Episode 2 Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

Court happen. We've had a fabulous week with the crowds here enjoying

the show bathed in summer sunshine. If you watched the programme on

Monday, you will know that this year the Royal Horticultural Society have

divided the show into three zones - grow, inspire and escape. It is

escape we are focusing on tonight. Coming up, we meet the students

using the wild Scottish landscape as the inspiration for their

Shakespearean showground. We are hoping to bring a piece of Scotland

down through our strong references of Macbeth and the use of native

Scottish plants. As a new silver rose is unveiled, we explore the

popularity of novelty colours in the rose industry. And there is an

invitation to escape to the country, as Andy Sturgeon searches out this

year's best plant combinations. rules are there are no rules. You

can mix any flower and shape. Just let the plants get on it with -- get

on with it themselves. I think Hampton Court this year seems to

have a really positive feel to it. There is a celebratory feel in the

air. Obviously the weather is fantastic. Andy Murray won

Wimbledon. This country when the weather is good is the best place to

garden. It is not just blazing sunshine. We get the rain when we

want it, the cool when we want it, and it comes together. It reaches a

summit at this time of year. And in this lovely setting it is all here.

There's so much inspiration. It is not about for me gold medals, but

picking things that inspire you and fire you and thinking, yes, I can do

that at home. Have you seen the roses? I thought you would say that.

I have and they are lovely. But nobody loves them as much as you do.

The show gardens vary enormously. They all have something you can take

and apply to your garden. The one thing that's recurring this year is

the sense of the countryside, of naturalistic planting. A few days

ago Joe and I visited various show gardens looking at that British

I've brought you to this garden because I think there were

interesting things here. I'm not wholly uncritical but you can

sometimes learn as much from a garden you don't necessarily

completely like as one you think is fab. What's interesting here to me

is the grasses I a usually use as a linking plant or to set off other

perennials are the star of the show. It is linking the countryside and a

naturalistic element into even a small space like this. These are

very beautiful and they are exactly giving the feel of verge of just a

roadside even, of natural planting, but those are very garden plants.

That's a really good abstraction. good come Bo. The planting on the

whole works really nicely. I think the path is too wide. I would like

to see it squeezed at some point and some of the grasses feel as if they

have self seeded in the gravel, as that's what they would do in nature.

It is a gold medal garden. It is a good un. The extent Rick English

garden gardener is reflected in the hot stuff garden, which takes

inspiration from the writer's home. I love the combination in this

garden. They bring a fantastic vehicle ransy. I just wish this

guard-a boundary to keep the eye within it and the formality of the

feel is a little tight for the space. This garden is call called

Athanasia. It is made in memory of and inspired by a woman who died

suddenly of leukaemia far too young. She was a photographer among other

things. It is designed by a man who worked as a garden photographer. But

the back story is not what this garden is about. It is obviously

very important and meaningful to the people who did at this time, but a

garden has to exist in its own right. A strong influence which

makes this garden so good is the photograph photographic one. It

gives it depth of field. Objects in the foreground and the back round

are working equally to create a sense of space. Sometimes the focus

is sharply close to the camera and the background is fuzzy. Other times

you look through an unfocused image to something that's clear and

defined behind you. The eye can do that and gardens can do that. As

well as light fittering down from above, the eye is filtering images

laterally. Put large things in the front as well as small things. And

it is woodland. Woodland lends itself to this treatment, so your

planting has to be suitable. These are plants adapt to light levels

This garden is called the Garden Pad. It feels like a bachelor pad,

somewhere for a man to invite someone around and have a party. You

walk down three stairs and you are in a sinken garden. That transforms

what you see and who can see you at the same time. I feel very secluded

even though I'm in the middle of Hampton Court. It is a clever piece

of design. The plants here really sing out in the evening light. This

is a bit bright, the paving is bright, but fortunately I brought my

shades. That's before.

