00:00 I'm Roderica and we are in the Arboretum at Burton Constable Holiday Park.
00:05 So it was established about almost 20 years ago by mum's father, my grandfather,
00:10 who founded the holiday park and the arboretum and who lives on in them both today I suppose.
00:19 Well it's based on the connection with with Burton Constable Hall, which is behind us in
00:26 the very distance you can't see, and each section of the arboretum represents a room in the hall
00:32 or in some cases parts of the estate. For example we're currently in the chapel, which is a section
00:39 reflecting both the chapel in the hall and the family church at Martin, and you can see
00:45 there's various trees which are symbolic of different biblical themes. We've got apple
00:50 trees from Eden, the tree there, the burning bush, holly trees, olive branches like the olive
00:57 leaf after Noah's flood, all sorts of symbolic trees and there's a clump of trees behind us
01:06 which looks like it's not very designed very carefully but actually it's a perfect representation
01:10 of the family church at Martin by scale. You go in and suddenly there's this open space which is
01:16 a to scale version of the church at Martin with different yew trees and lime trees representing
01:22 different parts of the church, so it's a very thought through environment. We have the Chinese
01:27 room with lots of trees from from East Asia, the Nunnumans room which is full of fruit bearing
01:33 trees. The blue room and the gold room are most obvious because they have the coloured
01:40 trees, blue trees and gold trees. It's all a very carefully designed scheme. What we'd love to do is
01:49 to continue Grandpa's vision, I think that's the aim, which is a combination of restoration and
01:57 continuation, so replacing trees that have died through natural wastage either with exact same
02:03 species or with species that are in line with the theme of the room from a certain part of the world
02:09 or with a certain theme. But there's also not just what we do with the arboretum itself, it's
02:18 how we bring people into the arboretum, so we'd love to try and talk about the arboretum more
02:23 broadly and have connections with local schools to do tree identification tours or when the fruits
02:31 from the Nunnumans room ripen we'd like to do jam making sessions and I'm sure that some of
02:37 them will be absolutely disgusting but it'd be quite fun to try out and see what there is.
02:41 When the chestnuts come in to have conker fights and really I think infuse people with a love of
02:48 trees and the natural environment which I don't think we really have anymore.
02:51 He was one of those people who never stopped coming up with ideas and never stopped thinking
02:58 of new schemes, some of which were absolutely crazy to most people but in fact those crazy
03:06 ideas generally speaking have been the most fruitful and the most inspiring and this
03:12 arboretum was seen at the time as being an absolutely madcap idea. Why would you take a
03:18 field full of sheep and make it into an arboretum when you're in your mid-70s where you're never
03:24 going to see a tree come to fruition at all and he said he didn't mind about that because in fact
03:30 it was going to last as all park trees that he'd grown up with that were planted in the 1770s
03:37 he reckoned that in a couple of hundred years those trees that we now see will be there still
03:45 of the majority of them and in some form or another and for him to know that Jack is continuing his
03:51 legacy and planting afresh and refreshing everything that he set about doing is exactly
03:58 as it's meant to be, generation on generation.
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