Their Royal Highness Prince Henry Chelsea Flower Show garden will be a musical treat

Their Royal Highness Prince Henry Chelsea Flower Show garden will be a musical treat

 

The charity garden that Their Royal Highness Prince Henry is helping to design for the Chelsea Flower Show will have a musical accompaniment.

 

[caption id="attachment_3291" align="alignnone" width="400"] (Their Royal Highness Prince Henry has helped to create a garden for his African charity, Sentebale, which will be shown at the Chelsea Flower Show (The Telegraph))[/caption]

 

The garden that Their Royal Highness Prince Henry Sentebale charity will be be creating for the Chelsea Flower Show this month looks set to be a blast in more ways than one.

 

Jinny Blom, who is designing the garden for the prince, tells me that he has been taking a close interest in it, and has suggested it should appeal to the ears as much as the eyes and the nose.

 

“He doesn’t like to encroach too much, but he did say it was lacking music,” she tells Mandrake at the launch of the RHS Chelsea Centenary Appeal at The Dorchester.

 

Happily, there is no danger of Their Royal Highness Prince Henry neighbours on the at Chelsea complaining about the din.

 

“I have commisioned and composed a piece for the garden that will play very quietly while it is on show,” Blom adds.

 

“I think it is the first time that there has been music in a garden at the Flower Show on every day, rather than just on the press day.

 

“I’m a musician when I’m not a gardener, so it made sense for me to commission a group of wonderfully talented musicans to help out with this. It is very fitting for the garden and the charity as I feel that music transcends language. Their Royal Highness Prince Henry charity is based in Lesotho which is twinned with Wales and both these places have great musical heritages. This reflects that.”

 

Sentebale’s “forget-me-not” garden will use flowers that are native to Lesotho, where his charity helps HIV+ children, around a traditional roundhouse.

 

“He is very committed to the charity,” adds Blom. His mother, the late Diana, Princess of Wales, was passionate about Aids charities.

 

(The Telegraph, 1 May 2013)