Millennium Arboretum
Lucknam Park Hotel & Spa are inviting friends and guests to plant a tree in our Millennium Arboretum to commemorate the first decade of the house as a hotel and to leave a lasting souvenir for generations to come in the next millennium. The magnificent Palladian Mansion, which dates from 1720, was a private residence until 1988.
The Arboretum covers a 1.5 acre site within the estate's 500 acres of parkland which includes a walled garden with 19th Century dovecote and formal Rose, Lavender and Herb gardens.
Landscape Designer Antony Young, has devised an Arboretum for all seasons, to be filled with some 600 trees, many of them rare and unusual. Guests may choose from a 'shopping list' of 64 species, giving details of height, quantity and price - from £20 for a 2 ½ metre Field Maple rising up to over £150 for a 4 metre Japanese Magnolia. Each tree will bear a plaque with the subscriber's name.
Rare varieties include:
Chinese Crab Tree
A native of Western and Central China. A small tree with profuse white to pink tinted blossoms. In China the leaves are used to make red tea.
Chinese Tulip Tree
Introduced from China to Britain in 1901, a specimen planted at Kew in 1908 is now over 50 feet high.
Eugenies Willow
A hybrid Willow, resembling a fine leaf bamboo named after Empress Eugene, wife of Napoleon III.
Turners Oak
A hybrid between the Evergreen Oak and the Common Oak, raised in the nursery of Spencer Turner, in Essex around 1775.
For further information and reservations please call Lucknam Park Hotel & Spa
on 01225 742 777
For press information please contact Lucy Forsyth at Ann Scott Associates
on 020 7823 9988 or Lucy@annscott.co.uk
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