Sequoiadendrons or Giant Redwoods in the sun, Myton Hospice, Warwick
Introduction
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Sequoiadendrons or Giant Redwoods in the sun, Myton Hospice, Warwick
Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 3 Jun 2015
The trees were here before the hospice (sometimes called Myton Hamlet Hospice). They were in the grounds of an old house, Myton Grange, long since demolished. The young trees may have come from the nursery of John Hitchman. He was a physician and public health campaigner in Leamington who was mad about trees. He established an arboretum in the grounds of his hydropathic establishment Image The thick fibrous bark of Sequoiadendron giganteum protects the living part of the tree from the heat of forest fires in its native habitat, the Sierra Nevada of California.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.282514
Longitude
-1.562983