:00:38. > :00:42.Court happen. We've had a fabulous week with the crowds here enjoying
:00:42. > :00:49.the show bathed in summer sunshine. If you watched the programme on
:00:49. > :00:55.Monday, you will know that this year the Royal Horticultural Society have
:00:55. > :00:59.divided the show into three zones - grow, inspire and escape. It is
:00:59. > :01:05.escape we are focusing on tonight. Coming up, we meet the students
:01:05. > :01:09.using the wild Scottish landscape as the inspiration for their
:01:09. > :01:13.Shakespearean showground. We are hoping to bring a piece of Scotland
:01:13. > :01:20.down through our strong references of Macbeth and the use of native
:01:20. > :01:25.Scottish plants. As a new silver rose is unveiled, we explore the
:01:25. > :01:30.popularity of novelty colours in the rose industry. And there is an
:01:30. > :01:36.invitation to escape to the country, as Andy Sturgeon searches out this
:01:36. > :01:43.year's best plant combinations. rules are there are no rules. You
:01:43. > :01:47.can mix any flower and shape. Just let the plants get on it with -- get
:01:47. > :01:53.on with it themselves. I think Hampton Court this year seems to
:01:53. > :01:57.have a really positive feel to it. There is a celebratory feel in the
:01:57. > :02:02.air. Obviously the weather is fantastic. Andy Murray won
:02:02. > :02:06.Wimbledon. This country when the weather is good is the best place to
:02:06. > :02:10.garden. It is not just blazing sunshine. We get the rain when we
:02:10. > :02:14.want it, the cool when we want it, and it comes together. It reaches a
:02:14. > :02:21.summit at this time of year. And in this lovely setting it is all here.
:02:21. > :02:24.There's so much inspiration. It is not about for me gold medals, but
:02:25. > :02:30.picking things that inspire you and fire you and thinking, yes, I can do
:02:30. > :02:36.that at home. Have you seen the roses? I thought you would say that.
:02:36. > :02:41.I have and they are lovely. But nobody loves them as much as you do.
:02:41. > :02:45.The show gardens vary enormously. They all have something you can take
:02:45. > :02:51.and apply to your garden. The one thing that's recurring this year is
:02:51. > :02:55.the sense of the countryside, of naturalistic planting. A few days
:02:55. > :03:05.ago Joe and I visited various show gardens looking at that British
:03:05. > :03:06.
:03:06. > :03:10.I've brought you to this garden because I think there were
:03:10. > :03:15.interesting things here. I'm not wholly uncritical but you can
:03:15. > :03:20.sometimes learn as much from a garden you don't necessarily
:03:20. > :03:26.completely like as one you think is fab. What's interesting here to me
:03:26. > :03:30.is the grasses I a usually use as a linking plant or to set off other
:03:30. > :03:37.perennials are the star of the show. It is linking the countryside and a
:03:37. > :03:42.naturalistic element into even a small space like this. These are
:03:42. > :03:47.very beautiful and they are exactly giving the feel of verge of just a
:03:47. > :03:53.roadside even, of natural planting, but those are very garden plants.
:03:53. > :03:57.That's a really good abstraction. good come Bo. The planting on the
:03:57. > :04:02.whole works really nicely. I think the path is too wide. I would like
:04:02. > :04:07.to see it squeezed at some point and some of the grasses feel as if they
:04:07. > :04:15.have self seeded in the gravel, as that's what they would do in nature.
:04:15. > :04:20.It is a gold medal garden. It is a good un. The extent Rick English
:04:20. > :04:26.garden gardener is reflected in the hot stuff garden, which takes
:04:26. > :04:32.inspiration from the writer's home. I love the combination in this
:04:32. > :04:39.garden. They bring a fantastic vehicle ransy. I just wish this
:04:39. > :04:49.guard-a boundary to keep the eye within it and the formality of the
:04:49. > :04:52.
:04:52. > :04:58.feel is a little tight for the space. This garden is call called
:04:58. > :05:02.Athanasia. It is made in memory of and inspired by a woman who died
:05:02. > :05:07.suddenly of leukaemia far too young. She was a photographer among other
:05:07. > :05:11.things. It is designed by a man who worked as a garden photographer. But
:05:12. > :05:18.the back story is not what this garden is about. It is obviously
:05:18. > :05:22.very important and meaningful to the people who did at this time, but a
:05:22. > :05:27.garden has to exist in its own right. A strong influence which
:05:27. > :05:33.makes this garden so good is the photograph photographic one. It
:05:33. > :05:39.gives it depth of field. Objects in the foreground and the back round
:05:39. > :05:45.are working equally to create a sense of space. Sometimes the focus
:05:45. > :05:48.is sharply close to the camera and the background is fuzzy. Other times
:05:48. > :05:53.you look through an unfocused image to something that's clear and
:05:53. > :06:01.defined behind you. The eye can do that and gardens can do that. As
:06:01. > :06:06.well as light fittering down from above, the eye is filtering images
:06:06. > :06:09.laterally. Put large things in the front as well as small things. And
:06:10. > :06:16.it is woodland. Woodland lends itself to this treatment, so your
:06:16. > :06:26.planting has to be suitable. These are plants adapt to light levels
:06:26. > :06:46.
:06:46. > :06:51.This garden is called the Garden Pad. It feels like a bachelor pad,
:06:51. > :06:56.somewhere for a man to invite someone around and have a party. You
:06:56. > :07:00.walk down three stairs and you are in a sinken garden. That transforms
:07:00. > :07:06.what you see and who can see you at the same time. I feel very secluded
:07:06. > :07:14.even though I'm in the middle of Hampton Court. It is a clever piece
:07:14. > :07:19.of design. The plants here really sing out in the evening light. This
:07:19. > :07:28.is a bit bright, the paving is bright, but fortunately I brought my
:07:28. > :07:32.shades. That's before.
