Vegetable and salads supplier Stubbins has collaborated with garden artist Victoria Robertson to create a memorial cannon and raise money for the Royal British Legion.
The Stubbins Memorial Cannon, which was created entirely from soil and grass seeds, is the focus of the Hertfordshire-based firm’s 50th anniversary celebration, as well as its commemoration of the centenary of the outbreak of World War One.
It is located at Copped Hall in Epping, Essex, while an online film about the production process aims to assist the fund-raising efforts.
“We grew up as a very family-oriented company and every family has been touched in some way by the events of war during the last 100 years,” said Stubbins managing director, Peter Turone.
“We have reached a new phase in our business, which has an established brand and dynamic new practices and aspirations, and while we have rightly been celebrating our own progress over the last few months, we didn’t want to let this anniversary of World War I to pass without showing our respect for the hundreds of thousands of brave people who have lost their lives in conflicts around the world to enable us to live and work in a peaceful and prosperous country.”
He added: “We are asking our network of industry colleagues to donate to this magnificent cause in a historic year. It’s a wonderful creation and it is derived from the land – very much like our business of 50 years.”
Robertson said the sculpture took three weeks to grow completely. “The wheels were the biggest challenge, but once a few of the grass seeds germinated it created a shelf inside the wheels and the other grass seeds were able to cling on and grow too,” she said.
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