The Himalayan Cedars of the Palau de Pedralbes Gardens

Barcelona's tree register lists this as one protected item and 23 trees. The Himalayan cedars of the Palau de Pedralbes gardens went in around 1903, and when Nicolau M. Rubio i Tuduri redrew the grounds in the 1920s he worked around them: accounts of the redesign say he respected an important group of cedars already growing there, which is why a planned 20th-century garden has a stand of older conifers sitting in the middle of it. The register gives the group one coordinate, one planting year and one representative trunk figure of 3.4 metres, with the tallest reaching about 25 metres. Being straight about the shape of it: we have not measured how far those 23 trees spread. One source puts the large specimens near the garden entrance and that is where to start, but this is a group rather than a single trunk to stand at, and the distance between the first and the last of them may be longer than the word grove suggests. Cedrus deodara comes from the western Himalaya, where it grows above 1,500 metres and was cut for temple timber for centuries. Barcelona gives it no winter worth the name and it grows accordingly: drooping leader shoots, branches sweeping down nearly to the grass, and enough of them together to make the air under the canopy noticeably cooler in August.