Royal gardener

The Queen's Garden

Prince Charles isn't Britain's only green royal: his mother, Queen Elizabeth, is joining the eco-friendly crusade as well. Her Royal Highness has started growing her own organic vegetables in the Buckingham Palace gardens, cultivating beans, beets, tomatoes, lettuce, and potatoes. It is the first royal vegetable patch since World War II. Perhaps the Queen got the idea from her new First Lady friend Michelle Obama, who gardens on the White House's South Lawn. After all, the Maj and Michelle have been seeing a lot of each other lately. After hitting it off at the G20 summit last spring, Michelle and her daughters, Malia and birthday girl Sasha, returned to London last week, where the Queen herself gave the Obamas a rare tour of Buckingham Palace.

Way to go Liz. Let's hope the weather there is better than I am experiencing here.