GARDEN AT SANDRINGHAM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20402, 2 November 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)

GARDEN AT SANDRINGHAM.

AND A KITCHEN GARDEN. The gardens at Sandringh*m are the deilght of the King and Queen, who, although they have made certain alterations in the laying out of the lawns that surround the hall itself, have left the other part 3 very much as they were in tho days of King Edward and Queen Alexandra, wßen Lord Revelstoke, an expert landscape gardener, gave them such invaluable help and advice as to the disposing and planting of tho grounds. Queen Alexandra's kitchen-garden, a3 I remember it, says the v,Titer, was a dream of beauty in autumn, and so gay witn ever/ cottage fiovrer that blows, you quite forgot how the useful vegetable was holding C its own somewhere in tho backgronnd. The late Tsar, knowing her love for them, once sent his Aunt Alix a number of roots of Russian violets, which thrive beautifully in the early months of the year at. Sandringham. Wherever she might be in the springtime, even if abroad, the Queen bad a basket of these violets sent to her daily from her Norfolk home. Besides her violet beds, she had one for Scandinavian flowers, and another only for South African flowers that somd English officers had brought home to her after the Beer