The children were from 10 schools from the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) campaign for school gardening, invited to an outdoor lunch ahead of the launch of the RHS’s world-famous horticultural event.
She inspired the idea during a conversation with the RHS during 2019 when her garden was on show at Chelsea.
Meanwhile, the RHS ambassador for inclusivity and diversity married his husband at the show’s first wedding.
Surrounded by plants including Japanese cherry, cardoon and oregano, with floral beads and decorations dangling from pink and orange beams, the couple wed in front of a colourfully-dressed crowd of onlookers, friends and family.
Native plants and trees, nettles, dandelions and a predominantly green palette of planting feature in many of the 36 show gardens, along with salvaged and upcycled materials.
“There’s a clear message about sustainability and environmental factors in an aesthetic way. There’s a loss about actually, what is a garden supposed to do?” he said.
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Reflecting on the topic, Matthew Pottage, curator of RHS Garden Wisley, says: “We are having a climate crisis. We do need to garden environmentally sensitively.
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“Is this the place to be showing that? It’s arguably the world’s best flower show, so this is the place.”