:00:13. > :00:17.Welcome to the 750 acres of glorious Deerpark Road which are
:00:17. > :00:23.the setting for this year's RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
:00:23. > :00:29.Behind me, the perfect formal gardens at Hampton Court Palace
:00:29. > :00:34.itself. There are 60 acres of gardens that have endured over 480
:00:34. > :00:38.years and there are currently home to about 8000 trees and one hand
:00:38. > :00:43.and 40,000 other plants. The show is only on for seven days but in
:00:43. > :00:50.that time, visitors can see hundreds of thousands of plants,
:00:50. > :00:57.displayed at the peak of perfection. Up to 38 gardeners tended gardens
:00:57. > :01:03.and 95% of the waste is recycled. There are 229 exhibitors and the
:01:03. > :01:07.RHS has promised to recite a 96% of the green waste. Tonight we can
:01:07. > :01:13.promise you a full 60 minutes pact of the very best the show has to
:01:13. > :01:16.offer. Coming up: Chris Beardshaw tells us why his show garden, the
:01:16. > :01:20.Stockman's Retreat is helping create a new generation of
:01:20. > :01:24.passionate Landseer's. We have had our ups and downs, moments when we
:01:24. > :01:28.have looked at the enormity of the task and we have been like a rabbit
:01:28. > :01:31.in headlights but that is the point of the training programme. Meeting
:01:32. > :01:37.the nursery applying the Japanese art of bonsai to our own native
:01:37. > :01:43.trees. There is something about a bonsai that gives you such a reward
:01:43. > :01:47.in satisfaction. It is a bit like a Rembrandt, it is an art. And the
:01:47. > :01:53.modern day plant hunter, Tom Hart Dyke, shares his national
:01:53. > :02:03.collection of eucalyptus. When you see it is going white, to green, to
:02:03. > :02:12.
:02:12. > :02:17.Hello and welcome to the 2011 RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
:02:17. > :02:26.We have been here for nearly a week now, you must have seen everything?
:02:26. > :02:33.No way! It is such a large show and I get stuck in certain corners.
:02:33. > :02:38.Conceptual gardens, large gardens, small gardens. I have been in the
:02:38. > :02:42.market garden three or four times and what I love about that is that
:02:42. > :02:46.it is inspiring, it is all about what you can do at home, not what
:02:46. > :02:52.we can do to feel you from of ideas. There is a sense that some shows
:02:52. > :02:55.are about that? The floral marquees are still looking good. I try to
:02:55. > :02:59.make a diversion through there were ever I am going and they replenish
:02:59. > :03:06.the stock on a daily basis so it is looking very fresh. The Floral
:03:06. > :03:10.Pavilion I have been to least. We get here at 7 am in the morning so
:03:10. > :03:15.for 15 minutes we can go and see things and I always have my
:03:15. > :03:21.notebook in my pocket and a pen and I just write down lists of plants,
:03:21. > :03:26.things and combinations I like. Have you seen the edible mushroom
:03:26. > :03:30.conceptual garden? I like the reaction of people, people seem to
:03:30. > :03:36.enjoy them. As a show like this, the big show gardens still carry
:03:36. > :03:41.the day, they are the stars, like it or not. This one won a gold
:03:41. > :03:45.medal and we met the Duchess of Cornwall at this garden. At Chelsea
:03:45. > :03:50.Flower Show last year, the garden designer and presenter Chris
:03:50. > :03:53.Beardshaw visited a garden made by a group of UK Skills, an
:03:53. > :04:00.organisation promoting apprentices from a range of disciplines. He was
:04:00. > :04:04.so impressed by this that this year, he is designed a garden in
:04:04. > :04:07.conjunction with three at landscape trainees from UK Skills. The first
:04:07. > :04:12.thing he had then do before starting work on the garden was to
:04:12. > :04:22.visit the National Trust's garden at Hidcote Manor so that they could
:04:22. > :04:23.
:04:23. > :04:27.learn how to mimic nature within a My team consists of three young men
:04:27. > :04:33.who are focused and dedicated towards landscape gardening. James
:04:33. > :04:40.from Northern Ireland has a great air of confidence about him. Ollie
:04:40. > :04:44.is the cheeky one of the trio. Simon is the cool, calm, collected
:04:44. > :04:52.character. It is their responsibility to build the garden
:04:52. > :04:56.at Hampton. We got to represent the English landscape in all of its
:04:56. > :05:00.glory in the show and encapsulate that with the exit. And digging the
:05:01. > :05:05.lads to one of my favourite gardens, Hidcote Manor, to take a close look
:05:05. > :05:10.at three of that habitats they will have to create - would land, meadow
:05:10. > :05:17.and stream. The woodland is the backdrop to the garden, largely
:05:17. > :05:20.about recreating very informal, a natural looking space. One of the
:05:20. > :05:27.first thing that strikes you in this environment is the amount of
:05:27. > :05:33.light blocked out by the can be at the trees. Ivy for instance, is a
:05:33. > :05:38.dark green plant and that allows the plant to capture as much of the
:05:38. > :05:46.light as possible. Other plants like lords and ladies, you can see
:05:46. > :05:51.the berries are in flower. As soon as these leaves established, all of
:05:51. > :05:55.this goes green the thing about the arrangement is that it all looks
:05:55. > :06:05.very informal, there is no logic to how everything is laid out and this
:06:05. > :06:07.
:06:07. > :06:12.is what we have got to try to recreate. We very often think of
:06:12. > :06:16.meadows as being simplistic. It is grass with a few flowers in but
:06:16. > :06:22.take a look at a small area like this, have a square metre five or
:06:22. > :06:26.six different flooring plant species. Even with the brief glance,
:06:26. > :06:33.there are maybe 15 or 20 species of grass in here as well. It is also
:06:33. > :06:40.working at the role this plant is playing. It is called Yellow rattle.
:06:40. > :06:44.You can hear that. It rattles! pushes its routes into the roots of
:06:44. > :06:48.the surrounding grasses and sucks the life out of the grass and so
:06:48. > :06:53.the canopy of the grass is reduced and it is this idea of almost brush
:06:53. > :06:58.strokes of the yellow with the buttercups and this rather acid
:06:58. > :07:08.green coming through. It is quite weighty. We have got to try to
:07:08. > :07:11.
