:00:10. > :00:17.We British do love a good flower show, and you can every month of the
:00:18. > :00:24.year from February right through to December. But in July, with an ice
:00:25. > :00:32.cream in your hand and blue sky above, and the fabulous setting of
:00:33. > :00:38.Hampton Court, then nothing is fine. So come and joined us, celebrate the
:00:39. > :01:05.very best of British summer. -- join.
:01:06. > :01:07.Hello and welcome back to the Royal Horticultural Society's
:01:08. > :01:12.Around 140,000 people will have visited the show
:01:13. > :01:23.That is a lot of people, but one of the things I really like about
:01:24. > :01:30.Hampton Court is, although it is busy, you can get away. You can have
:01:31. > :01:38.a picnic, sing Don Max said by the water, in the shade of a tree. And
:01:39. > :01:44.masses of variety, lots of marquees, and a very popular one is the design
:01:45. > :01:51.studio. This year is there is a theme running through, and it is Rio
:01:52. > :01:58.2016, the Olympics. The academy of floristry won best exhibit for this
:01:59. > :01:59.dragon headdress. And I know these guys have put so much work into
:02:00. > :02:02.their exhibits. We've got a whole hour
:02:03. > :02:04.of floral fawning for you, Coming up tonight on the RHS
:02:05. > :02:12.Hampton Court Flower Show Martin Clunes finds out why garden
:02:13. > :02:17.design has gone to the dogs. Carol's on the lookout
:02:18. > :02:20.for a midsummer night's dream, seeking out plants to arouse
:02:21. > :02:25.your senses at twilight. And garden designer Adam Frost
:02:26. > :02:28.grabs his passport to take a closer look
:02:29. > :02:33.at the World Gardens. The show gardens are always the
:02:34. > :02:37.first place that visitors head for. This year, they vary wildly
:02:38. > :02:39.in their design, and earlier Monty and I
:02:40. > :03:00.went to take a look. This is very practical, a design to
:03:01. > :03:06.celebrate the 80th anniversary of Squire's, intended to be attached to
:03:07. > :03:10.a suburban house. You have got the house there, down into a seated
:03:11. > :03:17.area, the raised beds give you colour, and water adds a textual
:03:18. > :03:21.dimensions, and also, very importantly, sound. You come through
:03:22. > :03:28.the middle area of the garden planted with herbs, so sense riding
:03:29. > :03:33.up. And this immaculate lawn, grass, I was told, coming from the golf
:03:34. > :03:43.course at Troon. And either side, these very powerful plum colours.
:03:44. > :03:55.Finally, at the end of the garden, a more practical area, where you can
:03:56. > :04:01.grow veg and herbs. I do feel that you could take elements of this
:04:02. > :04:05.garden, or even all of it, and applies to your home, even though it
:04:06. > :04:16.is an enormously successful show garden and won a gold medal. I am on
:04:17. > :04:22.the PMS garden, this is about severe PMS, not what we might call regular
:04:23. > :04:27.PMS. Most women and their partners will be familiar with regular PMS.
:04:28. > :04:31.In its worst form, people can be hospitalised, and they might also be
:04:32. > :04:35.misdiagnosed as having bipolar disorder. My daughter has suffered
:04:36. > :04:41.from this form of PMS since puberty, and this garden is inspired by her
:04:42. > :04:44.story. 95% of the time, she is a normal, beautiful, energetic girl,
:04:45. > :04:52.and that is what the planting on the outside represents. I am using
:04:53. > :04:57.common hazel to represent women, and it is all native British ferns and
:04:58. > :05:01.wild flowers. Inside, we have got the contorted or corkscrew hazel,
:05:02. > :05:07.and that represents the depression and mania that sufferers of extreme
:05:08. > :05:13.PMS suffer from. And this fabulous structure running over the top. I am
:05:14. > :05:15.using that to represent the brain, and the weaving represents
:05:16. > :05:20.neurotransmitters, because that is where it all happens, that is why we
:05:21. > :05:25.do not know enough about it. I feel like you should be in the conceptual
:05:26. > :05:31.garden! It's sort of started as a conceptual garden, actually. I had
:05:32. > :05:36.bigger ideas. And visitors are allowed to walk through this garden,
:05:37. > :05:40.do they get it? We have had several women being incredibly emotional in
:05:41. > :05:48.the central space. Thank you for bringing it.
:05:49. > :05:54.The great thing about Hampton Court is that designers are not restricted
:05:55. > :05:58.to the shape and size of the garden, they can do anything they want.
:05:59. > :06:03.These trees are not permanently here, they are a delayed, part of
:06:04. > :06:09.this garden, All The World's A Stage, attracting quite a crowd.
:06:10. > :06:14.This garden celebrates 400 years since Shakespeare's death, a sunken
:06:15. > :06:20.garden that creates an amphitheatre all the way around, where people can
:06:21. > :06:23.sit. The rusty steel water feature is a reflective surface working
:06:24. > :06:27.beautifully to represent the seven ages of man, and they are dotted
:06:28. > :06:32.through the garden. It is the plants that takes centre stage, and they
:06:33. > :06:37.are what everybody is looking through and out. I love some of
:06:38. > :06:42.these combinations. They might not work long term, but this is a show
:06:43. > :06:46.after all. But what I really like about this garden is it is
:06:47. > :06:50.interactive, people are coming here and enjoying the space, and that is
:06:51. > :06:55.what theatre is all about. APPLAUSE
:06:56. > :06:57.I'm sure Shakespeare would be impressed with a garden
:06:58. > :07:00.plucked from a line in his famous play As You Like It.
:07:01. > :07:17.here with a summer soliloquy for your delectation is Carol.
:07:18. > :07:27.I know a bank where the wild Thai blows, where ox lips and the nodding
:07:28. > :07:35.violet grows. Canopies of luscious would barley with sweet musk roses
:07:36. > :07:43.and thyme. Can you just imagine to Tanya, Shakespeare's Queen of the
:07:44. > :07:55.fairies, waking up in this enchanted bower? How wondrous, how beautiful!
:07:56. > :08:02.When Shakespeare wrote Oberon's soliloquy, he was talking about
:08:03. > :08:06.Woodbine, honeysuckle, but perhaps, if he were writing those lines
:08:07. > :08:16.today, he would have penned odes and sonnets to this glorious plant.