There is one other garden here that draws its inspiration from the

British countryside. This time it is the wild beauty of the Scottish

Highlands. HND students Kath Stevenson and Jenna Stuart have

drawn their inspiration from Shakespeare's Macbeth. We caught up

with them last month in Perthshire, as they conducted their own dramatic

This came about as part of compensation on our HND course at

the Scottish rural college in Edinburgh. All the students designed

a garden around we all voted for Jenna's garden and the best garden

and the one we wanted to build at Hampton Court. My grandfather is

from Scotland. We always came up to Scotland during my childhood for

holidays. I love the landscape. I love Macbeth. I know it like the

back of my hand, so merging the two together was a no brainer really.

This garden is called the witches of Macbeth and it takes inspiration

from the witching from the play. It will depict the garden they would

have used for their potions and remedies. The witches were prophets

who predicted that Macbeth would one day be King but they tricked him

into killing Duncan. So the garden will have an eerie sinister feel to

Look! Sheep's wool. That will be great for the garden. It will look

great hanging on the roses, as if the sheep have been walking past.

are at the top of the hill. We've come here for inspiration, because

this is the hill where Macbeth spotted the Army approaching from

Burnham wood. Macbeth thought this is never going to happen, how can a

wood march across the fields. But they cut down the wood and marched

around the time that Macbeth was written, so early 17th century. It

is going to feature a dilapidated house, which has been knocked over

and run down, and all the area around it is going to er overgrown

and out of control. There is going to be a cauldron that's tipped over,

the contents spilling over the ground and bubbling awayes is if

there is some evil magic in the garden and the witches have

disappeared to collect ingredients for the next potion. We have here a

selection of plants that we hope to use in our garden. Some of these

plants can be associated with the famous part in Macbeth, which is the

witches' concoctions around the cauldron, throwing in and making

potions for Macbeth, which is the double, double, toil and trouble,

fire burn and cauldron bubble. the verse there are only two plants

named: Hemlock. Because it has been -- because it is one of the most

poisonous in the world we haven't been able to acquire it. And the

other is yew. All the other plant name names would have been disguised

by the witches to prevent people stealing their recipes. We've found

out that eye of newt and toe of frog and of bat are mustard seeds, the

leaves of the butter cup and the leaves of the holly. We are really

looking forward to going down to Hampton court. We are hoping to

bring a piece of Scotland down through our strong researcheses to

Macbeth and the use of native Scottish plants.

I had no idea that those wonderful line lines, they are actually are

code for plants. How did you research the plants that you would

need for the garden? First we researched the play and it was set

in 1045, so we researched the plants there. There was hardly anything. In

garden would have been full of heathers, so we decided to set it

when Shakespeare wrote it, around the early 17th century, so there was

a wired variety of plants to use. How many plants you manage to find

from that time? We probably used 150. There were more. That is a

really love number. I love the idea that Shakespeare would have

recognised all these plants. Hopefully everyone who comes here

will see something they've seen in the countryside or their own garden

but not realise they have medicinal properties. Tell me about the

planting. The Rosemary is good for digest on. On. And ivy is a lizard's

leg in the potion that the witches with used. It can be used to soothe

sunburn. You have a veritable a apothecary's Cabinet. We have yes.

It is atmospheric. You've even got the sheep's wool. Yes, all the way

from Perth. On tonight's programme we are looking at the idea of

escaping to the country. In fact escape is one of the theme areas.

That brings to mind voluptuous perennial-filled cottage gardens in

the country. But you don't have to live in the country to get that

look. Here is designer Andy Sturgeon's perfect plant planting

plan for beginners. If you want to add a touch of

romance to your borders, the cottage garden look could be for your. The

rules are that there are no rules. You can mix any colour or any flower

shape. Let the plants get on with it themselves. This type of planting is

relaxed, informal and casual. Squires garden centres have created

march to Gertrude Jekyll, one of the greatest cottage gardeners. There

are plenty of plants here which are essential to get the look. One of

those have to be the ropes. Now this one is Rosa Gertrude Jekyll, and we

have one Rosa Munster Wood, named after the garden where she lived.

