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The Princess Diana Memorial Flowerbed Summer 2008 & Spring 2009
The Princess Diana Memorial Flower Bed Project:Highgrove, the residence of TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall is situated just outside Tetbury in the small village of Doughton. The residents of Tetbury have very strong links to the Highgrove estate so when Princess Diana died tragically in 1997, the Prince of Wales gave his permission for Tetbury to create a memorial flowerbed in her memory. The bed was created on The Green and was originally planted with just 37 white Princess Diana roses., one for each year of her life. When the team formed in 2005, the roses were no longer looking their best so after a drastic prune and a good feed we added to them by planting lavenders and pink begonias. The whole bed took on a new look and the roses started to make a good recovery.
The Princess Diana Memorial Flower Bed in 2005 after its initial under-planting of lavenders and begonias
By 2007 the lavenders had grown quite large so instead of under-planting with small begonias, we ’over-planted’ with tall penstemons in two shades of pink. The affect was quite stunning.
Summer 2007
The plants repeated their success in 2008 but we felt that the overall flowering season was not long enough and the lavenders had certainly become too big for their position. In Spring 2009, we removed all the lavenders and found them new locations, we kept the roses in place and rearranged some of the penstemons, adding a deeper shade of pink. We have also added deep pink flowering heuchera and linaria, phlox and asters in shades of mauve and pink.
Spring & Summer 2009 No bedding plants at all are used in the Princess Diana Memorial flowerbed, which nevertheless looks good throughout the season, changing character as different plants come into flower. This is the best example of truly sustainable planting and has been something of a “test bed”. The effect has been so successful that we intend to progressively apply this approach to other floral displays.
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