Episode 2 RHS Show Tatton Park

At the end of July the grounds here at Tatton Park in Chester are

transformed. You have a powerhouse of horticulture that combines with

all of the charms of the British country show.

Welcome to a Great British Flower Show that celebrates the very best

Hello and welcome to the Royal Horticultural Society's Flower Show,

An event sponsored by Bruntwood Properties. This showing courage is

young designers. Yes, and they've done really well. Contractors and

designers teaming up and they all won gold medals. They really are

coming through and taking over. It is also an opportunity for them to

cut them a critique, maybe make a mistake, and go on to great things.

Many have started here at Tatton, and have forged a great garden

designing career. We'll be meeting the three finalists

of the Young Designer of the Year competition and looking

at their finished designs throughout Carol Klein's

here with her guide to successfully Plus, Toby Buckland finds plenty

of inspiration to help boost your borders,

well into winter. Rachel de Thame looks back

at the work of design heroes of yesteryear as reflected in one

of this year's show gardens. Whilst Danny Clarke will be finding

out how horticulture could revolutionise our office

spaces in the future. That's all to look forward

to, but first the big Out of all the show gardens

here at Tatton, only one could be named Best Show Garden and here's

the moment the winner was announced. You won Best Show Garden,

congratulations. Thank you very much. Have you ever won Best Show

Garden before? I haven't, it is amazing, it makes everything

worthwhile, all of the hard work. I think this is your strongest design.

The way you have used the levels. There is a journey through the

garden. The proportions feel just right. Which is your favourite

combination? Beneath the tree ferns. I was able to use things that like

to be in the shade, and also the sun loving plants, so the combinations

were more exciting. I like the way it spills over the wall from one to

the next. You have that wonderful salvea there. They are redesigned

device. Picture frames to look through. -- the frames are a design

device. They are framing sections of the garden. Wherever you stand there

is another picture to look through. But they are also practical. The

glass moves. They can be open or shut. You can have a little pocket

or a little room and have different people in different areas. You can

see them but you can't always hear them, so you feel you are in your

own section of the garden. You got Best Show Garden and you got a

silvergilt medal. Yes. We knew deep down it wasn't quite a gold. Why was

that? Possibly because of the weather. During the build it was

really wet. It eats into your time. It is just one of those things,

nature. If I was to offer you a gold medal, or Best in show at Tatton

Park, which would you go for? Best in show.

CHUCKLES I am glad to hear that. See you next

year no doubt. Thank you. Across this whole season

of RHS shows, we've seen a trend towards vibrant,

primary colours popping up But when it comes

to achieving this at home, it can be just as easy

to get colour wrong, But fear not, Carol Klein

is here with her guide to achieving The renowned Lady Gardner Gertrude

said Green is also a colour. It is the colour which is the background

to most of our gardens, including those here at Tatton. Green leaves

create a feeling of peace and rest fullness, perfect for a

contemplative corner. There is a preponderance of vivid colour here,

too. But how do you put colours together? And how do you create

different atmospheres and moods with them?

Orange and blue are opposites. Used together they create a stimulating

effect. Blue is a primary colour. It is a lovely colour to use in the

garden when you want things to re-seat. If you are gardening in a

small space and you use blue, particularly at the back of the

garden, it makes the whole space look much bigger. -- re-seed. If you

mix it with other Pastoral colours you create an impressionistic

effect. There are lots of different blues mixed and mingled through this

planting. -- pastel. There is a little scabious which

mingles beautifully. If you want to add drama and a touch

of danger to planting scheme, try using vivid reds. Red is a hot

colour. It leads out of the garden at you. It comes forward. It does

not take any prisoners. If you combine it with green, the two are

opposite, so it makes it even more scintillating. But even against dark

foliage like these dhalia it leaked out at you. And with the little

bubbles of this verbena, another picture is created. It makes things

even easier to look out, just depends on what you want. Splashes

of yellow wake up sleepy planting. It brings things to life. Yellow is

such a happy colour. It always lifts the proceedings. It covers a

multitude of different colours. Sometimes it is pale, but look, two

different colours, this very deep colour, and this brings in allsorts

of pollinating insects, too. They love yellow. Sometimes it can be

almost green. And sometimes it can be just a part of it, like the

yellow centres on this plant. It goes very well with most of the

colours. It looks lovely with these dark, deep rough city Reds. And the

gorgeous oranges. -- russety reds. Colours are a personal choice. But

whichever ones you choose, be adventurous, experiment with them,

create your own personal statement. Garden design is always evolving

and this evolution garden "From Hall to Home" has been inspired by some

of the key figures who have influenced the way our gardens look,

over the centuries. People like capability Brown, one of

the greatest garden architects of all time.

