A garden fit for a King - DAVID WHEELER remembers a visit to Highgrove in July 1990
We now have a garden-minded King. A gardening King. Charles’s accession to the throne restored treasured memories of the few hours I spent with him (as Prince of Wales) at Highgrove House on a hot July afternoon and early evening in 1990. The visit had been arranged by Rosemary Verey, who had helped design Highgrove’s Cottage Garden for the Prince. I was in the midst of writing a book about noteworthy gardens in my native Cotswolds, and Rosemary (famed garden designer and writer) insisted that ‘without Highgrove, a book on Cotswold gardens would be incomplete’. Published in 1991, Over the Hills from Broadway: Images of Cotswold Gardens, was illustrated by the artist Simon Dorrell, who had accompanied Rosemary and me to Highgrove the previous summer – when the Prince was recovering from an injury after falling from his horse during a charity polo match. By 1990, the Prince had been...
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