His great-grandmother, Jane B Francke, was the preservation chair of the Garden Club of America; her little girl-- Curtis's grandma-- donated to that organisation 1.5 hectares of her own estate, which is currently the Jane B Francke Haven on Long Island. His mom was, as he puts it, a "champ of wetlands"; he carried with him into their adult years a sense that he required to live up to his household's background. The conventional press took a passion, noticing a possibility to portray the dispute as a proxy battle in a bigger culture war between radical conservationists and also individuals that simply wanted their great yard back. " King Charles' former gardener blasts botanic garden's owner for 'rewilding' task he states has transformed it into 'monoculture of weeds'" ran a classically verbose Daily Mail heading. " King Charles's ex-gardener strikes botanic yard's 'greenwashing smokescreen'", announced the Telegraph.