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From 6 - 8 June, Westonbirt's learning and participation team will be hosting the Tree Champions family event.

From 6 - 8 June, Westonbirt's learning and participation team will be hosting the Tree Champions family event.

From 6 - 8 June, Westonbirt's learning and participation team will be hosting the Tree Champions family event.

‘Hidden Voices’ is an inspiring project being run by that participation and learning team at Westonbirt, The National Arboretum, engaging community groups in environmental issues.

We in the Marketing Department have been taking stock of everything that is forthcoming in June, and it looks pretty exciting.

Take a look back over the previous twelve weeks of this year’s Spring Colour Watch Blog, and you’ll see a succession of bold colours.

We've always known that we have bats at Westonbirt - but we've never really gone out looking for them.

The current red and pink leaves of some of Westonbirt’s Japanese maples tease of autumn colour – but the sea of bluebells underneath reminds us that it is spring.

Spring colour is abundant amongst the tree collection at the moment.

‘Hidden Voices’ is an inspiring project being run by that participation and learning team at Westonbirt, The National Arboretum, engaging community groups in environmental issues.

‘Hidden Voices’ is an inspiring project being run by that participation and learning team at Westonbirt, The National Arboretum, engaging community groups in environmental issues.

This week we have really been able to start to revel in the heritage of some of Westonbirt biggest and brightest spring blooms, the rhododendrons. All of the pictures in the blog were taken this week, from 30 April onwards.

This week the Old Arboretum offers some spiky spring specimens, lovely scented blooms and some historic rhododendrons which are getting a little bigger than the arboretum's creators intended.

There has been rather a lot going on as far as spring colour watching goes this week. Here are two takes from two members of the Forestry Commission team at Westonbirt on the best of what our 240 hectares have to offer right now…...

Many of you who have visited the arboretum recently will have noticed that we have installed a new metal estate fence and gates along the main entrance drive into the arboretum, replacing the wooden fence and gates.