:08:17. > :08:24.This is an evergreen climber on the edge of hardiness, it is dripping
:08:25. > :08:30.with white flowers, which become more and more luminous as dusk
:08:31. > :08:34.descends, and it is at that point too that this glorious scent begins
:08:35. > :08:41.to emanate, wafting on the warm night air.
:08:42. > :08:49.It is not just by means of their purview, night scented plan straw in
:08:50. > :08:56.their pollinators. It is also by their colour. These are a typical
:08:57. > :09:01.example, pale lavender, pale pinks, whites. All these colours which
:09:02. > :09:11.start to luminous as evening balls, drawing in those moth pollinators.
:09:12. > :09:17.-- falls. If ever Romeo will looking to add romance to his balcony, then
:09:18. > :09:25.wouldn't he just go for these voluptuous and exotic Juliettes?
:09:26. > :09:31.Lilies, dazzling by day, but latterly intoxicating and a
:09:32. > :09:37.seductive by night. -- actorly. Romeo might have planted his lilies
:09:38. > :09:41.in pots on the balcony, or if in the garden below straight into the soil.
:09:42. > :09:45.In either case, he would have planted them in the spring. If in
:09:46. > :09:50.parts, they would have been in loam based compost. If in the garden
:09:51. > :09:52.below, in good soil with really sharp drainage. But in both cases,
:09:53. > :10:06.it would have been in sun. Do you know what? If the fairies
:10:07. > :10:12.themselves could choose just one plant to bring to the Midsummer
:10:13. > :10:19.night's garden party, it would have to be this. They have poise, they
:10:20. > :10:23.have elegance, and as far as evening scent is concerned, it is
:10:24. > :10:31.unsurpassable. For a plant that looks striking
:10:32. > :10:36.during the day light hours you can't beat this,
:10:37. > :10:55.the Eremurus, Fox Tail Lily. I've been trying to grow this
:10:56. > :11:00.gloriously in my garden for years and failing spectacularly! It is not
:11:01. > :11:04.because I don't know how to grow them, but they are quite picky about
:11:05. > :11:10.their conditions. And the heavy clay soil of Longmeadow is not their home
:11:11. > :11:17.of choice. They come from the open baking plains of central Asia. They
:11:18. > :11:21.need hot sunshine, lots of air, and above all really good drainage. If
:11:22. > :11:25.you have got chalk or sand, they are going to like you. And then make
:11:26. > :11:31.sure they are not crowded out by other plants, don't plant them close
:11:32. > :11:32.together. For display and sheer panache, there is nothing to match
:11:33. > :11:34.them. If you're after a tall
:11:35. > :11:37.structural plant like this, and Linda and Ray Heywood can't get
:11:38. > :11:50.enough of them and are the first to admit they find themselves living
:11:51. > :11:53.amidst the land of the giants # In a world of pure
:11:54. > :12:03.imagination... # The first time people see echiums
:12:04. > :12:06.that have not seen one before, the usual word is, wow!
:12:07. > :12:13.They are so big. When you look up into the sky,
:12:14. > :12:18.they seem to go on for ever. I feel like I am in
:12:19. > :12:22.the land of the giants. # Travelling in a world of
:12:23. > :12:27.my creation.... # Echiums come
:12:28. > :12:29.in so many different forms, We love the fact that
:12:30. > :12:36.the range of them is enormous. From the little shrubs
:12:37. > :12:42.to the huge ones. Let's get him out of the way,
:12:43. > :12:45.and this one too. People phone us up and say,
:12:46. > :12:49."Can we come to your nursery?" It isn't a nursery,
:12:50. > :12:56.it's our back garden. We've got no horticultural
:12:57. > :12:59.training, have we, at all? We call ourselves plantaholics,
:13:00. > :13:06.really, don't we? We've done this
:13:07. > :13:13.a few times, haven't we? All echiums originate
:13:14. > :13:15.from a common ancestor, Of those, 17 are from
:13:16. > :13:27.the Micronesian Islands. The Canaries, Cape Verde,
:13:28. > :13:29.and the Azores. And they tend to be
:13:30. > :13:38.the bigger echiums. It's grown on the Isle of Fogo.
:13:39. > :13:49.Fogo in the Cape Verdi Islands. We think we've got the only
:13:50. > :13:52.plant in this country. The reason that Vulcanorum
:13:53. > :13:55.is so rare in the wild, is the locals chopped off
:13:56. > :13:57.all the young foliage to feed to the goats,
:13:58. > :14:03.so it never sets seed, or worse, they chop the whole
:14:04. > :14:06.thing down for firewood. It's critically endangered
:14:07. > :14:16.in the wild. That's the size of
:14:17. > :14:19.a second-year plant. That's come through its first
:14:20. > :14:22.year as a seedling. Given the right conditions,
:14:23. > :14:25.echiums flower in the third... That really relates to the echium
:14:26. > :14:29.pinana, the tree echium. A shrub echium you can get
:14:30. > :14:32.flowering in its second year. 12 years ago we started
:14:33. > :14:34.growing echiums, and it took six of those 12 to get
:14:35. > :14:39.the first one through the winter. It always amazes me
:14:40. > :14:42.with these plants, because that turns
:14:43. > :14:45.into something that's 12 feet tall. We tried a lot of different methods,
:14:46. > :14:47.and it didn't work. I said, "Why don't we
:14:48. > :14:59.try digging one up?" We put them in this
:15:00. > :15:03.greenhouse over winter Then we bring them out, and we place
:15:04. > :15:09.them back into the border. That's quite unique, I think,
:15:10. > :15:11.to growing an echium, It's in July, which is late
:15:12. > :15:33.for echiums to be in flower. So it's going to be
:15:34. > :15:35.quite a challenge. I think the other challenge will be
:15:36. > :15:38.right from the start when we have Linda came up with the
:15:39. > :15:42.design with a crayon. All we do know is going
:15:43. > :16:14.to do our best. Are you still scared? Or just
:16:15. > :16:21.excited? Relaxed. Relaxed. Excited now. Scared before. The judges gave
:16:22. > :16:26.it a Silver Medal. Are you pleased? Yes, one point off silver gilt. This
:16:27. > :16:30.is team echium. It's been a mountain to climb. But we're here and we're
:16:31. > :16:35.delighted with the feed back we've got. I confess that I struggle with
:16:36. > :16:40.echiums at long meadow, they're never happy. You can grow in
:16:41. > :16:44.containers. We get a ten foot echium, the giant tree echium, and
:16:45. > :16:52.we can get ten foot out of a bucket sized pot. You have you brought --
:16:53. > :16:56.have you brought vulcanara here? Yes, we are delighted to have got it
:16:57. > :16:59.here. It must be one of the rarest plants in the whole show. I think.
