A couple of days ago when driving back from Brighton, along the M23, my eye caught sight of what I thought was a Californian Redwood tree. I know they do grow in the UK but can’t ever recall seing one before. This specimen looked as if it had once been magnificent, despite appearing to have had the top snapped off in a gale, it still stood taller than the surrounding trees. The trunk had a good size diameter at the base tapering upwards, but somehow unaturally, which made me think it had been snapped. The branches were all at the top of the trunk and there didn’t seem to be enough of them on such a substantial trunk. Then it dawned on me ……. it was a mobile phone mast disguised as a tree! A quick google has led me to the very tree itself, made in South Africa by this company.