:00:31. > :00:34.Good evening from the grounds of the Royal Hospital here in London.
:00:34. > :00:39.We're coming to the end of our coverage of the Royal Horticultural
:00:39. > :00:42.Society's 2013 Chelsea Flower Show. The event, supported by M&G
:00:42. > :00:45.Investments, celebrated its 100th year this year. And tonight we're
:00:45. > :00:51.taking a look back at a week that's combined glorious nostalgia with
:00:51. > :00:54.contemporary style. Coming up this evening: By Royal Appointment. We
:00:54. > :01:04.look at the garden designed for a prince with a very special message
:01:04. > :01:06.
:01:06. > :01:10.in mind. I haven't heard of Lesotho. A 30% of people there have HIV, and
:01:10. > :01:20.people they need our help. Medal medley. We look back at the big
:01:20. > :01:21.
:01:21. > :01:28.And going native. Andy Sturgeon looks at the British wild flowers
:01:28. > :01:35.wowing the crowds in this year's Great Pavilion.
:01:35. > :01:40.I think it it's the Great Pavilion which is at blown away more than
:01:40. > :01:45.anything this year. Looking at the flowers in there, the spectacle is
:01:46. > :01:51.sensational, even for a hardened old gardener like me been an
:01:51. > :01:56.incredibly hard spring. It's always amazing in there. I was talking to
:01:56. > :02:00.the growers, and they have had the worst in 25 years, ever since they
:02:01. > :02:06.have been coming. Some of them are fleecing their exhibits at night
:02:06. > :02:09.because temperatures are dropping at night. Talking to a herb grower,
:02:09. > :02:14.she said a lot of these nurseries haven't had a sale to speak of
:02:14. > :02:20.since last June. A rotten summer last year, a long winter, late
:02:20. > :02:25.spring. Their livelihoods depend on it. If you have a local nursery,
:02:25. > :02:29.police support them. The sun will come out in the next few weeks, and
:02:29. > :02:32.they need your support. But we do need some more of this in the
:02:32. > :02:35.garden, I think. Over the years, Chelsea has received huge support
:02:35. > :02:38.from the Royal Family. In the early years, Queen Mary and King George
:02:38. > :02:44.were regular visitors and Her Majesty, the Queen has attended the
:02:44. > :02:47.show 48 times since her Coronation. This year, as part of the centenary
:02:47. > :02:52.celebrations, the Queen's grandson, HRH Prince Harry commissioned the
:02:52. > :02:55.designer Jinny Blom to create a garden for his charity Sentebale.
:02:55. > :03:00.The charity supports projects in Lesotho, an African country that
:03:00. > :03:09.has been devastated by the AIDS virus. Earlier in the week, Jinny
:03:09. > :03:18.told me why it was so important. Share his Lesotho translated to
:03:18. > :03:22.Chelsea. Up to the Grand Hyatt here. This is our laser good
:03:23. > :03:28.interpretation of the pavilion of the round houses in Lesotho.
:03:28. > :03:33.Beautiful stone. A lot of hard landscaping but when you go to
:03:33. > :03:38.Lesotho, the contrast between raw rock and mountain and the grass
:03:38. > :03:43.LANs is very extreme. So I wanted to express that very clearly. It's
:03:43. > :03:46.a plateau country and this is our platter with a house on top and a
:03:46. > :03:50.house is very important to me, because that is the symbol of what
:03:50. > :03:56.is lost if you lose your family. The idea of having a circling arms
:03:56. > :04:02.of a home of. What the physical evidence of the water lilies.