:07:32. > :07:39.There is one other garden here that draws its inspiration from the
:07:39. > :07:45.British countryside. This time it is the wild beauty of the Scottish
:07:45. > :07:49.Highlands. HND students Kath Stevenson and Jenna Stuart have
:07:49. > :07:54.drawn their inspiration from Shakespeare's Macbeth. We caught up
:07:54. > :08:04.with them last month in Perthshire, as they conducted their own dramatic
:08:04. > :08:20.
:08:20. > :08:23.This came about as part of compensation on our HND course at
:08:23. > :08:27.the Scottish rural college in Edinburgh. All the students designed
:08:27. > :08:32.a garden around we all voted for Jenna's garden and the best garden
:08:32. > :08:37.and the one we wanted to build at Hampton Court. My grandfather is
:08:37. > :08:43.from Scotland. We always came up to Scotland during my childhood for
:08:43. > :08:53.holidays. I love the landscape. I love Macbeth. I know it like the
:08:53. > :08:57.back of my hand, so merging the two together was a no brainer really.
:08:57. > :09:02.This garden is called the witches of Macbeth and it takes inspiration
:09:02. > :09:08.from the witching from the play. It will depict the garden they would
:09:08. > :09:14.have used for their potions and remedies. The witches were prophets
:09:14. > :09:18.who predicted that Macbeth would one day be King but they tricked him
:09:18. > :09:28.into killing Duncan. So the garden will have an eerie sinister feel to
:09:28. > :09:29.
:09:29. > :09:37.Look! Sheep's wool. That will be great for the garden. It will look
:09:37. > :09:41.great hanging on the roses, as if the sheep have been walking past.
:09:41. > :09:47.are at the top of the hill. We've come here for inspiration, because
:09:47. > :09:55.this is the hill where Macbeth spotted the Army approaching from
:09:55. > :10:01.Burnham wood. Macbeth thought this is never going to happen, how can a
:10:01. > :10:11.wood march across the fields. But they cut down the wood and marched
:10:11. > :10:19.
:10:19. > :10:23.around the time that Macbeth was written, so early 17th century. It
:10:23. > :10:28.is going to feature a dilapidated house, which has been knocked over
:10:29. > :10:34.and run down, and all the area around it is going to er overgrown
:10:34. > :10:38.and out of control. There is going to be a cauldron that's tipped over,
:10:38. > :10:44.the contents spilling over the ground and bubbling awayes is if
:10:44. > :10:54.there is some evil magic in the garden and the witches have
:10:54. > :10:56.
:10:56. > :11:01.disappeared to collect ingredients for the next potion. We have here a
:11:01. > :11:08.selection of plants that we hope to use in our garden. Some of these
:11:08. > :11:11.plants can be associated with the famous part in Macbeth, which is the
:11:11. > :11:17.witches' concoctions around the cauldron, throwing in and making
:11:17. > :11:22.potions for Macbeth, which is the double, double, toil and trouble,
:11:22. > :11:28.fire burn and cauldron bubble. the verse there are only two plants
:11:28. > :11:32.named: Hemlock. Because it has been -- because it is one of the most
:11:32. > :11:39.poisonous in the world we haven't been able to acquire it. And the
:11:39. > :11:43.other is yew. All the other plant name names would have been disguised
:11:43. > :11:53.by the witches to prevent people stealing their recipes. We've found
:11:53. > :11:59.out that eye of newt and toe of frog and of bat are mustard seeds, the
:11:59. > :12:02.leaves of the butter cup and the leaves of the holly. We are really
:12:02. > :12:06.looking forward to going down to Hampton court. We are hoping to
:12:06. > :12:15.bring a piece of Scotland down through our strong researcheses to
:12:15. > :12:22.Macbeth and the use of native Scottish plants.
:12:22. > :12:25.I had no idea that those wonderful line lines, they are actually are
:12:25. > :12:29.code for plants. How did you research the plants that you would
:12:29. > :12:33.need for the garden? First we researched the play and it was set
:12:34. > :12:37.in 1045, so we researched the plants there. There was hardly anything. In
:12:38. > :12:42.garden would have been full of heathers, so we decided to set it
:12:42. > :12:47.when Shakespeare wrote it, around the early 17th century, so there was
:12:47. > :12:53.a wired variety of plants to use. How many plants you manage to find
:12:54. > :12:58.from that time? We probably used 150. There were more. That is a
:12:58. > :13:01.really love number. I love the idea that Shakespeare would have
:13:01. > :13:05.recognised all these plants. Hopefully everyone who comes here
:13:05. > :13:09.will see something they've seen in the countryside or their own garden
:13:09. > :13:19.but not realise they have medicinal properties. Tell me about the
:13:19. > :13:24.planting. The Rosemary is good for digest on. On. And ivy is a lizard's
:13:24. > :13:31.leg in the potion that the witches with used. It can be used to soothe
:13:31. > :13:36.sunburn. You have a veritable a apothecary's Cabinet. We have yes.
:13:36. > :13:43.It is atmospheric. You've even got the sheep's wool. Yes, all the way
:13:43. > :13:49.from Perth. On tonight's programme we are looking at the idea of
:13:49. > :13:54.escaping to the country. In fact escape is one of the theme areas.
:13:54. > :13:58.That brings to mind voluptuous perennial-filled cottage gardens in
:13:58. > :14:03.the country. But you don't have to live in the country to get that
:14:03. > :14:09.look. Here is designer Andy Sturgeon's perfect plant planting
:14:09. > :14:17.plan for beginners. If you want to add a touch of
:14:17. > :14:21.romance to your borders, the cottage garden look could be for your. The
:14:21. > :14:25.rules are that there are no rules. You can mix any colour or any flower
:14:25. > :14:35.shape. Let the plants get on with it themselves. This type of planting is
:14:35. > :14:40.
:14:40. > :14:44.relaxed, informal and casual. Squires garden centres have created
:14:44. > :14:47.march to Gertrude Jekyll, one of the greatest cottage gardeners. There
:14:47. > :14:55.are plenty of plants here which are essential to get the look. One of
:14:55. > :14:58.those have to be the ropes. Now this one is Rosa Gertrude Jekyll, and we
:14:58. > :15:04.have one Rosa Munster Wood, named after the garden where she lived.
