They may have made it into the Chelsea Flower Show, but gnomes are still gnaff

Gnomes, after a century in the wilderness, have come back into the fold. The latest stamp of approval for these garden ornaments, once the height of bad taste, has come from the greenest-fingered Briton of the lot: Alan Titchmarsh.


A party was held this week to celebrate the centenary of the Royal Horticultural Society, an event where the discussion, you might hope, revolved around the honeybee crisis, or the challenge of cultivating peonies during the terrible winter. But, no. All the chatter was of gnomes.
“Don’t tell Prince Charles,” said Titchmarsh, dropping names like a granite boulder into a delicate rockery of bonsai, “but I’ve got two gnomes in my garden. What’s more, they are of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge!” Read More