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We British do love a good flower show, and you can every month of the | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
year from February right through to December. But in July, with an ice | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
cream in your hand and blue sky above, and the fabulous setting of | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
Hampton Court, then nothing is fine. So come and joined us, celebrate the | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
very best of British summer. -- join. | :00:39. | :01:05. | |
Hello and welcome back to the Royal Horticultural Society's | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
Around 140,000 people will have visited the show | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
That is a lot of people, but one of the things I really like about | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
Hampton Court is, although it is busy, you can get away. You can have | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
a picnic, sing Don Max said by the water, in the shade of a tree. And | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
masses of variety, lots of marquees, and a very popular one is the design | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
studio. This year is there is a theme running through, and it is Rio | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
2016, the Olympics. The academy of floristry won best exhibit for this | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
dragon headdress. And I know these guys have put so much work into | :01:59. | :01:59. | |
their exhibits. We've got a whole hour | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
of floral fawning for you, Coming up tonight on the RHS | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
Hampton Court Flower Show Martin Clunes finds out why garden | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
design has gone to the dogs. Carol's on the lookout | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
for a midsummer night's dream, seeking out plants to arouse | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
your senses at twilight. And garden designer Adam Frost | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
grabs his passport to take a closer look | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
at the World Gardens. The show gardens are always the | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
first place that visitors head for. This year, they vary wildly | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
in their design, and earlier Monty and I | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
went to take a look. This is very practical, a design to | :02:40. | :03:00. | |
celebrate the 80th anniversary of Squire's, intended to be attached to | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
a suburban house. You have got the house there, down into a seated | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
area, the raised beds give you colour, and water adds a textual | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
dimensions, and also, very importantly, sound. You come through | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
the middle area of the garden planted with herbs, so sense riding | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
up. And this immaculate lawn, grass, I was told, coming from the golf | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
course at Troon. And either side, these very powerful plum colours. | :03:34. | :03:43. | |
Finally, at the end of the garden, a more practical area, where you can | :03:44. | :03:55. | |
grow veg and herbs. I do feel that you could take elements of this | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
garden, or even all of it, and applies to your home, even though it | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
is an enormously successful show garden and won a gold medal. I am on | :04:06. | :04:16. | |
the PMS garden, this is about severe PMS, not what we might call regular | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
PMS. Most women and their partners will be familiar with regular PMS. | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
In its worst form, people can be hospitalised, and they might also be | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
misdiagnosed as having bipolar disorder. My daughter has suffered | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
from this form of PMS since puberty, and this garden is inspired by her | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
story. 95% of the time, she is a normal, beautiful, energetic girl, | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
and that is what the planting on the outside represents. I am using | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
common hazel to represent women, and it is all native British ferns and | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
wild flowers. Inside, we have got the contorted or corkscrew hazel, | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
and that represents the depression and mania that sufferers of extreme | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
PMS suffer from. And this fabulous structure running over the top. I am | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
using that to represent the brain, and the weaving represents | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
neurotransmitters, because that is where it all happens, that is why we | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
do not know enough about it. I feel like you should be in the conceptual | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
garden! It's sort of started as a conceptual garden, actually. I had | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
bigger ideas. And visitors are allowed to walk through this garden, | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
do they get it? We have had several women being incredibly emotional in | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
the central space. Thank you for bringing it. | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
The great thing about Hampton Court is that designers are not restricted | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
to the shape and size of the garden, they can do anything they want. | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
These trees are not permanently here, they are a delayed, part of | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
this garden, All The World's A Stage, attracting quite a crowd. | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
This garden celebrates 400 years since Shakespeare's death, a sunken | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
garden that creates an amphitheatre all the way around, where people can | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
sit. The rusty steel water feature is a reflective surface working | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
beautifully to represent the seven ages of man, and they are dotted | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
through the garden. It is the plants that takes centre stage, and they | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
are what everybody is looking through and out. I love some of | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
these combinations. They might not work long term, but this is a show | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
after all. But what I really like about this garden is it is | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
interactive, people are coming here and enjoying the space, and that is | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
what theatre is all about. APPLAUSE | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
I'm sure Shakespeare would be impressed with a garden | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