:07:11. > :07:16.recreate with these little jewels of the disease. -- daisies. Water
:07:16. > :07:19.comes into different guises in the design. One is as a gentle stream
:07:19. > :07:25.of what we have to get right is the way the plans have started to
:07:25. > :07:30.colonise those. This little area of natural planting in here is going
:07:30. > :07:33.to give us a very good pointer. Look at the way the plans are
:07:33. > :07:37.establishing and have a look in there, on the banks, because they
:07:37. > :07:40.are going right into the stream, one of two little seedlings Art
:07:40. > :07:43.Show starting to establish themselves. It is a good
:07:43. > :07:50.demonstration of the fact that we need a good variety of generation
:07:50. > :07:55.of plants. There are at home in herbaceous borders but we can use
:07:55. > :08:05.them right alongside the stream to act as a buffer between the stream
:08:05. > :08:10.
:08:10. > :08:16.and the broader herbaceous planting that goes on next door. Definitely!
:08:16. > :08:21.How has it been, is it amazing building this garden? It has been
:08:22. > :08:25.amazing, especially for us. It was a great opportunity to jump into
:08:25. > :08:29.the plants with Chris he is so enthusiastic. What is your
:08:30. > :08:38.favourite but of the garden? stream that goes down there under
:08:38. > :08:44.the bridge. Years! That is mine, too, because we built that. What
:08:44. > :08:51.about you? I like the two dry-stone colours at the end which I built!
:08:51. > :08:58.Well done, give yourself a pat on back.
:08:58. > :09:02.The lads have done really well, we are still talking as well. It has
:09:02. > :09:05.been a real challenge for them. We have had our ups and downs. They
:09:05. > :09:08.have been moments when they looked at the enormity of the task and it
:09:08. > :09:12.has been a rabbit in headlights but that is the point of the training
:09:12. > :09:17.programme. It shows the sky is how to deal with the major task and
:09:17. > :09:22.bring it down into smaller fragments. The garden looks
:09:22. > :09:27.absolutely stunning. Run us through the idea behind it? The UK team
:09:27. > :09:29.represent us at the World Schools competition in October so we had to
:09:30. > :09:35.encapsulate a training programme that was demonstrating what a
:09:35. > :09:40.British garden is all about so we start off at the front with a very
:09:40. > :09:45.glamorous Borders and become around to a more priory style of planting.
:09:45. > :09:48.Then a traditional English flower meadow. Then the cart track, the
:09:48. > :09:55.dry-stone wall and off into the rural idyll of the agricultural
:09:55. > :10:00.landscape. The planting does soften it so much and the detail is
:10:00. > :10:06.incredible actually. That is the idea, it has to be a real piece of
:10:06. > :10:10.theatre. Things like the wall on the building, hand-made bricks in
:10:10. > :10:17.the old English garden. The track is made out of a harder material,
:10:17. > :10:20.made in a cobbled style. What about these boulders that run through
:10:20. > :10:24.here because they're quite a contemporary twist on the garden.
:10:24. > :10:31.Lots of people look at this and think it is traditional in garden
:10:31. > :10:38.terms that this is about training. A raw product with great potential,
:10:38. > :10:44.coming to the skills programme, getting to the one that has floated
:10:44. > :10:54.on the water. I really like that, the whole garden is wonderful, well
:10:54. > :10:56.
:10:56. > :11:03.The Stockman's Retreat is not the only one here at Hampton Court.
:11:03. > :11:08.Chris uses his for horticulture purposes, the arts and skills
:11:08. > :11:18.needed to make a show garden, there are many diverse messages that the
:11:18. > :11:26.
:11:26. > :11:31.Rachel is dealing with a very complex subject. Her last car and
:11:32. > :11:36.got an amazing response. What you think what this garden? Obviously
:11:36. > :11:39.the message is difficult and it is brave to go about it but it works,
:11:39. > :11:43.regardless of the message because it has gone for it with such
:11:44. > :11:48.enthusiasm, they had used all the bright shades of pink and
:11:48. > :11:52.ruthlessly edited out the others. The conventional wisdom is that
:11:52. > :11:56.only soft pastel colours work under an English spy but I think you can
:11:56. > :12:00.challenge that. The message is, if you are using strong colours,
:12:00. > :12:09.choose the brightest, strongest combinations and make them sing and
:12:09. > :12:18.dance. Don't be coy. It would be a little -- a great little roof
:12:18. > :12:23.garden. You would have to pray for some!
:12:23. > :12:26.This is one of the gold medal winners. It is one of the best
:12:26. > :12:30.gardens in the show and you cannot faulted on any level yet I don't
:12:31. > :12:35.feel comfortable with it which is an odd sensation. It is a highly
:12:35. > :12:40.accomplished garden, very well designed and planted. I feel
:12:40. > :12:47.slightly that I am sitting on the terrace of a five-star hotel. It is
:12:47. > :12:54.not unpleasant. But I wouldn't want to have this at home. Many people
:12:54. > :12:59.would think, I would love to have a garden like that. We have lavenders,
:12:59. > :13:02.evergreen barques, silver birches, there is depth to the planting.
:13:02. > :13:07.of the things I would take away from this is that you can do things
:13:07. > :13:12.on a horizontal level. You can plant horizontally as well. We have
:13:12. > :13:22.the structure here that gives it the height. It is not a garden that
:13:22. > :13:24.
:13:24. > :13:30.I will roll up my sleeves and get This is one of the most inspiring
:13:30. > :13:33.thing I have seen. It is done by two student, Caroline and Petra who
:13:33. > :13:38.have left clodge, so there is real talent coming through. The second
:13:38. > :13:43.is they have taken a big idea, world harmony, and made it into a
:13:43. > :13:46.garden. They have succeeded. It shows you can do anything with a
:13:46. > :13:50.garden. They have taken circular pools of plants. Individual species
:13:50. > :13:54.pools of plants. Individual species all the plants circled round,
:13:54. > :14:00.defined by rusting metal plates. The tree, the silver birchs, a
:14:00. > :14:04.terrible cliche in sew gardens but they have chosen a variety called
:14:04. > :14:08.Fascination. It picks up on the digitalis on the front and on the
:14:08. > :14:18.metal and on the leaves, so it is subtle, it is calm, and yet it is
:14:18. > :14:23.big and inspiring. I won best in show. If you are watching last
:14:23. > :14:27.night, you will recall there was a new range of roses introduced here.
