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I would never say that the norm ban is going to be forever more. Chelsea evolves and changes,

so maybe. Very famously, despite the band,

there was a gnome who got in regularly, which is Borage, who was a little garden ornament,

bought good luck to Jekyll McVicker, who's one of our most successful exhibitor. She would

regularly smuggle Borage in the stand and hide him, you know, amongst her herbs.

So whatever the RHS says, you know, maybe NOMS will find a way.

They've long been dismissed as tacky, even tasteless,

but this year the garden gnome is staging a return to the world's most prestigious flower show.

For only the second time in its history, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is lifting its ban on

gnomes, and surprisingly, it's thanks to a royal partnership.

Fiona Davison, whose our head of libraries and exhibitions, has been inundated with questions

about these controversial little characters, and she's been looking into the history of the

ban. Is it pure snobbery? Or do these divisive statuettes reveal something deeper about

British taste, status, and who gets to decide what belongs in our gardens.

More on that in just a bit.

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