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Terry Waite's allotment

Self-explanatory to Britishers in the 1990's, this description of unruly hair will puzzle the rest of us, so:
1. Terry Waite served as the Anglican Church's international diplomacy negotiator. In 1987, he was himself taken hostage in Lebanon and held mostly in solitary confinement until his release in 1991. He's a well-known public speaker now.
2. "Allotment" in Britain is an urban rented garden patch.
Hence, Terry Waite's allotment would be untended and weed-choked.
I haven't determined if Waite actually was an allotment holder at the time of his confinement.
The man on the bench had a red beard like Terry Waite's allotment.

Terry Waite's allotment

(Simile.) Describes a badly overgrown ladygarden or punani in need of a lot of TLC. (And possibly an industrial-sized strimmer.)
"I pulled down her knickers, and she had a twat like Terry Waite's allotment! I've seen long-haired poodles with less hair than her!"

Terry Waite's allotment

I got totally ambushed, she was groomed like Terry Waite's allotment.

allotmenting 

The word used when speaking about working on your allotment, allotment in this sense meaning a small piece of land you own for growing food on.
Oh, just a bit of allotmenting...
allotmenting by Francii22 May 7, 2011

allotmenteering 

Keeping fit by working on an allotment
Digging, weeding and growing veg on the allotment is a workout called allotmenteering.
allotmenteering by leapylee May 18, 2010

Dig my allotment 

Get aggressively railed
Hmm I’d let him dig my allotment - I want him to rail me
Dig my allotment by Terrnace47 February 18, 2021