Pictures show one of Britain’s tallest trees which sits in a suburban garden – so massive the housing estate was built around ...

It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron giganteum, one of several surviving species of redwoods. The living crown (this one atop the General Sherman, at center) was once a distant mystery.

Article continues below The Sequoiadendron giganteum once stood on a pig farm but was left alone when it became a red brick housing estate in Northwoods Walk, Brentry. It now sits in the garden of ...

The Sequoiadendron giganteum once stood on a pig farm but was left alone when it became a red brick housing estate in Brentry. READ MORE: Bristol secondary school no longer ‘Outstanding’ for first ...