:17:00. > :17:03.So Shall we see you back here next year? The garden design was quite a
:17:04. > :17:07.challenge, I'd like to do it again. It's a pleasure to see you here. I
:17:08. > :17:19.hope the rest of the show goes well. Congratulations. Thank you.
:17:20. > :17:21.There's a distinct nod to South Africa here
:17:22. > :17:32.It was your idea to create this garden, wasn't it? Yeah. We were on
:17:33. > :17:39.a family holiday in South Africa. As a botanist, I enjoyed looking at the
:17:40. > :17:44.fauna and Flora, but in particular these over here. We felt that it
:17:45. > :17:48.would be interesting to use them as an alternative to grass. You've gone
:17:49. > :17:55.for a vibrant colour pallet here. We have. We wanted to do something bold
:17:56. > :18:00.and a little bit adventurous. It's a bit a Marmite garden but we really
:18:01. > :18:06.like it. The Flora of South Africa is colourful. So many of the plants
:18:07. > :18:14.in the garden come from there originally. We have agapanthus and
:18:15. > :18:19.we have crocosmia. It's a go-to plant. That's lovely. It's mine!
:18:20. > :18:25.It's not for sale. I'm not trying to nick it or anything It's coming back
:18:26. > :18:31.to my house. It's all mine. And the canna? Absolute joy. Not difficult
:18:32. > :18:34.to look after, I think. This has flowered for Hampton Court for us.
:18:35. > :18:36.Fantastic. Who would have thought it would all start from going on
:18:37. > :18:38.holiday. Indeed. This year there are
:18:39. > :18:40.a selection of gardens that come under
:18:41. > :18:42.the World Garden category. Adam Frost has grabbed his passport
:18:43. > :18:46.for a whistle-stop tour of the globe to see the wonderful and diverse
:18:47. > :19:01.flora it has to offer. Gardens from France, gardens from
:19:02. > :19:05.Spain, even gardens from South America. Me, I'm in the USA and the
:19:06. > :19:09.first place I've arrived in is Oregon. You know, really set the
:19:10. > :19:15.scene, the designer's done a pretty good job. You think about the
:19:16. > :19:19.natural, mountainous region, big, old pines, rock work, water running
:19:20. > :19:24.down. Then we've got the vines that sit in the mid. Space. They
:19:25. > :19:30.reference the wine that produced in that state. You need to Look Mickey
:19:31. > :19:33.closer. These are stunning. They tell the story, this history. You
:19:34. > :19:44.know what, this is a cracking little space.
:19:45. > :19:52.From the mountains of Oregon, I'm in the state of South Carolina, in
:19:53. > :19:57.charleston. The designer has created a more formal garden, a small town
:19:58. > :20:01.garden, elegant, charming. A lovely big focal point at the end. There's
:20:02. > :20:07.movement in here. It's a lovely space. She's started to reference
:20:08. > :20:16.and play with the more or less subtropical climate. Now I'm off to
:20:17. > :20:21.the desert of Texas. Texas really is an arid state. You can see that
:20:22. > :20:25.reflected here in the planting. It's semiarid. These gardens, though
:20:26. > :20:30.completely different, they've been designed by one slightly mad
:20:31. > :20:36.designer. Hello, lovely to meet you. Why? Why three gardens? Well, my
:20:37. > :20:42.sponsor asked me to do three gardens. We like a challenge. It's
:20:43. > :20:44.been fantastic actually. It's been lovely having three completely
:20:45. > :20:49.different themes to think about and design. So explain to me then how
:20:50. > :20:53.you got into that mind set and how did you research it, us designers,
:20:54. > :20:57.we have to do our research? Yeah, it was very difficult during the build
:20:58. > :21:02.switching between the different gardens. They all look so different.
:21:03. > :21:05.I actually enjoyed that. I had contact with representatives from
:21:06. > :21:10.each state or city that we were working with. They were able to
:21:11. > :21:14.advise on the right type of plants and materials, so that I got the
:21:15. > :21:19.theme correct. As a designer, I know how tough it is to do one, so for
:21:20. > :21:21.me, what you've achieved here with three gardens, I think you've done a
:21:22. > :21:32.really good job. Well done. Thank you.
:21:33. > :21:43.Going from world gardens, bounded in place and time to gardens which are
:21:44. > :21:48.more ethereal. These are the conceptual gardens designed to
:21:49. > :21:54.provoke thought. This is the garden called simply Why and designed by
:21:55. > :21:59.Tony Smith. At first sight, can you see this great black jangle of posts
:22:00. > :22:05.and rods that don't seem to have any distinct structure or reason. You
:22:06. > :22:11.move round this green pyramid and there is a cleft, a valley, if you
:22:12. > :22:17.like, quite dark at the end. You peer down and see this brass or
:22:18. > :22:21.golden circle, a ball. On closer inspection, you see that it's a
:22:22. > :22:27.scaled down version of what is above, which means that all those
:22:28. > :22:32.black rods moving around disjointedly make up a perfect,
:22:33. > :22:37.clean circle. For me, what that says is, we make judgments about things
:22:38. > :22:46.without seeing the whole picture. If we could see everything then perhaps
:22:47. > :22:51.we might think more clearly. This garden is called Outdoor Rooms:
:22:52. > :22:59.Inner Demons. The subject is depression. In particular, the way
:23:00. > :23:05.that depression makes people locked in and inaccessible. You have
:23:06. > :23:10.beautiful planting and then dark waters and this rocky, impenetrable
:23:11. > :23:15.island. There is a mirror, but it's disjointed. If you can see your body
:23:16. > :23:19.you can't see your head and vice versament that's to give people an
:23:20. > :23:24.idea of what it might be like to have depression. Does it work? I'm
:23:25. > :23:27.not sure. This is a subject I know something about and it's very
:23:28. > :23:33.sensitive. I suspect it's too good as a garden and not arresting enough
:23:34. > :23:40.as a concept to really work in this grouping. It shows how hard it is to
:23:41. > :23:42.simplify things down so that they stand out in such a complex
:23:43. > :24:01.environment as Hampton cart. This garden is called Striving for
:24:02. > :24:06.Survival. Its subject is a grim one, pancreatic cancer. It's one of the
:24:07. > :24:10.most virulent. At the moment, only 3% of sufferers survive after five
:24:11. > :24:18.years. This is represented in the garden by the three living trees.
