Forest 1 - Cork Oak (Quercus suber) at the National Arboretum Canberra
Evergreen trees with a broad spreading canopies.
It feels magical to enter the European type of forest in the capital of Australia.
"The first cork oak seedlings planted at the Arboretum site in 1917 were propagated from acorns sent to Charles Weston at the Yarralumla Nursery by Walter Burley Griffin"
Walter Burley Griffin was an American architect and landscape architect.
He and his wife Marion Mahony Griffin who was an artist and an Architect designed Canberra, Australia's capital city
On May 23, 1912, Griffin's design was selected as the winner from among 137 entries.