I'm here with designer Michael John McGarr.

It is quite an ambitious theme, isn't it, for a garden? Yeah.

Capability Brown is one of my influences. In this garden I've used

the influence to contrast the styles. It is great that we have

been able to use some of the elements of going back in time in

terms of garden designing. And bringing them in with the

contemporary. And you see the influences. Also in this planting

with the verbena it has that wonderful sense of movement. And the

idea is we can play it with some of the harder elements which we see

with Capability Brown. It is about the layers. It is about the movement

which we push towards. And water. Capability Brown was famous for

putting the water exactly where he wanted. We cannot get the grand

economy of scale that the great man did, but we have managed to get a

contemporary feature into the garden. Even on a small scale it can

still be appreciated and it can reflect some of the textures in the

planting. And unlike the stillness. Very beautiful. Silver medal. That's

fantastic. -- and I like. Brilliant. I am looking forward to coming back

next year and doing another one. From revered figures of garden

design, to the new kids on the block and the RHS Young Designer

of the Year competition. Previous winners include Hugo Bugg

and Sam Ovens who have gone on to carve out successful careers,

including designing show gardens at Chelsea, proving that winning

here gives emerging talent This year, three budding designers

have been given the incredible opportunity to present a garden

here at Tatton by the RHS with the brief of Health,

Happiness and Horticulture. Tonight we'll be meeting all three,

before revealing the winner First up is Rob Dwiar,

whose contemporary urban design I'm Rob Dwiar, I'm 28, I live in

Bristol, but I'm originally from Essex. My dad once said, do you not

want to look into doing something a bit different?

Hopefully funny. Perhaps over focused, and friendly, you would

have to ask them, wouldn't you? Some fond memories of summer

evenings watering the garden. Dad has labelled a picture of me in the

photo album doing that. Something slow growing. Good

structure. Good form. Happy. I would like to progress to

Chelsea eventually. It is more than just pushing around

in an allotment. There is a lot of coolness. Young people could benefit

from it. I have played the guitar for many

years. I have a mandolin that needs playing, as well.

A wonderful opportunity. But somewhat stressful.

My garden is called A Home From Home, playing on the influences of

two environments, the urban and parole. You will see the Bali as you

would in the countryside. -- barley. Traditionally not an ornamental

plant, but I am using it on a mentally -- I am using it as an

ornament. I hope people like that. I will have a metal hedge, as well.

When you start to see the size of the plot, the excavation, all of the

things that need to come together before you put greenery down, you

are in danger of getting overwhelmed by it.

It definitely feels nice to see it. It is coming together. The weeks,

days prior to the show, I was getting incredibly nervous and I was

saying to myself then, it was the need to get going. I want to use

these re-claimed tiles. 6000 pieces. To us it is normal, it is just the

floor of a garden. But when we have come on-site, a lot of heads have

been turned, and a lot of condiments have been coming our way, which is

nice. The only thing that has not been coming together is the

metalwork. It is unwieldy, it is thin, it has a tendency to bend a

little bit. There are challenges which no doubt will be overcome.

But, challenges nonetheless. The barley has been an experiment. It

survived time on the grass -- time under glass and it has survived the

journey, as well. It feels like it has gone on for quite a while. But

we are winning, I think, and it is looking increasingly more like a

garden, which does a world of good for my nerves and state of mind.

Happy designer. Winning would be an enormous propulsion for me into the

garden design and landscape design world, but I am just really chuffed

to be picked to be in the last three and get an opportunity to build my

own show garden here. Well, Robin, the final design has

come together. It's very striking. It looks fantastic, are you pleased?

