Thursday, 24 May 2012

Tropical trees

I never expected to see palm trees in Staffordshire – even though it was another hot day today...

I came across this clump of these trees on the woodland ridge which looks down on ‘Festival Park’, the huge shopping site near Hanley.
I think they must be the remnants of the garden festival held on this site (before it was handed over to, and 'developed', by all the superstores) in the 1980s.

But who would have expected them to last so long?
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Staffordshire Grange Park, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

2 comments:

  1. ALThursday, May 24, 2012

    I'm thinking that they must get some protection from the other trees around them. We are surrounded by various kinds of palm trees here, as you would expect from the sub-tropics!

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    1. Mark RFriday, May 25, 2012

      I think you must be right. They look a bit bedraggled - probably not like your tall trees (!), but they are in a copse surrounded by native trees.

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