:14:27. > :14:31.Roses are an important part of the show but they are by no means the
:14:31. > :14:41.only flowers you will see. Rachel has been to the floral marquee to
:14:41. > :14:44.
:14:44. > :14:48.check out the other new Every year, nurseries, find breed
:14:48. > :14:58.and collect new plants, and here in the floral marquee, well, many of
:14:58. > :15:02.
:15:02. > :15:07.them are taking their first bow in Pine cottage plants is showing
:15:07. > :15:14.beautiful South African natives. Agapanthus, this is their time of
:15:14. > :15:20.year to shine. This one is called ind go dreams. It is very dark in
:15:20. > :15:29.bud. Once the flowers open it retains that dark colouring, so
:15:30. > :15:34.unusual. Below it a tug bag ya. The best thing it keeps flowering, from
:15:34. > :15:44.spring through to autumn. But it needs good drainage, perhapss on
:15:44. > :15:45.
:15:45. > :15:54.the patio or a raised bed with A new introduction from Bowden is
:15:54. > :15:58.this little one called Hands Up. It is a small version. It has a lovely
:15:58. > :16:02.up right habit. Slightly curved leaves and the leaves are really
:16:02. > :16:12.quite thick, so has very good resistance to slugs and nails.
:16:12. > :16:14.
:16:14. > :16:19.Sounds good to me! This is a brand- new plant. It stays nice and green
:16:20. > :16:26.down the central area, and then this fan shape at the top becomes
:16:26. > :16:31.paleer you get a strong contrast between that and this lovely dark
:16:31. > :16:37.purple vaining. It is attractive and carnivorous plants are gaining
:16:37. > :16:41.in popularity. They are easier to grow than you think. A pot with a
:16:41. > :16:51.dish of rain water underneath. They need a good cold winter in order to
:16:51. > :16:53.
:16:53. > :16:57.These are popular foliage plants w the bonus of pretty flowers. Until
:16:57. > :17:03.recently much of the breeding has been going on in America, where
:17:03. > :17:08.they are mad for them. But Heucheraholics are showing a few
:17:08. > :17:14.that have been bred in Europe. We have one from Belgium. This is Red
:17:14. > :17:18.Dress. Small leaf, very dark green and the underside in purple. This
:17:18. > :17:22.this French one. A nice bright lime green, with the slightly darker
:17:22. > :17:26.marking on the leaf. They do have a habit of working their way upwards
:17:26. > :17:32.in the soi. They try and push out, so if that happens in your garden,
:17:32. > :17:38.dig them up, you can divide them and replant them a bit deeper. They
:17:38. > :17:42.will be perfectly happy. One group of plants that always attracts the
:17:42. > :17:48.admiration of the crowds are the bon sis. This magical Japanese art
:17:48. > :17:52.form has been dominated by men, until recently. But now, bonsai
:17:52. > :17:58.enthusiast Chrissie has joined her fellow male exhibitors taking
:17:58. > :18:02.skills into a new direction.Ies -- Chrissie doesn't just restrict
:18:02. > :18:12.herself to classic Japanese trees, she has extended the practice to
:18:12. > :18:17.
:18:17. > :18:21.There is something about a bonsai that can give you such a rewarding
:18:21. > :18:24.satisfaction, it is like a recommend draant an a Constable.
:18:24. > :18:29.There is an art. Something you can only bring it out from yourself,
:18:29. > :18:36.within the tree, you can reflect that art f you like, in a living
:18:36. > :18:43.piece of material. Bonsai actually means a translation from Japanese
:18:43. > :18:47.to English is tree, or plant in a tray. This is a tree that is a
:18:47. > :18:52.Chinese elm, which is the, probably the one people are most familiar
:18:52. > :18:57.with. I started off with one of these, and a little oak tree. I
:18:57. > :19:05.have decided to go for trees that are indigenous, and trees that are
:19:05. > :19:11.available to us and will cope with living in this climate. This is a
:19:11. > :19:21.tree that was taken out of a skip, five years ago. It has been a
:19:21. > :19:26.bonsai for three years. This is a hau thorn. It was growing happily
:19:26. > :19:35.as a hedge until the farmer decided he needed to make room for another
:19:35. > :19:39.barn. This is a yew salvaged from a garden. This is the first stage of
:19:39. > :19:42.coming into the world of bonsai. It is probably about 50 years old. As
:19:42. > :19:47.it stood in the ground, as you can imagine the size of tree, there was
:19:47. > :19:52.a huge amount of roots, which the tree now has to recover. Originally
:19:52. > :19:56.it has tap root, the tap roots hold it into the ground. We don't need
:19:56. > :20:01.them. So I work into the next four yier, will be to develop the
:20:01. > :20:06.fibrous feeding roots, which is the future of the tree. The trunk, this
:20:06. > :20:10.is amazing. It has the future of being a really good piece of
:20:10. > :20:18.material. This tree was destined to be destroyed, and got rid of. I
:20:18. > :20:23.have got the pleasure of keeping it going on. This one is a year two,
:20:23. > :20:28.this part of the tree, where it was cut off from here and the base, has
:20:28. > :20:35.actually died off, and this branch here tells me and confirms that, so
:20:35. > :20:38.we can track back through this area, which is the live vein is coming up
:20:38. > :20:43.from the outside and rising round the outside of this. So we now that
:20:43. > :20:48.this part is dead. We can now work with the tree because which know
:20:49. > :20:54.where the live veins are. This will be carved and created and made into
:20:54. > :20:59.a tree that looks like it is dead. Not just cut off here and here.
:21:00. > :21:05.There will be artwork applied, with drilling and kafrg out the deadwood
:21:05. > :21:11.to create the artistic side to it. This is stage three, we can now
:21:11. > :21:15.actually carve the wood out that we know is dead, from the taking from
:21:16. > :21:22.the ground. You can see the live layer round the deadwood. As you
:21:22. > :21:26.can see, the top, we have two holes. This depicts age. I mean, a lot of
:21:26. > :21:32.ancient trees you see in nature have holes, and we have jumped
:21:32. > :21:37.ahead and we have used carving tools to create this deadwood
:21:37. > :21:45.appearance. We can then also apply the wires to the tree, to create
:21:45. > :21:55.the branches. From a tree that is growing in a garden, unwanted
:21:55. > :22:00.