plucked from a line in his famous play As You Like It. | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
here with a summer soliloquy for your delectation is Carol. | :07:01. | :07:17. | |
I know a bank where the wild Thai blows, where ox lips and the nodding | :07:18. | :07:27. | |
violet grows. Canopies of luscious would barley with sweet musk roses | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
and thyme. Can you just imagine to Tanya, Shakespeare's Queen of the | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
fairies, waking up in this enchanted bower? How wondrous, how beautiful! | :07:44. | :07:55. | |
When Shakespeare wrote Oberon's soliloquy, he was talking about | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
Woodbine, honeysuckle, but perhaps, if he were writing those lines | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
today, he would have penned odes and sonnets to this glorious plant. | :08:07. | :08:16. | |
This is an evergreen climber on the edge of hardiness, it is dripping | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
with white flowers, which become more and more luminous as dusk | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
descends, and it is at that point too that this glorious scent begins | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
to emanate, wafting on the warm night air. | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
It is not just by means of their purview, night scented plan straw in | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
their pollinators. It is also by their colour. These are a typical | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
example, pale lavender, pale pinks, whites. All these colours which | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
start to luminous as evening balls, drawing in those moth pollinators. | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
-- falls. If ever Romeo will looking to add romance to his balcony, then | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
wouldn't he just go for these voluptuous and exotic Juliettes? | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
Lilies, dazzling by day, but latterly intoxicating and a | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
seductive by night. -- actorly. Romeo might have planted his lilies | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
in pots on the balcony, or if in the garden below straight into the soil. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
In either case, he would have planted them in the spring. If in | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
parts, they would have been in loam based compost. If in the garden | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
below, in good soil with really sharp drainage. But in both cases, | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
it would have been in sun. Do you know what? If the fairies | :09:53. | :10:06. | |
themselves could choose just one plant to bring to the Midsummer | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
night's garden party, it would have to be this. They have poise, they | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
have elegance, and as far as evening scent is concerned, it is | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
unsurpassable. For a plant that looks striking | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
during the day light hours you can't beat this, | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
the Eremurus, Fox Tail Lily. I've been trying to grow this | :10:37. | :10:55. | |
gloriously in my garden for years and failing spectacularly! It is not | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
because I don't know how to grow them, but they are quite picky about | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
their conditions. And the heavy clay soil of Longmeadow is not their home | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
of choice. They come from the open baking plains of central Asia. They | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
need hot sunshine, lots of air, and above all really good drainage. If | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
you have got chalk or sand, they are going to like you. And then make | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
sure they are not crowded out by other plants, don't plant them close | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
together. For display and sheer panache, there is nothing to match | :11:32. | :11:32. | |
them. If you're after a tall | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
structural plant like this, and Linda and Ray Heywood can't get | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
enough of them and are the first to admit they find themselves living | :11:38. | :11:50. | |
amidst the land of the giants # In a world of pure | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
imagination... # The first time people see echiums | :11:54. | :12:03. | |
that have not seen one before, the usual word is, wow! | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
They are so big. When you look up into the sky, | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
they seem to go on for ever. I feel like I am in | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
the land of the giants. # Travelling in a world of | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
my creation.... # Echiums come | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
in so many different forms, We love the fact that | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
the range of them is enormous. From the little shrubs | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
to the huge ones. Let's get him out of the way, | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
and this one too. People phone us up and say, | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
"Can we come to your nursery?" It isn't a nursery, | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
it's our back garden. We've got no horticultural | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
training, have we, at all? We call ourselves plantaholics, | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
really, don't we? We've done this | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
a few times, haven't we? All echiums originate | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
from a common ancestor, Of those, 17 are from | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
the Micronesian Islands. The Canaries, Cape Verde, | :13:16. | :13:27. | |
and the Azores. And they tend to be | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
the bigger echiums. It's grown on the Isle of Fogo. | :13:30. | :13:38. | |
Fogo in the Cape Verdi Islands. We think we've got the only | :13:39. | :13:49. | |
plant in this country. The reason that Vulcanorum | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
is so rare in the wild, is the locals chopped off | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
all the young foliage to feed to the goats, | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
so it never sets seed, or worse, they chop the whole | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
thing down for firewood. It's critically endangered | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
in the wild. That's the size of | :14:07. | :14:16. | |
a second-year plant. That's come through its first | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
year as a seedling. Given the right conditions, | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
echiums flower in the third... That really relates to the echium | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
pinana, the tree echium. A shrub echium you can get | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
flowering in its second year. 12 years ago we started | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
