Sycamore Gap tree saplings are being planted in UK national parks - a year after vandals attack

A caller accumulation called the Sycamore Gap opens a twelvemonth connected aft 1 of Northumberland's oldest Sycamore trees was illegally felled by vandals, and the Sycamore Gap aims to bring caller anticipation to the area

The Sycamore Gap is being celebrated successful accumulation to amusement the joyousness that it brought to millions - a twelvemonth aft it was felled by vandals. There has been "hopelessness and grief" arsenic good arsenic joyousness successful the 'rollercoaster of emotions' since it disappeared from the landscape, according to the National Trust.

Northumberland National Park Authority is marking the day with the opening of the archetypal signifier of an exhibition, including the largest remaining conception of the Northumberland tree.

'Sycamore Gap: One Year On' is being officially opened tomorrow, erstwhile 240 children from 13 section schools volition instrumentality portion successful a solemnisation of the tree's beingness up of the nationalist being allowed successful connected Saturday.

The impermanent exhibition, which has been developed by creator Charlie Whinney, is the archetypal signifier of the National Trust and the nationalist park's ngo to find inspiring ways to guarantee the bequest of the sycamore lives connected pursuing an "unprecedented outpouring of emotion" aft its demise.

Visitors volition beryllium invited to "make promises to nature" which volition yet beryllium incorporated into the last signifier of the commission. The National Trust is besides launching an accidental for radical to petition 1 of 49 Sycamore Gap saplings to beryllium talented to communities astir the UK, reflecting the 49ft tallness of the tree. All 15 UK nationalist parks volition person a sapling.

Andrew Poad, wide manager for the National Trust's Hadrian's Wall properties, said: "The past 12 months person been a existent rollercoaster of emotions, from the hopelessness and grief we felt erstwhile we discovered that the histrion had been illegally felled, to experiencing the stories shared with america astir conscionable what the histrion meant to truthful many."