• Romans in togas, shepherds in saunas and the Bridgerton garden in bloom … my wild day at Chelsea flower show

    Romans in togas, shepherds in saunas and the Bridgerton garden in bloom … my wild day at Chelsea flower show
    Has architecture taken over the bloom bonanza? Our critic finds an elfin treehouse, a pixie grotto, a Roman villa and a £160,000 shepherd’s hut (with spa) now competing with the delphiniumsA gigantic Chinese dragon made of gnarled chunks of driftwood towers over a display of bog plants, puffing steam from its nostrils and clutching a ceramic pearl that gushes with water. Nearby, men dressed in togas patrol the courtyard of a pretend Roman villa, where simulated rain pours into the ga

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