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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Henry VIII's gardens to open at Hampton Court flower show

The six gardens of Henry VIII, one of the more dramatic features of the Hampton Court Palace flower show, which opens tomorrow, should really have contained one plot full of dead plants, two which have been removed to give more fertile plants a chance, two with all the heads cut off, and only one blooming and healthy.

Hampton Court Palace, where silly young Catherine Howard ran desperately along a corridor shrieking to her husband to spare her life and her head, forms the spectacular backdrop to the flower show, which is never going to be as famous or prestigious as Chelsea.

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