I have an exciting new project to announce! In 2014, I decided to begin a lifelong project to see all 50 of the Great British Trees, as listed by the Tree Council. Starting with the 4500 year-old Ankerwycke Yew in Runnymede I have visited the Charlton House Mulberry Tree (the first of it's kind in the UK), the Crowhurt Yew (which had a cannonball embedded inside it dating back to the English Civil War), and the impressive Tortworth Chesnut in Gloucestershire. Last weekend I brought that number up to six, having visited the Big Belly Oak in Savernake Forest, and the first Cedar of Lebanon in the UK, planted in Childrey, Oxfordshire, in 1642: All trees on the list are impressive in their own w
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