:04:02. > :04:08.perimeter is nature, and the outside is the house, the mountains,
:04:08. > :04:14.which creates their dislocation from the rest of the world and from
:04:14. > :04:21.Aida which can help it and, in the middle, marooned, a very fragile
:04:21. > :04:27.piece of technology. Modern laser cutting, everything we have at our
:04:27. > :04:31.disposal and this is Lesotho mud. My friends' children run around,
:04:31. > :04:35.children's footprints in the middle, beating down the earth and that's
:04:35. > :04:40.how it would be done. Lots of publicity from the Prince Harry
:04:40. > :04:46.about this garden. It cannot make a difference? What do you hope it
:04:46. > :04:51.will achieve? Would make a difference? I'm really hoping it
:04:51. > :04:56.does. I had not heard of a Lesotho. Its landlocked, its tiny, 1.8
:04:56. > :05:00.million people, a 30% of people have HIV, and it can be stopped in
:05:00. > :05:04.one generation with the right drugs and they are available thanks to
:05:04. > :05:10.the United Nations. I think if people now know Lesotho, its its
:05:10. > :05:16.own country, Kingdom, twinned with Wales, we have a long relationship
:05:16. > :05:19.with it, royal involvement, we can help it, and if this lets people
:05:19. > :05:29.know it's a beautiful place to visit, walk around, and people need
:05:29. > :05:31.
:05:31. > :05:34.our help. Raising awareness is so good for that. Well, Jinny won a
:05:35. > :05:40.Silver Gilt medal and lots of other people, not just Chelsea exhibitors
:05:40. > :05:49.have been trying to win funding for the campaign for school gardening,
:05:49. > :05:55.by painting garden gnomes. Elton John, with his glasses, to Lilly
:05:55. > :06:01.Allen, on the left of Elton John, Rachel over there. You have done
:06:01. > :06:10.yaws over there. Yes, with my little Arsenal kit and everything.
:06:10. > :06:16.That has got to go to a proper fan of. I like your one. This chap here.
:06:16. > :06:23.I made a spade out of cardboard. did you make that yourself? I did.
:06:23. > :06:32.I got paint absolutely everywhere. Covered in it! I like the colours.
:06:32. > :06:36.Some of them are still available. This is in New Zealand Maori. He is
:06:36. > :06:42.doing the hacker. She was doing it yesterday in the Showground and she
:06:42. > :06:49.emptied a place in minutes. This is the prize specimen for me. Lawrence
:06:49. > :06:53.Llewellyn Bowen. This has gone now. What a work of art. Don't you think
:06:53. > :06:58.that's wonderful? The it's wonderful. Thanks to everybody who
:06:58. > :07:01.contributed. Go to the website if you want to bid for the ones which
:07:01. > :07:05.are left. On Tuesday, as is customary at Chelsea, it was time
:07:05. > :07:15.for the RHS to hand out this year's medals. And, again, as usual Nicki
:07:15. > :07:15.
:07:15. > :08:11.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds
:08:11. > :08:20.I don't want to look at it. You have been at awarded the best
:08:20. > :08:25.in category. Thank you. Thank you! Thank you. That's a classic and a
:08:25. > :08:35.reaction there. By silver medal, fantastic. Thank you very much
:08:35. > :08:53.
:08:53. > :08:56.It was a fifth gold medal for Australian nursery Flemings. And
:08:56. > :08:59.for owner Wes Fleming and designer Phillip Johnson, the only thing
:08:59. > :09:03.that could top that was winning Best In Show for the very first
:09:03. > :09:11.time. Just before I went to chat to them, Nicki arrived with the news
:09:11. > :09:21.they had been waiting for. Great to see both. We need to see
:09:21. > :09:36.
:09:36. > :09:42.A can you believe it? No, I really couldn't, Allen. After nine years I
:09:42. > :09:49.didn't think it would be possible for an Australian garden to be Best
:09:49. > :09:55.In Show. We are blown away. This is basically your own back garden. You
:09:55. > :09:59.us, in Victoria. Tell us about the studio of yours. A it's
:09:59. > :10:06.extraordinary. My mother lives in London 50 years ago. Wrote love-
:10:06. > :10:11.letters to my father, written at the airport, they got engaged to
:10:11. > :10:18.that night, so we worked on that and brought all that to life.
:10:18. > :10:24.everybody is a marking on, the sound of the frogs. I love the
:10:24. > :10:29.sound of the frogs. One late night in my garden, I had a camera,
:10:29. > :10:39.recording the frogs. So I could bring them to Chelsea. And we did
:10:39. > :10:39.