:22:00. > :22:04.position, you can have something Who is to say 100 or 1,000 years
:22:04. > :22:13.down the line my trees might still be alive. I would like to think so.
:22:13. > :22:17.I hope to think so any way. Well Chrissie, all these creations on
:22:17. > :22:20.your stand I love the privet and the pine over there, but people
:22:20. > :22:26.find them tricky, they are scared of growing them. I know people
:22:26. > :22:30.would like to, but what are your top tips on growing these? I think
:22:30. > :22:34.the accessible ones are the indoor one, the Chinese elm, they are easy
:22:34. > :22:38.trees to start with. You can progress to using outdoor material,
:22:38. > :22:42.which are trees that are indigenous to this country. Far better to use,
:22:42. > :22:45.because they would naturally prefer to be outside. The indoor trees
:22:45. > :22:50.would need the winter care in the house and maybe outside in the
:22:50. > :22:53.summer. What about watering and feeding? Yes, possibly on a daily
:22:53. > :22:59.basis through the growing season. Pruning again, through the growing
:22:59. > :23:04.season. Some weeks you may doing it twice a week, some may not be every
:23:04. > :23:08.six weeks. So keep a gauge on how much the growing. Clip it back.
:23:08. > :23:11.When you see something shoot out cut it back Yes, the more you can
:23:11. > :23:16.prune them back, the more they are going to grow. The tree will know
:23:16. > :23:21.it wants to have so many leaves to continue through the growing season.
:23:21. > :23:25.If you cut it back, it will spring out new leaves, so the more you
:23:26. > :23:35.prune the bet it will respond. make it sound easy. You have
:23:36. > :23:38.
:23:38. > :23:42.brought your creations here. Lovely I love the RHS grow your own market.
:23:42. > :23:47.Anything that encourages people to grow food, cook it, eat it, and
:23:47. > :23:51.enjoy it is fine by me. The most spectacular stand is this. It is
:23:51. > :23:55.The Garlic Farm, from the Isle of Wight. It does what it says on the
:23:55. > :23:59.tin. It is all about garlic. You know, there isn't a guard none the
:23:59. > :24:05.British Isles, that can't grow garlic successfully. There are lots
:24:05. > :24:09.of different variety, you can plant it as early as September or late as
:24:09. > :24:18.January. You can harvest as early in May or the end of the summer. It
:24:18. > :24:24.People always talk about growing fruit and veg, but they don't talk
:24:24. > :24:29.enough about growing herbs. Herbs should be essential in any garden.
:24:29. > :24:34.They are the core of a really good edible garden. I am not necessarily
:24:35. > :24:40.talking about fancy herbs, although it is interesting to see red
:24:41. > :24:47.spinach. I am talking about herbs like Rosemary, sage, parsley.
:24:47. > :24:51.Common enough but all delicious, and I think all essential. It is
:24:51. > :24:55.really good on the Blackmoor stand to see fruit reduced right down in
:24:55. > :24:59.size. I think everybody should grow some fruit in their garden. I know
:24:59. > :25:04.people feel, that is, fine if you have space, by only have a small
:25:04. > :25:12.backyard, how do I do it. You do it like this. You grow step over
:25:12. > :25:21.variety, there is James grieve which is in the Copella garden. The
:25:21. > :25:25.same plant. You can train fruit. Truth is, any St Paul garden can
:25:25. > :25:30.produce wonderful food. There are a couple of guarders who set out to
:25:30. > :25:40.prove you can grow your five a day in a smaller area as ten square
:25:40. > :25:41.
:25:41. > :25:45.Our garden is called the five a day garden, because through the ten
:25:45. > :25:49.square metres of planting space we are using, you can grow enough
:25:49. > :25:55.fruit and vegetables to meet the Government's recommended five a day
:25:55. > :26:02.guideline, every day throughout the year. We are showing you how you
:26:02. > :26:07.could grow in a confined planting space. You can have planters on
:26:07. > :26:17.your stairs or wall, on a patio or on a roof terrace, the thing that
:26:17. > :26:21.
:26:21. > :26:26.is great about it, anybody can do They are probably five key pointers
:26:26. > :26:32.behind how somebody could create their own five a day garden. One is
:26:32. > :26:37.this deep bed method. All plants have different root depths, and of
:26:37. > :26:42.course therefore different depth requirements in a planter. Here we
:26:42. > :26:45.have salad crops which by and large have a similar requirement. We have
:26:45. > :26:51.30 centimetres here, which is perfect for salad, and any deeper
:26:51. > :26:55.and you would be putting compost in a pot you didn't need. Over here we
:26:55. > :27:05.have carrots. It illustrates the density of planting you can achieve.
:27:05. > :27:05.
:27:05. > :27:15.If you get the depth right. How Design tip two is to use all of the
:27:15. > :27:18.
:27:18. > :27:22.If you are as committed as I am to tomato, realistically a greenhouse
:27:22. > :27:28.will make a difference. Where to put it? Other than plonking it in
:27:28. > :27:38.the middle of the lawn, I couldn't think of a solution. Until I struck
:27:38. > :27:39.
:27:39. > :27:44.You have to make every thing you grow count. So do a bit of research
:27:45. > :27:51.before you plunge into buying the first seeds you come across,
:27:51. > :27:55.because the wealth to kooz from is phenomenal. These are the crystal
:27:56. > :27:59.apple cucumbers that are going to Hampton Court for the show garden.
:27:59. > :28:04.The only way for you to be able to enjoy one is to grow your own. That
:28:04. > :28:14.is part of the whole joy of this five a a day garden, is widening
:28:14. > :28:17.your taste bud experiences. When you are growing in a small
:28:18. > :28:22.area, it is important to always have small plants growing, you can
:28:22. > :28:28.replace gaps when you get them. These beans have come to the end of
:28:28. > :28:32.their life now, and we have planted some aubergines, that are ready to
:28:32. > :28:42.be potted on into containers. You are getting two crops from one
:28:42. > :28:45.
:28:45. > :28:49.Final tip is contact with your plants. Visit them every day, look
:28:49. > :28:53.at them, turn the leaves over, because you will find clusters --
:28:53. > :28:58.clusters of eggs under them. If you can be brave. Wipe of the thumb,
:28:59. > :29:04.that is it, over and done with. You have nipped the problem in the bud.
