Late colour at Westonbirt

Japanese maples under larches.

A talk to the Friends took me to Westonbirt Arboretum today and afterwards Dan Crowley, the arboretum's Dendrologist, was kind enough to walk round the collection with me. Most of the maples had lost their leaves, but a surprising amount of colour remains, and despite the gloomy weather it was by no means drab.These photos are a sampler of the diversity of maple foliage and colours still looking good.

Acer carpinifolium

Acer forrestii (or A. pectinatum subsp. forrestii)

Acer grosseri var. hersii

Acer oliverianum

Acer palmatum

Acer palmatum (labelled subsp. matsumurae)

Acer palmatum 'Seiryu'

Remember to look down, as well as up...