Tagged: University Parks

Mesopotamia

A long, narrow island in the Cherwell — Greek 'between rivers' — laid out as a public walk in 1865, threaded between two branches of the river that flow at different heights.

North Walk, University Parks — Wellingtonias and a record-tall elm

Walk location_on North Oxford

The Parks' northern boundary path leads past a Victorian cluster of giant sequoias and the tallest Caucasian elm in the country — structural, year-round, easy on the legs.

West Walk, University Parks — a Japanese Pagoda Tree planted 1888

Walk location_on North Oxford

The Parks' Victorian centrepiece: a Japanese Pagoda Tree planted in 1888, now a sprawling, broad-canopied specimen on the western boundary path.

place Lucas Walk, University Parks — a self-layering Weeping Beech

Lucas Walk, University Parks — a self-layering Weeping Beech

Walk location_on North Oxford

A single tree as the whole point of a walk: a Weeping Beech, first cultivated in 1836, whose drooping limbs touch the ground, root, and grow again — making one tree feel like a small grove.

place Riverside Walk, University Parks — Scarlet Oak along the Cherwell

Riverside Walk, University Parks — Scarlet Oak along the Cherwell

Walk location_on North Oxford

The Parks' autumn walk: the western bank of the Cherwell with a Scarlet Oak whose foliage turns deep red in October, with onward access onto Mesopotamia.

place South Walk, University Parks — tulip flowers, cigar pods and a Korean rarity

South Walk, University Parks — tulip flowers, cigar pods and a Korean rarity

Walk location_on North Oxford

The Parks' summer walk: a Tulip Tree flowering in June and July, an Indian Bean Tree dropping cigar-shaped seed pods, and a scarce Bee-bee Tree from Korea and China that scents the air in late summer.

place Thorn Walk, University Parks — 30+ hawthorn varieties in May blossom

Thorn Walk, University Parks — 30+ hawthorn varieties in May blossom

Walk location_on North Oxford

The Parks' May walk: over thirty varieties of hawthorn flowering together along a single boundary path — the kind of botanical density you only get inside a working University collection.