Cedars

There are a few true cedars around the park as well as some Western red cedars which are not true cedars but belong to the genus Thuja.

Just in front of the white house, this large Cedar of Lebanon stands in the fern garden and provides lovely shade in the summer. The male pollen ‘cones’ mature around October / November and fill the air with clouds of yellow pollen. The cones are really called strobolli but they do look like cones.

Just the other side of the path to the fern garden, by the white house, another Cedar of Lebanon. The yellow pollen is so abundant, in December, that it covers the whole path, as do the spent strobilli.

The pond lies just over the bank in this picture and the Grange Road car park is off to the right. The tree is a Blue Atlas cedar, Cedrus atlantica Glauca.

This tree is just marked down as ‘Cedrus’, in the park database, so has been a non-descript Cedar for a while but was eventually identified as a Deodar cedar, Cedrus deodara.