:24:19. > :24:22.There are 97 blackened stems. When I walked past this the other day, I
:24:23. > :24:27.stopped in my tracks, not because I knew it was about pancreatic cancer.
:24:28. > :24:30.But because I thought it was fascinating and beautiful and really
:24:31. > :24:37.well done. I particularly like the planting. It has a kind of elegance
:24:38. > :24:43.and grace. Now it may seem quite odd to have that conjunction of planting
:24:44. > :24:48.with such a serious and devastating subject, but I see it differently. I
:24:49. > :25:00.see this as a celebration of life right up to the very end.
:25:01. > :25:03.The final conceptual garden in the category is inspired
:25:04. > :25:07.by the beautiful and barren Kent coastline of Dungeness.
:25:08. > :25:10.It seeks conceptual inspiration from Shakespeare. To find out why we went
:25:11. > :25:20.to visit the designer. My name is Mark White,
:25:21. > :25:22.I'm a garden designer. And we are creating a conceptual
:25:23. > :25:26.garden at Hampton Court Flower Show. We've drawn most of our influences
:25:27. > :25:29.from the local landscape, Dungeness, which has got rugged
:25:30. > :25:34.planting and black fishermen's huts. Gardening one day we came
:25:35. > :25:43.across a piece of driftwood in somebody's garden,
:25:44. > :25:45.with a message of a sonnet on, which is about waves
:25:46. > :25:49.crashing to the pebble sure and the successions of waves
:25:50. > :25:53.being linked to the minutes He understood that you can't
:25:54. > :26:14.actually stop time, but you can harness time,
:26:15. > :26:17.and you could possibly write something down for future
:26:18. > :26:21.generations as a benefit for them. So we thought we'd put that
:26:22. > :26:24.into a garden by creating a wave in mid-collapse,
:26:25. > :26:27.which gives the feeling of capturing We're building the single biggest
:26:28. > :26:33.structure at Hampton The wave is 14 metres long,
:26:34. > :26:39.it's three metres high, it's got a giant crest,
:26:40. > :26:43.it a very large wave. It's taken about six
:26:44. > :26:46.months to build so far. It's made of ash, thin strips
:26:47. > :26:49.that we've steam-bent. We've got a wallpaper stripper,
:26:50. > :26:58.and that is just pumping It gets up to 100 degrees,
:26:59. > :27:05.and then give it ten or 15 minutes, the piece of wood will be
:27:06. > :27:08.steamed and ready to go on. It's about as Heath Robinson
:27:09. > :27:11.as you get, but that is kind of half the fun of it,
:27:12. > :27:19.I think. The idea was to make it
:27:20. > :27:58.as dynamic as possible. We've still got more layers to put
:27:59. > :27:59.on top, we've got more We really want an effect when people
:28:00. > :27:59.turn up to the garden and walk in, that they are in an imposing part
:28:00. > :27:59.of nature, and on the wave we're having personal messages that
:28:00. > :28:00.visitors have left themselves. So as the week progresses,
:28:01. > :28:00.more messages go on the wave. And hopefully the wave becomes quite
:28:01. > :28:00.an emotive piece itself. And then the planting,
:28:01. > :28:00.Dungeness themed. It's kind of a flat,
:28:01. > :28:02.barren, harsh landscape. It has masses of sea kale
:28:03. > :28:09.and valerian, and they go in drifts
:28:10. > :28:16.for what seems to be miles. It's like one big garden that
:28:17. > :28:19.someone has just dropped there. The main reason for our garden,
:28:20. > :28:29.though, and I think
:28:30. > :28:32.for the conceptual range, is the fact you want to create
:28:33. > :28:35.this thought-provoking garden. it's about people coming
:28:36. > :28:40.into our garden and experiencing it, coming out the other side
:28:41. > :29:00.and saying how they felt about it. We've had to close your garden off,
:29:01. > :29:05.to stop the visitors coming through here, because it seems to be a bit
:29:06. > :29:08.hit. Yeah, fantastic. The reaction has been brilliant. There's not been
:29:09. > :29:13.a moment when people aren't in the garden. Funnelling through the wave.
:29:14. > :29:18.This works so well. You've captured that crashing moment. It's a huge
:29:19. > :29:23.piece of art. But also with the sound, the waves, you know, it's
:29:24. > :29:27.very immersive. Yeah, we wanted to create, we wanted to put the sound
:29:28. > :29:33.in, so when you're in it it draws you in and holds you for a minute or
:29:34. > :29:36.two and give you the time to think. I was worried that when people were
:29:37. > :29:40.going to leave messages, I thought it would be a graffiti wall. But
:29:41. > :29:46.people's inscriptions are very neatly written. Have you got any
:29:47. > :29:50.favourites? I mean, I think like never believe weather forecasters is
:29:51. > :29:55.a good one for future generations. For me, be kind to your knees,
:29:56. > :29:59.you'll miss them when they're gone! We can all relate to that. Lovely to
:30:00. > :30:09.meet you and hope to see you here again. Yeah, hopefully next year.
:30:10. > :30:14.One of the privileges for me here at the show is being able
:30:15. > :30:22.to get onto gardens for some time out from the hustle and bustle.