growing echiums, and it took six of those 12 to get | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
the first one through the winter. It always amazes me | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
with these plants, because that turns | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
into something that's 12 feet tall. We tried a lot of different methods, | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
and it didn't work. I said, "Why don't we | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
try digging one up?" We put them in this | :14:48. | :14:59. | |
greenhouse over winter Then we bring them out, and we place | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
them back into the border. That's quite unique, I think, | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
to growing an echium, It's in July, which is late | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
for echiums to be in flower. So it's going to be | :15:12. | :15:33. | |
quite a challenge. I think the other challenge will be | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
right from the start when we have Linda came up with the | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
design with a crayon. All we do know is going | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
to do our best. Are you still scared? Or just | :15:43. | :16:14. | |
excited? Relaxed. Relaxed. Excited now. Scared before. The judges gave | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
it a Silver Medal. Are you pleased? Yes, one point off silver gilt. This | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
is team echium. It's been a mountain to climb. But we're here and we're | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
delighted with the feed back we've got. I confess that I struggle with | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
echiums at long meadow, they're never happy. You can grow in | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
containers. We get a ten foot echium, the giant tree echium, and | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
we can get ten foot out of a bucket sized pot. You have you brought -- | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
have you brought vulcanara here? Yes, we are delighted to have got it | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
here. It must be one of the rarest plants in the whole show. I think. | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
So Shall we see you back here next year? The garden design was quite a | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
challenge, I'd like to do it again. It's a pleasure to see you here. I | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
hope the rest of the show goes well. Congratulations. Thank you. | :17:08. | :17:19. | |
There's a distinct nod to South Africa here | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
It was your idea to create this garden, wasn't it? Yeah. We were on | :17:22. | :17:32. | |
a family holiday in South Africa. As a botanist, I enjoyed looking at the | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
fauna and Flora, but in particular these over here. We felt that it | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
would be interesting to use them as an alternative to grass. You've gone | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
for a vibrant colour pallet here. We have. We wanted to do something bold | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
and a little bit adventurous. It's a bit a Marmite garden but we really | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
like it. The Flora of South Africa is colourful. So many of the plants | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
in the garden come from there originally. We have agapanthus and | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
we have crocosmia. It's a go-to plant. That's lovely. It's mine! | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
It's not for sale. I'm not trying to nick it or anything It's coming back | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
to my house. It's all mine. And the canna? Absolute joy. Not difficult | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
to look after, I think. This has flowered for Hampton Court for us. | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
Fantastic. Who would have thought it would all start from going on | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
holiday. Indeed. This year there are | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
a selection of gardens that come under | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
the World Garden category. Adam Frost has grabbed his passport | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
for a whistle-stop tour of the globe to see the wonderful and diverse | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
flora it has to offer. Gardens from France, gardens from | :18:47. | :19:01. | |
Spain, even gardens from South America. Me, I'm in the USA and the | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
first place I've arrived in is Oregon. You know, really set the | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
scene, the designer's done a pretty good job. You think about the | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
natural, mountainous region, big, old pines, rock work, water running | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
down. Then we've got the vines that sit in the mid. Space. They | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
reference the wine that produced in that state. You need to Look Mickey | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
closer. These are stunning. They tell the story, this history. You | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
know what, this is a cracking little space. | :19:34. | :19:44. | |
From the mountains of Oregon, I'm in the state of South Carolina, in | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
charleston. The designer has created a more formal garden, a small town | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
garden, elegant, charming. A lovely big focal point at the end. There's | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
movement in here. It's a lovely space. She's started to reference | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
and play with the more or less subtropical climate. Now I'm off to | :20:08. | :20:16. | |
the desert of Texas. Texas really is an arid state. You can see that | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
reflected here in the planting. It's semiarid. These gardens, though | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
completely different, they've been designed by one slightly mad | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
designer. Hello, lovely to meet you. Why? Why three gardens? Well, my | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
sponsor asked me to do three gardens. We like a challenge. It's | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
been fantastic actually. It's been lovely having three completely | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
different themes to think about and design. So explain to me then how | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
you got into that mind set and how did you research it, us designers, | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
we have to do our research? Yeah, it was very difficult during the build | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
switching between the different gardens. They all look so different. | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
I actually enjoyed that. I had contact with representatives from | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
each state or city that we were working with. They were able to | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
advise on the right type of plants and materials, so that I got the | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
