Metasequoia

A display of cyclamen around the base of an oddly short metasequoia glyptostroboides, a tree from China which we first came across some years ago now at Hampton Court, where they have two fine specimens near their Tilt Yard Café. One of the few relatives of the sequoias of the west coast of the USA, sequoiadendron giganteum and sequoia sempervirens.

Somewhere around the back of Battleston Hill, quite near the A3.

PS: I continued to wonder about the sempervirens bit, literally always living, which one comes across from time to time in the names of plants. Wikipedia soon puts me right, not always living but always green, or evergreen. Further evidence that a little knowledge can be dangerous.

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