These were modern shrub roses, bred to have a lengthy flowering period.

A fantastic belief as well, which is disease resistant. -- leaf. They

wonderful scent which should not be ignored in any garden. It is

particularly good along a path edge, where you can brush against it and

the aroma will waft up into the air. It is important to look after this

planned correctly because if you do not, it can become quite leggy and

woody and have a fairly short life. It needs a light trim in the spring

and after it has flowered, trim it more and keep it nice and compact

and you will have planned that thrives for years. One of the great

things about cottage gardens are the sole cedars which happily put

themselves about and do the designing for themselves. You have

quite a lot on the stand? One of the classic ones for a cottage garden is

the holy cock and foxglove. They are really easy. -- hollyhock. Nature

will do it for you, throwing it around. The Angel's fishing rod, it

is beautiful. You have the funny little grass stems coming up and a

lot of people will weed them out. I have got into trouble with my

husband for doing that. You leave the grassy stems and the first

year, they will die off and the second year they will come up

bigger, so be aware of bits of grass in your border. It might be one of

without the lupin. At West Country Nurseries, it is all about lupins.

Wonderful plants. This one in your plants you have to put them all

together and here at Hardy's cottage garden plants they certainly the

experts. You can see how they combine different plans with

contrasting leaf textures, grasses against this and the texture of the

foliage is really important. With cottage garden plants it is mainly

about the flowers and this bed is absolutely stunning. Steely blue

against the vibrant orange, into ladybird poppies, the blue and the

cerise pink. Another thing about cottage garden plants, it is about

nostalgia. This one really reminds me of when I was growing up. It

divided into three zones, grow, inspiration and escape. In the

escape area the growing taste marquee. The point of that of course

is to inspire and encourage people to grow their own. You don't need an

allotment or a big garden to do this. You can do it on a tiny scale

something that is very ordinary but actually, they were until the 17th

century, a completely rare, exotic plant and I've got a piece here

called Tom Thumb that was growing in America in the 19th century and

disappeared and it has reappeared in Canada and is going to be on sale in

this country from this autumn. Its great virtue is that it is a small

plants. It can be grown in a pot. You can grow it in a window box

even. It produces masses of peace. They have said I can do this. You

get the most perfect sweetness, that crisp pod. Look at that. Now that is

getting more and more interested in growing chilies. Are you seeing

that? Definitely. We started specialising in chilies in 1994.

Nobody wanted to buy them. Now, everyone wants them. They are

growing them, cooking them, there is so much interest. What is the most

popular, hot or mild? The most popular has extraordinary heat

levels. The most high level of heat measured for a chilly. What is the

germination and growing procedure to get the best? You have to so early

to expect a drop by the beginning of summer. We recommend selling in

January or February, up to the middle of March. Anything after

that, it is getting late. They are tropical plants and need heat and

light. We recommend selling the compost temperature at 27 degrees,

25 may but anything less, they will not germinate as well. A windowsill

will do? A windowsill is great, it will do as a house plants providing

it has light. What tips do you have for maximum fruit? Light and heat

chilies need plenty of both and if they get that they will produce.

They will produce flowers until October, so you have chilies until

in the new Forest, which grows a lot of its own food organically. What

this does is show that you can grow a lot of different things, herbs,

fruit and of course vegetables in a small space. A vegetable plot does

not have to be a desert of a few rather overgrown cabbages. It can

have variety, it can have containers, there is a wonderful

area to sit on so that if you eat where you grow your food, that is a

double celebration and it reinforces this idea that if you grow

vegetables and you cooked vegetables and then you eat them, especially

with people you love and you can share them, it is all part of the

taste marquee, Paolo Arrigo, has recreated the garden of the Roman

writer Pliny. He has done this in conjunction with Phil -- fish bone

Palace near Chichester. We went along to ask what kind of gardeners

year is Pliny's garden, a Roman garden and we're really excited

about it because it features plants and vegetables that the Romans would

Sussex and it is amazing to think this villa here is the largest Roman

villa north of the Alps, so from here into during there is nothing

like it. Some of the mosaics here are as good as anything you would

find in Italy and this would have been buzzing with Roman soldiers and

Roman life, a wonderful setting and a great inspiration for our garden

Romans. They were associated with winemaking. This area of southern

England would have been completely planted up with finds everywhere.

