![]() More recently, it was home in 2014 to a display of 888,246 ceramic poppies marking the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. It has since been used to graze livestock, and billet soldiers during Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, and grow allotment vegetables in the Second World War. The moat was first dug in 1281 during the reign of King Edward I and was drained by the Duke of Wellington in the 1840s during his tenure as Constable of the Tower. A slide is being installed at the Tower of London this summer and you can slide right down it into the flower-filled moat below. It means the moat’s floral landscape will be more vivid than ever when it reopens to visitors on 26 May. Designed to attract pollinators, the 'Superbloom' display.The horses’ flare-like feathered hooves do not compact the soil as much as modern machines, allowing the seedlings from last year to survive. Video: Tower of London's moat filled with wildflowers for Queen's Platinum Jubilee Shire horses called William and Joey from Hampton Court Palace, plow the moat at the Tower of London (Jordan Pettitt/PA) ![]() ![]() Now the dark brown and white stallions, named William and Joey, have plowed the ground ahead of this summer’s bloom after being brought over from Henry VIII’s palace at Hampton Court. The Tower of London has employed a pair of shire horses to transform its moat into a permanent haven for wildflowers.Īround 20 million seeds were planted in the famous fortress’s moat last year for its first-ever floral display. Two shire horses are getting the Tower of Londons moat ready to bloom in the spring.
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