:29:04. > :29:09.If you visit them once a week those eggs will be hatching and the first
:29:09. > :29:14.thing you will notice is holes in the leaves. The tips we have gone
:29:14. > :29:18.through will help you on the way to achieving the maximum yield, but of
:29:18. > :29:23.course you don't have to do the whole thing. Pick the vegetable you
:29:23. > :29:25.most like or the space you have got, be it is a window box or balcony
:29:25. > :29:35.and make your own little contribution to growing your five a
:29:35. > :29:41.
:29:41. > :29:45.day. A bit of space goes a very You're really into encouraging
:29:45. > :29:50.people to grow their own vegetables, why is five a day so important to
:29:50. > :29:57.you? This garden has been designed specifically to cram the maximum
:29:57. > :30:03.amount of plants in. They are planted using a very clever method,
:30:03. > :30:08.meeting new you can get for a bold increase from your yield. You are
:30:08. > :30:13.able to get five a day for one person for every day out of the
:30:13. > :30:18.year. You can get so much fun and and variety, we have managed to get
:30:18. > :30:22.over 50 types of vegetables in his garden. Is that one of your strange
:30:22. > :30:28.cucumbers over there? Yes it is a Crystal Apple cucumber and it grows
:30:28. > :30:32.really easily. It produces tons of fruit. I will have to try that!
:30:32. > :30:42.Your first time ever at Hampton Court and you got a gold medal, we
:30:42. > :30:48.become regulars? Definitely not regulars but definitely Maybe!
:30:48. > :30:56.It is a huge amount of work, physical and mental and time wise.
:30:56. > :30:57.We have got other things to do as well, a business to run. It is a
:30:57. > :31:03.Graham Earl of garden, congratulations and Never Say
:31:03. > :31:08.Never! As Heather and Nicola had shown,
:31:08. > :31:12.growing your own fruit and vegetables can be very satisfying.
:31:12. > :31:16.That is something that Alice has been passion about for years. No
:31:16. > :31:26.surprise that she made a beeline for the small gardens dedicated to
:31:26. > :31:29.
:31:29. > :31:34.that of a growing when she visited the show earlier this week.
:31:34. > :31:37.This is the home front garden. It is a traditional take on a second
:31:37. > :31:41.world war vegetable garden so the lawn has been dug up and replaced
:31:41. > :31:46.with vegetables and there is plenty of rows of cabbages, tomatoes and
:31:46. > :31:51.onions. It is full of lots of charming period detail, you can
:31:51. > :31:54.really immerse yourself in times gone by here. Is a proper make-do
:31:54. > :32:04.and mend. All the hard landscaping has been recycled as for that
:32:04. > :32:17.
:32:17. > :32:21.This garden is called the potential feast and is a very modern twist on
:32:21. > :32:27.the cottage garden. You have edible flowers, herbs and vegetables are
:32:27. > :32:31.all mixed together and it has an incredibly subdued and subtle
:32:31. > :32:36.colour palette. They have also made a point of choosing vegetables that
:32:36. > :32:41.look good. You have this crimson a broad bean that has the most
:32:41. > :32:47.intense smell to it and you also have the lovely purple pot of peas
:32:47. > :32:51.here and there beat should with its intense metallic waves. This is a
:32:51. > :32:57.very attractive vegetable garden but it is not without humour. You
:32:57. > :33:00.get to eat the walls if you want to and tomatoes tumble from above.
:33:00. > :33:08.This is a modern take on the edible garden, an incredibly good use of
:33:08. > :33:12.space and I can imagine gardening here.
:33:12. > :33:16.This garden is an urban harvest and has been designed for a community
:33:16. > :33:20.to use. What I like about the spaces how much fruit they have
:33:20. > :33:24.managed to pack into the design so on the top layer, we have these
:33:24. > :33:27.beautiful standard apples with their long stems with plenty of
:33:27. > :33:31.space underneath for planting and then in the middle layer we have
:33:31. > :33:36.the elder and along the front we have a little hedge of gooseberries
:33:36. > :33:40.and wild strawberries. Back here when you're sitting on the seating
:33:40. > :33:44.area, it is secluded and quiet and it gives it a lovely feeling. You
:33:44. > :33:48.could get lost in the space and yet there is still plenty of vegetable
:33:48. > :33:52.garden to be done. The small gardens Russia have been packed
:33:52. > :33:55.full of vegetables. There is plenty of inspiration from the traditional
:33:55. > :34:01.take on the old vegetable garden to something much more modern and
:34:01. > :34:07.slick. We still have lots to come on the
:34:07. > :34:11.programme. Gill is visiting Hampton Court's first night garden to show
:34:11. > :34:20.that outdoor living doesn't have to come to their close when dusk
:34:20. > :34:24.arrives. Also, I am interviewing Tom Hart Dyke who has brought his
:34:25. > :34:29.national collection of eucalyptus here. You cannot help but love them,
:34:29. > :34:33.can you? It is an obsessive behaviour! If there's anything you
:34:33. > :34:43.want to know about the flower show, you can find out by going to our
:34:43. > :34:49.
:34:49. > :34:55.Another series of thought-provoking designs are because sexual gardens
:34:55. > :35:00.here. They are meant to combine horticulture with deep thinking.
:35:00. > :35:04.What does it mean to you? What we try to do is represent a snapshot
:35:04. > :35:08.of reality, is the conclusion to an intellectual journey, it is
:35:08. > :35:13.actuality there is being displayed. A conceptual garden is at the start
:35:13. > :35:17.of the process, when all the intellectual things took place. It
:35:17. > :35:23.should pose more questions than offering solutions. What you think
:35:23. > :35:30.of this garden? This one is called in during freedom and is said to
:35:30. > :35:37.represent the service men's journey into the unknown and the potential
:35:37. > :35:41.hostility of the Afghan atmosphere. How well does it display the
:35:41. > :35:46.concept of harshness and transition. When you cross that wrestled, do
:35:46. > :35:51.you feel that the threat is here in the way that it is present in
:35:51. > :35:55.Afghanistan? It is a bit of the stage show, a representation of of
:35:55. > :35:59.Venice - and, too obvious, I suppose. It has been beautifully
:35:59. > :36:07.planted and in a way, it dilutes the severity of the cause and the
:36:07. > :36:11.concept. A hands-on exhibit delivers too strong messengers, the
:36:11. > :36:15.first of relieving the stresses and strains of everyday life, achieved
:36:15. > :36:19.partially by creating a floral tapestry but also by some
:36:19. > :36:25.reassuring words on the board behind me. The second is perhaps
:36:25. > :36:30.even stronger and that is to try and encourage people to consider
:36:30. > :36:36.that every time we view, enter or interact with a landscape, a garden
:36:36. > :36:41.or a plant or environment, we, in some way, contribute to the
:36:41. > :36:47.structure and composition of that article. As such, this exhibit
:36:47. > :36:57.allows you to develop a four- dimensional sculpture, every
:36:57. > :37:01.visitor can leave their own contribution.
