Wellingtonia 104

Wellingtonia 104 was a young specimen, rather healthier than Wellingtonia 103, captured at the beginning of a visit to Anglesey Abbey, between Cambridge and Newmarket, and for which see references 2 and 3.

There are quite a number of young Wellingtonia in these grounds, perhaps all of the order of 25 years old, in any event a lot younger than most of the Wellingtonia one comes across here in Surrey, which one supposes date from the second half of the nineteenth century, when they were new and trending. 

Perhaps the head gardener at the time was keen on them. Which is fair enough, but I wonder whether it is not a bit dry for them, as I would have thought that these big trees get through a fair amount of water, despite being conifers. Is the low annual rainfall in this part of East Anglia sufficiently compensated by the possibly high water table of the nearby fen country? But then, what about what I imagine to be the dry, sandy soil of Camberley, noticed at reference 4?

With the present point being to decide what is the appropriate score here at Anglesey. Apply the old rule that clusters of trees where each tree is less than its own height away from its nearest neighbour in the cluster count as one? The rules committee is being consulted. In the meantime it seems reasonable to score this one, one of the clump near the cafeteria, to be be going on with.

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/07/wellingtonie-103.html. Another typo at some point; stuck with it now.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglesey_Abbey.

Reference 3: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cambridgeshire/anglesey-abbey-gardens-and-lode-mill.

Reference 4: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/08/wellingtonia-14.html. Precedent here in that the trees of this avenue at Camberley appear to have been counted as one. With No.15 being a tree from what was the Epsom Cluster of mental colonies and asylums. Named before the word 'colony' became a word of shame and abuse.

Reference 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellingtonia_Avenue. Another place to be visited, turned up while I was getting over my confusion between Farnborough and Camberley.

Group search keys: wgc, cmb.