What images do the words Chelsea Flower Show conjure up for you? Perhaps it’s magenta fascinators and awkward royals with their noses in roses? London’s annual exhibition is associated with an idea of English society, a salmon terrine of “green and pleasantness” that we are told is quintessential to our country’s identity.
What might not immediately spring to mind is queerness. Charlotte Harris is changing that. The queer landscape designer is leading an all-female, all- LGBT design team at this year’s show.