theme correct. As a designer, I know how tough it is to do one, so for | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
me, what you've achieved here with three gardens, I think you've done a | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
really good job. Well done. Thank you. | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
Going from world gardens, bounded in place and time to gardens which are | :21:33. | :21:43. | |
more ethereal. These are the conceptual gardens designed to | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
provoke thought. This is the garden called simply Why and designed by | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
Tony Smith. At first sight, can you see this great black jangle of posts | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
and rods that don't seem to have any distinct structure or reason. You | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
move round this green pyramid and there is a cleft, a valley, if you | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
like, quite dark at the end. You peer down and see this brass or | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
golden circle, a ball. On closer inspection, you see that it's a | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
scaled down version of what is above, which means that all those | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
black rods moving around disjointedly make up a perfect, | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
clean circle. For me, what that says is, we make judgments about things | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
without seeing the whole picture. If we could see everything then perhaps | :22:38. | :22:46. | |
we might think more clearly. This garden is called Outdoor Rooms: | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Inner Demons. The subject is depression. In particular, the way | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
that depression makes people locked in and inaccessible. You have | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
beautiful planting and then dark waters and this rocky, impenetrable | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
island. There is a mirror, but it's disjointed. If you can see your body | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
you can't see your head and vice versament that's to give people an | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
idea of what it might be like to have depression. Does it work? I'm | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
not sure. This is a subject I know something about and it's very | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
sensitive. I suspect it's too good as a garden and not arresting enough | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
as a concept to really work in this grouping. It shows how hard it is to | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
simplify things down so that they stand out in such a complex | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
environment as Hampton cart. This garden is called Striving for | :23:43. | :24:01. | |
Survival. Its subject is a grim one, pancreatic cancer. It's one of the | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
most virulent. At the moment, only 3% of sufferers survive after five | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
years. This is represented in the garden by the three living trees. | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
There are 97 blackened stems. When I walked past this the other day, I | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
stopped in my tracks, not because I knew it was about pancreatic cancer. | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
But because I thought it was fascinating and beautiful and really | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
well done. I particularly like the planting. It has a kind of elegance | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
and grace. Now it may seem quite odd to have that conjunction of planting | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
with such a serious and devastating subject, but I see it differently. I | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
see this as a celebration of life right up to the very end. | :24:49. | :25:00. | |
The final conceptual garden in the category is inspired | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
by the beautiful and barren Kent coastline of Dungeness. | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
It seeks conceptual inspiration from Shakespeare. To find out why we went | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
to visit the designer. My name is Mark White, | :25:11. | :25:20. | |
I'm a garden designer. And we are creating a conceptual | :25:21. | :25:22. | |
garden at Hampton Court Flower Show. We've drawn most of our influences | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
from the local landscape, Dungeness, which has got rugged | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
planting and black fishermen's huts. Gardening one day we came | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
across a piece of driftwood in somebody's garden, | :25:35. | :25:43. | |
with a message of a sonnet on, which is about waves | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
crashing to the pebble sure and the successions of waves | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
being linked to the minutes He understood that you can't | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
actually stop time, but you can harness time, | :25:54. | :26:14. | |
and you could possibly write something down for future | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
generations as a benefit for them. So we thought we'd put that | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
into a garden by creating a wave in mid-collapse, | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
which gives the feeling of capturing We're building the single biggest | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
structure at Hampton The wave is 14 metres long, | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
it's three metres high, it's got a giant crest, | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
it a very large wave. It's taken about six | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
months to build so far. It's made of ash, thin strips | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
that we've steam-bent. We've got a wallpaper stripper, | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
and that is just pumping It gets up to 100 degrees, | :26:50. | :26:58. | |
and then give it ten or 15 minutes, the piece of wood will be | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
steamed and ready to go on. It's about as Heath Robinson | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
as you get, but that is kind of half the fun of it, | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
I think. The idea was to make it | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
as dynamic as possible. We've still got more layers to put | :27:20. | :27:58. | |
on top, we've got more We really want an effect when people | :27:59. | :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. | :27:59. | |
visitors have left themselves. So as the week progresses, | :28:00. | :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. | :28:00. | |
barren, harsh landscape. It has masses of sea kale | :28:01. | :28:02. | |
and valerian, and they go in drifts | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
for what seems to be miles. It's like one big garden that | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
someone has just dropped there. The main reason for our garden, | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
though, and I think | :28:20. | :28:29. | |
