Buckingham Palace visitors can picnic in its gardens for the first time this summer

Visitors to Buckingham Palace this summer will be able to picnic in its gardens and explore the open space by themselves for the first time, the Royal Collection Trust has announced. The traditional summer opening of the palace’s state rooms and themed exhibition, which normally welcomes thousands, has been cancelled for a second year due … Read more

Britons are buying more trees and big bushes to obscure their gardens from prying neighbours

Britons are buying more trees and big bushes to obscure their gardens from prying neighbours as stores see sales surge amid lockdown easing British Garden Centres says it sold £2 million of plants at its 58 outlets last week But the shifting fashion has also caused an increase in neighbourhood disputes with 170 per cent … Read more

Britons are buying more trees and big bushes to obscure their gardens from prying neighbours

Britons are buying more trees and big bushes to obscure their gardens from prying neighbours as stores see sales surge amid lockdown easing British Garden Centres says it sold £2 million of plants at its 58 outlets last week But the shifting fashion has also caused an increase in neighbourhood disputes with 170 per cent … Read more

Demand for campsites, holiday lets and beer gardens rocket as Britons ready for lockdown easing 

It’s staycation mania! Demand for campsites, holiday lets and beer gardens rocket with Cornwall ‘more than 80% sold’ as Britons ready for lockdown easing on April 12 Outdoor wining & dining and staycation demand has soared in run up to April 12  Local travel industry is preparing for a busy summer with foreign trips unlikely … Read more

Demand for campsites, holiday lets and beer gardens rocket as Britons ready for lockdown easing 

It’s staycation mania! Demand for campsites, holiday lets and beer gardens rocket with Cornwall ‘more than 80% sold’ as Britons ready for lockdown easing on April 12 Outdoor wining & dining and staycation demand has soared in run up to April 12  Local travel industry is preparing for a busy summer with foreign trips unlikely … Read more

Pubs open beer gardens on April 12 – so work up a thirst first with these enchanting rambles

Restoration day — in England at least — of the ‘ancient, inalienable right of free-born people of the United Kingdom to go to the pub’ . Remember that Boris-ism? From April 12 (a fortnight on Monday), English pubs and restaurants will be allowed to serve customers, in groups of up to six people, seated outdoors. … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Britons count down to rule of six in parks and gardens next Monday

It’s been a tough winter for families across Britain, unable to see their loved ones apart from a walk in a local park. But there is now some light at the end of the tunnel, with the rule of six returning outdoors in parks and private gardens in England from next Monday – and people … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Britons count down to rule of six in parks and gardens next Monday

It’s been a tough winter for families across Britain, unable to see their loved ones apart from a walk in a local park. But there is now some light at the end of the tunnel, with the rule of six returning outdoors in parks and private gardens in England from next Monday – and people … Read more

Millennials are moving to apartment buildings ‘all in one’ gyms, shops and gardens

Millenials are moving away from traditional landlords to a move into all-in-one collective living buildings that have a ‘kinder approach to renting’. A year on since the start of the pandemic, with working, exercising and socialising from home still part of people’s everyday lives, many are searching for buildings that have all they need in … Read more

Kew Gardens is growing woke! Famed attraction will have ‘decolonised’ labelling

Kew Gardens is growing woke! Famed attraction will have ‘decolonised’ labelling showing visitors how plants played a part in the slave trade Kew Gardens will change its display boards for plants such as sugar cane Kew Director said the gardens would ‘move quickly to decolonise’ collections ‘Woke’ move caused anger as Tory MP Sir John … Read more