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    AGED TO PERFECTION

    Apr 11, 2022 3 minutes
    WORDS NATASHA GOODFELLOW
    PHOTOGRAPHS JASON INGRAM

    I an Bond remembers the moment he fell in love with a tree. “I grew up in Braemar, in the Highlands of Scotland, in a place where there were no deciduous trees,” he says. “When I was ten, I went to live in the south of England and there was a very beautiful tree outside my bedroom window. It was a walnut, , and that’s how it started.” Over the years, his fascination has grown and he is now the keeper of one of the UK’s National Collectionsspecies and around 180 cultivars are to be found, alongside all eight of the species (comprising another National Collection) of the related genus, commonly known as wingnuts.

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