In The Mud

Queen Visits 'Floral' Trench at Chelsea Flower Show

The Queen toured a First World War trench - of sorts - as she visited the Chelsea Flower Show on Monday, walking through a trench-themed garden to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War.The trench was created by a team representing the City of Birmingham.She looked through a trench periscope and laughed when she was shown realistic-looking First World War food tins that turned out to be hollow replicas.Darren Share, Birmingham’s Head of Parks, told the Telegraph: “She was asking how a real trench would have compared to this and I told her the construction, with sandbags and wooden hurdles, but a real trench would have been higher, narrower, and of course full of mud. In our trench we have used alternanthera plants to represent the mud."

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