It has come together exactly as I envisaged. This is the only place it

slots together. One of the few opportunities as a designer you get

to see your own creation in maturity. You have used broad brush

strokes, the grass, the Japanese grass and then barley. I was not

expecting to see so much of it but it works. Absolutely. It was about

merging the contemporary and traditional. Huge blocks of barley,

contemporary, but imperfections are rustic and rural. You have this

L-shaped seating area which has sunken down. From here, you look

through your perennial planting. We were worried about the balance of

elements. Particularly in only two dimensions, but once we started

excavating, working in 3-D I am pleased with the chant units of it

and the space we created and the way it sits next to each other. My

favourite view is through here. Plant either side billowing over

here. It must have been tempting to put something on that wall but I

love the way it is understated. It is a mysterious, secret part of the

garden. Do you think you are in with a chance? I am in with a shout, we

are pleased and confident, I just hope the judges notice what I am

trying to achieve and appreciate the effort and the overall finish as

much as I do. I have a good chance. Best of luck. Thank you.

It's easy at these shows to be wowed and seduced by sumptuous

fleeting blooms, but often it's the background plants which set them

off and more importantly continue to offer form and structure

through the colder months of autumn and winter.

Toby has been to find the plants which can give our gardens the power

Flowers make a picture, and there are some plants that create a frame.

This is one of my favourites. It has this lovely ebony foliage

like firm, in sunshine it is almost black. It is a real beauty, it is

quite generous. It looks good in its own right but put it next to

anything else, the contrast brings out the colour. A wonderful thing,

come autumn starts to tempt red and orange. It is perfect in low

sunshine because the colour red seems to make it glow. Even this

will lose its leaves in winter. If you want your garden to look good

from December until spring, you need a plant with a bit more structure.

A small tree will give any garden shape and character but train trees,

when it comes to winter interest, they are in a league above. Espalia

apple. It is created by a bit of pruning. The resultant growth is

trained horizontally out onto wires or bamboo canes. It makes the dream

more fruitful but after the apples have been picked and the leaves have

fallen in autumn, you are left with a living sculpture. It is a work of

art, really. Of course, the evergreens give the

garden solidity through winter. Evergreens, you think sombre green,

but think again. These sparkle with colour right through the year.

This has a lovely sparkling silver leaf. It has a creamy edge, right

through winter. Perfect plant for a gravel garden where it grows into

waist high boulders. Another favourite of mine is Betis Boreham

Irene Patterson. This is from New Zealand.

The foliage has a milky splash around the outside and the stems are

almost black in colour but gives it a classy look. It goes with wedding

day whites and Ruby pinks and a beautiful backdrop.

Flowers might put the bubbles in summer's bottle but it is the

structural plants, the trees and evergreens that put the stopper in

the top. If you can put just 20% of these winter interest plants into

your garden, not only will your borders keep their freshness, they

will keep their fears 12 months of the year. -- keep their fizz.

Well you can't miss the vibrancy of the flowers in full bloom that

dominant the borders in this Back to Back garden.

Fabulous Echinacea, which works beautifully with this penny.

This is a border for high summer. It is not just private spaces that can

be transformed by plants. Danny Clarke has been to check out

one feature garden that could revolutionise our working

environments in the future. catch me working in an office in a

million years. At Tatton, there is a space that might just change my

mind. Hello. Danny, hello. I thought I might find you here.

Do you mind if I take a seat? I love this space. How did you come up with

the idea? We imagined ourselves sat in the field where we got the brief.

If we were to create an office, how would we do it? In a sustainable

way. This taps into the up cycling scene, which is right up my street.

I love the pallets is that a cattle feeder. Where you have your edibles?

That is the kitchen garden. No one will go hungry in this office.

Hopefully not. This appears very natural but it also has contemporary

lines. Typically an office environment. Straight lines,

corridors. We needed to keep some of those ideas, some of those

principles but break down those walls and create an office

environment. We're not really seeing it in an outdoor space. That was the

challenge, the space that group by -- provided that. What happens if it

rains? That is fine for the wildlife but what about your poor office

workers, how will they feel? There are so many days of the year where

it doesn't need to be fully sunny but it is dry. Even jeering the

winter, wrap up warm and just enjoy the environment. -- even jeering.

