A tree zoo: endangered conifers a living legacy of Kent pinetums centenary

With the exception of Christmas trees, conifers are not widely cherished. People tend to associate them with antisocially high suburban hedges or ugly, nature-bereft blocks of industrial forestry. But at the world’s most important collection of rare evergreens, which is 100 years old this spring, these often unfairly maligned trees are celebrated and revealed in a much more beautiful light. Bedgebury national pinetum in Kent is increasingly vital as an ark for endangered conifers, which are globally one of the most threatened groups of plants in the world. A third of conifer species are at risk of extinction. The pinetum

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