop of the Harcourt family and the landscape designer William Sawrey Gilpin in the eighteen-thirties, and the trees they ordered for a new pinetum. Along the way it digs into the soil underfoot and why this ground suits plants the city garden cannot keep. Best heard on the Serpentine Ride, near the giant redwoods.
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