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The Lord Chamberlain being commanded by Her Majesty to invite
Councillor and Mrs Ian Adamson
to a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, 12th July 2011 from 4 to 6 pm
Timetable for the afternoon
3.00pm Gates Opened
3.00pm Tea was served in the Main Tent until 5.00pm
3.40pm Yeomen of the Guard held ground
4.00pm The National Anthem announced the arrival of Her Majesty The Queen and Members of the Royal Family, including Prince Phillip, Princess Alexandra and the Duke of Kent. A small number of individual presentations were pre-arranged with those who were to be presented in the Garden near the Terrace Steps. Gentlemen at Arms then formed lanes for The Queen and Members of the Royal Family to move through the guests.
4.15pm Tea was served in the Diplomatic Tea Tent.
4.30pm Tea was served in the Royal Tea Tent.
5.10pm The Queen and Members of the Royal Family took tea in the Royal Tea Tent.
5.50pm The Queen and Members of the Royal Family departed.
6.00pm The National Anthem.
Like the Palace itself, the garden at Buckingham Palace has undergone many changes over the years. Covering nearly 16.2 hectares (40 acres), including a 1.5 hectare(3 acre) lake., the north side occupies part of the the original site of a mulberry garden laid out by James I in1609. In 1703 the Duke of Buckingham arranged for a more formal layout and in the 1820's George IV commissioned William Townsend Alton, chief gardener at Kew, to remodel the gardens completely. It was he who ceated the lake and the broad stretches of lawn famous for its camomile. He also built the mound and planted many of the London plane trees seen today. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth cleared much of the dense Victorian shrubberies and planted a wide selection of decorative flowering trees and shrubs- notably the tremendous 170 metre long Herbaceous Border.
The shrubberies have been coninuously improved and in 1961 The Queen added a curved avenue of Indian chestnut running from the NW corner of the palace. There are more than 200 mature trees in the garden, with Lomdon plane predominant. There are fine specimens of choice trees,most of which are labelled, and the commemorative trees planted on diferent occasions iver the years by Members of the Royal Family. Although very much a spring garden, recent additions have provided more plants for summer colour like hoheria,agapanthus and hydrangia. The Rose Garden contains formal beds of hybrid tea and floribunda roses and behind the Admiralty Summer House there are shrub and climber roses. In the centre of the Rose Garden there stands the imposing Waterloo Vase made from carrara marble and positioned here in 1903. Originally made for Napoleon, it was given by King Edward VII. a small waterfalll was installed in1991 to circulate the lake water.
A survey of the garden by the London Natural History Society has revealed a wealth of flora and fauna, some of it quite rare. Two species of fungi new to science were found, including a small mushroom found growing in a bed of holly bushes. The garden is a nesting site for many native birds and the great-crested grebe has nesyed on an island in the lake for the last few years. The lake also provides a refuge for water birds including coots, moorhens, shelduck, mallard and geese. Captive birds include red-breasted geese, ruddy shelduck and emperor geese. There is a distinct “long grass” policy in place to provide a range of habitats for wildlife. Since 1991 all the grass clippings, prunings and leaves gathered in the garden are recycled on site
After the Garden Party, we sat beneath the Statue of Marshal Foch in Grosvenor Gardens, where we had coffee and met John Macintyre, the Northern Ireland Representative of the European Bureau of Lesser Used Languages, who was on his way home from Strasbourg. During our visit we also met Lords Maginnis, Kilclooney, Empey, Alderdice, Bew and the lovely Lady Daphne Trimble, of whom we are both very fond.
Ferdinand Foch GCB, OM, DSO (2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French soldier, military theorist, and writer credited with possessing “the most original and subtle mind in the French army” in the early 20th century. He served as general in the French army during World War I and was made Marshal of France in its final year: 1918.
Shortly after the start of the Spring Offensive, Germany's final attempt to win the war, Foch was chosen as supreme commander of the Allied armies, a position that he held until 11 November 1918, when he accepted the German request for an armistice. In 1923 he was made Marshal of Poland. He once said he had served England as well as France.
He advocated peace terms that would make Germany unable to pose a threat to France ever again. His words after the Treaty of Versailles, “This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years” would prove prophetic; World War II started twenty years and sixty five days later.