I can't believe I am saying this. I love this space. I wouldn't mind

working here, you have done a great job. Thank you, Danny.

The popularity of the tiny Back to Back gardens continues

as they wow the crowds here at Tatton, an event supported

You can find some highly original ideas packed into these bijou

designs, as Toby Buckland and I discovered earlier.

If you've never spent time in a hospital waiting room, you can

consider yourself very lucky indeed. At best, uninspiring at worst,

scary. This garden represents the antithesis of those waiting rooms.

It's called the waiting list. Alison was a former transplant nurse and

has created a garden that people on the transplant list coming into

hospital for dialysis can spend time in. It is a design that is rendered

with so much love. Ruby grasses herself from seed and it was brought

from her garden at home. Chocolate cosmos is a perfect plant because

the still air trapped the vanilla aroma of the flowers. There is a

border around the side that signifies the healing power and

cleansing qualities of water. It is beautiful but the planting makes it.

You have to be amongst the flowers to appreciate them. I am sitting

here with the rusty foxgloves swaying in the breeze with Echinacea

plants and grasses, it is lovely. You can't help but feel grant

grounded and. If I was in hospital, touch wood, that will not be soon, I

would like to sit and wait to see a consultant on for treatment while

looking at this plant while it is worked by the bees to take my mind

off the worries. This is the NSPCC Legacy garden

designed by Andrew Walker. A lovely story created from

childhood memories of holidays in the Lake District.

And the fantastic landscape and wonderful walks you can go on.

Particular point yet because I spend a lot of my childhood there as well.

Outside this beautifully built dry stone wall, we have the rough to

rain, things like Bracken and reeds and this rock under my foot. The

details of the stonework at exceptional, setting the scene. They

even have a gap in the wall but I remember jumping through as a child.

-- a gap in the wall that I. This garden fully achieves its aim,

it conjures up a childhood memories. It is a really lovely garden. For

me, it works well. Some of the planting feels a bit stuffed, they

are trying to hard to put too many plants in. The wicker dog, I don't

know, the garden stands up for itself without it. But I know many

people are going to love it. At first glance, the view within is

a crisp urban space designed for a pair of city slickers but Eileen

would also interviewed it with lovely personal touches. -- Eileen

Wood. Tell me about the plants and what they mean to you. When I look

at this, to taste the back to my childhood and being on the farm with

my man. She lived by the words -- with my nan. The words are coming

into the garden. Everything is not quite where it should be, but it is

where it should be. These features have been connected by your family

over the years? Pops? The hard landscaping is moving on. -- pots.

Me, as an adult. I have two children. The pot is holidays in

Italy. When it is a cold day or I am feeling low, the pots are there, it

takes me right back in time. To where you bought it? To where I

bought it and that moment in time with children. It is like a photo

album rendered as a garden. That is exactly it. I wanted the garden to

be the book as well. It is a wonderful garden layered with so

many experiences and so much of you. A really good job. Thanks.

Out of all 17 designs, only one could be chosen

as the RHS Best Back to Back Garden 2016.

Huge congratulations. How does it feel? It feels great. I like to

think we presented something slightly different from the norm. It

is a heavily landscaped garden. It is a city garden. It is a disused

piece of derelict land between buildings that you've turned into a

community space. Yeah, that's kind of what we do in our practice, we

create these gardens in unused spaces that we let the community

come in and enjoy. That is exemplified with the approach to

this garden. Yes, the poem is lovely, modern poetry. Yes. It was

written for the garden, we commissioned it from Ben Norris, a

poet from Nottingham. We wanted it that you -- wanted something that

you contemplated. It is not a billboard or a slogan, you can sit

at the back and read it slowly. It adds a sense of place, which is so

hard to create in a show garden, you have created something that feels as

if it exists in its own right. And the materials? Eclectic mix. We have

tried to not just use reclaimed materials for the sake of using

reclaimed materials but as part of material pallets, rusting it,

entered the brickwork planting. The planting pallet is spicy bust up --

it complemented. It was something to be deliberately warm to contrast a

grey and concrete city. Red-hot poker is working nicely.