Even today, in Italy, the legacy of the Romans is there are over 1000

varieties of grapes still produced in Italy. The Romans would not have

just made wine with it, they would have used the leaves as well and

even injured soldiers would have eaten the white grapes to help them

recover more quickly. They were a good source of vitamins C and very

that beneficial. As well as giving shade as well. Something you would

of quintessentially British and they were native before the Romans

arrived. But the Romans introduced other varieties which were from

Egypt and obviously a highly decorative plant. The Romans would

have used it in banquets, as a perfume, they even made rose wine,

rose oil, Rosewater, which they would have used to sweeten cakes and

they would have also used it medicinally as well for eye

infections. You might think this is an artichoke, but it is a car

doing. These would have been used widely in the Roman Empire. You are

after the stalks here which would have been blanched with straw, held

in place with twine and even today in Italy, in the Alps, we would eat

these so they are boiled first until they are tender, remove the

filaments, the stringy bits here, then with butter, not olive oil, not

in the Alps, and mountain cheese that would be grilled. Even today,

the best cardoons come from a long shapes and sizes and colours of

lettuce. These are varieties that the Romans would be really used to

seeing. It was typical of Romans to carry seeds with them wherever they

went and especially fast-growing varieties. It was transportable

food, if you like, and when Romans were stationed in a particular place

for a series of months, this would local Romans would have come to eat

their lunch. They would not have eaten in a formal way with tables

and chairs, like we would. Instead, they would have lounged around with

their wine, under the sun. This is a typical example of what they might

have eaten, something similar. This is the street food of Rome. It is

Piglet stuffed with panel -- fennel seeds with beautiful fragrant

rosemary, sage and garlic, all things the Romans would have

introduced to the UK. People are often surprised, things like

coriander and nightly, which we consider almost as exotic even

nowadays, that the Romans were using them back then. Really, that is the

whole purpose of our garden at Hampton Court. We want people to

identify with some of the plants and have that link back to 2000 years

ago. A big question, what did the Romans ever do for us? ! It has to

be said. A lot when it comes to vegetables, we eat so many of them

today. It is incredible. Wherever the Romans went, they traded, one

thing came from a part of the empire and was traded to another part of

the Empire. Would they have had formal, allotment systems?

Romans, we think of a Roman garden being very formally laid out and

they were, but the planting was very loose, very cottagey. An allotment

is still a Roman measurement. and basil, the classic Italian

combination, was not around in those days, was it? It was Columbus and

the Americans that produced the tomato and the Italians took the

tomato to their hearts, and basil as well. They are good companion plants

as you know. Basil was used really to feed horses and they used it as a

medicine to put in their ears to cure ear infections. Pliny said if

you wait too much basil it would make you go mad which does explode

Julius Caesar. You have a lovely pomegranate in a pot over there.

