Editing 10 Downing Street (section)

=== Terrace and garden ===
{{Main|Garden of 10 and 11 Downing Street}}
[[File:ImperialConference1923.jpg|thumb|right|Prime Minister [[Stanley Baldwin]] (seated centre with his legs crossed) poses in the garden of Number Ten with representatives to the [[1923 Imperial Conference]].]]
The terrace and garden were constructed in 1736 shortly after Walpole moved into Number 10. The terrace, extending across the back, provides a full view of St James's Park. The garden is dominated by a {{Convert|0.5|acre|abbr=on}} open lawn which wraps around Numbers 10 and 11 in an L-shape. No longer "fitted with variety Walle fruit and diverse fruit trees" as it was in the 17th century, there is now a centrally located flower bed around a holly tree surrounded by seats. Tubs of flowers line the steps from the terrace; around the walls are rose beds with flowering and evergreen shrubs.{{sfn|Jones|1985|p=180}}{{sfn|Seldon|1999|p=46}}<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.aspx?compid=68057&filename=figure0748-117-a.gif&pubid=748 figure0748-117-a] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826185217/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol14/pt3/plate-117 |date=26 August 2021 }}, british-history.ac.uk</ref><ref>British History Online, From: '[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=68057 Plate 117: No. 10, Downing Street: elevation and general view] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622064752/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=68057 |date=22 June 2011 }}', Survey of London: volume 14: St Margaret, Westminster, part III: Whitehall II (1931), pp. 117. Date accessed: 21 July 2008.</ref> The terrace and garden have provided a casual setting for many gatherings of First Lords with foreign dignitaries, Cabinet ministers, guests, and staff. Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]], for example, hosted a farewell reception in 2007 for his staff on the terrace. [[John Major]] announced his 1995 resignation as leader of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] in the garden. Churchill called his secretaries the "garden girls" because their offices overlook the garden.{{sfn|Jones|1985|p=138}} It was also the location of the first press conference announcing the [[Cameron–Clegg coalition|Coalition Government]] between [[David Cameron]]'s Conservatives and [[Nick Clegg]]'s [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8678370.stm |work=BBC News |title=Welcome to the Dave and Nick Show |date=12 May 2010 |access-date=12 May 2010 |archive-date=3 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103100855/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8678370.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>