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The Westonbirt Shop is filled with wooden decorations to make your Christmas tree extra festive this year. Read about our Westonbirt collection by Noble Art Design...

Westonbirt has long played a key role on the international stage, working closely with partners and institutions across the globe over many years for mutual benefit.

Running for a good cause you truly care about is an incredible thing to do. By raising money for Westonbirt Arboretum you could be funding seed-collecting trips to funding a day out in nature for vulnerable people and more!...

A new rainwater harvesting and filtering system has been installed at Westonbirt Arboretum.

We've part-fund a PhD student in collaboration with Westonbirt Arboretum over the next three years to study the risks to Limes.

Rebecca Lockyear is the curator of ‘70 Years 70 Trees Art Exhibition' and has gathered a palette of 14 artists to work together on creating a body of work that celebrates trees.

We recently welcomed Emma Griffiths, our new CEO, to The Friends' team. Read her introduction to get to know her a little more...

Follow the journey of nine Estate Volunteers as they took part in the John Muir Award restoring the well-loved bird hide in the Old Arboretum.

Discover Westonbirt's immersive and interactive sensory experience and how this aims to shift visitors' perception, enjoy the arboretum at a slower pace and explore the trees of Westonbirt through their nonvisual senses.

‘Fragile with Attitude’ was an art exhibition held in the Great Oak Hall at Westonbirt Arboretum earlier this year. The exhibition was developed as part of the ‘Re-Storying Landscapes for Social Inclusion’ project with the University of Exeter;...

Within the arboretum, we currently care for over 100 threatened tree species and the latest edition of ‘The Little Book of Disappearing Trees’ introduces some of the endangered trees we look after.

As International Picnic Day approaches on Saturday 18 June and the warm weather begins to take hold we’ve put together some of our favourite picnic items available in the shop.

After years of planning, and thanks to members and funders for giving this project a chance to come to life, the brand-new Community Shelter has been unveiled at Westonbirt, The National Arboretum.

With the completion of the Westonbirt 10K on 12 May, we caught up with Julia, our Westonbirt Runner, to find out how it went…...

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