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It’s been a very busy few weeks. Rich Bullock our site manager from Speller Metcalfe, has been working around the clock to complete the building so the Westonbirt team can start fitting out furniture and testing the new building.

Well, there is still plenty of spring colour to enjoy here at Westonbirt and the flowers will keep coming through the summer, though not in the abundance we are spoilt with in spring.

Looking good out in the arboretum today are over 15,000 trees, though perhaps some more obviously than others.

Ha Ha. An expression often used to represent laughter. However a ha-ha is also a landscape design feature that creates a barrier to things such as livestock, while preserving uninterrupted views.

Among the many attributes of members of the Enkianthus genus are the bell-like flowers.

I have chosen to highlight this one this week as our largest, oldest specimen (close to Main Drive and Loop Walk in the Old Arboretum) is looking quite fine in bract right about now.

The role of the Community Inclusion team is to enable a greater number of people, from under-represented groups, to experience the arboretum and to ‘connect with trees’.

There is far too much excitement amongst the plants to attempt to mention it all here, so I shall stick to just the one today.

The Welcome Building has been changing dramatically over a very short space of time and will continue to do so in the coming weeks.

Among the numerous Rhododendron species and cultivars in flower here currently, are two 'firsts' for Westonbirt.

Amid the endless shades of green seen as fresh foliage emerges, are equally wonderful tones of pink, purple and red, as some of our trees put on a colour show equal to that of autumn.

It has been a while since my last Welcome Building blog and a lot has been changing inside and outside over the last few weeks!...

You might have seen the building work going on in passing, but I thought it could be useful to tell you a little bit more about what the new Welcome Building will hold..

Work has begun on the final element of Phase One of the Westonbirt Project, the Downs Restoration.

Some of you will know that our Prunus sargentii on Broad Drive is looking rather good just at the moment. Photographs posted to Facebook last week illustrated this nicely I took a few more this morning confirming that this is still the case!...