Episode 14 RHS Chelsea Flower Show

and there have been more than a few surprises but we have reached the

floor finale. Did cry just yet, because tonight we have boarded you

a Saturday night takeaway to satisfy even the largest of

appetite. We have put together a veritable buffet of highlights so

you can sprinkle some Chelsea magic over your garden this opposite back,

put your feet up and tuck into hour flower-filled feast. Recipe for

success, we break down the ingredients of your soil. He few

have a sandy soil it will allow you to grow some of these great bulbs

because the winter what will not cause them to rot. We look back at

the gardens that one gold. We will be in the thick of the action as

the great plant sell-off begins. Flower Show. Supported by M&G

Investments. It has been a momentous week, showcasing 16 large

gardens, 17 small gardens and a Great Pavilion packed with some of

the finest things from across the globe. Easy to be intimidated. I

cannot possibly take it all in all achieve anything like this at home.

I remembered the first time I came you felt you wanted to war three

days to walk around. You get into the mike and set of in the Great

Pavilion looking at individual blooms and flowers but step outside

into the show garden and you're looking at the complexity of how

are you assemble his pieces. It is a case of being quite disciplined

when you walk round. It happens to us as well, not just

in experienced people. It is all coming at you. Remember one or two

combinations you really like. And take the show for what it is, a

festival, a feast of beauty, and a celebration of everything about

gardening. There is a huge diversity in terms

of design style. Look at the variation in Renaissance and

classically informed gardens from the more contemporary styles, to

the more traditional. It is a really great way of learning a

little bit about garden history, enabling yourself, and moving

forward, taking ideas home. I and remembering it is up to you

what you have in your garden. There is no, this is what you must have

commit you do what you want. It is about personal taste.

Ignore the experts. The sea air we showcased gardens

that read like a horticultural who's who. For one man it was time

to swap the chalk for a walk over to the main avenue. I have been

nagging just twist for you to have a go of -- Joe Swift. I caught up

with him on Sunday hours before the show it to get a sneaky preview and

cheer him on. What do you think? is all right if you like that sort

of thing. Do you know how much work goes into this? I will look at

these in a whole new light. 21 days I have been here, since the 1st May,

every day. It has been amazing. Private Eye it always used to use

that line, tired and emotional. You have become more tired and

emotional doing this above everything else, apart from getting

married. It feels like my baby, designing it, being here, every

little stone and plant. Are you happy with the way it has

come together? I am delighted with the whole thing.

This tree is coming into leaf a little bit too slow. The cold

nights slowed it down a bit. I am delighted, my biggest worry was I

was going to turn round at the end of the process and not like it. But

I love that. I am really pleased. Big teamwork, the landscape has,

Rosanna, an amazing eye for detail. It is turning into an Oscar speech.

A massive team behind it. Are you going to get a gold?

I cannot see it objectively any more. People like it, I love it. It

would be lovely. Of course it would. It sees a change, a lot of purple

and pink, it is fiery. Wonderful irises down there, the purple,

Brown. That has never been in Chelsea

before. The warm pay and I was looking for. I have seen a lot of

purple and pink and wanted to try and warm the garden up, so even on

a grey, rainy, Chelsea day it feels warm.

It is reflected in the sea do you have used for these arches.

The lovely structures. They said the whole tone.

You a piece, just down to the judges. We do you think, honestly?

Have got to be honest, I think it is brilliant and I am ever so proud

of you. On Tuesday he did wake up to the

news he won his very first Chelsea gold and it was a magic moment.

I'm really impressed. It is no mean feat to come and after having

observed for so long, to them to come in. The pressure mounts

because the expectation is you're going to do very well and he has

come in with something very original. Not just mimicking the

trend. A very strong piece of work, great colours, very strong

architecture. And Adam Frost really impressed me.

He was so thrilled, I don't think he expected to get a gold. It is

based on the works of John Clare. That Ali, the shady area -- that

Ali way. The standard was exceptionally high. Nine out of the

16 gardens winning a gold medal. And the The Laurent-Perrier

Bicentenary Garden, it was a real garden, you felt it would go on for

a month. The copper beech, just wonderful. To was the end of the

week it really came into its own. - - towards.

