Travelling Trees Exhibition
In the court yard near the "History of Trewithen" video room is a small museum containing a fascinating collection of items relating to the history of the garden and a number of artefacts from a bygone age of gardening.There is also an absorbing exhibition of illustrated panels which tell the story of the intrepid 19th and 20th century plant hunters who were responsible for discovering and bringing back to this country for the first time so many species from Asia, North and South America and Australasia.
George Johnstone recognised the valuable work of the plant hunters and part financed some of the important expeditions that George Forest made to China. Consequently Trewithen received numerous seed collections collected in the wild by Forest, and others, and the spectacular results are now ours to enjoy a century or more later.