Pomegranates we used to aid fertility in women and it was said

if they ate those they would have a better chance of producing children

and the burned husks were used to repel naps. They said the juice of

the pomegranate was healthy for you and we know that even today. Have

you bought any Roman soldiers with you, to complete the scene? It has

been really nice to see you. If you want to see more of that garden, you

can on our website. I have come to the wisdom of age is garden to meet

the director-general the RHS. Very nice to see you. A fabulous show,

but there was a really important event earlier this week, wasn't

there? There really was, it was so wonderful. Tom was our winner of the

Young School Gardener of the Year award and the Duchess of Cornwall

was here yesterday and had all 16 finalists and Tom, a 16-year-old

from Derbyshire, won the event. Great to see a 16-year-old so

talented. The RHS does a lot of work with young gardeners. Why is that

important? My real concern is that if we do not inspire the next

generation, this will not happen in the future so we are keen to get

kids out there gardening. You are doing a lot of work with primary

schools? A massive amount. We have 60% with our campaign of school

gardens, six, seven, eight-year-old involved in selling seeds, learning

how to plant bulbs and things like that. If you only associated with

primary schools, once you get to 13, it is kids' stuff and you don't want

to do it? It what has to be cool for teenagers. We have got to start the

next stage. I never thought I would say it but how does the RHS make

gardening cool? We will, we will! But there is so much. If you had

been here yesterday and seen these children, I think our youngest one

was five, right up to a 16-year-old, they all think gardening is cool.

But most important of all, we have to engage them on the territory they

are happier standard is the computer world, so watch this space. It will

be here soon, RHS computer game for gardening. Thank you very much

indeed. We are halfway through tonight's coverage but we've still

got plenty to come. Rachel and Alys seek out some of the new offerings

at this year's rose marquee. Andy Sturgeon and myself visit the show

gardens that offer practical solutions for small spaces. And the

floral marquee is filled with the fragrance of hot summer sun, as

Hampton's new newist exhibit exhibitor Wild Time Plants, sets up

stall. The escape zone here at Hampton

Court also houses the iconic festival of roses, and it is here

every year that the rose-growing industry showcases the Rose of the

Year. Breeders work a year ahead, so this year we are looking at the Rose

of the Year 2014. So, the 2014 winner takes centre stage. It was

bred by Harkness Roses. Congratulations. Thank you Rachel.

What are you looking for in a rose that might gain this accolade?

first thing we are always looking for is health. To make it easy to

grow for the customer in their garden. Then we add the colour, the

fragrance and the characteristics that people want. What type of rose

is it? It is a floribunda.It is a really unusual colour. It is

genuinely an unusual colour. It is Lady Marmalade colour. Roses are

consistently voted the nation's favourite flower. Probably because

they evoke personal memories of emotional events like weddings,

anniversaries and birthdays. For a long time classic long-stemmed

floristry roses realised under glass led the way with fashionable colours

and long vase life, but that's all changing. Over the years, breeders

like Gareth Fryer have developed unusually coloured garden roses that

rival those used in floristry. We visited Gareth and florist Mark

Entwistle for a colourful masterclass. Breeding roses is

amazing, because it is a very short season. They come into bloom the

early part of the summer and you can't wait to see the new varieties.

When you see these colours for the first time, it is a heart-stopping

moment. Fashions do change. During the 1960s and 70s the trend was

bright, brash colours, bright rocks - bright oranges. And then soft

shades came into vogue and now there's a range of roses that come

under that banner of being nostalgic, vintage, old-fashioned.

All of a sudden people are wanting is vintage, but the nice thing is

everybody's idea of vintage is different. From soft romantic, a

pale colour, but then we've got post-war, kitsch, 50s, the oranges

and cerise pinks and raspberry reds. Moving on the the anticy kind of --

antique look, grace, with cut glass vases and maybe things that don't

quite match. A little bit of mismatching. It is the time when the

cut flower roses were bred to a criteria. They had to be long

lasting. They had to be of a small shape. They had to have long,

straight stems, hardly any leaves, no thorns. They were all of a type.

But people are moving away. They want to buy something which is more

natural, more like they see in their garden, that is a bit damaged

occasionally from the weather, a little bit blown, because it has

opened quickly. And why not? Today I've got some of the lovely

varieties from Fryer. They are a big bigger look to the flower. This is

my favourite. This one is silver shadow. You've got the more open

flower, which as it opens up it goes paler, but on the tighter of the

flower buds there, you get the raspberry colour on the outside,

which is a nice mixture to use both together. What I'm doing is working

them quite close and tight together. I'm working around in a circle so

I'm getting a nice round posy shape. What makes this the perfect vintage

rose is actually the colours, the grey Lyle lack Bluey pink. Buts nice

to have the contrast of the little bits of raspberry touches coming in

as well, because sometimes if it is all one colour, it can look a bit

flat. As a florist it would be really nice to get our hands on more

of this kind of rose, because I think this is what the brides want.