:10:39. > :10:45.that. I told Her Majesty about that story. A mad as a box of frogs. Is
:10:45. > :10:50.this going to be all last Chelsi? Yes, unfortunately. It's something
:10:50. > :10:57.I'm going to miss dramatically. What we have achieved, raising our
:10:57. > :11:04.profile, we have to move on. We have do you is what we have learnt
:11:04. > :11:08.back home to try to improve things. We are going to miss you so much
:11:08. > :11:12.because you are abroad, not only at fresh air, but a warmth to the show.
:11:12. > :11:18.This is the one which is most redolent of the real Australia.
:11:18. > :11:22.We've had a barbecue areas etc. But, from our point of view, this seems
:11:23. > :11:28.to be your home and brought her. heard some Australian saying, this
:11:28. > :11:34.isn't Australia. I had to say, I have to correct you. This area is
:11:34. > :11:39.where we live. This is a Western Australia wild flower meadow. I
:11:39. > :11:48.don't know where they live. going to put this back in your
:11:48. > :11:54.hands. Congratulations. Thanks for giving us nine years of pleasure.
:11:54. > :11:59.She Shane to see him go. I had a big hug with him. It's the end of
:11:59. > :12:05.an era. They bring a breath of fresh air every year. 30 years ago,
:12:05. > :12:10.Alan, was the beginning of an era. Yes, we have some footage of you.
:12:10. > :12:15.have Alan Titchmarsh with me. Alan, you have designed a garden yourself.
:12:15. > :12:23.What are the ideas you have? It's a small garden. Most of us have up
:12:23. > :12:29.tiny plots and this is only 38 ft long, but it works well with a keen
:12:29. > :12:37.gardener and small children as well. Hopefully, by using this kind of
:12:38. > :12:42.idea, we might get the children to Those small children have now got
:12:42. > :12:47.small children of their own. That dates me. You are a pioneer. Ahead
:12:47. > :12:53.of your time, family Gardens, vegetables, everything. Where
:12:53. > :12:58.Reilly, 30 years later, everything follows. A you did look a in 1970s
:12:58. > :13:04.football manager, frankly. I still have got a tie. Never throw away
:13:04. > :13:09.tie away. Let's not talk about her. It's not my favourite subject.
:13:09. > :13:12.We're halfway through our look back over Chelsea 2013. They are moving
:13:12. > :13:14.swiftly on before he hits me. There's plenty more memories still
:13:14. > :13:21.to come. Breaking the habit. Actress Judy Parfitt, alias Call
:13:21. > :13:26.The Midwife's Sister Monica Joan, picks up some top Chelsea tips.
:13:26. > :13:31.Could I grow as standard rose in a pot? Water is the secret. Water,
:13:31. > :13:34.water, water. Bringing the inside out. Joe takes a look at alfresco
:13:34. > :13:44.rooms. And right plant, right place. Andy Sturgeon's looks at native
:13:44. > :13:44.
:13:44. > :13:50.plants for different garden Has to be one of the most familiar
:13:50. > :13:59.and striking of Alan natives. If you have a shady spot and a garden,
:13:59. > :14:02.it's an ideal choice. Chelsea has always attracted a wealth of exotic
:14:02. > :14:05.exhibitors with floral offerings that stretch from the tip of South
:14:05. > :14:08.Africa to the deserts of Arizona. But that doesn't mean our own
:14:08. > :14:10.native flowers, which are just as varied and beautiful as their
:14:10. > :14:20.exotic cousins, have been forgotten. Andy Sturgeon visited the Great
:14:20. > :14:21.
:14:21. > :14:25.Pavilion earlier this week to look at native plants to suit any garden.
:14:25. > :14:31.The foxglove has to be one of the most familiar and striking of our
:14:31. > :14:34.natives. They are woodland flowers and happy amongst the trees so it
:14:34. > :14:38.the other shady spot in your garden, they are the ideal choice. The
:14:38. > :14:42.interesting thing about these foxgloves is they have been
:14:42. > :14:45.selected from nature. They have not been bred, so their colours have
:14:45. > :14:49.resulted from the choices that the pollinating insects have made. And
:14:49. > :14:59.all these different colours, there's always going to be a native
:14:59. > :15:07.