I'm want to go home and make some of those Hazel domes. Lovely,

particularly in a small garden, good way of containing shrubs.

has everything you wish about it that you wish of the garden, a

wonderful architecture but doesn't dominate. The planting is

beautifully soft, it draws you in. Very complex planting. If you stand

and look at it it is like a tapestry revealing the details. It

keeps delivering as you enter. Having the bravery to leave that

big open space in the middle. But is a really brave thing for

somebody to do that works so perfectly.

For it would have been a bit difficult for Andy if he had not

got called. Nice they got gold. Using that trick of dropping down

through the levels, it changes our perception of the garden, a simple

trick to play but it works every time.

And he got Best in Show. All the exhibitors had an excruciating wait

until Tuesday morning to find out whether they had won a medal and

most importantly what colour it was. Nicki Chapman rose with the sun as

she always does and with results for Beckham reduce grown men and

women to tears. We are waiting for the ladies to

arrive because it is about the much Just give me it, please.

Congratulations, it is gold. Gold all the cases. Had you feel? Elated.

We are just heading for the artisan gardens now. How do you feel?

morning's work, tremendous. He was so pleased, such a lovely

gentle man. He was over the main, last year he just missed out on a

gold and was so disappointed. Fantastic to have him back.

The best job in the world if you are handing out gold medals. The

worst job if they are not gold. do not know until they are

presented by the ladies. The boys, quite a few have you got very

emotional. You just like making the boys cry. The suspense. Then you

get people like Tom and the gentleman on the artisan gardens,

that was so disappointed on missing out on the much coveted gold medal.

The only gold in the category, this was the chance to push things out,

do gardens that were way off beat and strange things, there was only

one gold in it, and some of the gardens you may regard as being

left the field in the show gardens, not many gold medals there. Are the

RHS ready for this fresh look? An interesting point. You have to

move forwards. Conceptually -- conceptually the idea is brilliant.

You need to remember where you're coming from in the words -- world

of garden design and horticulture. It is great Chelsea allows

ourselves to have damage breath. We should embrace it, without being

either incredibly contemporary or retrospective. I would like to see

broadening of those that take part, not just garden designers, or it

can become a little bit more incestuous, I would like to see

artists, architects, sculptors, all the creative art.

What I would Alf really like to have seen was one garden designer.

We had all the arts, Mary Berry went as a cook, not one garden

designer. This is art, if we haven't proved that, that is it. It

is time the powers that be to garden design as an art you have

got some very nice plants. They really caught my eye this year.

They were not here at Chelsea you last year because of the very hot

spring. This year they have loved the bad weather and they got a cold.

So beautiful. -- they got a gold medal. My favourites.

In the end Chelsea is just smoke and mirrors. An elaborate show,

fleeting temporary perfection, smack bang in the middle of London.

A total contrast to gardens that exist in the real-world were plants

grow and evolve. This pyramids will be dismantled by Wednesday. But

which plants should you choose, of all the ones we have looked at,

there are so many? It actually it all depends on the soil. Andy

Sturgeon ventured into the Great Pavilion to explain why it is all

looking at some of these plants I wish I had it. This is one of my

favourites. It has got wonderful foliage. At this time of year in

spring you can have carpets of it in a great clay soil. And this

likes damp things, the damper end of clay. They all look superb

together and it is about the combination. You can have all this

froth and fluff but you need something to anchor it. This is a

plant that would do that. Each plant like this would but

punctuation into the planting. The leaves are this wonderful bronze E.