EIIR
The Lord Chamberlain being commanded by Her Majesty to invite
Councillor and Mrs Ian Adamson
to a Garden Partyat Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, 12th July 2011 from 4 to 6 pm
Timetable for the afternoon
3.00pm Gates Opened
3.00pm Tea was served in the Main Tent until 5.00pm
3.40pm Yeomen of the Guard held ground
4.00pm The National Anthem announced the arrival of Her Majesty The Queen and Members of the Royal Family, including Prince Phillip, Princess Alexandra and the Duke of Kent. A small number of individual presentations were pre-arranged with those who were to be presented in the Garden near the Terrace Steps. Gentlemen at Arms then formed lanes for The Queen and Members of the Royal Family to move through the guests.
4.15pm Tea was served in the Diplomatic Tea Tent.
4.30pm Tea was served in the Royal Tea Tent.
5.10pm The Queen and Members of the Royal Family took tea in the Royal Tea Tent.
5.50pm The Queen and Members of the Royal Family departed.
6.00pm The National Anthem.
Like the Palace itself, the garden at Buckingham Palace has undergone many changes over the years. Covering nearly 16.2 hectares (40 acres), including a 1.5 hectare(3 acre) lake., the north side occupies part of the the original site of a mulberry garden laid out by James I in1609. In 1703 the Duke of Buckingham arranged for a more formal layout and in the 1820's George IV commissioned William Townsend Alton, chief gardener at Kew, to remodel the gardens completely. It was he who ceated the lake and the broad stretches of lawn famous for its camomile. He also built the mound and planted many of the London plane trees seen today. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth cleared much of the dense Victorian shrubberies and planted a wide selection of decorative flowering trees and shrubs- notably the tremendous 170 metre long Herbaceous Border.
The shrubberies have been coninuously improved and in 1961 The Queen added a curved avenue of Indian chestnut running from the NW corner of the palace. There are more than 200 mature trees in the garden, with Lomdon plane predominant. There are fine specimens of choice trees,most of which are labelled, and the commemorative trees planted on diferent occasions iver the years by Members of the Royal Family. Although very much a spring garden, recent additions have provided more plants for summer colour like hoheria,agapanthus and hydrangia. The Rose Garden contains formal beds of hybrid tea and floribunda roses and behind the Admiralty Summer House there are shrub and climber roses. In the centre of the Rose Garden there stands the imposing Waterloo Vase made from carrara marble and positioned here in 1903. Originally made for Napoleon, it was given by King Edward VII. a small waterfalll was installed in1991 to circulate the lake water.
A survey of the garden by the London Natural History Society has revealed a wealth of flora and fauna, some of it quite rare. Two species of fungi new to science were found, including a small mushroom found growing in a bed of holly bushes. The garden is a nesting site for many native birds and the great-crested grebe has nesyed on an island in the lake for the last few years. The lake also provides a refuge for water birds including coots, moorhens, shelduck, mallard and geese. Captive birds include red-breasted geese, ruddy shelduck and emperor geese. There is a distinct “long grass” policy in place to provide a range of habitats for wildlife. Since 1991 all the grass clippings, prunings and leaves gathered in the garden are recycled on site
After the Garden Party, we sat beneath the Statue of Marshal Foch in Grosvenor Gardens, where we had coffee and met John Macintyre, the Northern Ireland Representative of the European Bureau of Lesser Used Languages, who was on his way home from Strasbourg. During our visit we also met Lords Maginnis, Kilclooney, Empey, Alderdice, Bew and the lovely Lady Daphne Trimble, of whom we are both very fond.
Ferdinand Foch GCB, OM, DSO (2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French soldier, military theorist, and writer credited with possessing “the most original and subtle mind in the French army” in the early 20th century. He served as general in the French army during World War I and was made Marshal of France in its final year: 1918.
Shortly after the start of the Spring Offensive, Germany's final attempt to win the war, Foch was chosen as supreme commander of the Allied armies, a position that he held until 11 November 1918, when he accepted the German request for an armistice. In 1923 he was made Marshal of Poland. He once said he had served England as well as France.
He advocated peace terms that would make Germany unable to pose a threat to France ever again. His words after the Treaty of Versailles, “This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years” would prove prophetic; World War II started twenty years and sixty five days later.