Unfortunately, the selenium wasn't ready for the show but we were

hoping for Sunday. What kind of reaction have you got from people?

Mostly positive, you get people who don't like the style, which is I

guess great part of gardens, people have these preconceived notions of

what they like or what they don't like. But mostly positive. It is

great. Gold medal, best back-to-back garden, huge congratulations. Well

done. Still to come tonight,

Carol's making some noise with her celebration of bell

and trumpet shaped flowers at the show, and Rachel takes a walk

on the wild side as she looks at naturalistic planting

schemes here at Tatton. Time now to meet the second

designer in the running for the prestigious RHS

Young Designer of the Year title. Caitlin McLaughlin's

garden is called Nature and Nurture and aims

to enhance our own well-being, An Caitlin McLaughlin, I'm 26, from

Northamptonshire, and I am a plant scientist.

I use to making options out of hyacinths and pretend they were

deserts. Alan Titchmarsh, because I used to

be assessed with Gardeners World. -- obsessed.

Passionate, focused, and pessimistic, very honest.

Getting into Tatton. I am torn between two, a clover

because they are very short. But other thought was to get mean. --

but my other thought was forget me not.

Garden design professionally. I am not sure if it is cool. My

friends don't think I am cool. That's all right.

CHUCKLES At the job centre trying to sign on.

CHUCKLES Tatton is the biggest project I have

ever done, but quietly confident it will be OK.

I'm quite passionate about Wildflower conservation. I like to

slot that in no matter what the design. But usually very simplistic.

I wanted to combine that human health and well-being concept with

nature conservation. With a public park that will combine Wildflower

conservation with the health benefits of a public space.

Everything is progressing. The trees are in. Some of the yews art in. The

frame of the pond is in. I will need to crack on with that tomorrow. --

yews are in. I haven't had any training, it has all been done with

the help of the Internet. I am good at having a mini panic and then

instantly planning ahead on how to resolve all of those problems. We

have a large hole in the pond liner. We had to rebuild part of the pond

to have a new liner made. The problem with my garden is most of it

is planting. It looks a disaster until I get stuck in and put

everything in place. There have been moments where I think I maybe did

not make the right choice, but, no, I'm not regretting it. I wanted a

naturalistic looking at Meadow planting. It is more sparse than I

was hoping. From a distance it looks lovely and wild, which is exactly

what I wanted, but close up you can see all of these gaps. I cannot have

those gaps because it does not look good enough. I have added that copy,

but then other plants do not work because they are neat. -- poppy.

They look manicured, and they would not be in that wild environment. I

have five days. At this moment in time it isn't going very well.

Yesterday was not going too well, either. The day before was. It is a

journey. Tomorrow will go well. I think I am going to just sit and

stare at the ground for a long time, working out how things will look.

It is finished and looking absolutely fabulous. Thank you. Well

done, are you pleased? There were times in the build where I did not

think I would get to this point, but I am very happy with it. You had one

good day and two bad days. Yes, I felt I was bouncing from a big win

to a big loss, and then just trying to cope with how to fix things. That

is garden design and landscaping for you, you know? This look is not easy

to achieve, is it? No. It was a lot more complicated than I anticipated.

That is why I changed my planting slightly to have these pockets of

ornamentals which lead into the wild flowers and vice versa. I left

flowers going slightly over seed heads on the grass is because I

wanted to show the life-cycle progression as it would be in

nature. And you grew some yourself, didn't you? About 800 and my Mum's

back garden. The water feature, absolutely perfect. The reflective

quality, it mirrors the sky and brings those silver birch is down

into the garden in the reflection. I love the yew balls giving a bit of

structure. And you have not clipped them tightly and that fits in with

the garden. Yeah, I don't know too much about topiary, I did not want

over clip them and ruin things before judging. I left them shaggy

in the hopes it works cohesively. It is a pretty tight competition, do

you have a chance? I am my own worst critic, so I don't want to say, to

be honest. I don't know, probably not. Tough question. Good luck. I

think it is a lovely garden. Thank you.

