Three Atlas cedars stand together on one lawn in the park of the Préfargier estate, in the commune of La Tène, canton of Neuchâtel. A reader sent us their photograph and put it in one line, “3 cèdres de l’Atlas, dans le park du domaine de la maison de santé de Préfargier.” The photograph shows why it was worth a picture. Three separate trunks rise a few metres apart and their crowns have grown into a single dark, broad pyramid, with silvery blue-green needles at the branch tips, the colour the Atlas cedar, Cedrus atlantica, is known for. It comes from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and Algeria. A bench stands under the nearest trunk, and a walker on the gravel path beside the lawn looks small next to the whole. Each trunk is broad and dark, and the lowest limbs sweep out over the grass almost to the ground, so the group spreads far across the lawn. In the photograph the light is grey, an autumn day, and the cedars are the darkest thing in the park, against the yellowing woods behind them. We have found no girth, height or planting date for these three, so this page gives none. If you stand under them with a tape, a measurement would be welcome here. Walk to the edge of the lawn and the three crowns read as one tree.
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Parc du domaine de Préfargier, Marin-Epagnier, La Tène, canton of Neuchâtel
Three Atlas cedars on one open lawn beside a gravel path, their crowns joined into one broad pyramid of blue-green needles, with a bench under the nearest trunk.
Seen from a gravel footpath along the lawn in the estate's park, where walkers pass. We found no opening hours for the grounds, so respect any signs at the entrance.
At Préfargier near Marin-Epagnier, in the commune of La Tène, canton of Neuchâtel; look up the nearest stop on sbb.ch.