They want this slightly less-clean finished look to it, so that it does

look natural. It almost looks as though you've just gathered them up

in the garden on the way to the I'm very please that this rose,

silver shadow, is going to be introduced at the show, because I

think it typifies what a vintage rose is - a classic English rose

shape. It has glossy green follow yarjs produces masses of blooms. It

really is a rose breeder's dream this rose. I think I will probably

put it down as one of my best introductions.

How has the response been to the launch of silver shadow? Amazing.

Blue roses, lilac roses, are really the Holy Grail of roses. It has got

a fantastic raspberry outer petal fading to a lilac silvery colour and

almost a blue. It is an open-cut bloom as well, so it is bang on

trend. Give me a tip. What's going to be the next big thing? We think

softer colours. Anything that has dual personality but with a nice

sharp colour. So our gardens could be looking a bit different soon. If

you would like design tips on growing roses next to perennials, so

to our website. As you can see, this year the

festival of roses has taken on a distinctly vintage theme, with

exhibitors paying tribute the 1950s. Alys Fowler has been taking a look.

In the 1950s, roses were incredibly popular, and no more so than these

two. They are good -- their good breeding means they are still as

popular today but there are a cluster of ne introductions this

year I'm keen to look at. As one might hope, David Austin has a new

rose, the Albrighton rambler, named after the village where his nursery

is based. This is going to grow to 3 metres high. It is a repeat flower

and it is not affected by the rain. It has a gentle hint of musk. Very

This is check mate. It has been introduced by Appleton roses are,

and it is a patio climber. It is going to grow 2 to 2. 5 metres high.

It will flower through to the end of the season. Each stem has a cluster

of flowers. So when it does its thing, it really comes out with a

wonderful show. These two are from Pocock roses.

This is pink Martini. A hybrid tea with repeat flowering and good

disease resistance. It looks just like a Martini glass pull of pink

something. This is named after the embroidery designer and artist. I

predict these are going to be a big If you are a fan of apricot, I have

these two delights. This is perfect pet and this is show star. They are

from star roses. Perfect pet is a floor bund da, so you are going to

get 25 flowers from stem, whereas show star is a hybrid tea. You get a

single flower but it is slightly longer. Both will repeat flower and

both are perfectly happy to be on a patio or look equally as lovely in a

border. And finally, this is pink champagne, by Fryers roses are. It

is a floribunda, which means you will get flowers across the season.

It has a delicate pink colour which opens to a yellow centre. It has

good, sturdy growth. This will look lovely among lavenders and blues.

That's the way to do it. Hampton Court is not just about

admiring excellence. The RHS are keen that visitors will seen things

and say, yes, I can do that at home. The high-impact low-cost gardens

focus very much on that thought. I'm in the mid century modern garden

with Andy Sturgeon. If you grew up in the 1970s you might want to

forget this colour, but it is there in your face isn't it? We had a

fitted kitchen this colour in the 1970s. This is a rendered concrete

wall with some paint on it O it is cleverly done. It is brilliant. It

is big. It is bold be, it is the main part of the design but it is

cheap. The planting, which is sophisticated, is pick up the orange

theme that's running through. It is very confident. There are some

fantastic little gems here. There are some things for the plant

enthusiast here. If you are going to go for a strong theme, keep it

simple and be bold. Stick to your main idea. That's the key.

judges thought this was best in category. I don't love it but I

really respect it. I love it but I couldn't live with it.

