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Trees - H

Dunkeld Hermitage
A runaway hawthorn hedge by a deserted house at The Hermitage, Dunkeld

Runaway hawthorn

Dunkeld

Holly Wentworth Castle
Old holly stumps cut back and renovated to a new shape

HOLLY STUMPS

Wentworth Castle

Holm oak Nostell Priory
A large holm oak, or evergreen oak, in the pleasuregrounds at Nostell Priory

Holm Oak

Nostell Priory

Holm oak Nostell Priory
Imposing holm oak trunk at Nostell Priory.

HOLM OAK

Nostell Priory

Holm oak leaves
The evergreen leaves of the holm oak look like holly leaves, hence its Latin name Quercus ilex.

HOLM OAK LEAVES

Nostell Priory

Horse chestnut Nostell Priory
A familiar shape in many photos of the lake at Nostell Priory, with the horse chestnut branches bending low over the lake shore.

HORSE CHESTNUT

Nostell Priory

Hemlock hedge
Tsuga trees, or hemlock, provide a dense clipped hedge at Threave Gardens in Dumfries and Galloway.

HEMLOCK HEDGE

Threave

Hemlock hedge Threave
The dense greenery of a hemlock hedge at Threave gardens.

HEMLOCK

Threave

Hawthorn at Appleton le Moor
Hawthorn on Appleton common with the finest display of May blossom I have ever seen

HAWTHORN

Appleton le Moor

Western Hemlock, Cragside
The western hemlock, tsuga heterophylla, towers over other trees in the gardens at Cragside House, Northumberland.

WESTERN HEMLOCK

Cragside House

Clipped holly
Tightly clipped, dense hollies line the driveway to Tyntesfield House near Bristol.

Clipped holly

Tyntesfield

Horse chestnut flower
Horse Chestnut flowers at Kiplin Hall, North Yorkshire

Horse Chestnut Flower

Kiplin Hall