"Without high profile sponsors Chelsea is sunk and without a reliable judging process sponsors will lose interest and so will designers like myself"
This is the warning from garden designer Andy Sturgeon after he revealed that judges at the world's most famous flower show gave out a gold gong to a garden that didn't deserve it.
Apparently a suitably experienced judge wasn't on hand and, in Sturgeon's words, "the tried and tested judging process partially failed".
Writing on his blog, Sturgeon says that Cancer Research UK have pulled out after nine years after it was revealed they would have won a gold if it were not for the failure of the judging.
Sturgeon calls the new point scoring system for 2012 a 'knee jerk reaction', following several complaints.
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