Chelsea's wonderful purple haze

This year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show confirmed that where planting is concerned, we are further into the Biba labyrinth any colour will do as long as it is plum or purple.

Following the huge demand for Papaver Patty's Plum in recent years, there was a good deal of sophisticated “inky'‘ planting.

The dominating species was Zantedeschia, which featured on the cover of the show catalogue and on all the official merchandise, and turned ...