For our Summer holiday me and Nathalie decided to check out Hampshire for a change. What we were to happily discover was the people of the county clearly have had a long history of planting Monkey Puzzle trees. The number of large mature trees was quite impressive, there being no better introduction of what's to come is the majestic mature Monkey Puzzle tree you encounter, standing proud by the road, as you approach Lyndhurst from the East. This being followed by another large tree on the road south as you drive out of the village.
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| High Street - Lyndhurst |
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| High Street - Lyndhurst |
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| Gosport Road - Lyndhurst |
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| Gosport Road - Lyndhurst |
Whilst me and Nathalie dive around you sometimes get a weird feeling that there could be a Monkey Puzzle Tree close by. I guess it's because the area has the kind of housing/gardens we often see tress in that we get such a feeling. Whenever I get this feeling I usually start singing a ditty that goes "I've got a feeling there's a Monkey Puzzle Tree in the area." Strangely it does seem that whenever the ditty is sung we, more often than not, see a tree very soon afterwards, however I'm not sure if it's more likley due to the cognitive bias known as the
availability heuristic that it feels like that. What I do know though is the next Monkey Puzzle tree we saw was immediately after I'd sung and what a spectacular Monkey Puzzle tree it was, both it's size and its roadside location being truly brilliant.
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