Coli when they come out and fade because it is free-draining, you

can grow some of these great bulbs because the winter wet will not

cause them to rot. If you have grown tulips you will know some of

them will last for ever, pop-up year after year, but others will

slowly fade away and you have to keep the planting bulbs every two

or three years. That is certainly what I find, it is such a great

colour, and it has got an amazing said. As the tulips fade away the

alliums pop up to take over the show. Some of these wonderful

globes like this white one here. They really are spectacular and

they will really thank you for giving them a well-drained sandy

you can grow and this is one of them: The flush of weight. It

flowers for ages. The flower was open at the bottom and die and then

the ones at the top open, so it goes on for ages and ages, and it

also sells seeds, which means you get plants for free, sometimes more

than you want. There is a purple version as well. It looks great

alongside this gigantic plant, with yellow flowers. This is something

Ready special. It is good to have something special in your garden

and this is from Spain. It really loves growing in chalky soil and

that is a bonus. How about this? Ladybird! It is pretty easy to see

why it have got that name. It is a form of our native poppy. Once you

have got it, you have got it forever. It will only germinate if

you disturb the ground and then it will pop up all over the place,

wonderful. No matter what soil you have got, you can always turn it

into an asset. You may have lime free soil which means you can grow

acid loving plants like azaleas and rhododendrons, that have not made

an appearance at Chelsea in bulk for 15 years, but this year that

changed. Chris brought them back. You were worried people would think

they were retro. I was worried they would not perform because they are

so fickle. There is little you can do to make them flower well. And

they are so wildly out of fashion. I have not seen them here for a

long time. How will people react? They have an awful reputation among

some gardeners. Were you genuinely surprised? We were stunned. We knew

the garden was beautiful and that it reflected not only the Furzey

garden but the ethos of the work that takes place with the adult

learners, but whether the judges and the public would respond to it.

It was just staggering. reaction from the people who worked

on it has been astonishing from Furzey. It has obviously changed

their lives for the better. Yes, it is a group of people who are

sidelined for many, and to allow them to come into this wonderful

place of excitement and theatre at Chelsea and to perform at the

highest level and create a piece of their home so that other people can

appreciate what they live with and how they enjoy their space at

Furzey was extraordinary. It really does change lives. Have we had

enough of this sort of floaty planting? We used to plant in

drifts of plants, fives, sevens and 11s. We now have a mixture and it

seems to me this year it was, we are still doing that, do we need to

move on? There is nothing wrong with tapestry planting, which

encompasses everything you have described, but what I want his real

gardens and real combinations, so we use the theatre and get back to

how people can garden. You have revealed to Rachel a side of

yourself that we did not know about. There are some hidden gems. There

is a few things. The students have been involved in creating stained-

glass leaves hanging from the reef but I suspect you are speaking more

about this varies from Furzey! -- the ferries. They hitched a ride.

You can see them there. The children run through the woods and

shriek with joy and leave little gifts. I'm never thought I would

hear the day it! I am a believer! can't think why she was surprised.

Who else least the money under your pillow? -- leaves? The great thing

about having a passion for gardening, apart from it making you

bonkers, he is the positive benefits on your health and well-

being so it does not matter if it is a, an azalea or zantadetia That

rocks your world, as long as you have chosen a specimen that fills

you with joy. There are many plants through our senses. They determine

the way we feel from moment to moment and how could you feel

anything but choisyas surrounded by this kaleidoscopic display? -- but

scintillating colour but it is for this sense that they are especially

valued. The great thing about growing hyacinths is that you do

not even meet a garden. You can grow them in containers -- you do

not even meet the garden. You can enjoy the perfume from wherever you

are in the house, and you do not soil but what they meet is the

finis soil because that is what brings up the wonderful aroma --

need the thinnest soil. The majority of the herbs are grown for

the way this intellect our taste. This lemon herbal flavour your ice-

cream perfectly. It is not just believes that we eat. Quite a lot

of flowers are edible, too. That garden centre and asking for a

plant you can touch. And yet so many plants have this wonderful,

tactile quality. Look at this. In fact, don't look at it, feel it. It

is soft and fluffy. It is almost like having a pet animal beside

you! All of these plants around me have got such text you. Like this

prickly rosemary. You are surrounded by it all this wonderful

sensations. It is delightful. -- surrounded by all these wonderful

sensations. This garden is a feast for all the senses, including the

found, as the breeze wafts gently through the leaves of the flower

was below. Whether you have got a window box or a plot outside, being

aware of just how plants stimulate your senses brings garden into a

a new level this week is the winner of the RHS Plant of the Year. The

panel of judges choose just one plant out of the thousands of delay,

and this year's winner was a lovely foxtrot. The fact that it is

perennial is really exciting because fox gloves can be a bit

fickle in the garden. This will halt to its own in a herbaceous

border in the woodland. It is already starting to flag in the

heat! But the colour gets more intense with age, which is really

wonderful. It is quite a strange colour. It is not to pink and not

too difficult to combine. I think there will be a really good colour

combination next year. We were awash with awards, as the president

of the RHS, Elizabeth Banks, chose her favourite exhibit. Her

President's Award can be given to any exhibitor and she chose a

garden that was unfathomable and impenetrable. The Quiet Time DMZ

Forbibidden commemorates the 60th anniversary of the end of the

Korean conflict. James Wong went to take a look at the no man's land

that nature refuses to obey. Inspired by the. Border between

North and South Korea, you might imagine a garden like this to be

start and oppressive, but it is beautiful and probably one of the

most original gardens I have seen detail. There are discarded bullet

cases, uniform buttons and the barbed wire is mirrored through

trailing vines. The colour scheme is a study in the calming effects

of the colour green. It has hints of colour here and there to add

depth. What this garden does so incredibly well is it almost

forensic level of detail with the planting. It is so naturalistic,

you feel you have been pasted and dropped into the Korean countryside.