:15:04. > :15:10.These were modern shrub roses, bred to have a lengthy flowering period.
:15:10. > :15:20.A fantastic belief as well, which is disease resistant. -- leaf. They
:15:20. > :15:27.
:15:27. > :15:32.wonderful scent which should not be ignored in any garden. It is
:15:32. > :15:35.particularly good along a path edge, where you can brush against it and
:15:35. > :15:38.the aroma will waft up into the air. It is important to look after this
:15:38. > :15:42.planned correctly because if you do not, it can become quite leggy and
:15:42. > :15:46.woody and have a fairly short life. It needs a light trim in the spring
:15:46. > :15:56.and after it has flowered, trim it more and keep it nice and compact
:15:56. > :15:59.and you will have planned that thrives for years. One of the great
:15:59. > :16:03.things about cottage gardens are the sole cedars which happily put
:16:03. > :16:11.themselves about and do the designing for themselves. You have
:16:11. > :16:19.quite a lot on the stand? One of the classic ones for a cottage garden is
:16:19. > :16:25.the holy cock and foxglove. They are really easy. -- hollyhock. Nature
:16:25. > :16:29.will do it for you, throwing it around. The Angel's fishing rod, it
:16:29. > :16:33.is beautiful. You have the funny little grass stems coming up and a
:16:33. > :16:36.lot of people will weed them out. I have got into trouble with my
:16:36. > :16:39.husband for doing that. You leave the grassy stems and the first
:16:39. > :16:43.year, they will die off and the second year they will come up
:16:43. > :16:53.bigger, so be aware of bits of grass in your border. It might be one of
:16:53. > :17:02.
:17:02. > :17:12.without the lupin. At West Country Nurseries, it is all about lupins.
:17:12. > :17:18.
:17:18. > :17:22.Wonderful plants. This one in your plants you have to put them all
:17:22. > :17:25.together and here at Hardy's cottage garden plants they certainly the
:17:25. > :17:34.experts. You can see how they combine different plans with
:17:34. > :17:37.contrasting leaf textures, grasses against this and the texture of the
:17:37. > :17:43.foliage is really important. With cottage garden plants it is mainly
:17:43. > :17:51.about the flowers and this bed is absolutely stunning. Steely blue
:17:52. > :17:56.against the vibrant orange, into ladybird poppies, the blue and the
:17:56. > :17:59.cerise pink. Another thing about cottage garden plants, it is about
:17:59. > :18:09.nostalgia. This one really reminds me of when I was growing up. It
:18:09. > :18:22.
:18:22. > :18:28.divided into three zones, grow, inspiration and escape. In the
:18:28. > :18:34.escape area the growing taste marquee. The point of that of course
:18:34. > :18:38.is to inspire and encourage people to grow their own. You don't need an
:18:38. > :18:48.allotment or a big garden to do this. You can do it on a tiny scale
:18:48. > :19:01.
:19:01. > :19:06.something that is very ordinary but actually, they were until the 17th
:19:06. > :19:10.century, a completely rare, exotic plant and I've got a piece here
:19:10. > :19:14.called Tom Thumb that was growing in America in the 19th century and
:19:14. > :19:20.disappeared and it has reappeared in Canada and is going to be on sale in
:19:20. > :19:23.this country from this autumn. Its great virtue is that it is a small
:19:23. > :19:31.plants. It can be grown in a pot. You can grow it in a window box
:19:31. > :19:41.even. It produces masses of peace. They have said I can do this. You
:19:41. > :19:42.
:19:42. > :19:52.get the most perfect sweetness, that crisp pod. Look at that. Now that is
:19:52. > :19:55.
:19:55. > :20:00.getting more and more interested in growing chilies. Are you seeing
:20:00. > :20:04.that? Definitely. We started specialising in chilies in 1994.
:20:04. > :20:09.Nobody wanted to buy them. Now, everyone wants them. They are
:20:09. > :20:17.growing them, cooking them, there is so much interest. What is the most
:20:18. > :20:23.popular, hot or mild? The most popular has extraordinary heat
:20:23. > :20:28.levels. The most high level of heat measured for a chilly. What is the
:20:28. > :20:32.germination and growing procedure to get the best? You have to so early
:20:32. > :20:35.to expect a drop by the beginning of summer. We recommend selling in
:20:35. > :20:42.January or February, up to the middle of March. Anything after
:20:42. > :20:47.that, it is getting late. They are tropical plants and need heat and
:20:47. > :20:52.light. We recommend selling the compost temperature at 27 degrees,
:20:52. > :20:57.25 may but anything less, they will not germinate as well. A windowsill
:20:57. > :21:04.will do? A windowsill is great, it will do as a house plants providing
:21:04. > :21:07.it has light. What tips do you have for maximum fruit? Light and heat
:21:07. > :21:11.chilies need plenty of both and if they get that they will produce.
:21:11. > :21:21.They will produce flowers until October, so you have chilies until
:21:21. > :21:27.
:21:27. > :21:35.in the new Forest, which grows a lot of its own food organically. What
:21:35. > :21:38.this does is show that you can grow a lot of different things, herbs,
:21:38. > :21:44.fruit and of course vegetables in a small space. A vegetable plot does
:21:44. > :21:48.not have to be a desert of a few rather overgrown cabbages. It can
:21:48. > :21:53.have variety, it can have containers, there is a wonderful
:21:53. > :21:59.area to sit on so that if you eat where you grow your food, that is a
:21:59. > :22:02.double celebration and it reinforces this idea that if you grow
:22:02. > :22:05.vegetables and you cooked vegetables and then you eat them, especially
:22:05. > :22:15.with people you love and you can share them, it is all part of the
:22:15. > :22:19.
:22:19. > :22:25.taste marquee, Paolo Arrigo, has recreated the garden of the Roman
:22:25. > :22:28.writer Pliny. He has done this in conjunction with Phil -- fish bone
:22:28. > :22:38.Palace near Chichester. We went along to ask what kind of gardeners
:22:38. > :22:41.
