A new garden is to be created at Windsor Castle to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Golden Jubilee. The garden, which will extend over an area currently given over to lawn and a section of car park and will transform the visitor entrance, is the first to be made at Windsor for 200 years.
“It will greatly enhance a visit to the castle and is a fitting celebration of Her Majesty’s Jubilee,” says Sir Hugh Roberts, director of the Royal Collection which is overseeing the project. Created to complement architectural aspects of the castle, it will have as its centrepiece a bandstand built from traditional English stone, featuring a bronze representation of the Garter Star and an inscription to the Queen.
Surrounding the bandstand is a carpet of herbaceous plants, trees and broad beds of woodland perennials, while flowering creepers will be used against the castle walls for a romantic effect. “It is enormously exciting to be able to contribute to one of the most important historical landscapes in Britain,” says the project’s creator Tom Stuart-Smith. “The garden is a contemporary design but draws much of its inspiration from the picturesque character of the parks at Windsor.”
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An artist's impression of the new garden which will be created in front of the visitors' entrance of the castle
All photos courtesy of the Royal Collection 2002 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
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It will extend over an area currently given over to lawn and a section of car park
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The new landscaping (indicated above), which includes a stone bandstand, will feature trees, herbaceous plants and broad beds of woodland perennials