:37:01. > :37:07.This garden, at first glance, it looks like a piece of grass with
:37:07. > :37:10.notes of rusty old post boxes around the outside. But there are
:37:11. > :37:15.periscopes and if you look inside them, you can see into the mirror
:37:15. > :37:20.and you can see this world of edible fungi. It is amazing, we're
:37:20. > :37:24.looking across this microbe landscape. You cannot work out
:37:24. > :37:30.where they are coming from and if you turn down here, the land has
:37:30. > :37:34.been tilted up and the shaft of light is working its way down
:37:34. > :37:41.underneath. It is quite incredible. This is everything a conceptual
:37:41. > :37:48.garden should be. It draws you in, it is intriguing, original,
:37:48. > :37:53.creative and, the judges loved it, they gave it gold and Best in Show.
:37:53. > :37:59.This garden is called picturesque, it got at gold medal. It is all
:37:59. > :38:04.about using plants as if they were in an art gallery. It is taking the
:38:04. > :38:11.iconic pictures and representing them in plants and a message about
:38:11. > :38:15.sustainability. This is a really strong concept and beautifully
:38:15. > :38:19.executed. We are being encouraged to consider our plants and the
:38:19. > :38:23.intricacy and beauty of those plants before they become museum or
:38:23. > :38:28.exhibition pieces where the only place she can see them is as a
:38:28. > :38:37.private exhibition. This really is a conceptual garden for me but some
:38:37. > :38:44.are a bit hit and miss. The Kandinsky, doesn't really work for
:38:44. > :38:48.me. Containing a plant with in a glass box and suspending it in mid-
:38:48. > :38:53.air, encourages us to look at the detail of the plant and see it in a
:38:54. > :39:01.new light. To see it in its true beauty, focus on the detail of the
:39:01. > :39:06.individual. Putting it in a glass box gives an odd to Damien Hirst,
:39:06. > :39:09.as it was in a gallery. The conceptual designers have taken a
:39:09. > :39:13.new approach to landscape gardening, the self-confessed plant lover Tom
:39:13. > :39:18.Hart Dyke, is the search for new plants that excites him. He has
:39:18. > :39:22.spent years scouring the globe for new additions to his world garden
:39:22. > :39:25.at Lullingstone Castle in Kent. His passion has made him an active
:39:25. > :39:29.member of Plant Heritage, the world's leading plant conservation
:39:29. > :39:33.charity which pulls together national collections of of plant
:39:33. > :39:38.genera to protect them against extinction. He brought his own
:39:38. > :39:41.national collection of eucalyptus this year. He cherishes it and his
:39:41. > :39:51.aim is to persuade more people to appreciate just how special
:39:51. > :39:58.
:39:58. > :40:01.The most widely planted tree on earth is the eucalyptus. It was my
:40:01. > :40:06.gran he got me going at a very young age and it was how they
:40:06. > :40:15.change their shape and size. How they adapt to climatic conditions
:40:15. > :40:18.so well, how they change, they're absolutely amazing. Out here we got
:40:18. > :40:24.a really good collection, 400 eucalyptus trees and some at the
:40:24. > :40:31.age of 14, I was planting and some great ones to show you. This is
:40:31. > :40:36.just an awesome tree, and this street was quite badly damaged in
:40:36. > :40:40.the last winter but what you can see is doing, look at all these
:40:40. > :40:44.group points and this is unique to a eucalyptus tree. Is a fantastic
:40:44. > :40:49.way to adapt to a cold winter but usually through fire that has gone
:40:49. > :40:53.through it and what is amazing is, these groups are appearing out of
:40:53. > :40:57.the trunks will be six or eight feet long by the end of this year.
:40:57. > :41:03.Look along here, this is to work three weeks earlier, look at them
:41:03. > :41:13.all, bursting out. In three or four weeks' time, this tree is going to
:41:13. > :41:18.
:41:18. > :41:24.be amass of leaves going up the stems. In here begot the lemon-
:41:24. > :41:29.scented three. Look at this peeling bark here, fantastic, revealing
:41:29. > :41:34.this turquoise, Jade, green colour. When you see it in the wiles of
:41:34. > :41:43.Queensland, as it is growing from white, to blue, green stems, it is
:41:43. > :41:46.extraordinary. The smell of this, crash it between your fingers... In
:41:46. > :41:52.heel that straight down to your lungs and Bexhill, it is really
:41:52. > :41:58.strong. One more time I think. Fantastic smell and straight away,
:41:58. > :42:06.you are smelly insect repellents and lemon scented candles, that is
:42:06. > :42:09.where it comes from. All these trees, I collected myself in his
:42:09. > :42:13.seat formed in 1999 from the Australia and in particular from
:42:13. > :42:20.Tasmania. Most of these are going in my stand at Hampton Court this
:42:20. > :42:27.year and one of my most rewarding and the sour fines was this
:42:27. > :42:32.varnished gum, the world's smallest eucalyptus tree. People say, no,
:42:32. > :42:40.but I promise, it is a eucalyptus, destroying to three or four feet
:42:40. > :42:47.tall at the most. This is the only ones suitable for a rockery, I kid
:42:47. > :42:53.you not. What makes my chlorophyll boy with excitement is this one.