Things like that flowering cherry. Any other garden would have that

Cherie perfect and fuller flower was but here, it is natural and

fits perfectly well with the theme -- would have the cherry tree

perfect with full flowers. I know one of the hardest things to do at

Chelsea is to create a genuine sense of atmosphere, and this

garden has got it in bucketloads. Equally tranquil and poignant.

A table for two. Stephanie Cole shares a passion for gardening.

That is what I love about Chelsea, is this wonderful smelt! Diarmuid

Gavin invites me to savour the seven courses of his 80 foot

masterpiece. We are about to go to the Fifth Floor. And we've joined

the buying frenzy, as the bell signals the great Chelsea this

sell-offs. -- Chelsea sell-offs. You discover the most unlikely

people interested in gardening. Bruce Force wife was here with his

wife -- Bruce Forsyth. I thought the only digging he did was at

Wentworth! There were others who you associate more with gardening,

like Cliff Richard. My mum will be thrilled. Goldie! You would have

thought he would be so interested and passionate about gardening,

bringing a new audience into this subject that we love? I was able to

teach Goldie a bit about gardening, and he taught me this hands signal,

but I don't know what it means! Is it anything to do with Star Trek?

Fascinating looking at other people's gardens because we are

diverse. Whether you prefer your garden clipped or wild, there is no

right and wrong. As long as you get pleasure from it. On Tuesday,

Stephanie Cole came to Chelsea to pick some horticultural brains to

solve some of the problems in her own garden. That is what I love

about Chelsea, the wonderful smell! I can see exactly why are the glory

of all of those roses... Aren't they beautiful! The deep red and

the colour white. Now... That is just what I am

looking for. They look as if they have just arrived there by pure

chance. For one of my rather difficult places in my garden.

Now, this is where I need to be. Pond. The great problem area in my

garden. I will ask Linda to guide me. Something like the zebra grass.

Nice and bright. And then to complement that, perhaps this one.

It has got to that spoke arrangement, which gives you that

strong shape. And this one, something a little and detailed

that will give you a little interest. -- something a little.

Now, this is my sort of garden. It is kind of organic and the look

here! I can actually sit down, Heaven on wheels. Seriously, this

is the most beautiful garden. I grew that in my garden for a few

years and it suddenly disappeared and I do not know why. It is

breathtakingly beautiful and very moving actually. I just think this

is the most beautiful garden and it's so deserves its prize. It

really does. I love the guy who created it and I am going to meet

garden? I'm pretty pushed for time at the moment. I have had the most

wonderful day here. I have learnt a have to be broken off to work. She

is a lovely lady. If you watch or come to Chelsea for inspiration

after 11 hours coverage I hope you are brimming with ideas. If you are

still stuck you will not go wrong with and called favourite. A plant

that can always add a splash of colour, they will always going down

British side keep and use either of the steamed over the Mediterranean.

-- festooned. Most people only grow one or two. There are hundreds of

that will get wiped out by the first frost. We have got several

groups. The recalls, the scented, the very beautiful I'd be leaf, or

making fantastic plants for general garden use. Cascading over walls,

beautiful, easy to grow plants. pelargoniums, the royalty,

considered big, beautiful plants, excellent as a house plants and

beautiful in a container on the their aromatic leaves, things like

Lady Plymouth, mint. For that romantic evening. Lemon-scented

ones, plant them where you can brush by them to release that a

Rover. Otherwise it there -- otherwise they sit there looking

pretty but do not smile. -- smell. The ivy leaved pelargoniums, have

them cascading over hanging baskets. Keep them regularly dead-head eat

and fed soap they will stay in flower for ages. For those of you

who don't want to the contemporary and traditional go for the

razzmatazz. Modern, vigorous and very spiky. For those that want a

bit of subtlety and calm, and the plants that set my heart of fire,

love growing them, but also fruit and veg. The grow your own movement

is still alive and well at Chelsea. He is also the key ways in which

most young children get involved in gardening. The poll of cress, it is

how I got started. 4th birthday present, cress seed, watering can,

away you go. I have ruined many a flower with cress. It is vital we

get children interested. If you lead them to it they will run with

it. You don't have to make them garden, just lead them out there.

