Miss Willmott and the Unpleasantness at Chelsea

Exactly 110 years ago one of the most unsavoury events in horticultural history reached its climax at the Chelsea Flower Show, 1914 – or to be more precise, outside the show. Ellen Willmott didn’t have anything to do with the actual spat, so how come she found herself at the epicentre of the Unpleasantness at…