Box tree at Netheravon House
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Box tree at Netheravon House
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 10 May 2017
Photo taken from the churchyard. I didn't at first recognise that this was a box-tree. But the gap to the right gave me a view of the house and stables, so I took photos from there. Then, looking up, I noticed the yellowish, furrowed bark - and recognised it from days when I'd worked with the timber. Though box is traditionally used for ornamental hedging, I suspect that as a tree it is rare in cultivation (other than in major collections). The box-tree in the picture is the tallest I've seen in my roaming around the countryside.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.234416
Longitude
-1.79026