It is rather surprising that after we were led to understand that English Heritage had refused to permit the placement of  some modern wood sculptures, made from felled Arboretum trees, on the grounds that they do not comply with their specifications for the  historical Arboretum, now this has been planted at the Grove Street Triangle.

What Next?

Ways to Wrap A Stone

After some digging around the Internet I was able to locate the artist responsible for this rather expensive and irrelevant piece of sculpture. He is Peter Randal, a sculptor with an International reputation, having works of stone and other materials throughout the UK Europe and the world. The cost of this item is in the region of 12,000.

This sculpture is fine apart from the fact that the restoration of the Arboretum is an historical restoration, so where did Loudon put it when he designed the Arboretum? He of course, had nothing to do with this, the sculpture would surely be more at home at the Quad when it is built. The money spent on this ought to be re-funded and spent on replacing some of the original Arboretum statuary, which did have the probable purpose of representing the works of the Strutt brothers' Derbyshire General Infirmary.

What next for the Arboretum?

LEFT: this piece is on public display at Birmingham Botanic Gardens, also designed and laid out by J. C. Loudon.