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…