The Churchill fellow and the Churchill tree

One morning, while at MBC I walked into Patrick's office and he told me he had just sent me a text saying "Today I need to show you the Churchill mango tree". Coincidentally I was already on my way to his office so I didn't see the text. So we went to see the tree.

In the 1950s Churchill visited Col. Montgomery - the founder of the plant collection. Churchill set up his easel under the mango tree to paint a vista of the lake. In the picture above, I'm standing in the exact position where Churchill set up his easel.

Above is part of the vista that Churchill would have seen. A tree on the left now obscures part of the view - it wasn't there in the 1950s when Churchill was there. And of course all of the plants are a bit bigger!

What a very special coincidence to be a Churchill Fellow following in the footsteps of Churchill himself!