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    Westonbirt Arboretum

    4.3 (19 reviews)

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    Great place to walk around and have fun. A real treat for a Sunday walk.

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    Review Highlights - Westonbirt Arboretum

    Obviously spring and autumn are the most spectacular times of year but it's worrth a visit any time.

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    Castle Nurseries

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    5.0(6 reviews)
    49.8 mi
    ££££

    lovely staff, fantastic range and prices (I fill a car every month) and the plants do brilliantly…read more once in the ground, pots and baskets. They also do pre-planted baskets and pots all year and their indoor Christmas pots were beautiful and put a smile on all my family's faces. They also sell bulbs at the perfect time for planting and their half price pot collection cannot be beaten on variety or price anywhere, incredible display for a bargain price

    Now I have crossed over into my 30s I feel drawn to Sunday's shopping at garden centres and looking…read moreat homeware options....as nurseries go this has l to be a five star experience. There were some hardcore Sunday shoppers here and rightly so this place is beautiful. Full on country side vibe with every possible flower and shrub imaginable! I got my trolley and causally stilled around the centre settling on buying some sunflowers and other really hard to pronounce types of flowers for my mom and dads front garden. I have no idea who named some of these varieties of flowers....but they went innnnn...I won't lie a lot of them I couldn't pronounce but I gave it a good go..with varying results.... The flowers here are super cheap too the sunflowers were like 1.50 each and most pots are below £3...bargains galore!! The only thing to note is the tills are busy...people are flocking for a wide for those bargain blooms so set out an afternoon for this trip it's definitely going to take you a a few to see everything and pay....but that's the vibe surely...loved it.

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    Westonbirt Arboretum - From their website

    Westonbirt Arboretum

    3.8(4 reviews)
    0.0 mi

    Quite a few people have been telling me to go to the Arboretum for a while now so today i decided…read moreto check it out! It's pretty close to Bristol, only a 35 minute drive and is located just off the Bath road. It cost about £9 to get in which sounds a lot for a walk in the woods BUT there is 17 MILES of woodland to walk around. for £9..i think that aint half bad. When you get thru the entrance gate there are bathrooms and a snack bar which is ideal after a long journey, you can refresh yourself before your walk. They have a few different sections of the woodland, i started with the old part. Trees planted way back when by the Victorians. I think i left it a little late in the year to go, October would have been better as a lot of the leaves had already fallen. There are park benches dotted around so you can rest if you get tired or just want to sit and appreciate the surroundings. I do loads of craft/art work and contacted Westonbirt beforehand to make sure they didn't mind me collecting some leaves from the floor. My my, didn't i have a bountiful hall or what?!! I collected the best looking, healthiest leaves i've ever seen. I walked for about 3 hours and still didn't see it all. There is a play area for kids, education spot teaching the various kinds of wood, leaves, seeds and wildlife, two cafe's, snack bars and of course an overpriced gift shop. They have mobility scooters available for hire and a plant nursery where you can buy seeds, tree's ready for planting, pottery and more. The Arboretum also makes mulch, wood burning wood an wooden home/garden items with any trees they have to cut down which i love-upcycle baby! the trees are clearly well looked after and it's £9 totally well spent. Now, i don't need ANY encouragement to want a dog, i love them, do you like dags? In half of the woodland dogs are permitted, i even made friend with a small pack of them, they made me their chief stick thrower! All hail Lucy. The Arboretum is a lovely lovely day out, i'm def going to head back in the spring time. Suitable for all ages and walking abilities.

    I can completely see Henry's point in some respects - paying what seems to be a rather exorbitant…read morefee of £8 (I think, perhaps it's gone up?!) to see what is essentially a glorified forest is not exactly a great idea from the outset. But, if you let go of that minor detail, and visit in the autumn you'll easily forget about that. Well, at least I did. Westonbirt is filled with some utterly glorious trees and is a truely lovely project. I was reassured several times by my Dad's lovely girlfriend that the money we spent really does go towards a lot, including largely the heavy maintenance and nursing done on the sight, so that certainly eased the pain of nearly a tenner. What eased it even more was walking through what can only be described as a shower of rustling, fresh, wind filled colour. Pure autumn was emanating from these beautiful trees. For the most part it seems as though the trees have been planted in terms of origin. There were all kinds of lovely specimens, which I'm sad to admit, the only ones I could name (of the foreign trees) were the japanese maples. Apparently the native british trees are all kept together and cultivated specifically so as not to be contaminated - I got the impression this was because cross pollination would be detrimental to either the foreign or native trees, though I'm not sure which. (Or even if that's true!) In any case, I had the most wonderful autumnal walk here and enjoyed every penny spent. (And I don't mean that I spent lots of pennies, er, in *that* way - more that I don't begrudge the fee. You know what I mean.) One two hour walk, hoards of pictures (which are on my Flickr), and a coffee later and I was one happy camper. Perfect day out - and let's be honest, you could spend a lot more on a lot less right?

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