Why the gold garden is the knee of the bee

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Bumble bees are one of 170 species of London bees that do not live in the nest. Only honey bees do it. Conversely, Soliter City bees are looking for a temporary house that is calm. One is like a boutique bee hotel in the Goldsmith park in Gresham Street.

This hotel is made of bamboo and moss because most of the bees hate itching. They ignored Bee Benidorm and looked for a classy location to nest and lay eggs. If you think of hitting the nest on the roof of your office, think again.

There are many more that can be admired in one of the best pocket parks in this city. You enter across the Goldsmith’s Hall, under the iron arches. Above you sparkle leopard chief, a 700 -year -old goldenman symbol opposite him. The golden press defended this park, and with that their ancient Church and part of their beautiful story.

This leopard is the first brand in the world. Known in the Middle Ages as a sign of the king, the leopard is about quality assurance. Introduced in 1300 by King Edward I, this shows the purity of precious metals. ‘Sign’ made in the ‘hall’ gold. So quality assurance becomes ‘characteristic’ – from where we get the term today.

The king’s sign, coincidentally, was so called because of the British weapons coat, adopted a century before by Richard the Lionheart. In the heraldik term, the three lions worn by the female lion are actually a leopard. Only a rampant lion (standing, as in the case of Scottish) is considered a Heraldik lion. But we digress.

Walk up the stairs and to the church yard that returned in 1181. The gardens were raised by centuries of death, but the garden produced was a living pleasure. The large London plane trees, centuries, are leaning forward as if to protect their valuable environment. Walk around them, and go down far in front of the bank lloyds to a concave park. The readers of the Tourism column of the past lunch will know that the city roads rise about one foot a century: here you are now on the streets of the Gresham Street 1666, the Great Fire year tearing this and 86 other city churches.

The gardener door on the right has an honorary board for the park that is regularly at the top of the list of awards. Look around to perch bats, bird bathing fountains provided by construction companies, and, in the northeast corner, our bee hotel is waiting for the upper -class solitary nest to go home for that night.

In the southeast corner is a legacy from the city’s past (and the city of AM): the statue of “three printers” by Wilfred Dudeney, who described a newspaper, printer, and an editor, initially assigned by the Westminster Press but moved after rebuilding but moved to rebuild but moved after rebuilding but

For lunch tourists, a lot to be taken. Is it inspired for a female lion, near the park, or the fate of our solitary pollinator, this gold pocket park is the bee knee.