Britain’s Prince Harry is ”incredibly involved” with his RHS Chelsea Flower show garden.
The prince’s charity, Sentebale – which supports children in the African nation of Lesotho – has commissioned Jinny Blom to create a specially-themed space at the annual horticultural event, which takes place later this month, and Harry has had full approval of the designs.
Jinny said: ”He’s incredibly involved. I’ve met him once and we had a fantastic day talking about this. I took a model of the garden round to show him.
”We emailed the drawings to him when he was in Afghanistan and he kept wanting to see more. He’s passionately interested in the garden and not at all remote. He was very respectful of the fact that the design was my job.”
Harry’s father Prince Charles is known to be passionate about gardening, and while Jinny says the younger prince was equally enthusiastic, she is unsure whether he will take his interest further because his job as an Army Apache helicopter pilot would make it difficult.
She told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: ”He’s a very detailed, conscientious person – he wanted to know everything about the design – and in that he reminded me of his pa.
”After this, you never know. He’s never in one place for very long and you need to be reasonably static to get into horticulture.
”Come to think of it, I don’t even know if he has his own garden.”