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Giant Redwoods in the UK: A story of intrepid botanists and explorers, and a Victorian British craze

Giant Redwoods in the UK: A story of intrepid botanists and explorers, and a Victorian British craze

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 Is there a Californian landscape growing in Britain to the tune of half a million Giant Redwoods? Suzanne recounts the 19th-century story of adventurous plant collectors, explains how the seeds they brought home went to create the Victorian British landscape that surrounds us, and imagines a dizzying future, 3,000 years away, where thriving Redwoods reach colossal maturity in the British Isles. Alfred Hitchcock and a man called Sequoia are part of the cast.

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