Overview
- Windsor Castle announced on Thursday, May 28 that the newly named Venus Garden will be open to visitors from 16 July to 13 September and entry is included in a standard Windsor Castle ticket.
- The redesign was carried out to King Charles III’s personal brief and takes its geometry from Venus’s eight-year orbital trace, a pattern known as the Pentagram or Rose of Venus.
- Officials said the transformation took about 18 months and replaced the former East Terrace Garden with perennial beds, evergreen hedge-lined paths, wildflower meadows, avenues of pear trees, yew topiary and roughly 11,000 spring bulbs.
- The terrace displays sculptures and large vases from the Royal Collection and will be available to people on Universal Credit and other specified benefits through the Royal Collection Trust’s £1 ticket scheme for up to five household members.
- The work links two centuries of royal use—from Charles II’s bowling green to wartime allotments for the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret—and signals a focus on biodiversity and broader public access that could boost visitor numbers and create new habitats for wildlife.