:30:23. > :30:29.I can sit down, no-one around, and I can just relax. And that is what we
:30:30. > :30:34.want from our gardens, immediately we feel better in ourselves, and
:30:35. > :30:37.this question of health and happiness in the garden is something
:30:38. > :30:42.that the RHS has been taking very seriously, and I have with me Sue
:30:43. > :30:46.Biggs, the director-general of the RHS. We have talked about this for
:30:47. > :30:50.quite a few years, where are you at now? What have we got to? It is very
:30:51. > :31:03.exciting at Hampton Court flower show, we had a health and
:31:04. > :31:06.horticulture conference earlier this week, and it was the first time that
:31:07. > :31:08.the whole of the industry came together, and government policy
:31:09. > :31:10.makers and planners and developers and the medical profession, to start
:31:11. > :31:12.taking seriously that horticulture can really help the ?50 billion cost
:31:13. > :31:17.that the NHS spends on treating chronic conditions. So does that
:31:18. > :31:22.mean that you will go to the doctor, in some form or another, and instead
:31:23. > :31:26.of prescribing the expense of drug that adds up to 50 billion, they
:31:27. > :31:31.will say, go and do a bit of gardening? I think there will be
:31:32. > :31:34.elements of that, there will be elements of prescriptions for
:31:35. > :31:40.gardening, but there are already some enlightened doctors who are
:31:41. > :31:45.prescribing green gyms, people exercising in public parks, for
:31:46. > :31:47.example. Finally, I don't think anyone watching this would
:31:48. > :31:51.fundamentally disagree with the fact that gardening is good for you, and
:31:52. > :31:55.the more that people do it, the better it will be for the nation's
:31:56. > :32:01.health - but how is that going to manifest itself in the couple of
:32:02. > :32:04.years? What about the deeds? If we can get a common language and a
:32:05. > :32:10.common aim that people are going to work towards, whether in government,
:32:11. > :32:15.a GP, a researcher, we really can change things. Some people need
:32:16. > :32:20.evidence, and we will work on that, but others will say, I am going to
:32:21. > :32:24.do that, and like our Greening Great Britain campaign, I am sure we can
:32:25. > :32:28.make a difference to health and happiness, because it is about the
:32:29. > :32:30.joy of gardening at the end of it. Thanks very much for talking to me.
:32:31. > :32:33.Thank you. There's still plenty
:32:34. > :32:35.to come on tonight's RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower
:32:36. > :32:40.Show supported by Viking Cruises. Special guest Martin Clunes
:32:41. > :32:43.will be finding out why one of this year's
:32:44. > :32:46.show gardens has gone to the dogs. Joe and Adam take a look
:32:47. > :32:49.at four front gardens designed by amateurs who won
:32:50. > :32:51.their place in a competition. And James Wong will be
:32:52. > :32:54.taking a closer look at the diverse plants
:32:55. > :32:58.you can grow to eat. Now, if all of that has
:32:59. > :33:02.left you out of breath Toby Buckland has everything
:33:03. > :33:26.you need to relax. It is a beautiful day here at
:33:27. > :33:30.Hampton Court, as you can see, it is crowded, we are all jostling for
:33:31. > :33:33.shoulder room. Now, one of the interesting things is that everyone
:33:34. > :33:40.is trying to find their own space, a place to call their own, and this is
:33:41. > :33:49.like a little miracle. Heading down into this subterranean patio, the
:33:50. > :33:54.noise of the crowd disappears. It is replaced by the babbling noise of
:33:55. > :33:59.the water feature, which is a giant waterfall spilling over stonework.
:34:00. > :34:06.It is not for everyone, this, you would have to be pretty at tarmac
:34:07. > :34:11.and the at digging, but what this garden has in spades is a wonderful
:34:12. > :34:25.sense of sanctuary. -- you would have to be pretty handy at digging.
:34:26. > :34:33.When I was a kid, every garden had a lawn, and that lawn was bang in the
:34:34. > :34:37.middle of the plot. And overlooked by neighbouring windows, there was
:34:38. > :34:42.no sense of retreat or seclusion, with all the people looking in on
:34:43. > :34:46.top of you, you just felt exposed, it was almost gladiatorial. This
:34:47. > :34:51.garden is different, the lawn is said to one side, and hidden behind
:34:52. > :34:56.a palisade and a hedge, you can picnic in private. Over here, this
:34:57. > :35:01.is where the real design genius is. It is Sung Kang, a real theme at
:35:02. > :35:05.Hampton Court this year, but not by much, and you don't need a massive
:35:06. > :35:13.change in levels to create a sense of sanctuary in any garden. -- it is
:35:14. > :35:16.sunken. This is not just any pergola, this is a Catherine
:35:17. > :35:26.McKinnell pergola that comes with a remotely control. You can just press
:35:27. > :35:29.the button and say adios. I'm not allowed through mode control for the
:35:30. > :35:37.TV at home, so I will be hanging onto this one!
:35:38. > :35:44.Of course, being surrounded by nature and plans is inherently
:35:45. > :35:49.relaxing, but when they are as beautiful as this, my gosh, that
:35:50. > :35:53.really is something. The flowers in this border are actually proved by
:35:54. > :35:57.the design, because they are next to water, and our noses require
:35:58. > :36:04.moisture in the given off by this pond be able to smell them. So they
:36:05. > :36:10.are all the more sweet for having a pond nearby. And I just love this
:36:11. > :36:20.seat, it is a bit like a dragon's throne. What a place to sit back,
:36:21. > :36:26.relax and read in the garden. -- breathe.
:36:27. > :36:28.Earlier in the year, the RHS and BBC local radio
:36:29. > :36:32.launched a nationwide competition inviting amateur gardeners to design
:36:33. > :36:34.a feel-good front farden taking inspiration from their local region.
:36:35. > :36:41.highlighting the health and wellbeing benefits of gardening.
:36:42. > :36:44.There were over 100 entries, and out of those four were chosen
:36:45. > :36:47.and their prize was to build the gardens here at Hampton.