:22:41. > :22:44.year is Pliny's garden, a Roman garden and we're really excited
:22:44. > :22:54.about it because it features plants and vegetables that the Romans would
:22:54. > :22:58.
:22:58. > :23:02.Sussex and it is amazing to think this villa here is the largest Roman
:23:02. > :23:05.villa north of the Alps, so from here into during there is nothing
:23:05. > :23:08.like it. Some of the mosaics here are as good as anything you would
:23:09. > :23:13.find in Italy and this would have been buzzing with Roman soldiers and
:23:13. > :23:23.Roman life, a wonderful setting and a great inspiration for our garden
:23:23. > :23:30.
:23:30. > :23:34.Romans. They were associated with winemaking. This area of southern
:23:34. > :23:38.England would have been completely planted up with finds everywhere.
:23:38. > :23:42.Even today, in Italy, the legacy of the Romans is there are over 1000
:23:42. > :23:45.varieties of grapes still produced in Italy. The Romans would not have
:23:45. > :23:49.just made wine with it, they would have used the leaves as well and
:23:49. > :23:52.even injured soldiers would have eaten the white grapes to help them
:23:52. > :23:56.recover more quickly. They were a good source of vitamins C and very
:23:56. > :24:06.that beneficial. As well as giving shade as well. Something you would
:24:06. > :24:09.
:24:09. > :24:13.of quintessentially British and they were native before the Romans
:24:13. > :24:17.arrived. But the Romans introduced other varieties which were from
:24:17. > :24:22.Egypt and obviously a highly decorative plant. The Romans would
:24:22. > :24:25.have used it in banquets, as a perfume, they even made rose wine,
:24:25. > :24:28.rose oil, Rosewater, which they would have used to sweeten cakes and
:24:28. > :24:37.they would have also used it medicinally as well for eye
:24:37. > :24:42.infections. You might think this is an artichoke, but it is a car
:24:42. > :24:46.doing. These would have been used widely in the Roman Empire. You are
:24:46. > :24:54.after the stalks here which would have been blanched with straw, held
:24:54. > :24:58.in place with twine and even today in Italy, in the Alps, we would eat
:24:58. > :25:02.these so they are boiled first until they are tender, remove the
:25:02. > :25:06.filaments, the stringy bits here, then with butter, not olive oil, not
:25:06. > :25:16.in the Alps, and mountain cheese that would be grilled. Even today,
:25:16. > :25:21.
:25:21. > :25:25.the best cardoons come from a long shapes and sizes and colours of
:25:25. > :25:30.lettuce. These are varieties that the Romans would be really used to
:25:30. > :25:32.seeing. It was typical of Romans to carry seeds with them wherever they
:25:32. > :25:37.went and especially fast-growing varieties. It was transportable
:25:37. > :25:47.food, if you like, and when Romans were stationed in a particular place
:25:47. > :25:54.
:25:54. > :25:58.for a series of months, this would local Romans would have come to eat
:25:58. > :26:03.their lunch. They would not have eaten in a formal way with tables
:26:03. > :26:07.and chairs, like we would. Instead, they would have lounged around with
:26:07. > :26:14.their wine, under the sun. This is a typical example of what they might
:26:14. > :26:18.have eaten, something similar. This is the street food of Rome. It is
:26:18. > :26:22.Piglet stuffed with panel -- fennel seeds with beautiful fragrant
:26:22. > :26:28.rosemary, sage and garlic, all things the Romans would have
:26:28. > :26:31.introduced to the UK. People are often surprised, things like
:26:31. > :26:36.coriander and nightly, which we consider almost as exotic even
:26:36. > :26:40.nowadays, that the Romans were using them back then. Really, that is the
:26:40. > :26:44.whole purpose of our garden at Hampton Court. We want people to
:26:44. > :26:54.identify with some of the plants and have that link back to 2000 years
:26:54. > :26:56.
:26:56. > :26:59.ago. A big question, what did the Romans ever do for us? ! It has to
:26:59. > :27:04.be said. A lot when it comes to vegetables, we eat so many of them
:27:04. > :27:08.today. It is incredible. Wherever the Romans went, they traded, one
:27:08. > :27:14.thing came from a part of the empire and was traded to another part of
:27:14. > :27:18.the Empire. Would they have had formal, allotment systems?
:27:18. > :27:23.Romans, we think of a Roman garden being very formally laid out and
:27:23. > :27:28.they were, but the planting was very loose, very cottagey. An allotment
:27:28. > :27:32.is still a Roman measurement. and basil, the classic Italian
:27:32. > :27:36.combination, was not around in those days, was it? It was Columbus and
:27:36. > :27:41.the Americans that produced the tomato and the Italians took the
:27:41. > :27:47.tomato to their hearts, and basil as well. They are good companion plants
:27:47. > :27:52.as you know. Basil was used really to feed horses and they used it as a
:27:52. > :27:55.medicine to put in their ears to cure ear infections. Pliny said if
:27:55. > :28:03.you wait too much basil it would make you go mad which does explode
:28:03. > :28:06.Julius Caesar. You have a lovely pomegranate in a pot over there.
:28:06. > :28:08.Pomegranates we used to aid fertility in women and it was said
:28:08. > :28:14.if they ate those they would have a better chance of producing children
:28:14. > :28:18.and the burned husks were used to repel naps. They said the juice of
:28:18. > :28:21.the pomegranate was healthy for you and we know that even today. Have
:28:21. > :28:31.you bought any Roman soldiers with you, to complete the scene? It has
:28:31. > :28:33.