for the conceptual range, is the fact you want to create | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
this thought-provoking garden. it's about people coming | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
into our garden and experiencing it, coming out the other side | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
and saying how they felt about it. We've had to close your garden off, | :28:41. | :29:00. | |
to stop the visitors coming through here, because it seems to be a bit | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
hit. Yeah, fantastic. The reaction has been brilliant. There's not been | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
a moment when people aren't in the garden. Funnelling through the wave. | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
This works so well. You've captured that crashing moment. It's a huge | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
piece of art. But also with the sound, the waves, you know, it's | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
very immersive. Yeah, we wanted to create, we wanted to put the sound | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
in, so when you're in it it draws you in and holds you for a minute or | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
two and give you the time to think. I was worried that when people were | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
going to leave messages, I thought it would be a graffiti wall. But | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
people's inscriptions are very neatly written. Have you got any | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
favourites? I mean, I think like never believe weather forecasters is | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
a good one for future generations. For me, be kind to your knees, | :29:51. | :29:55. | |
you'll miss them when they're gone! We can all relate to that. Lovely to | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
meet you and hope to see you here again. Yeah, hopefully next year. | :30:00. | :30:09. | |
One of the privileges for me here at the show is being able | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
to get onto gardens for some time out from the hustle and bustle. | :30:15. | :30:22. | |
I can sit down, no-one around, and I can just relax. And that is what we | :30:23. | :30:29. | |
want from our gardens, immediately we feel better in ourselves, and | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
this question of health and happiness in the garden is something | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
that the RHS has been taking very seriously, and I have with me Sue | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
Biggs, the director-general of the RHS. We have talked about this for | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
quite a few years, where are you at now? What have we got to? It is very | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
exciting at Hampton Court flower show, we had a health and | :30:51. | :31:03. | |
horticulture conference earlier this week, and it was the first time that | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
the whole of the industry came together, and government policy | :31:07. | :31:08. | |
makers and planners and developers and the medical profession, to start | :31:09. | :31:10. | |
taking seriously that horticulture can really help the ?50 billion cost | :31:11. | :31:12. | |
that the NHS spends on treating chronic conditions. So does that | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
mean that you will go to the doctor, in some form or another, and instead | :31:18. | :31:22. | |
of prescribing the expense of drug that adds up to 50 billion, they | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
will say, go and do a bit of gardening? I think there will be | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
elements of that, there will be elements of prescriptions for | :31:32. | :31:34. | |
gardening, but there are already some enlightened doctors who are | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
prescribing green gyms, people exercising in public parks, for | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
example. Finally, I don't think anyone watching this would | :31:46. | :31:47. | |
fundamentally disagree with the fact that gardening is good for you, and | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
the more that people do it, the better it will be for the nation's | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
health - but how is that going to manifest itself in the couple of | :31:56. | :32:01. | |
years? What about the deeds? If we can get a common language and a | :32:02. | :32:04. | |
common aim that people are going to work towards, whether in government, | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
a GP, a researcher, we really can change things. Some people need | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
evidence, and we will work on that, but others will say, I am going to | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
do that, and like our Greening Great Britain campaign, I am sure we can | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
make a difference to health and happiness, because it is about the | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
joy of gardening at the end of it. Thanks very much for talking to me. | :32:29. | :32:30. | |
Thank you. There's still plenty | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
to come on tonight's RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower | :32:34. | :32:35. | |
Show supported by Viking Cruises. Special guest Martin Clunes | :32:36. | :32:40. | |
will be finding out why one of this year's | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
show gardens has gone to the dogs. Joe and Adam take a look | :32:44. | :32:46. | |
at four front gardens designed by amateurs who won | :32:47. | :32:49. | |
their place in a competition. And James Wong will be | :32:50. | :32:51. | |
taking a closer look at the diverse plants | :32:52. | :32:54. | |
you can grow to eat. Now, if all of that has | :32:55. | :32:58. | |
left you out of breath Toby Buckland has everything | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
you need to relax. It is a beautiful day here at | :33:03. | :33:26. | |
Hampton Court, as you can see, it is crowded, we are all jostling for | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
shoulder room. Now, one of the interesting things is that everyone | :33:31. | :33:33. | |
is trying to find their own space, a place to call their own, and this is | :33:34. | :33:40. | |
like a little miracle. Heading down into this subterranean patio, the | :33:41. | :33:49. | |
noise of the crowd disappears. It is replaced by the babbling noise of | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
the water feature, which is a giant waterfall spilling over stonework. | :33:55. | :33:59. | |
It is not for everyone, this, you would have to be pretty at tarmac | :34:00. | :34:06. | |
and the at digging, but what this garden has in spades is a wonderful | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
sense of sanctuary. -- you would have to be pretty handy at digging. | :34:12. | :34:25. | |
When I was a kid, every garden had a lawn, and that lawn was bang in the | :34:26. | :34:33. | |
middle of the plot. And overlooked by neighbouring windows, there was | :34:34. | :34:37. | |
no sense of retreat or seclusion, with all the people looking in on | :34:38. | :34:42. | |
top of you, you just felt exposed, it was almost gladiatorial. This | :34:43. | :34:46. | |
garden is different, the lawn is said to one side, and hidden behind | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
a palisade and a hedge, you can picnic in private. Over here, this | :34:52. | :34:56. | |
is where the real design genius is. It is Sung Kang, a real theme at | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