Caitlin's naturalistic planting scheme

But is it possible to achieve this increasingly popular relaxed

style in our own gardens, without the neighbours

thinking you've let it become overgrown?!

The answer is yes, and here at Tatton there's a wealth

The thing about any kind of naturalistic planting is that it

should just look natural. It sounds easy but in actual fact it takes

quite a lot of cunning to make sure you get this wonderful, relaxed a

fact. First, choose plants that really look themselves. Let them

breathe, let them be who they are. You don't want to use Belize, those

rampant plants that try to take the whole thing over. -- bullies.

User-friendly plants which mix and mingle really well together. -- use

friendly plants. These thistles are perfect neighbours. They create the

picture you want. And for a really natural look, at a sprinkling of

annuals. Plants like this, it brings in the bees, it is easy to grow, it

is an annual and you can put it wherever you like and the bees love

it. A contemporary garden can also have a

wonderfully naturalistic quality to it. I think grass and other foliage

interest plants are key to getting that look. I love this along the

wall. It has that wonderful silvery foliage as the contrast. The grey

foliage is so effective. If you put a single grass into iPod or have a

group of them, move them around to wherever you want to have that

slightly unkempt but actually rather elegant look. -- a pod. To create

this style you don't have to replicate nature. You just have to

take some hints from it. This border has plants from all over the world,

but it is the way you put them together that gives it that height

and sense and style of nature. We have plants like the South African

agapanthus, and the Russian sage at the front. A good tip is to play

around with the sizes of the plants. Here we have two different sizes.

The largest one is Walter Funk, one of the best plant names ever, and

the smaller one is desert these terracotta. It feels as if the large

one has self seeded itself in the bed. It works really nicely and

creates that naturalistic look. And we have the blues, the bleached

outlook of the grasses, and spots of orange dropped in which look really

good against the rusty steel cubes. -- bleached out look. Your

neighbours will not think you have lost the plot, they will be looking

over the fence and admiring the garden. Michael Vincent decided to

interpret his theme of revolution by showing the stages of development of

plant life on Earth. -- Michael Vincent. This stream runs through

the garden emphasising the fact that all life on Earth started with the

water. The very first plants to develop on the earth were never

warts and mosses. Michael has tried to find the beauty in these little

plants which are so often ignored, but the detail is just astonishing.

-- liver worts. Major Ron came Ferns. We still use them ornamentals

in our gardens. -- later on. All of these plants depend on water for

their reproduction. Millions of years after Ferns emerged, along

came a huge group of prehistoric trees. Very primitive. And this one,

gingko biloba is the only one remaining from that family. People

adore these leaves, totally unlike any other tree leave. It is still

grown in gardens today and beloved particularly in the autumn when its

golden leaves cascade to the floor making great shiny carpets

everywhere. Relatively speaking, it is only in very recent times that

flowering plants have appeared on the earth. With their at a beauty,

glorious colours, and diverse shapes. Plants like these, this

wonderful day lily. Already we have seen two of the

finalists for the Young Designer of the Year. Last up is Lily Gomme who

was hoping her garden will lead her to that prestigious title. I am a

garden designer from Chesham, I am 27.

That is a really hard one. Maybe a bit weird, I'm not sure. Dance

spontaneously, a bit too much in people's gardens.

Picking runner beans, pulling all of the bugs off.

I started out studying architecture. I found myself staring out the

window. I just jumped out there instead.

Getting through to this competition. A constant evergreen. I don't want

to miss anything. It is cool, not when you were at

school. Anyone who doesn't think it is cool I don't think is cool.

I like the -- I like gin, well, I probably should not have said that.

In opportunity. I want to win because it would be cool. But I have

mainly been thinking about getting it done. I just want to see the

condition and of getting the garden finished. If I win that is

brilliant. I don't think I have developed a

style yet. I hope I haven't in a way. I like to be brought. This one

is soft. The little bit feminine. -- a little bit.

