Everything about Westbourne Woods totally explained
Westbourne Woods is an area of exotic tree plantings in the
Canberra suburb of
Yarralumla in the
Australian Capital Territory.
The woods were established by
Thomas Weston as an experimental planting area in 1913 and cover 120 hectares. The names of the woods comes from
Walter Burley Griffin's original name for the area. Trees were planted in holes blasted with dynamite and Weston discovered that trees planted in blasted holes did much better than those planted in hand dug holes, probably due to the fracturing effect of the blast. By the end of 1920, George Weston's team of planters and put in 44,900 exotic trees. The Woods are on the ACT Heritage Register.
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