Posted on 05/18/2009 4:25:34 PM PDT by llevrok
HRH Prince of Wales kissing the hand of his mother the Queen after being awarded Royal Horticultural Society Victoria Medal of Honour.
At a preview of the Chelsea Flower Show, which opens on Tuesday, the Queen presented her son and heir with the Royal Horticultural Society Victoria Medal of Honour.
There was consternation at the show when Jekka McVicar, who is on the ruling council of the RHS, breached the rules by placing a garden gnome called Borage in the middle of her display of organic and culinary herbs. The rules clearly state that any brightly coloured creatures – including garden gnomes - will lead to disqualification.
Mrs McVicar, who has won 61 RHS gold medals, took evasive action before the judges arrived and removed the gnome for some well earned rest. "He's my lucky mascot," she said. "This is the first time we've had a water feature. He went fishing and he got spotted. He's now asleep."
The Queen, who is patron of the Royal Horticultural Society, rarely misses the Chelsea Flower Show while the Prince has often entered his own exhibit. He also won silver in 2001 for his Islamic garden.
The Prince has spent more than 25 years developing his own organic gardens at Highgrove in Gloucestershire which includes a wild flower meadow with 30 different varieties of endangered plants.
Giles Coode-Adams, President of the RHS, said he was an ambassador for good gardening practices. "The work that the Prince of Wales does to promote and contribute to good gardening practices and the cultivation of plants, sustainable gardening and the environment are core to the RHS," he said.
Katherine Jenkins, Ringo Starr, Rod Stewart and Dame Helen Mirren were among the stars attending the preview.
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Unbelievable. Hopefully his spawn is not so "eccentric".
Blatant nepotism. I mean, she’s going to leave the family business to him, why gild the lily?
What? A raise bed filled with sand?
Most have sacrificed his nifty argyl sweater by diving on a tulip bulb to save an entire platoon of hedge-hogs.
Sand with camel dung mixed in.
I apologize for my previous comment. I am deeply ashamed if my prior comment offended anyone. I didn’t mean to be derogatory about the “religion of peace”.
The gardens at his house are absolutely stunning, and the smell of the flowers is wonderful. He has achieved something very, very impressive there. The Islamic garden has nothing to do with Mohammed, it is the layout (Persian rug patterns) of the plants he chose. The guy enjoys gardening. That hardly make him a pansy, and if gardening is eccentric, I guess I and millions of other people are, too. And I can’t see how this is nepotism, since the Royal Horticulture Society gave him the award, not the Queen, who merely presented it to him. I can understand why people are judgmental about his personal life, and envious of the life of privilege he leads, but surely a constructive, creative interest in gardening and farming is not something I would sneer at regardless of who has it. He could have just sat on his rear, swigging champagne and eating caviar, but he didn’t.
Dirka dirka JIHAD dirka!
He would not appear to be a suitable role model for The Empire. Hopefully his sons will turn out better.
Maybe you could post a few pictures of him actually hoeing his gardens or pulling weeds. Until I see evidence otherwise, I'm going to assume he's got a staff of servants actually doing the work, while he sits on his rear, swigging champagne and eating caviar while he orders the servants about.
People without royal blood can’t begin to understand the exertion required to order servants around.
I’ll second your comment.
Islamic garden?
What the eff was he growing? Explosives?
I'll bet the situation is pretty much like that but he has gotten the best advice possible from the UK's best gardeners. Plus he has staff to carry out his wishes. He wants a special peach tree planted and it will be planted by staff or maybe Charles. I'm sure he gets his hands dirty in the soil. Matter of fact gardening is the thing he does best and he should drop his crazy stuff like global warming paranoia and promoting Islam. He gardens organically or so they say
That's true. My blood runs red, rather than blue.
And even with that disqualifier, it's still a bother to order servants around.
8-)
i’m sure they are very lovely indeed, but Chaz doesn’t exactly do it all by himself , he has people do to the actual dirty work, he sits around sipping champagne and eating caviar telling them HOW to do it.
Contemplating their inability to anticipate my every desire often results in a sever case of the vapors.
Pr Charles is into homeopathy and other new age pursuits such as organic gardening. He’s kind of a hippie Prince. I’m sure you could not pin him down as a Christian and the British Royalty used to be known as defenders of the faith. All this is part of the reason he sucks up to the Islamics in the UK. He views Islam as a valid religion same as others, no better no worse
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