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The flaming reds and orange of Japanese maples mingle with the reddish spindle trees, while the yankee yellow birch are predictably golden with shimmering silver-white trunks.

There are greater than 60 acres to explore on this botanic garden and arboretum, once portion of the Dawyck Estate but now some of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s three regional properties.

Dawyck is within the Scottish Borders, 28 miles south of Edinburgh near Peebles, and its woodland setting makes it an obvious autumn must-see – although there also are banks of snowdrops in February and historic Rhododendron collections to savour in May and June in addition blue Himalayan poppies.

Go now, though, and the beech walk is a burnished copper-cauldron, while the berry-covered rowan trees are irresistable to all types of birds.

Dawyck can be home to rare and strange plants, including some brought back by plant hunter David Douglas. Probably the most Douglas firs within the garden is thought to be an original of his, and there are certainly Douglas firs, western hemlock and grand firs that date back to the early 19th century.

The garden’s David Douglas Trail now has a tree carving of the comprehensive man, made out of a 180-year-old beech tree damaged inside the storms of 2009 and 2012.

Other rare trees include a enormous Japanese katsura tree, which turns a pale biscuit colour in autumn and scents of caramel, and a Kalopanax pictus var. maximowiczii, which belongs to the ivy family.

The Garden opens at 10am daily and is hosting two exhibitions: Nature at its Best, Jeffrey Wilkinson’s paintings inspired by the garden, and difficult Rain, an out of doors photographic exhibition highlighting climate change.

There is likewise a present shop and residential-baked cakes within the café. Hurry though, you simply have until November 30 to look Dawych before it closes for winter.