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| Orienteering at Begwyns |
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What a strange place is Begwyns - a fun drive out in Black SAABath, fried breakfast on a laneside near Hay-On-Wye followed by a mammoth score event on The Begwyns. Known to the local running club as the Best Turf Underfoot Known To Man - this a fantastic open common loved by runner, walkers, riders, archaeologists and orienteers alike, but strangely unknown to Google Maps and even Streetmap misses by a couple of miles (location map
here)
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| Not a big turnout and even though I over-committed - I won |
Afterwards a swift and twisty drive* to
Hergest Croft Gardens - for a nice toasted sandwich and a creme tea. The gardens are still lovely, so is the arboretum and the wild wood (and a bit brambly) but all so very very quiet - is it the recession?
*I discovered that turning sharply left is followed 20 seconds later by a VERY strong smell of petrol... hmmm, the fuel filler pipe is at a very shallow angle a design flaw?
I strongly recommend a visit - the
Black Dog of Hergest not withstanding
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| No idea what this is - probably Chinese and really quite pretty |
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| And every cone has a diamond! |
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| A doubly lonely Sciadopitys verticillata - surrounded by big bully trees and the only member of it genus. It is a "living fossil" and has no leaves - flattened stems fulfilling the necessary function - I guess it went through a period of desert living before ending up somewhere wet again - like that tree I met on Kauai |
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| Taxodium Ascendens - or Swamp Cypress - no knees though as it is growing on dry land. |
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| Davidia involucrata | | | | |
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