:42:53. > :42:59.This is the world's rarest eucalyptus tree. What I love about
:42:59. > :43:04.it is, its circular foliage with the growing points and you can see
:43:04. > :43:09.from the side, pink and red stems. A fantastic plant that is hardy and
:43:09. > :43:18.not yet known in this country. Another one that is very tender,
:43:18. > :43:25.but the world's largest and longest eucalyptus leaf. Here, it is too
:43:25. > :43:31.early for the fruit, but you can already start to see these waxy,
:43:31. > :43:35.blue leaves - fantastic foliage. It can get up to 4 ft long so we got
:43:35. > :43:39.the world's rarest, the world's smallest and the world's largest
:43:39. > :43:49.believed eucalyptus tree. Very exciting but it makes my heart
:43:49. > :43:49.
:43:49. > :43:54.flutter of excitement that I Your passion for eucalyptus is
:43:54. > :43:58.apparent. You can't help but love them, can you. It is obsessive
:43:58. > :44:03.behaviour Monty. You are not alone. A lot of people grow eucalyptus,
:44:03. > :44:07.but a big problem seems to be they outgrow themselves. They plant them
:44:07. > :44:11.small, and then they quickly become enormous, with all kinds of
:44:11. > :44:16.problems. What is best way of dealing with this? Is it a question
:44:16. > :44:20.of choosing the right plant? Absolutely. They are sold as
:44:20. > :44:25.bedding plants when they can get to 40 feet within a handful of years.
:44:26. > :44:30.What is the solution? Should it be better pruning or more selective
:44:30. > :44:38.planting? Selective planting, that is back to basic, it is breaking
:44:38. > :44:42.away into smaller plants such as the snow gun, or this one here.
:44:43. > :44:48.Hardy but look good when small. The eucalyptus I say the people who
:44:48. > :44:52.have them at 30, 40 feet tall, the neighbours complaining, the
:44:52. > :44:59.foundations they maybe worried ab, you can really cut them back hard.
:44:59. > :45:04.Take them down so they crown. They will start reshooting. The other
:45:04. > :45:08.big question I am getting a lot of, you can't help but see, is a lot of
:45:08. > :45:12.eucalyptus have died over the last winter. They appear to have died.
:45:12. > :45:18.What is the best way of dealing with them? Should they be left to
:45:18. > :45:23.see if they have regrowth 890% will regrow. Cutback to where the
:45:23. > :45:28.growths are coming out. At what point do you decide to cutback?
:45:28. > :45:34.They are still producing shoots. Do you leave for it a year, to autumn?
:45:34. > :45:39.Should we be doing it now? I would do it now. 1st August by the latest.
:45:39. > :45:44.Then that is it. They would have by the end of May starting to resprout
:45:44. > :45:51.into June, July. Now we are getting into the middle part of July now,
:45:51. > :45:55.and you can honestly, it will regrow and reshape into a tree that
:45:55. > :46:05.is 20 feet tall within four or five years they have the rootstock and
:46:05. > :46:07.
:46:07. > :46:12.the trunk, and they are ready to go. If it hasn't sprouted by August it
:46:12. > :46:17.is time for the compost heap. They are quick to sew what they are
:46:17. > :46:21.going to do. This is your first time here. How has it been?
:46:21. > :46:27.Brilliant. To get Silver-Gilt was brilliant. Superb. Will you be back
:46:27. > :46:33.after a gold next year? If I can persuade the team, we are here.
:46:33. > :46:35.is not the only national collection holder here at Hampton Court. We
:46:35. > :46:39.have conservationists and collectors who have brought their
:46:39. > :46:44.plant to the plant heritage tent from all over. From Scotland, Wales,
:46:44. > :46:49.Cornwall, even my home county of Herefordshire. Earlier this week,
:46:49. > :46:59.Alice talked to a few of them. The Plant Heritage Marquee is one of
:46:59. > :47:01.
:47:01. > :47:06.the hidden Jim gems here. -- hidden This year's theme is called a
:47:06. > :47:10.living library. It displays some of the national collections. These are
:47:11. > :47:19.every variation possible in a gene news. There are some things that
:47:19. > :47:23.are very unusual. Some well-known and some that have been forgotten.
:47:23. > :47:28.Dibleys is well-known for breeding these, how did it start? He my
:47:28. > :47:32.father was a collector of plant, he enjoyed growing them. We have gone
:47:32. > :47:36.back to some of the species and introduced them into the breeding
:47:36. > :47:41.programme. It is just a really solid house plant isn't it It is
:47:41. > :47:47.one of the easiest round. Put it on a windowsill. Keep it on the
:47:47. > :47:51.slightly dry side and it will flower all the time. Why would you
:47:51. > :47:56.bother collecting obscure species? It brings extra characteristics
:47:56. > :48:02.into the varieties. This flowers mostly in the winter time. That we
:48:02. > :48:07.managed to breed with a modern variety, and we ended one the next
:48:07. > :48:12.generation hybrid that flowers all the year round. A normal one was
:48:12. > :48:17.flower between? March and September, April time. This is the only
:48:18. > :48:23.species that has the red flower, this is where all the modern
:48:23. > :48:28.varieties have got reds and pink in come from. Without it they would be
:48:28. > :48:33.blues and whites. It is important to get varieties like this growing.
:48:33. > :48:38.It is a wonderful collection, thank you for sharing it. You are welcome.
:48:38. > :48:43.I am very excited about finding this collection, because I didn't
:48:43. > :48:47.realise there were so many out there. They go from the sublime to
:48:47. > :48:54.the almost ridiculous there is one over there which has no leaves and
:48:54. > :49:00.only Thornes. The corner is full of lovely carnations but what makes
:49:00. > :49:04.them special? They are not just carnation, they are Malmaison
:49:04. > :49:10.carnations which were the nower of the season for the Edwardian period.
:49:10. > :49:14.They would be used as a cut flower? Also brought into the house for
:49:14. > :49:22.special occasions. Why are they forgotten? They are prone to
:49:22. > :49:28.viruses and they became difficult to propagate, but with the aid of
:49:28. > :49:34.siens we have had them micro propagated: I see you have a Gold
:49:34. > :49:39.Medal but not just a goad medal have a goad medal, but the best
:49:39. > :49:46.plant heritage exhibit. I am still stunned, to be honest. I'm not.
:49:46. > :49:49.It's a beautiful display. Thank you very much indeed for saying that.
:49:49. > :49:59.One of the best things about heritage plant marquee is you get
:49:59. > :50:15.
