This week as the great and the good descend on the grounds of Chelsea’s Royal Hospital for the flower show there may be some disappointed faces at what, to the untrained eye, looks like an exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC.
Pity the poor humble folk looking on at tiny, over-designed gardens in perplexity. What they’re looking at is more than just flowers — they’re seeing institutional capture. Yes, the Royal Horticultural Society has gone loopy. It’s caught the woke bug.
