Visit to Prince Charles's garden at Highgrove
Date - Thursday 25th June
What a cracking day! From the people at the Cat and Custard Pot to the coach driver; from the staff at Highgrove to the friends and families of members; and, of course, the weather.
Even the hiccup with the coach didn’t spoil things for the second group – it couldn’t have been a nicer day.
And what a fascinating garden. So many different gardens within the garden that it is just as well we bought a guide book to look back on. “His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales”, as our guide always called him, has certainly done a wonderful job of transforming a near wilderness into such a peaceful, relaxing and interesting place, which has so much of himself in it. He obviously likes mauves and purples, pinks and whites and several shades of blue. It all had such an informal feeling in what is quite an ordered garden. It was a lovely day and tea after the tour was the final touch.
Many, many thanks to Peter and Jackie (and their daughter Sprog) and to Liffy, for organising all the various parts of the day.
Superb. Mark Robinson
Highgrove
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| Rare Breeds The Prince is Patron of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust and has worked for many years to help preserve the rare native breeds of the UK, which have been replaced over the years by foreign breeds and breeding programmes more suited to intensive farming methods. Animals such as Tamworth and Large Black pigs, Irish Moiled, Gloucester, Shetland and British White cattle, as well as Hebridean and Cotswold sheep feature at the farm, and are highly prized by The Prince for the quality of their produce and their natural affinity with the British farming landscape.' |
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