Mick GarrattThe Leaning Larch of Roseberry Common
A tree of little grandeur—stunted, battered, and twisted by all that the North York Moors can throw at it—leans, barely upright, on Roseberry Common, straining its gnarled branches towards Easby Moor, where the monument to Capt. James Cook RN stands.
This, let us say, “larch” — and I am sure some arborist will leap to correct me — exudes an air of stoic isolation, grows defi ...
