AMANDA PLATELL

AS A nation of garden lovers, we have been revelling in the recent warm weather. The wisteria with its heavenly scent may be over for many of us but our beds and borders are bursting into bloom with peonies, roses, Lady’s mantle and so much more.

It’s the most glorious time of year, the greens are vibrant, the flowers speckled with dew and the Chelsea Flower show has seduced us again with its stunning displays.

Except this year there was also the sight of puerile, selfish Just stop Oil protesters doing their best to destroy an eco-friendly garden.

The three women throwing orange powder paint at the exhibit from their handbags certainly made me see red. so, hurrah for the passer-by who turned a hose on the garden-wrecking demonstrators to douse their protest. sadly she was stopped by a security guard while the protesters continued unchallenged.

What struck me was just how stupid this self-righteous trio were.

First of all, it was a sustainable garden planned specifically to demonstrate that gardening can benefit the planet.

secondly, the gardening community are exactly the kind of people eco-protesters should be engaging with, rather than enraging — for we all want to encourage birds and bees

STRUGGLING Instagram cook Brooklyn Beckham endorses chef’s gear, emblazoned with the Beckham brand. A wooden spoon award for the soft little ‘Nepobaby’. He can’t even flog an apron without his parents’ name on it.

and do our best to be green. and then there’s these idiots’ decision to attack Chelsea at all, the flagship event in the Royal Horticultural society’s calendar. For the RHs has been bending over backwards to boost wild gardening over more traditional practices, suggesting weeds such as dandelions should trump our cherished delphiniums.

Top prize this year went to a wheelchair accessible garden — which is deeply ironic considering that one of the three Just stop Oil protesters is Rosa Hicks, 28, a disability support worker. What abject hypocrisy.

But then stupidity and hypocrisy are a common theme among these kinds of protesters. This week, animal rights nutters kidnapped three lambs from King Charles’s sandringham estate to ‘rescue’ them. How can snatching terrified creatures away from their mothers be seen as anything other than cruelty?

There hasn’t been a week like this for sheer dumb-headedness among the eco-morons. Chelsea was the moment they finally lost the plot.