Wellingtonia 64

An avenue of young Wellingtonias at the National Pinetum at Bedgebury, to be reported on properly in due course. We wondered whether this was a result of replanting after the great storm of 1987. With reference 1 this morning being suggestive rather than confirmation.

While the shot above, probably taken at Bedgebury in October 1987, suggests that the native deciduous trees took more damage than the conifers.

While in the first of the two shots above, note the lightening of the sky, immediately above the trees. A lightening which is much more prominent in some of its other versions. A feature of sunlit images which was previously noticed at reference 2. The product of the eye or of the computer?

Applying the proximity rule which scores adjacent trees as one, this avenue is scored as just one Wellingtonia. With one definition of adjacent being that the trees are closer than their height, although I don't think that was the one suggested at the outset, which I think was expressed absolutely, in metres, rather than relatively. Something else to be looked up.

References

Reference 1: https://www.forestryengland.uk/article/history-bedgebury-pinetum.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/07/wellingtonia-13.html.

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