:36:48. > :37:12.For me, the success of a good show garden is somewhere where I want to
:37:13. > :37:17.be in there, and this one, the moment I walked past, I wanted to go
:37:18. > :37:21.and sit on the seat. I think because it talks to me about a sense of
:37:22. > :37:25.place, you know, it is about with stubble, the Kent coast, and as you
:37:26. > :37:35.move around the place, the detail is cracking. -- with -- Whitstable. We
:37:36. > :37:41.have got oyster shells and dried seaweed. You have to engage with the
:37:42. > :37:46.space, because these clever little rails dropped out of the big tank at
:37:47. > :37:51.the back and fall into a sort of pond. I am looking at the planting,
:37:52. > :37:57.it is very simple, not lots of different plants, but you have got
:37:58. > :38:07.this lovely richness, this tapestry. They are popping out, wonderful blue
:38:08. > :38:11.against the terracotta. I love the way the design has used the Dianthus
:38:12. > :38:12.which works its way through the whole space. It adds to the
:38:13. > :38:26.wonderful atmosphere. This garden really celebrate our
:38:27. > :38:30.Victorian past, and SS Great Britain, and Brunel, the designer,
:38:31. > :38:34.in particular. The details are quite clever. He has used the docks and
:38:35. > :38:39.the setting of the docks for the choice of materials, so you look at
:38:40. > :38:47.the paving, the big strong sleepers, even the boxes were actually moved
:38:48. > :38:51.onto ships. But what I do like is, actually, when it has come to
:38:52. > :38:54.planting the garden, he has looked at what has started to come into the
:38:55. > :39:02.country, what traders were bringing in in at great Victorian period.
:39:03. > :39:07.Things like Echinacea on top of the fruits. So it is lovely, every now
:39:08. > :39:20.and then, to dip into the past, to form an opinion about the future.
:39:21. > :39:29.Do you know, this really reminds me of my nan and time she spent in our
:39:30. > :39:33.front garden chatting to a neighbours. This Israeli clever,
:39:34. > :39:37.spending somewhere to sit. It may only be ten minutes in the morning
:39:38. > :39:42.before you go to work but it can really set you up for the day. --
:39:43. > :39:46.this is a really clever. This gives a nod to industrial past, this time
:39:47. > :39:51.Manchester. The designer has been really brave to bridge this canal, a
:39:52. > :40:00.representation of the Manchester canals, because some people might
:40:01. > :40:02.think it is a trick, but for me it stops you and engages you with the
:40:03. > :40:05.space. I think, when it comes to planting, he has been quite brave,
:40:06. > :40:09.introduced quite a bit of height in the garden. Using the grasses, it is
:40:10. > :40:12.a filter, it gives you the sense of movement, absolutely stunning. And
:40:13. > :40:17.any have these little pockets of colour, the yellow and the mauve,
:40:18. > :40:22.and I think that is the final point, actually front gardens may not all
:40:23. > :40:28.be about us and what they can do for us, but maybe what they can give
:40:29. > :40:37.back to the streetscape. And you can always sit and have a cup of tea!
:40:38. > :40:44.I love these big old ferns, they are fantastic, and I love the idea of
:40:45. > :40:48.coming from dark into a light, but what I really love about this garden
:40:49. > :40:52.is the celebration of Cornwall, but not just Cornwall as a whole, but
:40:53. > :40:56.the tin mines, and imagine being down in the minds all day long.
:40:57. > :41:01.Imagine those being the struts that hold up the mine, coming out into a
:41:02. > :41:07.big, bright, beautiful garden. I really love the colour of this,
:41:08. > :41:11.slightly tender, beautiful structural plant. Then you have got
:41:12. > :41:15.the agapanthus, I love the way the colour of that works with these. Do
:41:16. > :41:27.you know what? This garden really puts a smile on your face.
:41:28. > :41:34.Yesterday we talked about Eric creepy Crawley taken from a cutting
:41:35. > :41:39.and Lundy island, and we want to suggest that there are strict rules
:41:40. > :41:44.about taking cuttings from the wild, check you have the relevant
:41:45. > :41:48.permission first. Now, is the opportunity to design a dog friendly
:41:49. > :41:52.garden a gift or a challenge to a garden designer? Martin Close, a
:41:53. > :41:56.self-confessed lover of our canine friends, went to find out why this
:41:57. > :41:57.year there is a Hampden show garden that designers are hoping will not
:41:58. > :42:11.turn into a dog's dinner. I adore dogs, I lived with four of
:42:12. > :42:17.them at home. I don't know what it is, I just love sharing my life with
:42:18. > :42:18.these little personalities and their relatively simple set of
:42:19. > :42:33.requirements. I have been a fan of the charity for
:42:34. > :42:37.years, so I left at the chance to visit one of their centres and learn
:42:38. > :42:43.about something wonderful they had planned for the Hampton Court flower
:42:44. > :42:47.show. 125 years we have been in the business, and this project is our
:42:48. > :42:51.opportunity to promote how much fun you can have with your dog in the
:42:52. > :43:00.garden. They don't always work together. It is a real opportunity!
:43:01. > :43:03.The dogs can benefit so much from being outside. If they can really be
:43:04. > :43:08.sniffing things out, that is what dogs want to do, using their ears
:43:09. > :43:13.and eyes, seeing what is going on, having fun, being a dog. Keep their
:43:14. > :43:17.minds as fit as their muscles, bright and happy and functioning
:43:18. > :43:21.dog. You want them to play, and that is what we are about with our
:43:22. > :43:25.sensory garden, the exercise courtyards. It is all about giving
:43:26. > :43:32.them a friendly environment to be a dog.
:43:33. > :43:39.And running around the centre's own sensory garden is Andy, who has been
:43:40. > :43:44.tasked with bringing the Hampton Court show garden to life. The
:43:45. > :43:48.garden is really starting to come together now, Harvey Brooks and I
:43:49. > :43:53.have worked together over the years, and he comes at it from the design
:43:54. > :43:57.perspective, I come at it from planting. And what is interesting
:43:58. > :44:02.for me is actually seeing how the garden can be planted to actually
:44:03. > :44:07.make it a dog friendly environment. But some things to avoid, not every
:44:08. > :44:12.plant is suitable. Here, they have chosen really tough plants, which
:44:13. > :44:18.will stand up to a bit of abuse from the dogs. But actually in the garden
:44:19. > :44:23.at Hampton Court, there are lots of herbaceous perennials. Of course,
:44:24. > :44:26.they will regrow. There are different services, tracks that they
:44:27. > :44:31.can sniff through. And also a woodland area that they can go and
:44:32. > :44:33.dig in, so plenty of stimulation, plenty of places to explore and
:44:34. > :44:42.enjoy without doing too much damage. S Good boy. That's the proof of the
:44:43. > :44:46.pudding. Give a dog a nice garden like this and off they go. Keeps
:44:47. > :44:52.their minds working, that's all they want. Very nice. I tear myself away
:44:53. > :44:57.from these lovely animals and wish Andy the best of luck as he heads
:44:58. > :45:05.off to make the dream a reality at Hampton Court Palace.
