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Preston visit April 2022

Birthday visit with a timely trip to Alnwick gardens - see cherry pics :)

The Cherry Orchard at The Alnwick Garden has the largest collection of ‘Taihaku’ in the world. Comprising of 329 trees, they all bloom together for up to two weeks around the end of April/beginning of May.


In 1926 Captain Collingwood Ingram (“Cherry” Ingram) was Invited to Japan to give a lecture to the Sakurakai (Cherry Society). Whilst there he was shown a picture in an 18th Century book of a large white cherry blossom that had become extinct. He recognised the same blossom on a cherry tree which had been imported to a Sussex garden in 1899 and was able to take cuttings from it and reintroduce the lost Taihaku to Japan in 1932.

All of the Taihaku in cultivation today are offspring of that cherry tree in Sussex.
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123815532  Birthday flowers
123815532 Birthday flowers
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DSC00587 Such a handsome boy
DSC00587 Such a handsome boy
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DSC00602  Alnwick Gardens
DSC00602 Alnwick Gardens
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DSC00625 Akebia quinata - Chocolate vine, heavenly scent
DSC00625 Akebia quinata - Chocolate vine, heavenly scent
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DSC00638    Kathy claims a cherry swing
DSC00638 Kathy claims a cherry swing
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DSC00640 Kathy on her cherry swing
DSC00640 Kathy on her cherry swing
135814131 Selfie sisters on a swing
135814131 Selfie sisters on a swing
135823828 Selfie sisters on a swing
135823828 Selfie sisters on a swing
135944007  Selfie sisters on a swing
135944007 Selfie sisters on a swing
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135946622 Selfie sisters on a swing
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140117032 Selfie sisters on a swing
DSC00641  Looking up
DSC00641 Looking up
DSC00643 Selfie sisters on a swing
DSC00643 Selfie sisters on a swing
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130410752  Lovely spot for lunch
130410752 Lovely spot for lunch
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DSC00676 2nd visit to the cherries :)
DSC00676 2nd visit to the cherries :)
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DSC00686 Ducklings in the cafe
DSC00686 Ducklings in the cafe
DSC00687 £10,000 worth of lego
DSC00687 £10,000 worth of lego
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DSC00689 Alnwick Castle
DSC00689 Alnwick Castle
DSC00690  Alnwick Castle
DSC00690 Alnwick Castle
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DSC00720 No, it's a hare
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194204924 Soooo relaxed!
194204924 Soooo relaxed!