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Jim Marsden's Pictures |
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Cherry Blossom Time |
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at Westonbirt Arboretum. Simplification and gradients were used for
the final result. Westonbirt Arboretum is an arboretum near Tetbury in Gloucestershire, England, perhaps the most important and widely known arboretum in the United Kingdom. An arboretum is a managed collection of trees, usually open to the public, used for education, pleasure and conservation.It is managed by the Forestry Commission, which also manages Bedgebury Pinetum. The arboretum was established in 1829 by Robert Holford, and was later extended by his son George Holford. It is close to the Holford family's mansion Westonbirt House, which is now a girls' boarding school, though it does not form the garden of the building, which is on the other side of a public road. After the death of George in 1926 ownership passed to his nephew the fourth Earl of Morley, and eventually to the Forestry Commission in 1956.
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