:45:06. > :45:10.This is one of the great views of the garden across this long, still,
:45:11. > :45:13.rectangular pool where a dog could actually splash into the shallow
:45:14. > :45:18.water and enjoy it. Then the pavilion here, this will be a place
:45:19. > :45:22.where prospective owners will meet their pets for the first time. But
:45:23. > :45:27.here at the show, you get a beautiful view down through the main
:45:28. > :45:33.vista here. What we hope is that the well trained little dogs, they
:45:34. > :45:39.follow things like the aromatics, like the mint and thyme. They go
:45:40. > :45:45.through the planting and explore and so do relatively little damage. The
:45:46. > :45:53.dogs that have been here so far have been great. They've been really well
:45:54. > :45:57.behaved. I have to say there are a couple, especially a little black
:45:58. > :46:14.pug that I've fall anyone love with. Don't eat the stones.
:46:15. > :46:20.I couldn't bring Nigel or Nell, but I have a good replacement with
:46:21. > :46:25.Johnson here. He's showing me round the garden. You can see that any
:46:26. > :46:28.human will be very happy to have a garden like this. But there are
:46:29. > :46:31.things for dogs too. I love the tunnels. They're fun. That's the
:46:32. > :46:36.important thing for dogs. However, there is one aspect of this garden
:46:37. > :46:45.that is devoted to dogs and which I really like. Come on, let's have a
:46:46. > :46:50.look. This is a fabulous doggy water feature. You can splash in it, you
:46:51. > :46:54.can wallow. I can see Nigel just getting in there and wallowing like
:46:55. > :46:58.a hippo. What I would say is that you need somewhere they can get out
:46:59. > :47:03.without damaging plants. Also, you have to accept the compromise that
:47:04. > :47:07.once dogs start jumping in and playing in water, they are going to
:47:08. > :47:10.disturb other wildlife. This is a pond for tame life, not wildlife.
:47:11. > :47:25.But for a dog, it's heaven. One little tip, whilst it looks
:47:26. > :47:30.lovely to see plants spilling onto grass, a crash barrier is what's
:47:31. > :47:34.needed. A low hedge is both a very good way of protecting your plants
:47:35. > :47:39.and also can look great. This garden does look great. The public love it.
:47:40. > :47:52.Dogs love it. The judges loved it too because they gave it a gold.
:47:53. > :47:56.is designed to tempt the taste buds of humans not hounds.
:47:57. > :47:58.Showcasing edible plants from across the world
:47:59. > :48:10.Something like this, the young shoots as they come through can be
:48:11. > :48:16.steamed or stir fried with a bit of garlic. If you fancy it, why not?
:48:17. > :48:20.Dahlias have tubers on them under ground. They came over at the same
:48:21. > :48:24.time as potatoes from South America. Let's put it this way, a few years
:48:25. > :48:29.ago I tried a dahlia tuber. It had been boiled with a bit of salt and
:48:30. > :48:35.pepper, I think I know why we went for the potatoes instead! Not very
:48:36. > :48:42.nice. But edible nonetheless. This plant is all together very
:48:43. > :48:47.different. Now this is called the electric daisy/tooth ache plant.
:48:48. > :48:56.It's meant to be a particular taste. Wish me luck everybody... My entire
:48:57. > :49:01.mouth is now numb. I do feel like I've come out of the dentist after
:49:02. > :49:04.three fillings or something. Why didn't I get Monty to do this bit?
:49:05. > :49:18.Honestly. If all this talk of growing your own
:49:19. > :49:23.food has got your taste buds going, like mine are now, I'm not sure in a
:49:24. > :49:26.good way, but James Wong has been looking across the show ground for
:49:27. > :49:39.some incredible Edible to inspire you.
:49:40. > :49:46.Being whisked away to Peru, this might not be the first place you'd
:49:47. > :49:50.go to seek edible inspiration. But the Incas were incredible, they bred
:49:51. > :49:55.the potato, the tomato, the pepper and a host of other things. This
:49:56. > :50:00.might not be familiar to you in the plant form, but if you're a health
:50:01. > :50:06.nut, you almost certainly know it. This is quinoa. Each of these is an
:50:07. > :50:16.individual quinoa seed. They're just beginning to riping. They're going
:50:17. > :50:22.yellow. -- ripen. This is now commercially cultivated all over the
:50:23. > :50:27.UK. Down here we have a potato-like root vegetable called occa. It's
:50:28. > :50:31.like potato but better in pretty much every way. You can eat it raw
:50:32. > :50:38.and cooked. It has edible, tasty leaves, which are a bit like sorrel
:50:39. > :50:42.or sour apple candy. You get two crops in the space of one and
:50:43. > :50:47.finally, it's completely immune to blight, bred by the same people who
:50:48. > :50:48.domesticated the potato. It's only a fluke of history that chips aren't
:50:49. > :51:03.made from this. As a botanist one of the things I'm
:51:04. > :51:07.fascinated about is how some crops have fallen out of favour, even
:51:08. > :51:14.though they were once widely eaten. That includes some of our most much
:51:15. > :51:18.loved garden plants. Down here we have a nasturtium. I know this
:51:19. > :51:23.mainly from hanging baskets. This was domesticated by the Inca as an
:51:24. > :51:27.edible and medicinal plant. You get the flowers, the leaves, even seed
:51:28. > :51:32.pods which can be pickled and eaten like capers. Last but not least,
:51:33. > :51:37.window box favourite, a fuchsia over here. These were originally
:51:38. > :51:41.domesticated for their edible fruit. If you get the right one, it's as
:51:42. > :51:52.tasty as a cherry plus flowers to boot.
