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Mid Summer - will see the the Plant and Julia undertaking an exciting expedition through the National Trusts Wallington Estate in Northumberland on June 20th-21st as part of the Festival of North East 2013.
Julia
invites visitors to join her and her Plant on an expedition through
Wallington Hall’s woodlands and gardens.
It is a plant-finding expedition with a difference.
On the first day she will be building her
‘plant’ and setting off with the estate map into the depths of the East wood to
locate and closely examine trees with intriguing habits and characteristics
such as spongy bark and giant leaves that
she has heard about through idiosyncratic Trevelyan Tree Book.
She will suggest the origins of significant finds and whether they
might have arrived as seed from other plant finders travelling the world or
cuttings from famous gardens nearer to home during the past 250 years.
On the second day the
expedition will travel into the interior of the Wallington
Estate into the prized Walled
Garden, to enjoy the vast
variety of plants in this protected terrain,
to revel in the colours and forms of the exotic plants in the micro
climate of the Conservatory. And to finally ceremonially peg down a cutting
from her unusual Plant in the nursery
beds of the garden before re tracing the expedition route.
Original
plant-finding expeditions were supported by the Trevelyan family, different
members of which were passionate about the garden and plants at their Wallington home. Charles Trevelyan was also committed to
opening up the countryside to people and gave Wallington Hall to the National
Trust
The event is part of the WALK ON: Walking Art Northumberland an arts event organised and funded by VARC Visual Arts in
Rural Communities