Hampton Court this year, but not by much, and you don't need a massive | :35:02. | :35:05. | |
change in levels to create a sense of sanctuary in any garden. -- it is | :35:06. | :35:13. | |
sunken. This is not just any pergola, this is a Catherine | :35:14. | :35:16. | |
McKinnell pergola that comes with a remotely control. You can just press | :35:17. | :35:26. | |
the button and say adios. I'm not allowed through mode control for the | :35:27. | :35:29. | |
TV at home, so I will be hanging onto this one! | :35:30. | :35:37. | |
Of course, being surrounded by nature and plans is inherently | :35:38. | :35:44. | |
relaxing, but when they are as beautiful as this, my gosh, that | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
really is something. The flowers in this border are actually proved by | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
the design, because they are next to water, and our noses require | :35:54. | :35:57. | |
moisture in the given off by this pond be able to smell them. So they | :35:58. | :36:04. | |
are all the more sweet for having a pond nearby. And I just love this | :36:05. | :36:10. | |
seat, it is a bit like a dragon's throne. What a place to sit back, | :36:11. | :36:20. | |
relax and read in the garden. -- breathe. | :36:21. | :36:26. | |
Earlier in the year, the RHS and BBC local radio | :36:27. | :36:28. | |
launched a nationwide competition inviting amateur gardeners to design | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
a feel-good front farden taking inspiration from their local region. | :36:33. | :36:34. | |
highlighting the health and wellbeing benefits of gardening. | :36:35. | :36:41. | |
There were over 100 entries, and out of those four were chosen | :36:42. | :36:44. | |
and their prize was to build the gardens here at Hampton. | :36:45. | :36:47. | |
For me, the success of a good show garden is somewhere where I want to | :36:48. | :37:12. | |
be in there, and this one, the moment I walked past, I wanted to go | :37:13. | :37:17. | |
and sit on the seat. I think because it talks to me about a sense of | :37:18. | :37:21. | |
place, you know, it is about with stubble, the Kent coast, and as you | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
move around the place, the detail is cracking. -- with -- Whitstable. We | :37:26. | :37:35. | |
have got oyster shells and dried seaweed. You have to engage with the | :37:36. | :37:41. | |
space, because these clever little rails dropped out of the big tank at | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
the back and fall into a sort of pond. I am looking at the planting, | :37:47. | :37:51. | |
it is very simple, not lots of different plants, but you have got | :37:52. | :37:57. | |
this lovely richness, this tapestry. They are popping out, wonderful blue | :37:58. | :38:07. | |
against the terracotta. I love the way the design has used the Dianthus | :38:08. | :38:11. | |
which works its way through the whole space. It adds to the | :38:12. | :38:12. | |
wonderful atmosphere. This garden really celebrate our | :38:13. | :38:26. | |
Victorian past, and SS Great Britain, and Brunel, the designer, | :38:27. | :38:30. | |
in particular. The details are quite clever. He has used the docks and | :38:31. | :38:34. | |
the setting of the docks for the choice of materials, so you look at | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
the paving, the big strong sleepers, even the boxes were actually moved | :38:40. | :38:47. | |
onto ships. But what I do like is, actually, when it has come to | :38:48. | :38:51. | |
planting the garden, he has looked at what has started to come into the | :38:52. | :38:54. | |
country, what traders were bringing in in at great Victorian period. | :38:55. | :39:02. | |
Things like Echinacea on top of the fruits. So it is lovely, every now | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
and then, to dip into the past, to form an opinion about the future. | :39:08. | :39:20. | |
Do you know, this really reminds me of my nan and time she spent in our | :39:21. | :39:29. | |
front garden chatting to a neighbours. This Israeli clever, | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
spending somewhere to sit. It may only be ten minutes in the morning | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
before you go to work but it can really set you up for the day. -- | :39:38. | :39:42. | |
this is a really clever. This gives a nod to industrial past, this time | :39:43. | :39:46. | |
Manchester. The designer has been really brave to bridge this canal, a | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
representation of the Manchester canals, because some people might | :39:52. | :40:00. | |
think it is a trick, but for me it stops you and engages you with the | :40:01. | :40:02. | |
space. I think, when it comes to planting, he has been quite brave, | :40:03. | :40:05. | |
introduced quite a bit of height in the garden. Using the grasses, it is | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
a filter, it gives you the sense of movement, absolutely stunning. And | :40:10. | :40:12. | |
any have these little pockets of colour, the yellow and the mauve, | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
and I think that is the final point, actually front gardens may not all | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
be about us and what they can do for us, but maybe what they can give | :40:23. | :40:28. | |
back to the streetscape. And you can always sit and have a cup of tea! | :40:29. | :40:37. | |
I love these big old ferns, they are fantastic, and I love the idea of | :40:38. | :40:44. | |
coming from dark into a light, but what I really love about this garden | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
is the celebration of Cornwall, but not just Cornwall as a whole, but | :40:49. | :40:52. | |
the tin mines, and imagine being down in the minds all day long. | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
Imagine those being the struts that hold up the mine, coming out into a | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
big, bright, beautiful garden. I really love the colour of this, | :41:02. | :41:07. | |
slightly tender, beautiful structural plant. Then you have got | :41:08. | :41:11. | |
the agapanthus, I love the way the colour of that works with these. Do | :41:12. | :41:15. | |
you know what? This garden really puts a smile on your face. | :41:16. | :41:27. | |
Yesterday we talked about Eric creepy Crawley taken from a cutting | :41:28. | :41:34. | |
and Lundy island, and we want to suggest that there are strict rules | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
about taking cuttings from the wild, check you have the relevant | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
permission first. Now, is the opportunity to design a dog friendly | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
garden a gift or a challenge to a garden designer? Martin Close, a | :41:49. | :41:52. | |
self-confessed lover of our canine friends, went to find out why this | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
year there is a Hampden show garden that designers are hoping will not | :41:57. | :41:57. | |
turn into a dog's dinner. I adore dogs, I lived with four of | :41:58. | :42:11. | |
them at home. I don't know what it is, I just love sharing my life with | :42:12. | :42:17. | |
these little personalities and their relatively simple set of | :42:18. | :42:18. | |
requirements. I have been a fan of the charity for | :42:19. | :42:33. | |
years, so I left at the chance to visit one of their centres and learn | :42:34. | :42:37. | |
about something wonderful they had planned for the Hampton Court flower | :42:38. | :42:43. | |
show. 125 years we have been in the business, and this project is our | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
opportunity to promote how much fun you can have with your dog in the | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
