Most non-white faces at the ground are working. While the absence of female gardeners has long annoyed green-fingered women, including Highgrove garden designer Isabel Bannerman, who tells me: “There are loads of women, gay and LGBT people making plants, budding fruit and roses, growing, breeding and educating who are just not championed enough,” pointing out Gertrude Jekyll and Ellen Wilmott were fundamental in establishing the RHS but it has never had a woman president.
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