Surprirse of the day: The United Kingdom has an estimated 500,000 giant redwood trees compared to 80,000 in their native California.

@ElwoodBlues Indeed. They're nowhere near as big as the Californian ones. But they are Giant Redwood trees nonetheless (and are apparently doing very nicely).

@ElwoodBlues It's the species names, sequoiadendron giganteum, etc. Anyway I think a 45 m tree counts as pretty big anywhere. 45 m is 13 storeys high.