We're not expecting every child that grows cress to be a gardener,

it is about a weakening their senses, encouraging them to think

about the external environment in a different way and what area of the

syllabus cannot be taught out in the garden, and that is the key.

I would to a wonderful community college last week which has got it

a little farm, cattle, sheep, thick -- pigs, garden, they'll weaned

lambs and doing their maths lesson, working around them. -- they are

weighing the Lambs. With all the fruit and veg growing around the

ground plenty were falling under the grow Euro and spell. Picking

your dibber from your own back garden is only does of the

lot more exciting this year at Chelsea because there are some

truly bizarre and interesting edibles like this one. You can eat

the bulb, it rested, much like he would a potato, full of starch. --

roast it. It is an extravagant plant because it will be more

expensive than a potato, but so pretty and if you have a container,

somewhere sunny, it is worth a try. Unusual Ed Balls can be difficult

to identify. If you don't know what it is please do not eat it --

edibles. This is a quirky one, the world's only a double or lupin. The

seeds are rich in protein. It comes from Bolivia. It has extraordinary

length it and got bigger deep process to take it from something

that is very poisonous to something that is edible. Although it is

pretty and I would love to have a go at think I will stick with

something you can eat immediately. This is a farm and -- far more

commonplace been, a broad bean, but elevated from at ordinary position

with these beautiful crimson flowers. If your broad beans have

got this tall it is time to pinch out the tips, and you take that top

it off to discourage the black flowers. Don't waste it because it

tastes delicious. And mild broad been played there. You steam it

with a bit of butter. You may not get what this is, it is actually a

King -- a cucumber although it is actually called a lemon. It is a

heritage variety. It tastes like an ordinary cucumber but looks rather

bizarre. Cucumbers often get quite a bad rap. They are easy to grow,

they are suited to our climate. The plant doesn't want to sit in wet

ground, eight wet feet, so as long as you did over water it you will

get lots of these. -- it hates wet feet. You could either way back and

forth across this garden because there is just so much to choose

from. Really interesting things is the way they are growing their

vegetables. These beans are being grown up a shepherd's crook and the

beetroot being grown in an old chest is just perfect for this

little garden. This year's Chelsea hasn't just been about unusual Ed

Balls. It has also been about showing you how to grow vegetables,

wherever you are, even if it is four floors up on the pyramids is

showing you can grow your five a day wherever you are.

The was a new man on the block in the Great Pavilion this year, Paul

bonnie exhibited his exotic fruit and veg. He will be back next year.

This tutor rhubarb to on two feet. -- huge rebuff. You cannot fail to

miss the 80 ft pyramid with seven floors to explore, and it dominates

the show. Designed by Dimmock Gavin, a one -- a man who likes to cause a

stir. -- don't let. Alliums and hostas, silver birches and

rhododendrons, his wing and scaffolding. It is gardening,

Scotty, but not as we know that. It has had Chelsea pensioners on the

outside and ladies shrieking as they come down that steel sheet to

escape. It is the magic pyramid. Enough of this, what is it all

about? Is it a serious point? Exploring the notion of a multi-

storey garden in an urban society. People live in cities like London,

not a lot of green space so an experiment in gardening. He reckons

this could work on a tower block? It could be permanent in the plaza.

We have created from the 16 by 60 meter bays 576 metres of gardens

based so if there is enough light coming in, I do see why not. Let's

go and have a look. This is fabulous. Past the shed.

practical garden shed. Lots of sheds, or water butt, we want to

show a sustainable garden. This is the communal terrace, the meet and

greet area where everybody will come together. There are seven

allowed in? You are an ordinary member. Oriental style pavilion,

half Irish. We have this circular opening leading into the secret

garden. It is magical. You just disappear from one area. He keeps

you moving. I love this tree top bamboo walk. The black ones start

from here. You walk past this shady plant and then some rhododendrons.

Walk up around the pink shed. the shed collect water, uses the

Wash machine, you do your washing as your gardening and handed out to

dry. A good dying day. -- drying day. Elevated on the 4th floor.

Rosemary, thyme. Good light levels up here. The Victorian-style

greenhouse. These old industrial containers used to plant our fruit

and veg. We shall level are you now? We are on Level 4, we are

going to five, men's hosiery. your body up here. -- codes. This

is a shell and a bath. Water is collected and fed to the barrel

down below and used for the fruit and vegetables. I reckon I could

just stay here. Are we still going up? There are two more levels.

