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2 unusual facts about Wakehurst Place


Boord baronets

The Boord Baronetcy, of Wakehurst Place in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

Christine Walkden

She trained at the Lancashire College of Agriculture and then worked at two experimental horticultural stations, before moving to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew based at Wakehurst Place, where she looked after the growing side of the seed physiology unit.


Ulmus × hollandica 'Cinerea'

Only one living specimen is known, at Wakehurst Place, England, where it survives by being treated as a hedging plant, too low to attract the attentions of the Scolytus beetles that act as vectors of Dutch elm disease.


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Ulmus minor subsp. sarniensis 'Microphylla Pendula'

Only one specimen is known to survive, at the RBG Wakehurst Place, where it is cultivated as a hedging plant to keep it free from the attentions of the Scolytus beetles which act as vectors of Dutch elm disease.