The Kloosterpark Lime

Thirty metres from the cloister-park oak stands its neighbour with the matching name: the kloosterparklinde, the cloister-park lime, both named for a convent whose garden this ground used to be before it was absorbed into the Leijpark. The Congregatie van Onze Lieve Vrouw der Afzondering in het Cenakel founded its convent here in 1908, and this lime is thought to have been planted within a decade or so of that, making it roughly 120 years old today. The wider park around it is well recorded: Leonard Springer designed the 30-hectare Leijpark in 1919, though it took until 1934 to 1939 to actually build it, as unemployment relief work once the land itself had finally been assembled. This tree's own corner, tucked in the park's far northeast reach and still known locally as the Kloosterparkbos, is documented only in the national tree register, which does not say which kind of lime it is, so that stays a question for a visitor with sharper eyes than a register entry. Standing beside an oak and a large-leaved holly of the same age and the same forgotten convent, it makes a short, easy extension to the Leijpark walk already published on this page. Free, open daily, no ticket.