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Meetings with Remarkable Trees

Series 1

Episode 7: The Boathouse Willow

Duration: 10 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Series looking at significant British trees.

This programme looks at a golden weeping willow on the riverbank at Kenneth Grahame's boathouse, which may be the very tree that inspired the title of The Wind in the Willows. With the help of landscape gardener Stephen Woodhams and Jill Butler of the Woodland Trust, the truth is revealed. Show less

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