Celebrities flocked to the world's most famous flower show today for a sneak preview ahead of the Queen's official visit.
Chelsea Flower Show is celebrating its centenary year - and has even
lifted its ban on gnomes to mark the occasion, with a host of stars
invited to decorate the ornaments.
Among those getting the first glimpse at this year's blooms were
baker Mary Berry, gardening expert Alan Titchmarsh and actress Joanna
Lumley.
Ringo posed wearing a garland of flowers at a
garden promoting the work of charity WaterAid, which gives people in
poor countries access to clean water.
"I'd like to congratulate Chelsea, 100 years and I've been here from the first year," he joked.
He said he had been coming for a number of years. I used to come just
to enjoy it and look at it, now I come to be of some use, promoting
WaterAid."The idea that blew me away was that people don't have water."
He said the charity was helping thousands of people, including
children who were dying every day because they did not have clean water.
He said he loved the Chelsea Flower Show and all the gardens, and he would like to see the gnomes.
Asked if he played music to his plants to help them grow, he said:
"I've been known to talk to them but I've not got my drums out." And he said that rather than getting his hands dirty, he was "big at talking to my gardeners".
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