Giant Redwoods at Benmore - a photo on Flickriver

The avenue of Giant Redwoods at Benmore Botanic gardens are very special but maybe at risk due to climate change and disease so the team at the Botanic Gardens are currently doing some great work to try to save them, which means that for now you can't walk down the middle of the avenue. Visible from Space, well very obvious on Google maps and even Flickr's hybrid map.

Nonetheless these are spectacular trees that have been here for over 150 years, through all kinds of weather and storms including the 1968 hurricane that hit Scotland, the most powerful storm ever to hit the UK in the modern era but which hardly ever gets a mention.

According to the Royal Botanic garden Edinburgh web site, "The Redwood Avenue, planted in 1863, provides one of the best entrances to any botanic garden in the world. The Sequoiadendron Giganteum are now 50 m high but mere youngsters at 150 years old. The oldest known giant redwood reached 3,500 years according to the ring count."

More here on the work and if you want to support the Royal Botanic Garden: www.rbge.org.uk/support-us/donate-to-the-benmore-sequoia-...

Taken on: October 28, 2024

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