Trees at Redgrove Park
Residents may be interested in a brief description of some of the more notable trees in the Redgrove Park, many owned and managed by the Redgrove Park Management Co Ltd on behalf of its members. The list is not complete, but describes some of the larger or more unusual specimens.
Mountain Ash (outside number 64)
On the Drive
Right hand side working down from the gates.
- Immediately inside the gates: two small trees (amelanchier) with white flowers in early spring.
- Then a large group of Norway maple (fine autumn colour), cherry, pine and larch.
- Roughly level with lamp 6, a Judas Tree (cercis) newly planted, then a large hazel bush.
- After lamp 7, several laburnums (golden chain) on the bank. A tulip tree (liriodendron) planted several years ago – not yet mature enough to flower, and a hedge maple.
- After lamp 10, a scarlet hawthorn planted last year.
- Before lamp 15 and a little way back from the road a fern-leaved beech, planted this year.
This section also contains many mature trees, including many fine oak and ash, too numerous to mention individually. There are a number of cypress, some of a mid-green colour and quite pleasant, as well as some very dark which are less so. In addition there is a surprising number of young elms which will presumably eventually succumb to the elm disease but are handsome at present.
Left hand side working down from the gates.
- Behind the hedge there are the remains of an avenue of pink flowering cherries interspersed with native trees. Sadly a number of these were damaged by storms and had to be removed.
- Level with lamp 9 there is a single upright white flowering cherry (prunus amanogawa) behind the hedge, planted several years ago.
- We hope to replace the pink and white cherries in the near future.
- Beginning roughly at lamp 13 there is an avenue of large poplars.
Within the Estate
Please Note All trees in this section can be clearly seen from the Estate roads. Please respect owners’ privacy. Numbers now refer to houses, not lamp posts!
- In the hedge outside numbers 6 and 7 a line of whitebeams (sorbus aria).
- There are other interesting examples of sorbus (rose family) in the front gardens of numbers 29 (white berried from Hupeh), 64 (a fine mountain ash) and 7 (unknown American variety).
- In the grass outside number 9, two white birch.
- Between numbers 9 and 10 there is a row of fine conifers, of which the two nearest the road are Douglas Firs and the third is the Estate’s only sequoia.
- In the grass outside number 10, a liquidambar.
- On the green between numbers 10 and 12a there are three maples, a red-leaved sycamore, a Norway maple and an American maple (acer robur) planted last year and noted for its autumn colour.
- Also outside 29: betula utilis, var jacquemontii, the Himalayan ‘silver shadow’ birch with peeling, parchment-like bark.
Outside the gates
Although not Redgrove Park property, these trees are of value to the overall ambiance of the area; On the right outside the exit a stand of four beech and two yew, and On the left , two oak, two horse chestnut, one elm and one hawthorn.
We have plans for replacing some of the cherries on the Drive which blew down a couple of years ago, also planting a small grove of ornamental trees in the area next to the electricity substation to replace a somewhat untidy collection located there.
If anyone has other suggestions for inclusion please let us know – subject to the the respect for privacy mentioned already.