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Chelsea flower show was costly and elitist

<span>Photograph: Guy Bell/Shutterstock</span>
Photograph: Guy Bell/Shutterstock

Another perspective on the Chelsea flower show (26 May) was given by friends from Germany who had come to London to spend a day getting a closer look at the variety of more than 30 gardens: “Completely overcrowded and nowhere to rest. Totally commercialised, with expensive English clothing for sale and Pimm’s at £14.50 a glass.”

They fled to the relaxing calm of Battersea Park, which is free to enjoy – in stark contrast to the flower show where “no one is too young to take part”, but plenty of people are too poor because you have to splash out about £66 per person for a day ticket.

A nice way to keep the riff-raff out of a show designed for royalty and celebrity show-offs.
Christine Fuchs
Chigwell, Essex

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