Great vantage point. From here I can see what you have for breakfast.

From here a lot of people would see their own breakfast. Getting very

high. Rather fitting that on top of the pyramids is this birch. It is a

heritage, has fantastic bark. We wanted to cram it with the plant

and it is in a bed of Mediterranean plants. There is full sun so it

will enjoy it here. There's could not be a better day to see this.

Absolutely wonderful, the London skyline, the bridge is there,

Battersea Power Station. Well done, lovely job, can get traditions. --

congratulations. He didn't get a gold medal but one most creative in

show, I don't think anybody would argue with that.

He may be looks a little out of place that when you put it in the

context of contemporary architecture, urban planning, it is

bang on the mark. Architects and planners are looking at the best

way of using the decreasing amount of space we have got in our cities.

Actually, green blocks of flats, clothing buildings in green

material, using them as green farms, that is absolutely contemporary.

Not just a gimmick, something to say. All the medals awarded here I

decided by the judges but gardening is a subjective matter. On Tuesday

when the medals were announced anyone and everyone had an opinion

on which medal was deserved and he was robbed. There was a public vote,

earlier in the week the array it just launched their RHS Peoples'

Award -- the RHS. You could vote for your favourite garden, large or

small. And third you did. You, the people, it decided that, wait for

it because I have got to do a TV dramatic pause. The overall winner

of the small garden category was the The Brontes Yorkshire Garden

designed by Tracy Foster. This is just fantastic. It has police make

so much, then before voting for me and welcome to Yorkshire -- pleased

me. The small gardens were all lovely. Huge variety between the

design styles. You very often forget how complicated it is to

distil a grand idea, bringing it Yorkshire down to just a few square

metres. What TV that is more important than what you include. It

is a greater challenge than doing a perfectly and many of those were so

strong. I think it was a particularly strong year for small

gardens. Those little artisan gardens, as they are called. They

take you away. They are little areas of make believe, rather like

yours at the back. Just after the award for small gardens was made,

by a joint Alex Denman, Shame manager, to announce the winner of

your favourite larger garden -- show a manager. Ladies and

gentlemen, I can't tell you how pleased the entire RHS and all who

supported, not only the designer but also Arthritis Research for a

fantastic garden. They have won the People's Choice award for the best

show garden. APPLAUSE. Tom, there of gold medal-winning gardens.

There is a garden which has been voted Best in Show. But the award

to have is the people's choice. All the viewers at home, on the website,

coming and saying, this is the garden we like best. How does it

feel? I really can't believe it. It is so wonderful that the people

think this is the best garden. It means so much to me and it might

give me enough energy to want to do this again! That is what we wanted

to hear! Thank you very much! That is wonderful. This final award

means Tommy is ending the week with even more excitement, but the start

of the week began much the same, because that Chelsea gates swung

open at 7am on Monday and there was a steady celebrity scrum to be the

first to soak up the glamour, but they come on the understanding that

their egos must take a back seat. Attention is reserved for the stock

of the show: The gardens. -- star of the show. I love the Chelsea

Flower Show and this is a particularly fantastic one. I saw

it on television last night and it looks great so I am going to go and

look at it instead of talking to journalists.

You are late! The organisation of it is

fascinating and the fact they come 20 days before and make things look

like they have been here for 60 years is absolutely brilliant.

thing about gardening is it is about the long term. It is the

diametrically opposite to X-factor, get rich quick, I want it now

society. It is about things that take Investment and patience and

time and those are the most infinitely rewarding things that

you could ever have. It looks like someone has gone

crazy. Something to do with Diarmuid Gavin, right? Typical of

Chelsea Flower Show. I have a garden and I have a team of about

20 its staff. That is not true. I just let it grow. -- 20 staff.

a vegetarian and weak rose 70% of our food. -- we grow. I have got

join me age where I have really started to notice trees. That

sounds crazy. I can stop and look at a tree and it is beautiful.

I like most about it is that it seems to be made of offcut us.

Everybody in England loves gardening. There is nothing like it.

