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Routes to Roots at Wentworth Castle Gardens
Heritage Open Day: Experience the challenges faced by plant hunters as they forged new routes across the globe in pursuit of plants.
Discover which familiar plants came from faraway places to root on this Barnsley estate. Discover how plants, now firmly rooted as garden favourites, were once regarded as foreign and exotic.
Get hands on with the challenges faced by centuries of plant hunters as they strove to open up new routes across the world and to bring home new introductions to root in this country.
Test your skills at identifying, describing, navigating and recording plants. Would you make the grade?
Learn more about Wentworth Castle Gardens' special plants and the structures built to care for them.
Fri 13 Sep:10.00 - 16.00 ; Sat 14 Sep:10.00 - 16.00; Sun 15 Sep:10.00 - 16.00; Free Entry.
Park Drive, Lowe Lane, Wentworth Castle Gardens, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S75 3EN
Fri 13 Sep to Sun 15 September
Website:
www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-event//routes-to-roots-at-wentworth-castle-gardens-2024.html