The Great British Garden Competition has been organised by the Olympic Delivery Authority with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), which runs the annual Chelsea Flower Show.
Ms Abbott said in a speech on Tuesday that fast-developing technology and an "increasingly pornified British culture" has led to a "secret garden, strip-tease culture in British schools and society, which has been put beyond the control of British families".
In the garden of the former British consulate now the property of Alexandria University builders managed to drive hundreds of concrete piles through the intact floor of a Roman villa before they were stopped.
That sensibility led Topkis to her first winner, a 1995 British detective story called Death in the Garden, by Elizabeth Ironside. (In January Garden briefly beat out The Da Vinci Code as the top mystery seller on Amazon.com.) To publish this out-of-print title, Topkis had to track down the book's rights.
The BBC understands that the Royal British Legion has indicated it does not want the garden of remembrance being brought into the flags debate.
President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair stood together in the Rose Garden for the last time Thursday in a news conference that was largely a defense of the Iraq war, an event that has shaped their common legacy.
At Queen's Garden she and the duke visited an exhibition showcasing British fashion over the past 60 years.
Then it was on to Neal's Yard Dairy in Covent Garden, the leading specialist in artisan-style British cheese.
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Elizabeth Ironside, she learned, is a pseudonym for Catherine Manning, wife of the British ambassador to the U.S. The rights to Garden had reverted to Manning once the book went out of print in the U.K. Lady Manning was thrilled to be published in America, and her husband, Sir David Manning, wound up hosting a book party at the British embassy in Washington, D.
The obvious analogy is with Sir Terence Conran, a style-setting British restaurateur: but it is as if Mr Conran were also running Covent Garden as a day job.
Its free roster of dance, theatre, music and visual art performances includes the Garden, a gravity-defying piece of outdoor theatre from the British disabled theatre company Graeae and the Australia-based company Strange Fruit.
Of the 13 categories in the awards, eight reward British acts while the remaining five recognise international talent with bands like Air, Savage Garden and the Beastie Boys shortlisted.
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"There should be a big peace garden here, with water features and benches, " said James, a British tourist.
Run by a friendly British couple, all five rooms are lovingly restored, meals include ingredients from the hotel's organic garden, and animal-lovers will revel in the presence of half a dozen friendly canines.
In an attempt to get herself back to the garden, so to speak, she became a gypsy, living in a covered wagon while rambling the British Isles.
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