I have three different spaces. The entranceway, then the back door, and

that goes through to a seating area. The kitchen garden, and the back

space which is heavily planted. It has a day bed on which you can lie

back and relax. And they are all connected with this pergola which

leads you through to the back. Construction wise I'm not nervous.

But it is the plants and the planting scheme. I have put together

a show before. It is a flower show. That is my most fearful point right

now. I am going to be quite pernickety, and maybe annoy some

people. When you put so much effort into it, it has to be just right.

That's a lot better. Is it straight? A little bit that way. I'm not

wishing the days away, but I am looking forward to walking up and

just seeing it finished. That looks so much better. Perfect. I feel

confident now, which is nice, maybe not tomorrow, but right now.

CHUCKLES It's been good apart from the

weather. It looks like a festival here. It's holding us back about a

day. It's not really good for morale when you are soaking wet. It's not

very nice. I will be happy when all the hard

landscaping is done and we can concentrate on getting the plants

right. This is definitely the fun part, actually seeing some greenery

in the garden, playing with plants, less drilling, that's for sure.

I really just want to see it completed to the standard I wanted

to be completed and winning would be a bonus. -- I want it to be

completed. The pressure is on to get it done right now. That is the

pressure I am putting on myself. It doesn't look like festival any

more. No, it's all cleaned up. Not a mud patch, it looks like garden.

Finally. It works really well. Tell me about the design. I split the

back garden up into three different zones. Kitchen garden, it has a

walled edge with herbs and running along. I like the mirrors. It adds

depth. It makes that whole part of the garden feel much bigger. The

planting. You have gone for a very distinctive look. Colour combination

and then drifted through the entire garden. What have we got? Fabulous

plants. Echinacea. Which I have used through the garden. Classic.

These structures are good as well. They are not very like blocks. I

stepped them so it leaves you back through the garden. Let's have a

look at the back of the garden. -- it needs you. Completely separate

space. A lush chill out space. Definitely.

It is supposed to be secluded, you can lie back and forget about your

day if you need to. With a tree creating some shade, some privacy.

Yes. There are plants connecting the spaces like Echinacea but the pallet

subtly changes. Deeper colours. Angelica, slightly darker. I wanted

to create a different feeling as you come through the pergola. If you win

this competition Lilly, would you do a dance in the garden? No, I

wouldn't. Privately, maybe, when no one is here and I am watering on my

own. But not in front of the general public? They don't need to see that.

I don't blame you. It is a fantastic garden, everyone who sees it will

adore it. Thank you. Well done. The Young Designers' gardens always

turn heads at Tatton, but for Carol it's the plants that

make her soul sing. She's been hunting down the floral

bells and trumpets that are making All over the Tatton show this year,

there are lots of bells and trumpets, lots of other forms of

flowers as well. But why our flower forms so diverse?

All flowers have evolved with their pollinators, that is what gives them

their different forms. In the case of trumpets, like this beautiful

Lily it is all about a big insect being able to get in there,

penetrate this flower. Because the nectar is way up here. And suck that

nectar. As it does, it touches all of this sexual paraphernalia. Pollen

is dusted on its back and at the same time, its deposits pollen on

the stigma. Successful. Absolutely brilliant evolution. In the case of

Foxgloves, they have long trumpets. We are all used to seeing big fat

bumblebees fly inside. The trumpets close to make sure that once the B

gets in there, it can't get out until it's done its work. There is

one Foxglove with the tiniest globs imaginable.

Milk chocolate. It attracts tiny bumblebees to make absolutely -- and

they absolutely love it because it is drenched in pollen and nectar.

The clue is in the name. Campsis radicans, in this case the lovely

long bell shaped flowers face upwards, to your in its pollinators.

If you look in com it is red colour. In its native South America it is

pollinated by hummingbirds. Birds can see the colour red easily and

they are drawn into the flower and they make sure that pollen is spread

around. It is a really straightforward plant to grow. All

that needs is a very well-drained soil and the sunniest position you

can possibly give it. It will scramble for miles with masses and

masses of these beautiful trumpet flowers.

