Pakenham has planted thousands of trees and created his own arboretum, including this dead Wellingtonia encased in ivy, nicknamed ‘Harry Potter’s tree’ by visitors - Myles Shelly As you bend left down ...

Thomas Pakenham has spent the past four years looking at old trees in every corner of the globe. His favorite? Well, he loves the tulip poplar that George Washington planted at Mount Vernon, but he is ...

British historian Thomas Pakenham is best known for his books about colonial Africa, but his real passion is trees. Huge trees. Majestic trees. Misshapen trees. Historic trees. Trees, as he puts it, ...