I don't know how she is doing it but the Queen seems to be copying us at Balmoral - around 40 miles inland along Royal Deeside from here.
We droive out there yesterday just to look round and spotted many doisplaya that looked similar to ours (all be it on a slightly larger scale.)
For example let's have a look at this display of Lychnis - a red fl;ower I'm not particularly fond of - but it has beeded in well and produced a nice display this year. It is contrasted with our house in the background.
Seen from the other direction it forms a nice line of red above the yellow californian poppies (though I'm starting to believe that these might be Meconopsis poppies - Welsh poppies and not the californian poppies self seeding).
Anyhow - from the other direction... Although it isn't as nice or as dfistinctive in this photo as it in real life.
Now contrast this - our display with the copycat display that Balmoral have on at the moment. Pretty well identical I think you'll agree.
Maybe she is (or should that be "She is"... the cat's mother) maybe the Queen is a follower of the blog and spotted this last year - who knows.
It was almost looking at a photo of our house and garden there were so many similarities (looking with very heavy rose-tinted glasses - so heavily tinted they were practically cranberry - cranberry sauce bottles maybe).
There seems to be some dispute over what is and isn't a Lychnis and what is and isn't a Silene - the two Genus names seem pretty interchangable over the years.
However what she didn't have at Balmoral (that I saw) was our Red Campion (Silene dioica) in the woodland garden. Jiurie seeded them two years ago with a packet of mixed woodland seeds and they have come up even better this year than last.
We had a French teacher called Mrs Campion - and our nickname for her was Campion the Wonder Goat - we were cruyal as kids.