It is just an institution. I love gardening. And anything to do with

Alan Titchmarsh! He is the patron saint of gardening. Thank you,

Nigel. Chelsea always starts out so dignified. With the Queen and the

champagne flowing. But the mood changed at 4pm. Etiquette was

forgotten as calm was replaced by mania when everyone clambered to

take home a little bit of Chelsea. We were joined by Nicki Chapman as

the bell signalled the start of the famous plant sell-off. The sell-off

plant taller than he is! What are the chances of you getting this

home in one piece? I brought my car this year but we need to get the

bus to get to the cart so we don't really know. No! Any more for the

poppy? �5? Lovely lady. You are absolutely dripping with flowers.

Yes. I have some orchids. I now have got to try to transport them

back to Swansea on the bus so hopefully I won't get charged

little tiny allium. But he seems to be shrugging his responsibility a

bit! What attracted you to this unwieldy plant? The price. LAUGHTER.

What I want to know was, did they only bring you so that they could

use your wheelchair as a trolley? Probably! Are you ready for this?

coach? He will let me get that in there. A fiver. I will go and get

one myself, see you later! You have got both thumbs for. How will you

get your purse out of your pocket. I can't, I will get the bus home

thankfully. You got the foxglove! Aren't I lucky? It is very heavy

but how beautiful is it! Hold this microphone. I can't see a woman's

struggle. Such a gentleman. See you next year!

It has been an incredible week but it seems to have gone by in the

twinkling of an eye. We have met some amazing people and spoken to

almost anyone who is anyone in horticulture and we hope you have

taken away great inspiration for your own garden. But inevitably,

not everything goes smoothly. We thought we would share with you

some moments that did not quite go to plan. I don't know what is

coming! We are professionals, and I just can't get rid of it!

is happy! LAUGHTER. I will do the chest! If walking around a show

garden... Show ground... Sorry! Best... Sorry! Have I got a tree

growing out of my head? LAUGHTER. You know it is going to happen.

Anyone with even a little space can have a grow at growing... Have a go

at rowing... Sorry! Walking around a show garden... My gosh, I am

sorry! There is always one. LAUGHTER. It is Captain Kirk, I

have just found the most amazing arrangement a flower was. Beam Me

Up Scotty. I need to be told things at least twice! In that patronising

way. I am doing this for England, let's go! The first time I will not

be paying attention. And I am a woman so we have to say it twice!

have never walked on water before. The show garden... That is not

handy! LAUGHTER. Do they know we are using that camera? I got an

award!! You keep going... Be quiet. And Toby has been out in the

gardens to pick up the colours When we have to make things like

that public, I do not know. You got all right! We couldn't end the week

without a final glimpse of the that her blackberry eyes may have

to be replaced. She has brought her lavish shows that we learn

anything? Or is it just a floral festival, let's go and get on with

garden in? Does Chelsea change the way we garden? I think it does but

I think it does it in a very steady and reassuring way. I don't think

we see it many radical shifts. For instance, the shift in planting

style, it is becoming much more floral and much less reliant on

architecture. If you look immigrate pavilion, the way people are

exhibiting individual plants but also using them -- in a great

pavilion. The urban green initiative is really fantastic.

Things do move and change. What is interesting for me is that

generally, the People's Choice award goes to usually a cottage

garden, something very traditional. This year, you chose Tom, who was

doing a villa garden with fountains everywhere, quite formal. I thought

that surprise to me. Perhaps our tastes as a nation are moving and

getting a bit more sophisticated. The idea of introducing formality

in a garden and celebrating the heritage of gardening, that is

something that more and more people are beginning to connect with. It

isn't just about big floral beds, it is a but genuinely making that

space outside, an architectural and horticultural work of splendour.

And this has probably been the sunniest Chelsea we have ever had.

Sunday and Monday, thermal underwear, but now we are reluctant

to let this go! That is all from tonight's show. The gates have

closed for another year but there is so much to look forward to. The

Chelsea French are staging garden in related events for the next week.

There is a floating Forest of 600 tree trunks on the Grand Union

Canal at Portobello docks, and so and lens church in Shoreditch,

which is featured in the nursery rhyme, will be decorated with

oranges and lemons -- St Leonards church. You can check them out on

our website. Have you ever wondered what Chelsea looks like at night

when all the crowds have gone home? If you press the red buttons

straight after the show, Toby Buckland has exclusive treat as you

reveals what Andy Sturgeon's garden looks like in all its illuminated

glory and the man himself will be talking in depth about how and why

he introduced lighting to reveal another dimension to the garden.

also have a special highlights programme tomorrow at 5:20pm,