The public will be able to enter the moat via a giant slide or walkway and experience the garden up close throughout the summer. The aim is to create a vibrant sea of flowers, including poppies, sunflowers, gypsophila, cornflowers and cosmos, which will evolve from June to September and attract pollinators such as bees and butterflies and seed-eating birds. “You have no idea what’s happening beneath the earth and just have to wait and pray that Mother Nature does her thing,” said the 46-year-old, who is head of public engagement projects at Historic Royal Palaces (HRP).
Rhiannon said it would then be a waiting game to see if they bloom as planned. The sowing of 20 million seeds is now underway and due to be completed in mid-April. The moat is being transformed into a wildflower meadow to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and a team of 100 people have been working since November to preserve the architecture of the site and prepare it for new wildlife. The project will see the space, created in the 13th century to keep people out of the Tower, welcome visitors later this year. They say never work with children or animals, but what about plants? It is an equally anxious experience according to Rhiannon Goddard, project director of Superbloom at the Tower Of London’s moat.
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TOWER OF LONDON MOAT TRIAL
Transformation will be open to the public with access to the plants via pathways or a giant slide A Yeoman Warder enjoys the flowers during a trial for Superbloom in 2021
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