garden. They don't always work together. It is a real opportunity! | :42:52. | :43:00. | |
The dogs can benefit so much from being outside. If they can really be | :43:01. | :43:03. | |
sniffing things out, that is what dogs want to do, using their ears | :43:04. | :43:08. | |
and eyes, seeing what is going on, having fun, being a dog. Keep their | :43:09. | :43:13. | |
minds as fit as their muscles, bright and happy and functioning | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
dog. You want them to play, and that is what we are about with our | :43:18. | :43:21. | |
sensory garden, the exercise courtyards. It is all about giving | :43:22. | :43:25. | |
them a friendly environment to be a dog. | :43:26. | :43:32. | |
And running around the centre's own sensory garden is Andy, who has been | :43:33. | :43:39. | |
tasked with bringing the Hampton Court show garden to life. The | :43:40. | :43:44. | |
garden is really starting to come together now, Harvey Brooks and I | :43:45. | :43:48. | |
have worked together over the years, and he comes at it from the design | :43:49. | :43:53. | |
perspective, I come at it from planting. And what is interesting | :43:54. | :43:57. | |
for me is actually seeing how the garden can be planted to actually | :43:58. | :44:02. | |
make it a dog friendly environment. But some things to avoid, not every | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
plant is suitable. Here, they have chosen really tough plants, which | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
will stand up to a bit of abuse from the dogs. But actually in the garden | :44:13. | :44:18. | |
at Hampton Court, there are lots of herbaceous perennials. Of course, | :44:19. | :44:23. | |
they will regrow. There are different services, tracks that they | :44:24. | :44:26. | |
can sniff through. And also a woodland area that they can go and | :44:27. | :44:31. | |
dig in, so plenty of stimulation, plenty of places to explore and | :44:32. | :44:33. | |
enjoy without doing too much damage. S Good boy. That's the proof of the | :44:34. | :44:42. | |
pudding. Give a dog a nice garden like this and off they go. Keeps | :44:43. | :44:46. | |
their minds working, that's all they want. Very nice. I tear myself away | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
from these lovely animals and wish Andy the best of luck as he heads | :44:53. | :44:57. | |
off to make the dream a reality at Hampton Court Palace. | :44:58. | :45:05. | |
This is one of the great views of the garden across this long, still, | :45:06. | :45:10. | |
rectangular pool where a dog could actually splash into the shallow | :45:11. | :45:13. | |
water and enjoy it. Then the pavilion here, this will be a place | :45:14. | :45:18. | |
where prospective owners will meet their pets for the first time. But | :45:19. | :45:22. | |
here at the show, you get a beautiful view down through the main | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
vista here. What we hope is that the well trained little dogs, they | :45:28. | :45:33. | |
follow things like the aromatics, like the mint and thyme. They go | :45:34. | :45:39. | |
through the planting and explore and so do relatively little damage. The | :45:40. | :45:45. | |
dogs that have been here so far have been great. They've been really well | :45:46. | :45:53. | |
behaved. I have to say there are a couple, especially a little black | :45:54. | :45:57. | |
pug that I've fall anyone love with. Don't eat the stones. | :45:58. | :46:14. | |
I couldn't bring Nigel or Nell, but I have a good replacement with | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
Johnson here. He's showing me round the garden. You can see that any | :46:21. | :46:25. | |
human will be very happy to have a garden like this. But there are | :46:26. | :46:28. | |
things for dogs too. I love the tunnels. They're fun. That's the | :46:29. | :46:31. | |
important thing for dogs. However, there is one aspect of this garden | :46:32. | :46:36. | |
that is devoted to dogs and which I really like. Come on, let's have a | :46:37. | :46:45. | |
look. This is a fabulous doggy water feature. You can splash in it, you | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
can wallow. I can see Nigel just getting in there and wallowing like | :46:51. | :46:54. | |
a hippo. What I would say is that you need somewhere they can get out | :46:55. | :46:58. | |
without damaging plants. Also, you have to accept the compromise that | :46:59. | :47:03. | |
once dogs start jumping in and playing in water, they are going to | :47:04. | :47:07. | |
disturb other wildlife. This is a pond for tame life, not wildlife. | :47:08. | :47:10. | |
But for a dog, it's heaven. One little tip, whilst it looks | :47:11. | :47:25. | |
lovely to see plants spilling onto grass, a crash barrier is what's | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
needed. A low hedge is both a very good way of protecting your plants | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
and also can look great. This garden does look great. The public love it. | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
Dogs love it. The judges loved it too because they gave it a gold. | :47:40. | :47:52. | |
is designed to tempt the taste buds of humans not hounds. | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
Showcasing edible plants from across the world | :47:57. | :47:58. | |
Something like this, the young shoots as they come through can be | :47:59. | :48:10. | |
steamed or stir fried with a bit of garlic. If you fancy it, why not? | :48:11. | :48:16. | |
Dahlias have tubers on them under ground. They came over at the same | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
time as potatoes from South America. Let's put it this way, a few years | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
ago I tried a dahlia tuber. It had been boiled with a bit of salt and | :48:25. | :48:29. | |
pepper, I think I know why we went for the potatoes instead! Not very | :48:30. | :48:35. | |
nice. But edible nonetheless. This plant is all together very | :48:36. | :48:42. | |
different. Now this is called the electric daisy/tooth ache plant. | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
It's meant to be a particular taste. Wish me luck everybody... My entire | :48:48. | :48:56. | |
mouth is now numb. I do feel like I've come out of the dentist after | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
three fillings or something. Why didn't I get Monty to do this bit? | :49:02. | :49:04. | |
Honestly. If all this talk of growing your own | :49:05. | :49:18. | |
food has got your taste buds going, like mine are now, I'm not sure in a | :49:19. | :49:23. | |
good way, but James Wong has been looking across the show ground for | :49:24. | :49:26. | |
some incredible Edible to inspire you. | :49:27. | :49:39. | |
Being whisked away to Peru, this might not be the first place you'd | :49:40. | :49:46. | |
go to seek edible inspiration. But the Incas were incredible, they bred | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
the potato, the tomato, the pepper and a host of other things. This | :49:51. | :49:55. | |
might not be familiar to you in the plant form, but if you're a health | :49:56. | :50:00. | |
nut, you almost certainly know it. This is quinoa. Each of these is an | :50:01. | :50:06. | |
individual quinoa seed. They're just beginning to riping. They're going | :50:07. | :50:16. | |
yellow. -- ripen. This is now commercially cultivated all over the | :50:17. | :50:22. | |
UK. Down here we have a potato-like root vegetable called occa. It's | :50:23. | :50:27. | |
like potato but better in pretty much every way. You can eat it raw | :50:28. | :50:31. | |
and cooked. It has edible, tasty leaves, which are a bit like sorrel | :50:32. | :50:38. | |
or sour apple candy. You get two crops in the space of one and | :50:39. | :50:42. | |
finally, it's completely immune to blight, bred by the same people who | :50:43. | :50:47. | |
domesticated the potato. It's only a fluke of history that chips aren't | :50:48. | :50:48. | |
