Roath Park, Cardiff, Wales
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Roath Park, Cardiff, Wales
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 15 Aug 2018
Roath Park (Parc y Rhath) is also well known locally for its ornamental gardens and its exceptional floral displays include a beautifully tended rose garden incorporating trial beds for the National Rose Society. Just visible in front of some tall, distant Scots Pine trees is a rare Chinese tree - Emmenopterys henryi - that flowered this summer for the first time since it was planted over 100 years ago. The appearance of large clusters of fragrant creamy-white flowers is thought to have resulted from the cold 2017-18 winter followed by this summer’s heatwave. This type of tree has only flowered on five occasions in England, with the last known flowering before this summer being in Cambridge in 2012. Other Emmenopterys have also flowered this summer at Batsford Arboretum in Gloucestershire, Borde Hill Garden in West Sussex and at Wakehurst Place, West Sussex.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.504304
Longitude
-3.175623