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Prince Charles’s special attachment to his garden in the private Highgrove residence shared with Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, was celebrated with a new picture shared by Clarence House.
In the joyful snap, a beaming Prince of Wales can be seen enjoying the sun while surrounded by a luxuriant landscape covered with colourful plants and flowers of every kind.
According to Clarence House, the picture was shared to show the prince’s endorsement to the “Big Butterfly Count” project.
Clarence House took to Twitter to share the enthusiasm of the Prince of Wales, adding these words as a caption to the picture: “The Prince of Wales joined in with the Big #ButterflyCount at his Highgrove Garden this week and took part in the world’s biggest survey of butterflies.”
The initiative is a nationwide survey launched by the Butterfly Conservation and it aims at helping assessing the health of our environment, as butterflies are believed to be excellent biodiversity indicators.
But the Highgrove gardens are close to the prince’s heart not just for their beauty.
The estate has become one of his grandson Prince George’s favourite place to play – just like it was for George’s father the Duke of Cambridge and his uncle Prince Harry.
The Prince of Wales had previously revealed he had refurbished the tree house built in the run up to Prince William’s seven birthday so that George could play in it.
The tree house was created in 1989 following the drawings of Cotswold architect William Bertram.
Mr Bertram had interviewed William and Harry, then aged three and five, to build a treehouse.
When asked how he would have liked to be his new playground, Prince William said: “I want 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.”
Prince Charles has also confessed he had enjoyed a session of gardening in Highgrove when little George was just two-year-old.
Despite the young age, George helped his grandfather plant two new trees.
But George and his siblings surely have also created a bit of turmoil in the peaceful gardens.
When Prince Charles was presented with a beautiful but fragile oriental beech sapling during a recent visit to Kew Gardens, he said: “I mustn’t let my grandchildren get hold of this.”
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