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The big hope for the 2023 Chelsea Flower Show? Gardens made for people, not ecosystem engineers

Country Life’s former gardens editor Kathryn Bradley-Hole is hoping that the pendulum at Chelsea is swinging back towards traditional gardens.

Next week sees the return of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. It is a joyous temporal marker, heralding the English summer outdoors, its fêtes and festivals and, of course, gardens galore. ‘Gardens are for People,’ declared the mid-20th-century American landscape architect Thomas Church. His book of the same title (first…

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