:50:15. > :50:19.to walk away with a bit of a living We are in the LOROS Hospice Garden
:50:19. > :50:23.of Light and Reflection. Look better in the sun. It is nice to
:50:23. > :50:30.get a bit of sunshine again. We have had lots of photos e-mailed in.
:50:30. > :50:35.Here is a good one from Robert, who took it of the Virtual Reality
:50:35. > :50:41.Garden. It looks good from here. It's a bauble, not a pod. OK.
:50:41. > :50:45.like this shot. This is atmospheric. I looks like poppy seed head. I
:50:45. > :50:50.think they are made of medal -- metal. Susie capture add wonderful
:50:51. > :50:55.planting scheme from the garden of light and reflection. Loads of
:50:55. > :51:00.colour. Really intense. Beautiful. And talking of reflection, Chris
:51:00. > :51:06.has snapped Monty. See, in the BBC team, preparing to start filming.
:51:06. > :51:13.He is focusing. He is thinking. There are lots more. If you want to
:51:13. > :51:19.look log on to the website. I have heard a small thing, but in the
:51:19. > :51:23.floral marquee I think somebody ha had to pull out. Then floids
:51:23. > :51:28.stepped in. They had a week to get everything together. Saved the day.
:51:28. > :51:32.It is their first time at the show. Really? Well done them. Impressive.
:51:32. > :51:36.There is a brand-new garden this year, hidden under the canvas of a
:51:36. > :51:41.black out marquee, right up near the large show gardens. There is a
:51:41. > :51:46.reason for that. It is called a garden at night. It is dedicated to
:51:46. > :51:56.plants that come into their own after the sun has gone down. We
:51:56. > :52:13.
:52:13. > :52:18.Kari Beardsell has designed a garden which demmonstrated how
:52:18. > :52:24.different it can be in the dark. Plant wise, we have things like the
:52:24. > :52:28.silver birch which shine out in the dark, and plants like nicotiana,
:52:28. > :52:32.white plants that work well in the dark, and some of them release a
:52:32. > :52:36.beautiful perfume. Something like the red maple over there is
:52:36. > :52:46.interesting, when you light it from below. You see the foliage in a
:52:46. > :52:52.
:52:52. > :52:56.The lighting is key too. Safety is the first thing, and without them I
:52:56. > :53:00.wouldn't be able to get across the water. But don't just stick lights
:53:00. > :53:05.in the lawn or flower beds lighting nothing in particular. Here Kari
:53:05. > :53:10.has done a great job. We have strip lighting and that throws a light on
:53:10. > :53:13.to the lawn, but she has grazed the walls back, the pillars to throw
:53:13. > :53:18.that brick into relief. The water features here, they are brilliantly
:53:18. > :53:22.lit with the spotlights, you can't see the source of the spot but they
:53:22. > :53:25.light the feature itself. Then again, over dining areas like this,
:53:25. > :53:29.you want a light from above and throw a light on to an area and
:53:29. > :53:34.make it practical. She has done a brilliant on. When the visitors
:53:34. > :53:39.come through they go quiet, really hush, hush, because they are
:53:39. > :53:43.responding to the moody atmosphere of this garden. If you have been
:53:43. > :53:52.inspired by Kari's night garden you might want to equip your own garden
:53:52. > :53:56.for night-time living. Here it is packed full of ideas. Garden
:53:56. > :54:02.lighting when used creatively can form a wonderful ambience in the
:54:02. > :54:05.garden and extend the long summer evenings. Solar garden lighting has
:54:05. > :54:09.been a nice idea, using the power of the sun to light the garden at
:54:09. > :54:12.night. But it has been frustrating because it fizzles out an hour or
:54:12. > :54:18.two after the sun goes down. There is new technology coming through
:54:18. > :54:21.which is interesting. So one of these has got four LEDs in it. It
:54:21. > :54:30.punches out quite a bit of light and it will last until one or two
:54:30. > :54:34.in the morning. An interesting development. What could be more
:54:34. > :54:41.romantic than the garden by candle light? I like these lanterns. They
:54:41. > :54:46.range in price from about �45, down to only, well that is �9.95 for
:54:46. > :54:50.that lantern plus the holder. Which I think is pretty good. When you
:54:50. > :54:55.are entertaining in the gaden you will want to cater for friends,
:54:55. > :55:01.make sure they are well-fed. If you are a keen cook you can have the
:55:01. > :55:07.whole kitsch none the garden. And I mean the whole kitchen, down to the
:55:08. > :55:12.sink. We don't need that newfangled stuff, all you need is a fire pit.
:55:12. > :55:16.While you are doing it you can use one of these. This is a charcoal
:55:16. > :55:22.burner and you put wood in. Ideally hardwood, then a couple of hours
:55:22. > :55:26.later, you have made your own car coal. And of course, you need
:55:26. > :55:32.somewhere to sit in the garden, in the evening. And I have found the
:55:32. > :55:36.perfect spot, with this seat. It is so unusual. It is made from a
:55:36. > :55:41.recycle sardine fishing boat. I love the idea it has had a life
:55:41. > :55:46.before and now it is being reused having another. If a hammock and a
:55:46. > :55:50.tent had a baby, what would it be called? Now it would be called a
:55:50. > :55:57.cocoon. It would be like this. Relaxing, you can hang it anywhere.
:55:57. > :56:01.The perfect place to chill out. think you can't beat a good old
:56:01. > :56:05.fashioned swing seat. After the shopping it is nice to put my feet
:56:05. > :56:08.up. It is an enormous show. My feet are killing me. It has been
:56:08. > :56:18.brilliant. Thought provoking designs. Stunning summer colour.
:56:18. > :56:18.
:56:18. > :57:54.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 95 seconds
:57:54. > :57:57.And here is a taste of Hampton at Our time here is rapidly coming to
:57:57. > :58:02.an end but the show goes on. At least until Sunday night so if you
:58:02. > :58:06.can get down here, I highly recommend itment and two children
:58:06. > :58:10.get in with every adult tick ticket. If you are are are coming on Sunday
:58:10. > :58:19.the big plant sell off starts at 4.30. All the details are on the
:58:19. > :58:25.website. The week after it close, RHS Tatton Park flower show kicks
:58:25. > :58:32.off on 20th July and Monty, Carol, Andy and myself will be bringing
:58:32. > :58:37.you the high lights on 21st and 2nd. Although we are leaving here, we