Winkfield Arboretum

Opening time was 10am. We arrived at 10.01am and the main car park was already full! Mid week would have been ideal, but the weather has been dull, dull, dull so it needed a little bit of brightness to bring out the foliage colours..... which is why it was packed today.

Once inside the gardens however, for the first half hour at least the crowds dispersed but  by the time we left at 12.00 the queue to get in was  hundreds more people, and a long, long queue of even more outside on the main road.  The colour infact was not that great on the whole, and another week or two will be a better time. Many of the Acers however were spectacular, and will probably have lost their leaves by the time the native deciduous trees are at their peak.