Silver Jubilee

#OTD  And today in 1977, her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, celebrated her Silver Jubilee by planting a Cedrus Atlantica Glauca on the east lawn.
 
The tree is regarded as the most striking in appearance of all the blue conifers.
 
 
 

 


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