made from this. As a botanist one of the things I'm | :50:49. | :51:03. | |
fascinated about is how some crops have fallen out of favour, even | :51:04. | :51:07. | |
though they were once widely eaten. That includes some of our most much | :51:08. | :51:14. | |
loved garden plants. Down here we have a nasturtium. I know this | :51:15. | :51:18. | |
mainly from hanging baskets. This was domesticated by the Inca as an | :51:19. | :51:23. | |
edible and medicinal plant. You get the flowers, the leaves, even seed | :51:24. | :51:27. | |
pods which can be pickled and eaten like capers. Last but not least, | :51:28. | :51:32. | |
window box favourite, a fuchsia over here. These were originally | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
domesticated for their edible fruit. If you get the right one, it's as | :51:38. | :51:41. | |
tasty as a cherry plus flowers to boot. | :51:42. | :51:52. | |
There's a whole section at Hampton Court on specifically school | :51:53. | :51:59. | |
gardening. This section is Saul about tea. Everything from | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
traditional tea right through to peppermint tea, chamomile here. But | :52:04. | :52:08. | |
to me the most exciting is this, sugar leave, otherwise known as | :52:09. | :52:14. | |
stevia. It contains a substance 300 times sweeter than sugar but | :52:15. | :52:19. | |
contains no calories. So much gardening advice for kids are | :52:20. | :52:23. | |
mustard and cress, but are quick growing, but they're bitter. Why | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
grow that when you can grow sweet, sugary deliciousness. If you want | :52:29. | :52:32. | |
edible inspiration, Hampton has got it in spades. | :52:33. | :52:42. | |
Whilst a lot of us are harvesting garlic at home now, I don't think | :52:43. | :52:50. | |
any of us will produce either the quality or the quaunt of -- quantity | :52:51. | :52:54. | |
of different types on display here at Hampton Court. Colin, nice to see | :52:55. | :53:01. | |
you again. Nice to see you. I always know that you're going to have a | :53:02. | :53:04. | |
wide range of garlic. Have you something unusual this year. We | :53:05. | :53:10. | |
have. We've got this garlic from eastern Turkey. We picked it up on | :53:11. | :53:13. | |
two trips there about five years ago. Since then, we've been growing | :53:14. | :53:20. | |
it on and learning more about it. What have you discovered? What we've | :53:21. | :53:23. | |
discovered is that it produces a true seed. Garlic lost the ability | :53:24. | :53:30. | |
to actually reproduce its own seed about 6,000 years ago. This has | :53:31. | :53:34. | |
retained it. What does that mean in practice? This garlic is protected | :53:35. | :53:42. | |
against virus. Almost all garlic is infected with virus at some level. | :53:43. | :53:48. | |
That reduces the effect of photo synthesis and the ability to produce | :53:49. | :53:52. | |
big bulbs. How does it compare with other garlic? This offers four times | :53:53. | :53:58. | |
the level of sulphur compound that you find in ordinary garlic. It | :53:59. | :54:01. | |
doesn't mean that it's necessarily very strong. But it has incredible | :54:02. | :54:05. | |
warmth and aroma to it. When will we be able to grow this and eat it and | :54:06. | :54:11. | |
have that goodness done for us in our gardens? Over the next two | :54:12. | :54:19. | |
years. Thanks, Colin. The punkency of -- pungency of | :54:20. | :54:24. | |
garlic might not be to everybody's taste. But most people are pleased | :54:25. | :54:28. | |
with roses. In the marquee there are hundreds of varieties. One of these | :54:29. | :54:32. | |
will be chosen as rose of the year. Rachel has been along to see the | :54:33. | :54:34. | |
very best of this year's selection. If there's one plant that comes | :54:35. | :54:46. | |
into its own at this time of the year it's our | :54:47. | :54:49. | |
national flower, the rose. Hampton is the own only | :54:50. | :54:52. | |
major British flower show and this is the perfect place | :54:53. | :54:56. | |
for launches of new introductions. Roses, old and new, often have a | :54:57. | :55:21. | |
story behind them. This new variety is named for one of the greatest | :55:22. | :55:25. | |
story tellers of all time, it's called Charles Dickens. It was | :55:26. | :55:29. | |
selected by the great-great granddaughter of the writer himself. | :55:30. | :55:36. | |
It's a hybrid tea with bold, swirling, scarlet petals. It's | :55:37. | :55:40. | |
slightly scented and long, strong stems that will produce flowers | :55:41. | :55:43. | |
right the way through the summer and into the Autumn. | :55:44. | :55:51. | |
This year the festival roses have spilled out of the marquee into the | :55:52. | :55:57. | |
sunshine. We've got more new introductions here. Here's a hybrid | :55:58. | :56:01. | |
tea. It's bold, bright and beautiful. It's called Bollywood. | :56:02. | :56:08. | |
90th celebration which was bred as a hybrid tea, but it has floribunda | :56:09. | :56:15. | |
ten densies. It was named in honour of two of our national treasures, | :56:16. | :56:20. | |
Sir David Attenborough and of course, Her Majesty the Queen. This | :56:21. | :56:29. | |
gorgeous rose is the culmination of one man's expertise because it took | :56:30. | :56:34. | |
amateur rose breeder Ronnie Rawlins 45 years of trying to come up with | :56:35. | :56:40. | |
this. It's called Lightning Strike and it has this distinctive white | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
stripe down the centre of the petals - very, very unusual. It's a nice, | :56:45. | :56:48. | |
compact size. It will be perfect in a container or possibly in the | :56:49. | :56:52. | |
middle of a border as well. I think it's something rather special. Of | :56:53. | :57:00. | |
all the roses launched here at the show, only one can win the very | :57:01. | :57:05. | |
coveted title of Rose of the Year. This year it's a climber called | :57:06. | :57:12. | |
Scent from Heaven. It's wonderful hybrid tea-shaped flowers which are | :57:13. | :57:15. | |
open, so you see the centre of the flower. I love the fact that oh, it | :57:16. | :57:21. | |
really lives up to its name. That is a gorgeous, sweet, fruity fragrance. | :57:22. | :57:26. | |
These soft apricot tones work so beautifully with many other colours | :57:27. | :57:30. | |
in the garden. I'm particularly loving it with the rich, dark purple | :57:31. | :57:35. | |
of that clematis. Absolutely, heavenly. | :57:36. | :57:43. | |
That was selected as Rose of the Year. What's your favourite? A new | :57:44. | :57:48. | |
introduction from last year Roald Dahl. It's a yellow flower with a | :57:49. | :57:54. | |
pink outer petal. It's so pure and so beautiful. It's vigorous. It has | :57:55. | :57:59. | |
a delicious scent too. What's not to love. I would have to choose the | :58:00. | :58:04. | |
Pilgrim. It's a modern rose. It flowers all summer long. It has a | :58:05. | :58:10. | |
freshness. It's a delicate yellow, multipetaled, a touch of pink before | :58:11. | :58:14. | |
it opens and it's a joy. I love it. We have both gone for yellow. There | :58:15. | :58:18. | |
we are. It is now the end of tonight's programme. That's it, but | :58:19. | :58:24. | |
don't go away, because as soon as we finish here, we go to long meadow. | :58:25. | :58:30. | |
It's Gardners' World where I will be collecting food, including in year's | :58:31. | :58:34. | |
garlic harvest for a birthday feast. Monty and I will be at the RHS | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
Flower Show Tatton Park from July 21. This is in Cheshire. The growers | :58:41. | :58:43. | |
and designers of the north will be there. We call it the garden party | :58:44. | :58:48. | |
of the north. And although we're finished here at Hampton Court, the | :58:49. | :58:53. | |
show goes on till Sunday night. You can get all the details from our | :58:54. | :58:57. | |
website. But from Joe and I, goodbye. Bye-bye. | :58:58. | :59:05. |