Gardening charity commemorates supporters' names on glass panels
Howard Lake | 14 March 2005 | News
The Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) Garden at Wisley in Surrey has recorded on glass panels the names of 1,700 individual donors who have donated over £200 to the RHS Bicentenary Appeal.
The appeal was launched to fund the RHS Bicentenary Glasshouse, over twice the size of the existing glasshouses.
The panels are located at the front entrance of the existing glasshouses and will be moved to their permanent position adjacent to the RHS Bicentenary Glasshouse in 2007 when it is opened to visitors. Another set of panels will be installed at the end of the year recording further donors’ names.
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The donors recorded on the panels are RHS members or other individual donors, not major donors and trusts. The glass panels themselves are 2400mm x 900mm and 15mm thick, roughly equivalent in size to a door. They are being supplied by Artworks Solutions of Bristol.
Donors who gave £50 or more to the appeal received a special edition print of a 19th century drawing of a Nerium oleander from the RHS Lindley Library.
Sir Richard Carew Pole, President of the RHS, said: “thanks to [these] and other supporters, we are over halfway to reaching our £5 million fundraising target.”
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