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    Guiding nature

    Apr 06, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS ANNA PAVORD
    PHOTOGRAPHS JASON INGRAM

    Paul Weiland likes a project. Owner with his wife Caroline of magnificent Belcombe Court on the outskirts of Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, he is currently felling a tall, thick screen of x Cuprocyparis leylandii planted by a previous owner. Taking out the leylandii revealed a row of magnificent wellingtonias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) planted in the 19th century to screen the railway in the valley below the house. By an extraordinary coincidence, the tree surgeon who took out the hedge was related to William Lobb, who in 1853 first brought wellingtonias into the country.

    “It’s what I love about this place” says Paul. “It just keeps surprising us. It keeps delivering.” The Weilands have been at Belcombe Court for nearly 30 years.

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