One of ISS Waterers Landscape’s most prestigious hard and soft landscaping projects, the Jubilee Gardens at Windsor Castle is an award-winning project.

Extending from the main gates to St George’s Gate on Castle Hill, where visitors enter the castle precincts, the garden has transformed the entrance and provides a setting for regular concerts by the Bands of the Household Division. The garden is located on the site of a car park and has an austere setting dominated by the round tower of the castle. Prior to construction, the site was investigated for its archaeology when old beam slots, fragments of timber and 12^th and 13^th century cooking pot fragments were discovered.

The Queen was particularly keen to have a bandstand in the garden and also requested a display of colourful flowers for when she is in residence at Easter. The inspiration for the bandstand was gained from a visit to St Paul’s Cathedral. The floor of the bandstand, with detailed starburst stone inlay made from light and dark Purbeck Stone, is the centrepiece and features a patinated bronze Garter Star and a dedicatory inscription to the Queen.

On either side of a new pathway, bold groupings of evergreen and deciduous shrubs over a carpet of herbaceous plants complement the architectural features of the Castle. Plantings of Cork Oak, Fig and Magnolia Grandiflora and broad swathes of woodland perennials feature. 

ISS Waterers Landscape completed the construction of the garden with two weeks left for the plants to bed down before the Queen opened the garden in June 2002.  This was particularly impressive in view of the fact that during construction we learnt that the width of the main drive through the garden had to be doubled to provide room for the marching guards who walk four to five abreast.