:28:33. > :28:36.been really nice to see you. If you want to see more of that garden, you
:28:36. > :28:41.can on our website. I have come to the wisdom of age is garden to meet
:28:41. > :28:45.the director-general the RHS. Very nice to see you. A fabulous show,
:28:45. > :28:51.but there was a really important event earlier this week, wasn't
:28:51. > :28:54.there? There really was, it was so wonderful. Tom was our winner of the
:28:54. > :28:58.Young School Gardener of the Year award and the Duchess of Cornwall
:28:58. > :29:08.was here yesterday and had all 16 finalists and Tom, a 16-year-old
:29:08. > :29:13.from Derbyshire, won the event. Great to see a 16-year-old so
:29:13. > :29:17.talented. The RHS does a lot of work with young gardeners. Why is that
:29:17. > :29:20.important? My real concern is that if we do not inspire the next
:29:21. > :29:25.generation, this will not happen in the future so we are keen to get
:29:25. > :29:31.kids out there gardening. You are doing a lot of work with primary
:29:31. > :29:35.schools? A massive amount. We have 60% with our campaign of school
:29:35. > :29:39.gardens, six, seven, eight-year-old involved in selling seeds, learning
:29:39. > :29:44.how to plant bulbs and things like that. If you only associated with
:29:44. > :29:51.primary schools, once you get to 13, it is kids' stuff and you don't want
:29:51. > :29:55.to do it? It what has to be cool for teenagers. We have got to start the
:29:55. > :30:01.next stage. I never thought I would say it but how does the RHS make
:30:01. > :30:05.gardening cool? We will, we will! But there is so much. If you had
:30:05. > :30:09.been here yesterday and seen these children, I think our youngest one
:30:09. > :30:14.was five, right up to a 16-year-old, they all think gardening is cool.
:30:14. > :30:17.But most important of all, we have to engage them on the territory they
:30:18. > :30:22.are happier standard is the computer world, so watch this space. It will
:30:22. > :30:31.be here soon, RHS computer game for gardening. Thank you very much
:30:31. > :30:39.indeed. We are halfway through tonight's coverage but we've still
:30:39. > :30:46.got plenty to come. Rachel and Alys seek out some of the new offerings
:30:46. > :30:52.at this year's rose marquee. Andy Sturgeon and myself visit the show
:30:52. > :30:57.gardens that offer practical solutions for small spaces. And the
:30:57. > :31:05.floral marquee is filled with the fragrance of hot summer sun, as
:31:05. > :31:10.Hampton's new newist exhibit exhibitor Wild Time Plants, sets up
:31:10. > :31:14.stall. The escape zone here at Hampton
:31:14. > :31:20.Court also houses the iconic festival of roses, and it is here
:31:20. > :31:24.every year that the rose-growing industry showcases the Rose of the
:31:24. > :31:34.Year. Breeders work a year ahead, so this year we are looking at the Rose
:31:34. > :31:37.
:31:37. > :31:42.of the Year 2014. So, the 2014 winner takes centre stage. It was
:31:42. > :31:47.bred by Harkness Roses. Congratulations. Thank you Rachel.
:31:47. > :31:53.What are you looking for in a rose that might gain this accolade?
:31:53. > :31:57.first thing we are always looking for is health. To make it easy to
:31:57. > :32:01.grow for the customer in their garden. Then we add the colour, the
:32:01. > :32:11.fragrance and the characteristics that people want. What type of rose
:32:11. > :32:14.
:32:14. > :32:21.is it? It is a floribunda.It is a really unusual colour. It is
:32:21. > :32:24.genuinely an unusual colour. It is Lady Marmalade colour. Roses are
:32:24. > :32:29.consistently voted the nation's favourite flower. Probably because
:32:29. > :32:34.they evoke personal memories of emotional events like weddings,
:32:34. > :32:38.anniversaries and birthdays. For a long time classic long-stemmed
:32:38. > :32:43.floristry roses realised under glass led the way with fashionable colours
:32:43. > :32:48.and long vase life, but that's all changing. Over the years, breeders
:32:48. > :32:55.like Gareth Fryer have developed unusually coloured garden roses that
:32:55. > :32:59.rival those used in floristry. We visited Gareth and florist Mark
:32:59. > :33:03.Entwistle for a colourful masterclass. Breeding roses is
:33:03. > :33:06.amazing, because it is a very short season. They come into bloom the
:33:06. > :33:11.early part of the summer and you can't wait to see the new varieties.
:33:11. > :33:21.When you see these colours for the first time, it is a heart-stopping
:33:21. > :33:29.moment. Fashions do change. During the 1960s and 70s the trend was
:33:29. > :33:33.bright, brash colours, bright rocks - bright oranges. And then soft
:33:33. > :33:38.shades came into vogue and now there's a range of roses that come
:33:38. > :33:48.under that banner of being nostalgic, vintage, old-fashioned.
:33:48. > :33:54.
:33:54. > :34:04.All of a sudden people are wanting is vintage, but the nice thing is
:34:04. > :34:11.everybody's idea of vintage is different. From soft romantic, a
:34:11. > :34:21.pale colour, but then we've got post-war, kitsch, 50s, the oranges
:34:21. > :34:22.
:34:22. > :34:27.and cerise pinks and raspberry reds. Moving on the the anticy kind of --
:34:28. > :34:37.antique look, grace, with cut glass vases and maybe things that don't
:34:37. > :34:41.quite match. A little bit of mismatching. It is the time when the
:34:41. > :34:47.cut flower roses were bred to a criteria. They had to be long
:34:47. > :34:52.lasting. They had to be of a small shape. They had to have long,
:34:52. > :34:56.straight stems, hardly any leaves, no thorns. They were all of a type.
:34:56. > :34:59.But people are moving away. They want to buy something which is more
:34:59. > :35:03.natural, more like they see in their garden, that is a bit damaged
:35:04. > :35:12.occasionally from the weather, a little bit blown, because it has
:35:12. > :35:20.opened quickly. And why not? Today I've got some of the lovely
:35:20. > :35:25.varieties from Fryer. They are a big bigger look to the flower. This is
:35:25. > :35:31.my favourite. This one is silver shadow. You've got the more open
:35:31. > :35:35.flower, which as it opens up it goes paler, but on the tighter of the
:35:35. > :35:40.flower buds there, you get the raspberry colour on the outside,
:35:41. > :35:50.which is a nice mixture to use both together. What I'm doing is working
:35:50. > :35:57.them quite close and tight together. I'm working around in a circle so
:35:57. > :36:03.I'm getting a nice round posy shape. What makes this the perfect vintage
:36:03. > :36:08.rose is actually the colours, the grey Lyle lack Bluey pink. Buts nice
:36:08. > :36:12.to have the contrast of the little bits of raspberry touches coming in
:36:12. > :36:17.as well, because sometimes if it is all one colour, it can look a bit
:36:17. > :36:21.flat. As a florist it would be really nice to get our hands on more
:36:21. > :36:28.of this kind of rose, because I think this is what the brides want.
