Trees of hope': saplings from Sycamore Gap to be planted across the UK
The Guardian|November 29, 2024
Saplings from the felled Sycamore Gap tree are to be planted across the UK, including next to one of London's most famous roads, at a rural category C prison and at a motor neurone disease centre opening in the name of the late rugby league star Rob Burrow.
Mark Brown
Trees of hope': saplings from Sycamore Gap to be planted across the UK

The National Trust has today announced the recipients of 49 saplings it has called "trees of hope".

Other recipients include a charity set up by the family of murdered Northumberland schoolgirl Holly Newton, killed by her jealous ex-boyfriend Logan MacPhail; and Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool.

Nearly 500 applications were received after the Trust announced a scheme for the saplings to be gifted across the UK. There are 49 - one for each foot of the sycamore's height - and all were grown from seeds recovered from the felled tree.

The Sycamore Gap tree was planted as a landscape feature on Hadrian's Wall 150 years ago, becoming one of the most photographable places in England and the site of countless marriage proposals, birthday celebrations and scatterings of ashes.

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