What garden features were banned from the Chelsea Flower Show until 2013?

My mother harbors an intense hatred for garden gnomes, so my siblings and i one day made a mold of one and used clay to make a dozen garden gnomes. We hand painted each and every one of them, put them out in the driveway and hid them in the garden. Then we gave our mother a hammer and she searched the garden that afternoon for gnomes to smash to pieces! (We had hidden gifts inside of them) Best family fun I've had in years.

How could anyone hate those little guys?

Travelocity must be so relieved!

next pink flamingos!

SlowGuacamole73561, They are such adorable, mischievous little guys. Are you sure you're not thinking of goblins? Now they are hideous.

Garden Gnomes. England's gift to horticulture. No thanks needed

Does anybody know why they was banned?

Lady V, that is, completely the best use for a gnome I could think of! Not sure they have any other use really ;)

Lady V, cruel

Reminds me of one of my fave films, The Full Monty! If you haven’t seen it, DO!😉

When we moved into our current house we inherited about twenty of the things - aaargh!!!

never heard the word "august" before (except the month). had to google it. I learned 2 new things. 😁

sam1, we have a butcher gnome with a cleaver in one hand a beheaded flamingo in the other, it's head at his feet.

RegretfulHuman68, my daughter once said to me when I brought her an ornament for the garden that I would be buying gnomes next guess what I filled her garden with haha

@slowGuacamole73561, Maybe be hideous to u however they're making a comeback

Lady V, YES!!! Thank you for making art, just to be destroyed! It is amazingly profound & theraputic to do such things!!

not to be trusted! No Gnomes!

I do have to say they are a little creepy ,but that's what makes them interesting🙃