:36:28. > :36:32.They want this slightly less-clean finished look to it, so that it does
:36:32. > :36:42.look natural. It almost looks as though you've just gathered them up
:36:42. > :36:42.
:36:42. > :36:47.in the garden on the way to the I'm very please that this rose,
:36:47. > :36:52.silver shadow, is going to be introduced at the show, because I
:36:52. > :36:57.think it typifies what a vintage rose is - a classic English rose
:36:57. > :37:04.shape. It has glossy green follow yarjs produces masses of blooms. It
:37:04. > :37:13.really is a rose breeder's dream this rose. I think I will probably
:37:13. > :37:18.put it down as one of my best introductions.
:37:18. > :37:24.How has the response been to the launch of silver shadow? Amazing.
:37:24. > :37:30.Blue roses, lilac roses, are really the Holy Grail of roses. It has got
:37:30. > :37:35.a fantastic raspberry outer petal fading to a lilac silvery colour and
:37:35. > :37:40.almost a blue. It is an open-cut bloom as well, so it is bang on
:37:40. > :37:45.trend. Give me a tip. What's going to be the next big thing? We think
:37:45. > :37:50.softer colours. Anything that has dual personality but with a nice
:37:50. > :37:57.sharp colour. So our gardens could be looking a bit different soon. If
:37:57. > :38:00.you would like design tips on growing roses next to perennials, so
:38:00. > :38:06.to our website. As you can see, this year the
:38:06. > :38:16.festival of roses has taken on a distinctly vintage theme, with
:38:16. > :38:19.
:38:19. > :38:25.exhibitors paying tribute the 1950s. Alys Fowler has been taking a look.
:38:25. > :38:32.In the 1950s, roses were incredibly popular, and no more so than these
:38:32. > :38:37.two. They are good -- their good breeding means they are still as
:38:37. > :38:44.popular today but there are a cluster of ne introductions this
:38:44. > :38:51.year I'm keen to look at. As one might hope, David Austin has a new
:38:51. > :38:55.rose, the Albrighton rambler, named after the village where his nursery
:38:55. > :39:01.is based. This is going to grow to 3 metres high. It is a repeat flower
:39:01. > :39:11.and it is not affected by the rain. It has a gentle hint of musk. Very
:39:11. > :39:14.
:39:14. > :39:23.This is check mate. It has been introduced by Appleton roses are,
:39:23. > :39:28.and it is a patio climber. It is going to grow 2 to 2. 5 metres high.
:39:29. > :39:33.It will flower through to the end of the season. Each stem has a cluster
:39:33. > :39:39.of flowers. So when it does its thing, it really comes out with a
:39:39. > :39:45.wonderful show. These two are from Pocock roses.
:39:45. > :39:51.This is pink Martini. A hybrid tea with repeat flowering and good
:39:51. > :39:56.disease resistance. It looks just like a Martini glass pull of pink
:39:56. > :40:06.something. This is named after the embroidery designer and artist. I
:40:06. > :40:10.
:40:10. > :40:15.predict these are going to be a big If you are a fan of apricot, I have
:40:15. > :40:20.these two delights. This is perfect pet and this is show star. They are
:40:20. > :40:26.from star roses. Perfect pet is a floor bund da, so you are going to
:40:26. > :40:30.get 25 flowers from stem, whereas show star is a hybrid tea. You get a
:40:30. > :40:35.single flower but it is slightly longer. Both will repeat flower and
:40:36. > :40:45.both are perfectly happy to be on a patio or look equally as lovely in a
:40:46. > :40:50.
:40:50. > :40:58.border. And finally, this is pink champagne, by Fryers roses are. It
:40:58. > :41:06.is a floribunda, which means you will get flowers across the season.
:41:06. > :41:12.It has a delicate pink colour which opens to a yellow centre. It has
:41:12. > :41:22.good, sturdy growth. This will look lovely among lavenders and blues.
:41:22. > :41:24.
:41:24. > :41:29.That's the way to do it. Hampton Court is not just about
:41:29. > :41:35.admiring excellence. The RHS are keen that visitors will seen things
:41:35. > :41:44.and say, yes, I can do that at home. The high-impact low-cost gardens
:41:44. > :41:51.focus very much on that thought. I'm in the mid century modern garden
:41:51. > :41:57.with Andy Sturgeon. If you grew up in the 1970s you might want to
:41:57. > :42:01.forget this colour, but it is there in your face isn't it? We had a
:42:01. > :42:05.fitted kitchen this colour in the 1970s. This is a rendered concrete
:42:05. > :42:09.wall with some paint on it O it is cleverly done. It is brilliant. It
:42:09. > :42:15.is big. It is bold be, it is the main part of the design but it is
:42:15. > :42:20.cheap. The planting, which is sophisticated, is pick up the orange
:42:21. > :42:26.theme that's running through. It is very confident. There are some
:42:26. > :42:30.fantastic little gems here. There are some things for the plant
:42:30. > :42:34.enthusiast here. If you are going to go for a strong theme, keep it
:42:34. > :42:37.simple and be bold. Stick to your main idea. That's the key.
:42:38. > :42:47.judges thought this was best in category. I don't love it but I
:42:47. > :42:52.really respect it. I love it but I couldn't live with it.
