Why did we create a Valley of Eden?

It all began

....on the 10th of September 2009

when a tall box arrived from Australia.

Inside was a Wollemi Pine which exactly fifteen years previously

had been discovered in the wilderness of the Blue Mountains - NSW.

On the 10th of September 1994 a park ranger had landed on a ledge halfway down a grey rock face. Suspended on a thin rope he dropped down into the mysterious hidden canyon. Once his eyes had adjusted

to the canopy-filtered light, a gigantic tree with leaves shaped like a Stegosaurs tail and a bark like bubbling chocolate loomed out of the shadows. He realised that in all the years he had been exploring this wilderness, he had never seen anything like it.

An ancient time traveller from the age of the Dinosaurs it was a

miraculous survivor of untold earthly dramas and many Ice Ages.

Since then this living fossil has been protected and the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney began to propagate the tree from seeds and cuttings,

so that it’s future could be assured. These are now sent all over the world.

The Wollemi Pine became the ‘Seed’ of our Garden of Eden

- a living connection to the past - a reminder that we humans

are but a blink in time.

The earth tells a greater story

and holds more secrets than we can ever know.

The Ewe Sculpture Garden & Gallery

Why did we create a Valley of Eden?