Sydney Gardens Project - new Tree Trail for National Tree Week

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Sydney Gardens Project
National Lottery Heritage Fund & B&NES Council

Launching our new Tree Trail
created with the Friends of Sydney Gardens
#National Tree Week

A new Tree Trail has been created by the Friends of Sydney Gardens in partnership with the Sydney Gardens Project, and we're launching it as part of National Tree Week.

Sue Palmer, the Community Ranger and Gill Gazzard from the Friends will be in Sydney Gardens TOMORROW on Saturday 5th December from 10.30am to 12.30pm with printed copies of the trail which you are welcome to pick up for free. You can do the trail at any time of course!

We will be by the entrance to the park at the back of the Holburne, and you can collect the trail from a table, socially distanced. If it's raining (the forecast keeps changing!!) we will just delay being there for a bit ...

You can also access the Tree Trail online, download the PDF on your computer or phone and find out all about our extraordinary trees. We hope you enjoy it.

We are testing out the Tree Trail before creating a final version later in 2021, so try it out and give us feedback.

Trees: follow another 'walking tour' on botany, empire and deep time

Read an in depth history of some of the trees in Sydney Gardens including the Giant Sequoia and the Catalpa Bean Tree.

We commissioned the artist, researcher and academic Richard S White to investigate the wider heritage and historical context of Sydney Gardens. There are some truly magnificent trees in the park. How did they get here? What are the connections to other places around the world?

The Friends of Sydney Gardens

The Friends of Sydney Gardens is a community organisation formed in 2013 to promote awareness of the gardens, gather community feedback on improvements and developments and to foster the gardens' care and maintenance.

The Friends usually run a small group volunteer gardening session on the second Sunday of the month and weekly litter picks, so if you want to help your local green space then contact Gill Gazzard at the Friends.

Please join the Friends to support Sydney Gardens now and in the future.

Sydney Gardens National Lottery Heritage Funded Project

Sydney Gardens is one of Britain’s best remaining Georgian Pleasure Gardens.
Find out more about Sydney Gardens in the past.

The National Lottery Heritage Funding will be used to restore historic buildings, invest in landscape works and garden restoration, and create new play areas for all ages.
Find out more about Sydney Gardens

Alongside the works, a programme of events and activities is being run: learning, arts, nature, horticulture, wildlife, play, sport, archaeology and history. The project will celebrate the fascinating history of the Gardens, with its Cosmorama, Labyrinth, Merlins Swing, Concerts, Public Breakfasts, Galas and Illuminations.

What's happening:
Our project started the 'Delivery Phase' on 1st February 2019:
2019: Detailed technical design, programming of works, with public events, activities, training and volunteering.
2020: Delivery of restoration, building works and landscaping, volunteering and training programme, and designing interpretation
2021: Continued delivery of the restoration and build with accompanying volunteer and training programme, activities and partnership events
2022: Completion of the project

Read about our National Lottery Heritage Funding

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