:51:53. > :51:59.There's a whole section at Hampton Court on specifically school
:52:00. > :52:03.gardening. This section is Saul about tea. Everything from
:52:04. > :52:08.traditional tea right through to peppermint tea, chamomile here. But
:52:09. > :52:14.to me the most exciting is this, sugar leave, otherwise known as
:52:15. > :52:19.stevia. It contains a substance 300 times sweeter than sugar but
:52:20. > :52:23.contains no calories. So much gardening advice for kids are
:52:24. > :52:28.mustard and cress, but are quick growing, but they're bitter. Why
:52:29. > :52:32.grow that when you can grow sweet, sugary deliciousness. If you want
:52:33. > :52:42.edible inspiration, Hampton has got it in spades.
:52:43. > :52:50.Whilst a lot of us are harvesting garlic at home now, I don't think
:52:51. > :52:54.any of us will produce either the quality or the quaunt of -- quantity
:52:55. > :53:01.of different types on display here at Hampton Court. Colin, nice to see
:53:02. > :53:04.you again. Nice to see you. I always know that you're going to have a
:53:05. > :53:10.wide range of garlic. Have you something unusual this year. We
:53:11. > :53:13.have. We've got this garlic from eastern Turkey. We picked it up on
:53:14. > :53:20.two trips there about five years ago. Since then, we've been growing
:53:21. > :53:23.it on and learning more about it. What have you discovered? What we've
:53:24. > :53:30.discovered is that it produces a true seed. Garlic lost the ability
:53:31. > :53:34.to actually reproduce its own seed about 6,000 years ago. This has
:53:35. > :53:42.retained it. What does that mean in practice? This garlic is protected
:53:43. > :53:48.against virus. Almost all garlic is infected with virus at some level.
:53:49. > :53:52.That reduces the effect of photo synthesis and the ability to produce
:53:53. > :53:58.big bulbs. How does it compare with other garlic? This offers four times
:53:59. > :54:01.the level of sulphur compound that you find in ordinary garlic. It
:54:02. > :54:05.doesn't mean that it's necessarily very strong. But it has incredible
:54:06. > :54:11.warmth and aroma to it. When will we be able to grow this and eat it and
:54:12. > :54:19.have that goodness done for us in our gardens? Over the next two
:54:20. > :54:24.years. Thanks, Colin. The punkency of -- pungency of
:54:25. > :54:28.garlic might not be to everybody's taste. But most people are pleased
:54:29. > :54:32.with roses. In the marquee there are hundreds of varieties. One of these
:54:33. > :54:34.will be chosen as rose of the year. Rachel has been along to see the
:54:35. > :54:46.very best of this year's selection. If there's one plant that comes
:54:47. > :54:49.into its own at this time of the year it's our
:54:50. > :54:52.national flower, the rose. Hampton is the own only
:54:53. > :54:56.major British flower show and this is the perfect place
:54:57. > :55:21.for launches of new introductions. Roses, old and new, often have a
:55:22. > :55:25.story behind them. This new variety is named for one of the greatest
:55:26. > :55:29.story tellers of all time, it's called Charles Dickens. It was
:55:30. > :55:36.selected by the great-great granddaughter of the writer himself.
:55:37. > :55:40.It's a hybrid tea with bold, swirling, scarlet petals. It's
:55:41. > :55:43.slightly scented and long, strong stems that will produce flowers
:55:44. > :55:51.right the way through the summer and into the Autumn.
:55:52. > :55:57.This year the festival roses have spilled out of the marquee into the
:55:58. > :56:01.sunshine. We've got more new introductions here. Here's a hybrid
:56:02. > :56:08.tea. It's bold, bright and beautiful. It's called Bollywood.
:56:09. > :56:15.90th celebration which was bred as a hybrid tea, but it has floribunda
:56:16. > :56:20.ten densies. It was named in honour of two of our national treasures,
:56:21. > :56:29.Sir David Attenborough and of course, Her Majesty the Queen. This
:56:30. > :56:34.gorgeous rose is the culmination of one man's expertise because it took
:56:35. > :56:40.amateur rose breeder Ronnie Rawlins 45 years of trying to come up with
:56:41. > :56:44.this. It's called Lightning Strike and it has this distinctive white
:56:45. > :56:48.stripe down the centre of the petals - very, very unusual. It's a nice,
:56:49. > :56:52.compact size. It will be perfect in a container or possibly in the
:56:53. > :57:00.middle of a border as well. I think it's something rather special. Of
:57:01. > :57:05.all the roses launched here at the show, only one can win the very
:57:06. > :57:12.coveted title of Rose of the Year. This year it's a climber called
:57:13. > :57:15.Scent from Heaven. It's wonderful hybrid tea-shaped flowers which are
:57:16. > :57:21.open, so you see the centre of the flower. I love the fact that oh, it
:57:22. > :57:26.really lives up to its name. That is a gorgeous, sweet, fruity fragrance.
:57:27. > :57:30.These soft apricot tones work so beautifully with many other colours
:57:31. > :57:35.in the garden. I'm particularly loving it with the rich, dark purple
:57:36. > :57:43.of that clematis. Absolutely, heavenly.
:57:44. > :57:48.That was selected as Rose of the Year. What's your favourite? A new
:57:49. > :57:54.introduction from last year Roald Dahl. It's a yellow flower with a
:57:55. > :57:59.pink outer petal. It's so pure and so beautiful. It's vigorous. It has
:58:00. > :58:04.a delicious scent too. What's not to love. I would have to choose the
:58:05. > :58:10.Pilgrim. It's a modern rose. It flowers all summer long. It has a
:58:11. > :58:14.freshness. It's a delicate yellow, multipetaled, a touch of pink before
:58:15. > :58:18.it opens and it's a joy. I love it. We have both gone for yellow. There
:58:19. > :58:24.we are. It is now the end of tonight's programme. That's it, but
:58:25. > :58:30.don't go away, because as soon as we finish here, we go to long meadow.
:58:31. > :58:34.It's Gardners' World where I will be collecting food, including in year's
:58:35. > :58:40.garlic harvest for a birthday feast. Monty and I will be at the RHS
:58:41. > :58:43.Flower Show Tatton Park from July 21. This is in Cheshire. The growers
:58:44. > :58:48.and designers of the north will be there. We call it the garden party
:58:49. > :58:53.of the north. And although we're finished here at Hampton Court, the
:58:54. > :58:57.show goes on till Sunday night. You can get all the details from our
:58:58. > :59:05.website. But from Joe and I, goodbye. Bye-bye.