The Independent - London, May 25th, 1994
These are the real gardeners, with green fingers and green blood in their veins. They come in crowds from the Tube station, straggling over Chelsea Bridge laden with bags filled with sandwiches, rolled umbrellas, notebooks and cameras.
At 6.45am yesterday, as Royal Horticultural Society members await their first sight of the Show, the ranks are swelling. Gardeners rise early, thrilled by the cold, chill earth, the spectral flowers, the awesome nature of what they and their maker have created. They queue patiently, murmuring Latin incantations, their faces weathered and hands calloused by devo...
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