King Charles is finding peace among 5,000 “healing yew trees” on his Norfolk estate following his cancer diagnosis.
This week, Buckingham Palace announced that the King has been diagnosed with a form of cancer, but the type of cancer was not disclosed.
Charles is now being treated as an outpatient as he carries on working from the peace of Sandringham Estate.
The King is expected to take daily walks around the grounds of Sandringham where he can take in the healing effects of his eco-diverse garden.
King Charles supports sustainable gardening
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During the King’s 18-month reign, he has been working on a “health garden” outside the big house.
There are about 5,000 “healing yew tree hedging plants” that sit on the West Lawn in front of the house.
The green-fingered monarch requested that the trees be planted as part of an eco-diverse topiary garden.
The trees sit alongside 4,280 herbaceous perennial plants and bulbs planted because of their health benefits including echinacea, lavender and phlox.
King Charles and Camilla visit Sandringham Flower Show at Sandringham House in 2023
Last year, Sandringham Estate announced that the garden would “improve diversity” and “bring naturalistic planting” to the area.
The garden also has a series of mature trees and hedges placed around gravel paths winding through the gardens.
The King is also expected to retreat to his Highgrove home in Gloucestershire which also has organically and sustainably managed gardens.
Charles has previously stated that the gardens at Highgrove are to “please the eye and sit in harmony with nature.”
Charles plants a tree in the garden of the City Hall in Bordeaux in 2023
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Charles weeding his herb garden At Highgrove, Gloucestershire when he was younger
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Gardening is a labour of love for the monarch who has spent most of his life championing the environment.
In 2007, the King published a book, The Elements of Organic Gardening, explaining his beliefs about sustainable gardening and experiences in his own gardens.
Prince Philip passed on the running of Sandringham farm to Charles in 2017 when he began his three-year transformation.
At the time, Charles said: “There is a near constant flow of ideas, which I discuss with the wonderfully knowledgeable — and long-suffering — estate team.”
Some of the first changes Charles made to the estate were adding a flock of 3,000 sheep and scrapping older crops like sugar beet which could not be farmed organically.