Photo: Highgrove; Chris Jackson/Getty
Prince Charlesmanaged to bottle up summer at Highgrove House.
“It is a time when the odour of blossoming weeping silver lime fills the air, and Highgrove Gardens is full of its branches, with their blooming, uplifting, floral notes,” they continue. “A crisp, confident burst of warm energy opens the dance with vibrant lavender and geranium. As floral, powdery notes appear, a shroud of delicate yellow blossoms seem to fill the air, and to the mimosa, tuberose brings longevity and depth, a solar storm of rich delight. The restful, soothing base is a blend of elegance and sophistication from cedar woods and Orris.”
Prince Charles.Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty
A bottle of the perfume costs $180, with 10% of proceeds benefittingThe Prince’s Foundation, the royal heir’s charity that offers a diverse range education and training programs for all ages and backgrounds, from traditional arts and craft skills, to architecture and design, science, engineering, horticulture and hospitality.
July 14, 1986: Charles sitting in his garden in Highgrove.Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty
Last year,Prince Charlesreflected on his passion for horticultureon the BBC radio showThe Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed.
“My sister and I had a little vegetable patch in the back of some border somewhere,” he told host Simon Armitage of bonding withPrincess Anne. “We had great fun trying to grow tomatoes rather unsuccessfully and things like that.”
“He was splendid and he helped us a bit, my sister and I with the little garden we had,“Prince Charlesrecalled.
That love for gardening only grew withPrince Charles, who has been an environmental advocate for decades and isturning the Queen’s Sandringham Estate into a “fully organic operation.”
“There’s nothing to beat is there, I think, [than] eating what you have grown?” he said on the radio show. “This is another reason why I always feel it is so important to find ways of encouraging children to grow vegetables and things at school.”
Prince Charleshas worked diligently on Highgrove House’s gardens for four decades, which he designed to “please the eyeand sit in harmony with nature.”
Since the early 1980s, Charles has regularly invited groups, schools and charities to tour the gardens.
“One of my great joys is to see the pleasure that the garden can bring to many of the visitors and that everybody seems to find some part of it that is special to them,” he said.
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A highlight of Prince Charles' garden is a treehouse that was built forPrince WilliamandPrince Harryto celebrate William’s seventh birthday in 1989.
As a young boy, William told the treehouse designer, Willie Bertram, that he wanted “it to be as high as possible, so I can get away from everyone. And I want a rope ladder, which I can pull up so no one can get at me,” according to landscape artist and writer Bunny Guinness.
In 2015, the treehouse wasrefurbishedso Prince Charles' grandchildren would be able to play there.Prince George, now 9, was just 2 at the time — and now he can have playdates with younger siblingsPrincess Charlotte, 7, andPrince Louis, 4.
source: people.com