:42:52. > :42:57.In at the deep end designed and built by Monty Richardson and Peter
:42:57. > :43:01.Cowell, it is for a garden with a damp, poorly drained soil. This
:43:01. > :43:05.garden was built for only �7,000, which I think you will agree can is
:43:05. > :43:09.an incredibly small amount of money for such a fantastic garden. But one
:43:09. > :43:15.of the ways they've achieved that is to keep things simple. I reckon that
:43:15. > :43:20.by making a curvaceous garden you can add 50% to the price, so by
:43:20. > :43:25.working with these simple shapes, it really does keep the costs down. And
:43:25. > :43:29.another great tip here is to work with perennials. The perennials
:43:29. > :43:33.really romp away, so in only a few years you can have what looks like a
:43:33. > :43:37.really mature garden. You don't need to avoid clever details if you are
:43:37. > :43:41.trying to work to a budget. These steps are a great example of that.
:43:41. > :43:45.You've got planting in between each one. That there is no extra cost
:43:45. > :43:50.there. On the edges the risers of the steps, the you've got this steel
:43:50. > :44:00.detail, so you get a contrast between the natural stone and that
:44:00. > :44:12.
:44:12. > :44:17.wonderful colour, which is with a View, is my favourite. I love
:44:17. > :44:23.it. It is another very cheap garden. Apparently done for �15,000, which
:44:23. > :44:28.may seem a lot of money, but as show gardens go, it is a snip. And yet it
:44:29. > :44:32.is powerful in its simplicity. It has one of the fundamental truths of
:44:32. > :44:37.all good gardening, which is to find an emotional landscape. This takes
:44:37. > :44:43.you straight there. For me that emotional landscape from this,
:44:44. > :44:50.childhood memories of the seaside. It is a bit of tusk any, a bit of
:44:50. > :44:56.Provence, and yet still quite British. The plant planting, all
:44:56. > :45:00.combine within a very limited tonal range. But that doesn't matter. It
:45:01. > :45:04.feels strong. The bleached wood adds to that. Although the garden is
:45:04. > :45:10.simple, there is one anticipate of it which has got a little bit of
:45:10. > :45:14.jiggery-pokery that I like. I like the fact it looks a bit Heath
:45:14. > :45:18.Robinson and home-made. If you wind this crank, the screen opens or
:45:18. > :45:23.closes. The idea is that it shields you and the plants from the worst of
:45:23. > :45:33.the weather but doesn't close the view.
:45:33. > :45:39.
:45:39. > :45:42.Not only does that look good and category, which is about attracting
:45:42. > :45:49.alternators into your garden. We will have a close look at that
:45:49. > :45:52.tomorrow. -- attracting pollinators into your garden. If you want
:45:53. > :45:56.insects in your garden you need lots of the right kind of plant. There is
:45:57. > :46:00.a new exhibitor in the floral marquee called wild time that
:46:00. > :46:10.specialises in plants that attract pollinating insects. A few weeks ago
:46:10. > :46:13.
:46:13. > :46:18.we went along to see them as they flowers from both of my parents. My
:46:18. > :46:23.father was a keen gardener. He had his own allotment. My mother used to
:46:23. > :46:26.take my cousin and myself on long walks on most weekends in the
:46:26. > :46:31.summer, particularly along towpaths. We used to collect flowers
:46:31. > :46:41.and press them. I really enjoyed doing it. I suppose that has stuck
:46:41. > :46:44.
:46:44. > :46:50.ago with my daughter. We specialise in growing wild flowers and fragrant
:46:51. > :46:54.plants. It was quite long and arduous, trying to find the space. I
:46:55. > :46:58.had a little cottage I was living in and I quickly realised that I was
:46:58. > :47:05.going to have to sell that first, because any suitable place always
:47:05. > :47:12.went to auction. I spent probably at least two years always being
:47:12. > :47:16.outbid. I decided to sort of give up and this was actually going to be
:47:16. > :47:19.the final auction. It is right on the main road, as I am sure you come
:47:19. > :47:29.here in the background. But should we ever want to open to the public,
:47:29. > :47:35.
:47:35. > :47:39.this could be quite good. In terms going to be a mixture of wildflowers
:47:39. > :47:45.and fragrant plants. We are including a beehive in the display
:47:45. > :47:48.as well, to try and get the message across that bees need our help and
:47:48. > :47:58.the pollinating insects. Without them, we could not survive. We need
:47:58. > :48:02.
:48:02. > :48:06.native. Some thing we are going to plant our wildflower meadow at
:48:06. > :48:14.Hampton Court Flower Show. It is what is known as a parasite. It gets
:48:14. > :48:18.its nutrients from the roots of grasses. Thereby suppressing the
:48:18. > :48:22.grass growth. So it is quite a handy plant, if you are trying to
:48:23. > :48:27.establish a wildflower meadow, to have in there. It is quite tricky to
:48:27. > :48:32.grow though. The seed really needs a period of quite extreme cold to
:48:32. > :48:36.germinate. It is a good idea to keep it in your freezer for four to six
:48:36. > :48:40.weeks before planting it. Then you do have to sew it with the grass
:48:40. > :48:44.seed otherwise you get very, very weedy plants that don't survive
:48:44. > :48:49.because it really does need those nutrients. It is called yellow
:48:49. > :48:52.rattle because once the flower is over the seed pods are quite large,
:48:53. > :48:58.papery affairs with a very loose seed inside. When the seed is right,
:48:58. > :49:04.it really does rattle. Farmers, years ago, used this as a sign to
:49:05. > :49:08.show that their wheat was ready to be cut. It is not only British
:49:08. > :49:12.native wildflowers that are beneficial for bees. A lot of the
:49:12. > :49:19.plants that we will be taking to the show are for instance Mediterranean
:49:19. > :49:22.natives. Thyme is particularly good for bees. They are absolutely love
:49:23. > :49:27.it. There is lots of little tiny flowers altogether, so they can hop
:49:27. > :49:34.from one to another quite easily. We have a really pretty red flowered
:49:34. > :49:41.thyme. We have some lavender coming on, gorgeous scent. Also loved by
:49:41. > :49:45.bees. We have a specimen tree and it is a pineapple scented room. It has
:49:45. > :49:55.lovely clusters of bright yellow pea flowers which are very good for
:49:55. > :49:58.
