September

This is a time when the arboretum is filled with scents and aromas.  The rosy scent of the Clerodenrum mingles with the most unusual aroma of burnt sugar emanating from the Katsura tree.

Many of the trees and shrubs begin to fruit in earnest.  Most attractive are the hips on the specie roses hanging from the branches like red baubles on a Christmas tree.  Sorbus of many varieties have bunches of brightly coloured berries of different hues, deep rosy red, glowing orange, pale delicate pink and bright white. The first signs of autumn colour begin to tinge the leaves of the acers and ash trees giving us a taste of the glories to come.

Bright sunlight casts its rays.

The Katsura tree gives off its toffee apple blanket of scent - find the tree if you can.

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