Dorset Surprises And Delights

Having visited the Dorset coast regularly over the last few years you begin to think that you've probably seen all the Monkey Puzzles there are to see, except of course any newly planted ones. However, such complacency was blown away on me and Nat's recent visit! What was really surprising was that all of the trees we saw were on roads we have driven on many times before on our visits, covering the stretch from Weymouth via Portland to Bridport.

Portland Road- Weymouth

Lanehouse Rocks Road -  Weymouth

Buxton Road - Weymouth

Garston Hill - Chickerell

West Street - Chickerell

The only down side of the trip was discovering the beautiful tree in Wool (post here) close to Monkey World had sadly died. The whole tree had turned brown and was clearly dead.

Monkey Puzzle Trees Seen - 576