This is from Japan and Russia. It is called punctata because if you look

inside these bells, they are spotted. They are guides to help

draw the insects into the pollen. Everything is designed to make sure

pollination takes place. Punctata is really easy to grow. It will manage

even in quite heavy clay and it has a wonderful habit, it runs

underneath the ground and sends up fresh shoots. Every of them is full

of delightful bell flowers. Talking of favourites, mine has to

be this Echinacea white swan. We always see a Echinacea at Tatton and

they represent high summer. This is an absolute beauty, the drooping

white petals. And the comb in the middle at the top, which has this

amazing structure and beautiful depth of colour. That is my

favourite. We asked the rest of the team to pick their top plants from

the rest of the show, this year. A tree fern. This excites me. The

reason it does that is because its architectural. It will bring drama

to any border. Lovely fibrous roots. Out of that, the baby ones, as they

fill up look like gorilla's knuckles. It is a real show stopper.

I can't walk past a display of dahlias without wanting to add to my

own collection and this one has really caught my eye. It is

something about the shabbiness of the petals combined with the dark

intensity of the Carlow which I am always drawn to. When you see them

on show like this, combined and contrasting with tangerines,

oranges, lemons, they stand out even more. That is the one that is coming

home with me. I'm very tempted by these as well.

This is my pick at Tatton. Redmond Lee Kim. It is a bold with a bad

hair day. The flowers open in tax from the top down. It has a punkish

individuality. Sometimes it is around your waist and others at

Randy Orton is. Bees just adore it. -- and others round your shoulders.

40 or 50 on these flowers alone. My favourite plant at Tatton is

Craig has cacti. They have cactus. A nice plant but very, really

flowers whilst it is being displayed at Tatton.

Because it has been so hot and particularly in the marquee it has

burst into flower in a positive fanfare of Flora first nurse. If

that wasn't enough, it is time to find out who has won this year's RHS

Young Designer of the Year. here's a recap of the three

designers in contention. This combines elements of country

and city life, producing an urban oasis. Planting pallet is simplified

with large blocks of field barley. This is a garden inspired by

hedgerows and meadows. Large beds of wild flowers lead to a shallow pond

with Ireland seating. Creating a place both of rest and restoration.

-- a pond with island seating. This design merges indoor and

outdoor living. The visitor is shorn through the space by a wooden

pergola that leads to inedible kitchen containing seasonal produce.

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time to reveal this year's

winner and here with the result is Sue Biggs, the Director General

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to award this prize. Our young

designers, these three here today of super-talented and we're lucky to

have your talents for the future but I am really delighted to announce

that the winner of this trophy and Young Designer of the Year 2016 is

Caitlin Mclaughlin. APPLAUSE Why Caitlin? Three fabulous gardens

but what stood out in hers? I am not a judge but I know what a beautiful

garden this is. How you can have health and happiness in an urban

landscape and that is an amazing achievement. Congratulations, you

captured it beautifully, a wonderful garden. APPLAUSE

You got quite emotional. Yeah. I cried quite a bit. To build a garden

is exhausting. It is, I was up at 5am. Yes, a very hot day as well,

easy to get emotional but were you expecting it? I really wasn't. When

you are completely wrapped up in it. Long, you notice all the things that

might not be quite right and you just assume everyone else could see

them as glaringly obvious. But those are minute details. They are. They

wonderful experience, you came at the winner. Fantastic,

congratulations, well done. Thank you. I will see a lot of you in the

future no doubt. Caitlin was overwhelmed. Very

emotional. It is a big deal. It is. Her garden was wonderful, all three

were really good. My favourite of the three, my favourite garden in

the whole of the show is Lilly Gomm's. I thought that was a

stunner. The judges gave it a silvergilt. But I'd give it a Monty

Gold. Monty Gold? Very strong garden. Last show, this year, aren't

we lucky with the weather? It has been a year that has been rich in

gardens and rich implants. What I like about it, from the last day at

pattern, we are in a lucky position of being there at the beginning,

following that horticultural thread right through to the end. Sadly,

this is the end from the RHS shows this year.

So until next time, it's goodbye from all

We look forward to seeing you, next year. Goodbye.

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