Flowers fit for a King
Updated: Apr 04, 2023 07:58 PM
For the first time in more than 70 years, Bermuda’s annual delivery of Easter lilies to Windsor Castle will have a different recipient — King Charles III.
The King, who succeeded Elizabeth II last September, will receive them when they arrive in London.
Today the Governor, Rena Lalgie, continued the annual tradition of picking Easter lilies. This year they were selected from Windy Bank Farm in Smith’s and were carried on tonight’s British Airways flight to London.
They are expected to reach Windsor Castle in time for Good Friday.
Stanley Tyrell from Pacheco and Sons Farm, checks the Bermuda Easter lilies ahead of harvesting on Thursday. (Photograph by Akil Simmons)
This has been a good season for flowers, as Akil Simmons’s photographs of Easter Lilies, snapdragons and more at Locust Hall Farm, Devonshire, show. The bees clearly think so too.
A bee pollinates a statice flower at Pacheco and Sons Farm. (Photograph by Akil Simmons)
Easter flowers: snapdragons at Pacheco and Sons Farm (Photograph by Akil Simmons)
Bermuda Easter lilies at Pacheco and Sons Farm. (Photograph by Akil Simmons)
Bermuda Easter lilies at Pacheco and Sons Farm. (Photograph by Akil Simmons)
Easter blooms: statice flowers and Bermuda Easter lilies at Pacheco and Sons Farm (Photograph by Akil Simmons)
Stanley Tyrell, from Pacheco and Sons Farm, checks the Bermuda Easter lilies on Thursday. (Photograph by Akil Simmons)
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Published April 04, 2023 at 7:15 pm (Updated April 04, 2023 at 7:58 pm)
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