Wolf Hall upsets horticulturists with its ‘historical plant inaccuracies’

First, Wolf Hall upset a number of members of the Catholic faith with its depiction of St Thomas More. The Bishop of Shrewsbury went so far as to claim that it inaccurately depicted More as a villain. Now, the show has managed to anger ardent gardeners too.

In today’s letters page in The Telegraph, a reader writes in to point out a discrepancy in one of the plants used on set.

‘Those worrying about historical inaccuracies in Wolf Hall need to get out more: there’s plenty to entertain them outside. The best example was in last week’s episode, when Anne Boleyn went gliding past a mature specimen of Wisteria sinensis, a plant that only arrived from China in 1816.’

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— Hannah Furness (@Hannah_Furness) February 11, 2015

Given that the BBC is reported to have spent £20,000 on candles alone during filming in order to give an accurate representation of how things would have looked in Tudor times, Mr S is surprised that the production team didn’t have any horticulture experts on set to guide them.