Feed your soul: the 31-day classical music diet for January
From gentle awakening to explosive fanfare, duelling pianos to one chill lone voice, expand your horizons with a month’s worth of classical ear-openers
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From gentle awakening to explosive fanfare, duelling pianos to one chill lone voice, expand your horizons with a month’s worth of classical ear-openers
"The Queen’s Garden" recounts a year in the Buckingham Palace Garden, exploring the history and natural history of this remarkable 39-acre oasis hidden in the heart of London.
Into a real drama, so really feel that that particular plant is hell—bent on strangling some other plant, which they often are, of course. so it's quite vicious, the world of plants? plants can be very vicious. any gardener will tell you that — that there is a war going on out there in the herbaceous border. and the attenborough message is that plants are more than something interesting to look at — they are vital for the climate, and they are the foundation for all life on earth. the world depends upon plants and we treat them with so little thought and so little care — and exterminat...
The Buckingham Palace garden is opening to the public for picnics and self-guided tours for the first time on Friday. Such has been the demand for tickets that additional places have been made available on dates throughout July to September. Tourists will be able to picnic on the sweeping lawns and explore the garden themselves. The route encompasses the 156-metre Herbaceous Border, the Horse Chestnut Avenue, plane trees planted by and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and views of the island and its beehives across the 3.5-acre lake. A new range of summertime picnic-inspired prod...
Buckingham Palace ready for public picnickers ahead of garden opening Laura Elston © Provided by Evening Standard Buckingham Palace garden in bloom (Royal Collection Trust/Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2021/John Campbell/PA) The Buckingham Palace garden is opening to the public for picnics and self-guided tours for the first time on Friday. Such has been the demand for tickets that additional places have been made available on dates throughout July to September. Tourists will be able to picnic on the sweeping lawns and explore the garden themselves. The route encompasses t...