In at the deep end designed and built by Monty Richardson and Peter

Cowell, it is for a garden with a damp, poorly drained soil. This

garden was built for only �7,000, which I think you will agree can is

an incredibly small amount of money for such a fantastic garden. But one

of the ways they've achieved that is to keep things simple. I reckon that

by making a curvaceous garden you can add 50% to the price, so by

working with these simple shapes, it really does keep the costs down. And

another great tip here is to work with perennials. The perennials

really romp away, so in only a few years you can have what looks like a

really mature garden. You don't need to avoid clever details if you are

trying to work to a budget. These steps are a great example of that.

You've got planting in between each one. That there is no extra cost

there. On the edges the risers of the steps, the you've got this steel

detail, so you get a contrast between the natural stone and that

wonderful colour, which is with a View, is my favourite. I love

it. It is another very cheap garden. Apparently done for �15,000, which

may seem a lot of money, but as show gardens go, it is a snip. And yet it

is powerful in its simplicity. It has one of the fundamental truths of

all good gardening, which is to find an emotional landscape. This takes

you straight there. For me that emotional landscape from this,

childhood memories of the seaside. It is a bit of tusk any, a bit of

Provence, and yet still quite British. The plant planting, all

combine within a very limited tonal range. But that doesn't matter. It

feels strong. The bleached wood adds to that. Although the garden is

simple, there is one anticipate of it which has got a little bit of

jiggery-pokery that I like. I like the fact it looks a bit Heath

Robinson and home-made. If you wind this crank, the screen opens or

closes. The idea is that it shields you and the plants from the worst of

the weather but doesn't close the view.

Not only does that look good and category, which is about attracting

alternators into your garden. We will have a close look at that

tomorrow. -- attracting pollinators into your garden. If you want

insects in your garden you need lots of the right kind of plant. There is

a new exhibitor in the floral marquee called wild time that

specialises in plants that attract pollinating insects. A few weeks ago

we went along to see them as they flowers from both of my parents. My

father was a keen gardener. He had his own allotment. My mother used to

take my cousin and myself on long walks on most weekends in the

summer, particularly along towpaths. We used to collect flowers

and press them. I really enjoyed doing it. I suppose that has stuck

ago with my daughter. We specialise in growing wild flowers and fragrant

plants. It was quite long and arduous, trying to find the space. I

had a little cottage I was living in and I quickly realised that I was

going to have to sell that first, because any suitable place always

went to auction. I spent probably at least two years always being

outbid. I decided to sort of give up and this was actually going to be

the final auction. It is right on the main road, as I am sure you come

here in the background. But should we ever want to open to the public,

this could be quite good. In terms going to be a mixture of wildflowers

and fragrant plants. We are including a beehive in the display

as well, to try and get the message across that bees need our help and

the pollinating insects. Without them, we could not survive. We need

native. Some thing we are going to plant our wildflower meadow at

Hampton Court Flower Show. It is what is known as a parasite. It gets

its nutrients from the roots of grasses. Thereby suppressing the

grass growth. So it is quite a handy plant, if you are trying to

establish a wildflower meadow, to have in there. It is quite tricky to

grow though. The seed really needs a period of quite extreme cold to

germinate. It is a good idea to keep it in your freezer for four to six

weeks before planting it. Then you do have to sew it with the grass

seed otherwise you get very, very weedy plants that don't survive

because it really does need those nutrients. It is called yellow

rattle because once the flower is over the seed pods are quite large,

papery affairs with a very loose seed inside. When the seed is right,

it really does rattle. Farmers, years ago, used this as a sign to

show that their wheat was ready to be cut. It is not only British

native wildflowers that are beneficial for bees. A lot of the

plants that we will be taking to the show are for instance Mediterranean

natives. Thyme is particularly good for bees. They are absolutely love

it. There is lots of little tiny flowers altogether, so they can hop

from one to another quite easily. We have a really pretty red flowered

thyme. We have some lavender coming on, gorgeous scent. Also loved by

bees. We have a specimen tree and it is a pineapple scented room. It has

lovely clusters of bright yellow pea flowers which are very good for

pollinating insects, which really be absolutely amazing for us. I had

never really envisaged that we would be doing that sort of thing. I did

not expect to be out there on an international stage, really. It has

been really nerve wracking. I just international stage of Hampton Court

Palace -- of Hampton Palace Flower Show. How does it feel? So exciting.

