Glow Wild.

 A little while ago we went to Wakehurst Place. It's managed by the National Trust on behalf of Kew Gardens. It is huge, parkland, woods and formal gardens. They have something there called The Millenium Seed Bank. Their aim is to store the seed of most plants and trees in the world. We had the whole place to ourselves and got a guided tour by a very bored but incredibly knowledgeable Kew scientist. We could see the scientists testing the seeds for viability and got a good understanding of the need to store seeds for the future. 

As we left we saw some notices for something called Glow Wild to be run every weekend until Christmas. We had no idea what to expect but decided to give it a go. 

It was absolutely magical.

Massive tree.

This looked lovely but the photo is really blurry

  

The gardens we ablaze with colour. All the lights  were made from paper. It would have been a disaster if it rained. 

Paper moon.

They gave everyone a lantern. They were a bit like the ones the 7 dwarves had. Again difficult to take photos but it looked lovely as people walked along the dark paths.

The paths were illuminated with these orange lights.

These lights were strung over a lake. It looked brilliant.

Emma!!

These flowers changed colour quite quickly so we had to be quick to get a bright colour that would show up 

Wakehurst is a favoured breeding place for a particular strain of dragonfly. Again, a naff photo but they'd obviously taken a lot of effort to represent the ecological side of the event.

The house all lit up.

Waiting for Santa.

As well as all the paper lights which covered about a mile, there were hundreds of flares in amongst the forest.

I took these photos with my phone but next year will take my proper camera and see if the photos are any better