I am so fortunate to live in Washington, D.C. It's an amazing place and after nearly 25 years, I just love it more and more. One of my favorite places to go to is the National Arboretum. It's got so many different trails and features. Romeo and I love to go exploring there. We often find ourselves at the State Tree groves, the Fern Bank eastern Woodlands trails, or the Asian trails with separate paths winding around plants of indigenous flora from Korea, China, and Japan. But there's so much more.
This past Saturday, we spent the morning romping around the Conifer Collections. If you like pines, this place will give you a woody! To increase the walk a little, I parked in the little lot at the Dogwood Collections and then Romeo and I walked over to where the conifers were. In doing this we had to enter a grove of Dawn Redwoods.
They have such a wonderful backstory. The species was thought to be long extinct with identification left solely to the fossil record of 100 millions ago plus. Then a small forest of the trees was discovered in a remote area of China. Seeds were collected and other groves were established around the world to help ensure this tree that once thrived during the reign of the dinosaurs would have a better chance of surviving the reign of man.
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