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A Lesson From A Caterpillar
In its anniversary year, the Caterpillar from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is brought to life once
again as an InstaPlant® display at RHS Garden, Wisley.
One of the strangest acquaintances that
Alice makes during her adventures in
wonderland is a blue, 3 inch tall Caterpillar,
sat upon a mushroom smoking a pipe,
who greets a very confused Alice with the
question ‘Whooo are you?”
Despite being disliked by Alice at first due
to his stand offish nature, he becomes a
teacher to Alice and she later remarks that
he will one day turn into a butterfly, which
he does. It is rather apt then that earlier
this year we were commissioned by RHS
Garden, Wisley to design and produce
a 3D InstaPlant replica of the traditional
caterpillar on a mushroom illustration
originally drawn by John Tenniel,
incorporating a few minor adjustments,
for their summer celebration of the 150th
anniversary of the well-loved Lewis Carroll
creation Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
In early spring we set to work on the initial
design of the steel framework which was
then fabricated off-site by a local company.
When th