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|  You don't correct a British Royal!
Congratulations to Aussie Jamie Durie Jamie Durie scores gold at Chelsea Flower Show | The Daily Telegraph Quote: |
TV star and landscape designer Jamie Durie has won gold at London's prestigious Chelsea Flower Show.
| However, Jamie's royal snub at Chelsea Flower show | Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania Quote:
May 21, 2008 12:00am
CELEBRITY gardener Jamie Durie has learnt his gardening advice is not always taken graciously, especially when he's correcting a member of the Royal family about a fern from a cycad.
Durie discovered you do not correct a Royal, even politely and especially in view of the public.
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However, Durie, who was being as courteous and polite as possible, brought it to the Prince's attention that the subject in question was a cycad and not a fern.
The Prince, however, did not appreciate the advice, or so it seemed, and promptly walked off.
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"He said to me, 'I do like your tree fern'. I said, 'Actually, it's not a tree fern, it's a member of the cycad family. It's a Macrozamia moorei'," Durie told The Daily Mail.
"And with that, he walked off. As he was walking away he said, 'I didn't come here to get a lesson' under his breath. I didn't hear him say it, one of the boys heard him.
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