Tributes for the Queen have been pouring in worldwide, with bouquets lining the streets outside royal residences across the UK.
Mourners for Queen Elizabeth II have been placing thousands of offerings including balloons, Paddington toys and even marmalade sandwiches, but have since been asked to limit favours to floral arrangements for sustainability purposes.
As the locations have been filling up with flowers – with scenes at Sandringham Estate reaching 30ft deep – the royal parks have added a secondary location in the capital to allow for more blooms.
Where should I lay floral tributes?
Visitors are welcome to leave floral tributes at the public sites in Green Park – and now Hyde Park.
A second garden has now opened for floral tributes to Her Majesty The Queen. This can be found in Hyde Park, a short walk from The Green Park.
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Hyde Park, which is a short distance from the first location, was opened up on Tuesday to accommodate.
Queues to access the park have also been building, thus the alternative tribute site was added to avoid closure of the Green Park Floral Tribute Garden.
Tributes left in other areas may be removed, such as along The Mall, and relocated to the official tribute sites if in good condition.
What kind of tributes can I leave?
As gifts have been limited to floral arrangements, cards, teddies, balloons and other tributes will be regularly removed for storage offsite.
Any flowers are allowed, but visitors have been asked to remove packaging that is not organic or compostable. Bins have been provided on site to dispose of this.
A green approach to the tributes has seen groups of volunteers work to collect plastic and non-biodegradable packaging from the bouquets at the sites.
The Hyde Park nursery will accept deteriorating flowers, for sustainable disposal – while all tributes will be removed one to two weeks after the State Funeral.
Any packaging, cards and labels will be removed before the compost procedure.
Organic composted material collected from this process will be used on shrubberies and landscaping across the royal parks.
Lit and unlit candles are only permitted on designated sanded areas.
