Llwyn Idun
Named for the similar place tended to by Idun, the Aesir deity, and in Welsh, as it sounded more lyrical, Idun’s Grove was conceived to be the Herbology Club’s ‘big project’ for the 2059-2060 term. Situated away from the walls of the castle and a comfortable distance from the borders of the Forbidden Forest, while having enough space for future iterations of the Herbology Club to grow it further, as well as allowing for the planting of additional trees as memorials to those no longer able to continue life’s journey.
The grove of flowering apple trees is meant to be a calming, nurturing place of nature’s beauty for all the students and faculty of the school to enjoy, a way for the club to give back to the school for having done the same for them, while paying it forward for students yet to come.
In a bit of Tolkienesque whimsey, at the fore of the grove is what amounts to a mallorn tree; a beech tree which might grow to immense proportions if tended to properly in the years to come, whose silvery and golden leaves would neither whither nor fall until the coming of the spring, and ensuring one could always see the hope that comes with the renewal of life. It would be the ‘Party Tree’ of Hobbiton made real.
At the base of the ‘mallorn’ tree is a plaque reading:
Llwyn Idun
Donated and dedicated with gratitude to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry by the Herbology Club of 2059
‘If I knew the world were to end tomorrow, I would plant a tree today.’
Donated and dedicated with gratitude to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry by the Herbology Club of 2059
‘If I knew the world were to end tomorrow, I would plant a tree today.’