Unbelievable. Hopefully his spawn is not so "eccentric".
What? A raise bed filled with sand?
The gardens at his house are absolutely stunning, and the smell of the flowers is wonderful. He has achieved something very, very impressive there. The Islamic garden has nothing to do with Mohammed, it is the layout (Persian rug patterns) of the plants he chose. The guy enjoys gardening. That hardly make him a pansy, and if gardening is eccentric, I guess I and millions of other people are, too. And I can’t see how this is nepotism, since the Royal Horticulture Society gave him the award, not the Queen, who merely presented it to him. I can understand why people are judgmental about his personal life, and envious of the life of privilege he leads, but surely a constructive, creative interest in gardening and farming is not something I would sneer at regardless of who has it. He could have just sat on his rear, swigging champagne and eating caviar, but he didn’t.
Islamic garden?
What the eff was he growing? Explosives?