Veitch Lamp Post Trail @ Exeter

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Very Solarpunk – and very Devon:

plant variety:
Lapageria rosea

“The Veitch Lamp Post Trail celebrates Exeter’s famous Veitch family of plant-hunters and the city’s proud history of engineering.   The route is a trail of lamp posts close to significant Veitch points of interest.  Each period cast-iron lamp post has been restored and then painted by botanical illustrator Kate Wilson to depict a different plant from the vast catalogue of plants brought back to England by the Veitch plant-hunters.  The plants are familiar garden plants well-known and well-loved by gardeners throughout the country.  The 16 decorated lamp posts are in the area of  the Veitch nurseries, a Veitch orchard and their family home .”

Veitch Lamp Post Trail – See where it leads

Veitch Lamp post trail | Kate Wilson

“An unusual combination of engineering and botanical drawing.”

The Veitch Lamp Post Trail in Exeter

photo: “One of a number of lamp posts which form the Veitch Lamp Post Trail. The Veitch family were Exeter nurserymen, responsible for introducing many exotic plants into Victorian Britain.”

Decorated lamp post, St David’s, Exeter © David Smith cc-by-sa/2.0 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland

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