A BOTANICAL garden was being officially opened by Hugo Brunner, the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, today.

The Northmoor Trust's Broad Arboretum is a collection of native trees and shrubs from across the county originally planted on two acres of the trust's estate in 1998 and will be open to the public.

The educational attraction is placed in the middle of a new footpath link running from Long Wittenham to Wittenham Clumps.