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Leylandii

The rise and rise of #leylandii, a #botanical frak #gardening

The Leyland cypress aka the leylandii started life, rather like the Granny Smith apple, as a botanical fluke, but from the 1930s took over British gardens. There are nearly as many of them in the UK as humans and they are all genetically identical to their original parents. The rise and rise of the leylandii is featured in my latest article to appear on Country Life magazine’s social media…

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New view :)

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I did not take any Christmas photos this year, so here's a picture of the Moon and a leylandii that looks like a Christmas tree if you do not examine it too closely. Merry Christmas!

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The Rise Of The Leylandii

How #leylandii conquered the country 'gardenhistory

Leylandii an evergreen coniferous tree of very fast rapid growth In 1911 at Leighton Hall, Christopher’s nephew, Captain Naylor, after picking up a cone from a Monterey cypress growing fifty yards from a Nootka, noticed that two of the resultant seedlings were markedly different from the rest. The difference from the 1888 seedlings was that the Monterey was the female parent. The seedlings were…

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Leylandii – A Botanical Freak

#Leylandii were the result of a freak #botanical accident

Leylandii an evergreen coniferous tree of very fast rapid growth There are almost as many of them in the UK as people, around 55 million at the last count and that was in 2011. For many they are the least loved of our common or garden trees, utilitarian, consigned to fill awkward or unsightly spaces. Evergreen and offering vigorous growth of around a metre a year, Britain’s tallest, at Bedgebury…

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