King Charles and Sir David Beckham met at Highgrove to discuss designs for this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden, with the meeting including broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh, Melissa Simpson, the Head of Horticulture at Highgrove Gardens, and garden designer Frances Tophill. Sir David Beckham has his own rose introduced at the show, a white rose named after him by his daughter Harper for his 50th birthday. This year's garden features an oak building representing a 'museum of curiosities', seven raised plant beds as a nod to Sir David Beckham and the number 7 shirt he wore, Delphiniums grown by the RHS at its Wisley Garden celebrating the King being Patron of the Delphinium Society, and an Artist's Easel created by The King's Foundation's Snowdon School of Furniture.
The King's Foundation garden aims to encourage the nation to discover the joy of curiosity in gardening and the vital contribution plants make to health and the planet, building on last year's introduction of the King's Rose, a pink and white striped English shrub rose. The exact date of the meeting between King Charles and Sir David Beckham has not been confirmed, and it is unclear whether the garden design has been finalized or is still in planning stages. Additionally, the specific roles of each participant beyond being part of the team remain unspecified.
Does it smell?
It smells amazing, amazing.
Not as good as yours.
What colour is that?
White. My daughter actually, it was a gift from her for my 50th birthday last year. She organised that. She chose it, so very special.