Major bid to save historic British trees
Descendants of ancient trees rich with history could soon be growing in your garden, with the launch of a joint project run by the National Trust and garden centre chain Blue Diamond to preserve trees for the future.
Ten saplings grown from the 350-year-old apple tree that gave Isaac Newton the idea for his law of gravity, still growing at his childhood home at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, are up for auction this year. Next year, you can also bid for saplings from the 2,500-year-old Ankerwycke Yew near Runnymede, thought by many to mark the location of the signing of