:49:58. > :50:01.pollinating insects, which really be absolutely amazing for us. I had
:50:01. > :50:07.never really envisaged that we would be doing that sort of thing. I did
:50:07. > :50:17.not expect to be out there on an international stage, really. It has
:50:17. > :50:22.
:50:22. > :50:29.been really nerve wracking. I just international stage of Hampton Court
:50:29. > :50:34.Palace -- of Hampton Palace Flower Show. How does it feel? So exciting.
:50:34. > :50:38.Your exhibit looks absolutely brilliant, it is a work of art.
:50:38. > :50:45.Thank you we have worked so hard. It has been so manic, fun but manic.
:50:45. > :50:49.Are you pleased with it? Yes very pleased, just knackered. Brilliant.
:50:49. > :50:55.I am looking for something scented. I know you have some great scented
:50:55. > :51:03.plant. Have you got anything I might not have already? How about having a
:51:03. > :51:08.smell of this one? Have a smell. That is pure coconut, isn't it? I
:51:08. > :51:13.have been transported to another country. This particular one is
:51:13. > :51:19.called Lady Wilson, a really pretty pale pink. Is it easy to grow?
:51:19. > :51:27.Really easy in any soil. It is happy anywhere, full sun or part shade.
:51:27. > :51:33.What else has got of good sense? This is burger not, it has a really
:51:33. > :51:36.strong earl grey tea scent. You can eat the flowers. Something a bit
:51:36. > :51:42.sweeter? What about the Philadelphus. Really strong mock
:51:42. > :51:46.orange, really powerful, it will fill your whole garden. Hampton
:51:46. > :51:51.Court, have you thought about it next year? We will try to get
:51:51. > :51:55.through this year! It has been lovely to meet you. Thank you. You
:51:55. > :51:59.too. There are some brilliant suggestions for good plans with
:51:59. > :52:09.strong summer scents and garden design Ann-Marie Powell has been on
:52:09. > :52:24.
:52:24. > :52:28.Scent is the invisible hero of any garden, adding debts, vitality and
:52:28. > :52:33.atmosphere. There is a plethora of gorgeous plants you can choose to
:52:34. > :52:40.invigorate your space and here on the hadith stand we have a couple of
:52:40. > :52:44.real classics. Fox, a beautiful plant. Look at the array of flowers
:52:44. > :52:48.on that gorgeous sturdy stem. The wonderful thing about this plant is
:52:48. > :52:56.it will take a bit of shade. Over there, one of my favourite sweet
:52:56. > :52:59.peas. I grow it myself at home. Beautiful flowers and perfume. It is
:52:59. > :53:09.perhaps the mother of all sweet peas, from which many of our
:53:09. > :53:20.
:53:20. > :53:24.varieties have been bred. A lilies at the moment. I am delighted
:53:24. > :53:31.to meet these oriental trumpets. They are voluptuous and sexy
:53:31. > :53:35.plants. I love being almost overwhelmed by perfume. You get
:53:35. > :53:38.about 20 flower heads to one single stem with these girls. They will
:53:38. > :53:44.reach about seven or eight feet, perfect for the back of the border,
:53:44. > :53:52.and they will grow in almost any garden soil. Here, we have nymph,
:53:52. > :53:56.garden affair and Montego Bay. All beautiful specimens. Look at the
:53:56. > :54:06.throat, the colour in there, they're beautiful reflex petals. I am going
:54:06. > :54:14.
:54:14. > :54:21.to have to take all of these girls adding structure and definition to
:54:21. > :54:27.your herbaceous borders and this one is a corker. A wonderful glossy
:54:27. > :54:33.evergreen foliage. Give it 20 of sun and some sharp drainage and you too
:54:33. > :54:43.can be enjoying this kind of sharp, lemon zesty fragrance. I just love
:54:43. > :54:48.
:54:48. > :54:53.you are considering sending your garden. A pot full of Pelargonium
:54:53. > :55:00.leads on the patio table is a wonderful opportunity for your
:55:00. > :55:06.fingers. My favourite at this year's show are this one and
:55:06. > :55:16.Sunburst. They have such a fizz to the foliage sense, just like sherbet
:55:16. > :55:24.
:55:24. > :55:28.and dahlias might did you not seem like the obvious the firm --
:55:28. > :55:36.dividers of perfume but if you look for the single orchid types, you
:55:36. > :55:46.really will find that they have the most subtle, beautiful fragrance.
:55:46. > :55:58.
:55:58. > :56:02.This one, to me, it reminds me of a tonight's coverage of the RHS
:56:02. > :56:05.Hampton Court Flower Show. But we have shown you a lot of plants that
:56:05. > :56:15.have been inspired by the British countryside. For those of you who
:56:15. > :56:15.
:56:15. > :57:23.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 67 seconds
:57:23. > :57:26.want to use those ideas in your own Hello. I have had such a good day, I
:57:26. > :57:32.hope you have. It has been, it has been full of interesting things and
:57:32. > :57:37.I was trying to single out one feature but I keep coming back to
:57:37. > :57:42.the Athanasia garden. It is very small, probably six metres by four
:57:42. > :57:47.metres and what I really like about it is the way it has such depth. You
:57:47. > :57:53.look at it and you feel it could go on indefinitely. That is clever.
:57:53. > :58:00.is clever, very much show -- so in a show garden especially. I have just
:58:00. > :58:04.come pasta garden, taking out the detail, very effervescent planting.
:58:04. > :58:07.Great big agapanthus. Very, very beautiful, soft and lovely. There is
:58:07. > :58:12.a lot more but not tonight because that is the end of today's programme
:58:12. > :58:17.but we will be back tomorrow. But at the earlier time of 7pm. Don't miss
:58:17. > :58:21.is, doesn't PM BBC Two tomorrow, when we look will look in particular
:58:21. > :58:27.at matters relating to the environment. I will meet Paul
:58:27. > :58:31.Allen, a butterfly expert and I will find out he -- how he has managed to
:58:31. > :58:34.bring a flight of butterflies here to Hampton Court. I will look at
:58:34. > :58:39.conceptual gardens with Andy Sturgeon, designed to provoke