Wyndham Park Sensory Gardens/Grantham

The design for the Sensory Garden originally featured the Horse Chestnut tree as a focal point and forms a circular shape between the path and the river bank. As the tree was identified as diseased, but knowing that it had been grown from a seedling from the original Horse Chestnut which was planted when the park was opened in 1924, the Forum considered the best option was to commission a local sculptor to produce a structure based on a Isaac Newton theme using the remaining trunk of the tree. Nigel Sardeson worked on site during June 2010 to create the Hand and prepared the Apple - carved from Elm with the contours of the world on its surface- in his workshop.