Here's one from a fellow park keeper. Henry VIII during a particularly bad blizzard ejected a community of nuns into the night so as to use they're halls for a ball. They huddled together on what is now St James Park where they froze but not before cursing the king that no flowers would bloom after the cruelty he had committed. It is said that is why st James park is flowerless and why the Tudor line( represented by a rose) withered within a generation.
Another opinion is that on finding out that the king (Charles II) was picking flowers for his mistress from the grounds of the park the queen ordered that all flowers should be band from the land. There are still no formal flower beds.
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