Floating around London’s Chelsea Flower Show as dusk is about to fall, the air is thick, the herbal scents of salvia and geranium offset by the minty nepeta and the flouncing citrus sucker punch of verbana. If you’re lucky, you’ll get a quick hit of the just-debuted Catherine's Rose, a coral-pink floribunda rose named after the Princess of Wales, which smells of mango and Turkish delight.
Amid the floral pavilions and hulking vegetative displays, and past the Pimm’s stall, Burberry has brought together the fashion crowd to celebrate its latest collection, itself inspired by the Royals. It’s not haute couture, it’s hort(-iculture) couture.
Here, at the world’s most prestigious gardening and floral design event, the British house welcomed the likes of Bianca Jagger, Jason Isaacs, and Jer