Your exhibit looks absolutely brilliant, it is a work of art.

Thank you we have worked so hard. It has been so manic, fun but manic.

Are you pleased with it? Yes very pleased, just knackered. Brilliant.

I am looking for something scented. I know you have some great scented

plant. Have you got anything I might not have already? How about having a

smell of this one? Have a smell. That is pure coconut, isn't it? I

have been transported to another country. This particular one is

called Lady Wilson, a really pretty pale pink. Is it easy to grow?

Really easy in any soil. It is happy anywhere, full sun or part shade.

What else has got of good sense? This is burger not, it has a really

strong earl grey tea scent. You can eat the flowers. Something a bit

sweeter? What about the Philadelphus. Really strong mock

orange, really powerful, it will fill your whole garden. Hampton

Court, have you thought about it next year? We will try to get

through this year! It has been lovely to meet you. Thank you. You

too. There are some brilliant suggestions for good plans with

strong summer scents and garden design Ann-Marie Powell has been on

Scent is the invisible hero of any garden, adding debts, vitality and

atmosphere. There is a plethora of gorgeous plants you can choose to

invigorate your space and here on the hadith stand we have a couple of

real classics. Fox, a beautiful plant. Look at the array of flowers

on that gorgeous sturdy stem. The wonderful thing about this plant is

it will take a bit of shade. Over there, one of my favourite sweet

peas. I grow it myself at home. Beautiful flowers and perfume. It is

perhaps the mother of all sweet peas, from which many of our

varieties have been bred. A lilies at the moment. I am delighted

to meet these oriental trumpets. They are voluptuous and sexy

plants. I love being almost overwhelmed by perfume. You get

about 20 flower heads to one single stem with these girls. They will

reach about seven or eight feet, perfect for the back of the border,

and they will grow in almost any garden soil. Here, we have nymph,

garden affair and Montego Bay. All beautiful specimens. Look at the

throat, the colour in there, they're beautiful reflex petals. I am going

to have to take all of these girls adding structure and definition to

your herbaceous borders and this one is a corker. A wonderful glossy

evergreen foliage. Give it 20 of sun and some sharp drainage and you too

can be enjoying this kind of sharp, lemon zesty fragrance. I just love

you are considering sending your garden. A pot full of Pelargonium

leads on the patio table is a wonderful opportunity for your

fingers. My favourite at this year's show are this one and

Sunburst. They have such a fizz to the foliage sense, just like sherbet

and dahlias might did you not seem like the obvious the firm --

dividers of perfume but if you look for the single orchid types, you

really will find that they have the most subtle, beautiful fragrance.

This one, to me, it reminds me of a tonight's coverage of the RHS

Hampton Court Flower Show. But we have shown you a lot of plants that

have been inspired by the British countryside. For those of you who

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want to use those ideas in your own Hello. I have had such a good day, I

hope you have. It has been, it has been full of interesting things and

I was trying to single out one feature but I keep coming back to

the Athanasia garden. It is very small, probably six metres by four

metres and what I really like about it is the way it has such depth. You

look at it and you feel it could go on indefinitely. That is clever.

is clever, very much show -- so in a show garden especially. I have just

come pasta garden, taking out the detail, very effervescent planting.

Great big agapanthus. Very, very beautiful, soft and lovely. There is

a lot more but not tonight because that is the end of today's programme

but we will be back tomorrow. But at the earlier time of 7pm. Don't miss

is, doesn't PM BBC Two tomorrow, when we look will look in particular

at matters relating to the environment. I will meet Paul

Allen, a butterfly expert and I will find out he -- how he has managed to

bring a flight of butterflies here to Hampton Court. I will look at

conceptual gardens with Andy Sturgeon, designed to provoke