Monday 22nd May 2017
Absolutely massive and preview. Chelsea Flower Show 2017. I won’t spoil your enjoyment – of course Poor Little Rich Gays here and throughout the world will be flocking tomorrow and for the rest of the week.
Vanesse de la Feltz paddling in the pool of the Yorkshire County Garden. The partner of Vanessa de la Feltz – his spray-on jeans. Hugh Bonneville, Anneka, Mary Berry, Lord Linley (as was) in very humble hut in a dank corner. At length I teamed up with Royston King. Only 8 show gardens this year. Mostly new designers. We met the designer of a side-garden, Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Texture Garden. He’d used grey-ed York stone. As for Chris Beardshaw – what can he have been thinking of? Block planting, orange and blue?
Couldn’t make any progress with Royston: he knew every other person. Head of Operations, BBC, Sir Richard, Deputy Leader of Westminster Council, Head of Horticulture Kew, Head of the Garden Museum, Lambeth, Sir Timothy Lawrence…. yes, Sir Timothy Lawrence! He referred to ‘my wife’. He’s President of Commonwealth Graves Commission possibly.
To be that near the Throne.