:15:07. > :15:10.There is a shade and then there is deep shade. This is the large leaf
:15:10. > :15:16.to read nettle. It will put up with the difficult conditions, under
:15:16. > :15:26.trees, in any soil, it will spread a bit, but the flower is so exotic,
:15:26. > :15:38.
:15:38. > :15:48.particular one will actually grow in the sunshine and don't be fooled by
:15:48. > :15:49.
:15:49. > :15:51.appearances because it is not as delicate as it looks. If you can
:15:51. > :16:00.replicate a limestone cliff with water running through it, it is your
:16:00. > :16:04.ideal planned! Sometimes the name tells you all you need to know. This
:16:04. > :16:07.is a common plant found in our damp is a common plant found in our damp
:16:07. > :16:12.meadows so if you have got some moist soil in your garden and some
:16:12. > :16:17.sunshine, this is a great little plant. It is subtle and
:16:17. > :16:27.sophisticated. I love it, it is so good I even used it in my own garden
:16:27. > :16:29.
:16:29. > :16:34.here last year at Chelsea. The Marsh Marigold also has a name that will
:16:34. > :16:40.give us some clues as to where it is happy because the first part of its
:16:40. > :16:45.name means wet or boggy and this plant has to have its feet wet at
:16:45. > :16:55.all times. If you haven't got room for a pond, it is perfectly happy in
:16:55. > :16:59.
:16:59. > :17:09.a container. Some plants just aren't that fussy. Aquilegia has never
:17:09. > :17:36.
:17:36. > :17:38.fallen out of fashion and one of the reasons is it will grow almost
:17:38. > :17:40.anywhere and suits almost any situation. A herbaceous garden, a
:17:40. > :17:49.gravel garden, it somehow looks right almost anywhere. This British
:17:49. > :17:59.native is a prolific self seed so you will probably find it will
:17:59. > :18:20.
:18:20. > :18:23.choose where it wants to grow for You never know who you will run into
:18:23. > :18:25.at Chelsea, and earlier in the week I ran into Edward Cates, a man who
:18:25. > :18:28.has been coming here even longer than me. When did you first come to
:18:28. > :18:31.Chelsea? 1951.We have got a picture of one of your gardens, in 1952, and
:18:31. > :18:34.this is an enormous great water worn limestone. Yes, from the Isle of
:18:34. > :18:44.Purbeck. How long did you have to make it? About two weeks. We used a
:18:44. > :18:54.lot of crowbars. You got a gold medal. That is correct. It was a lot
:18:54. > :18:56.
:18:56. > :19:05.of fun. I am 82 now. That bodes well for a generation of gardeners.
:19:05. > :19:12.activity. Congratulations. I like it that you are taking your gold medal
:19:12. > :19:15.away again! He didn't trust you with it! BBC One viewers will know her as
:19:15. > :19:18.Sister Monica Joan in Sunday night's hit drama Call The Midwife. However
:19:18. > :19:21.actress Judy Parfitt took time out from her religious duties this week
:19:21. > :19:31.to visit us here at Chelsea. Judy was looking for tips from the
:19:31. > :19:50.
:19:50. > :19:55.experts for her immaculate courtyard Oh, roses. The scent, my passion.
:19:55. > :20:04.Michael, hello. Could I grow a standard rose in a pot? How big
:20:04. > :20:08.would the pot have to be? Yes, as big as possible, something like 18
:20:08. > :20:15.inches square. Roses like to feed and potting compost that you buy in
:20:15. > :20:23.a garden centre has food for about six weeks and then nothing. Water,
:20:23. > :20:28.water, water. James, hello, I am so fascinated by these beautiful shapes
:20:28. > :20:33.you have here. When I try and do something like that, it gets
:20:33. > :20:43.scorched on the end. The reason is because you are doing it on a sunny
:20:43. > :20:48.
:20:48. > :20:50.day and the sunshine is trying out the edge of the leaf. Thank you. One
:20:50. > :20:55.of the particular reasons I wanted to visit the flower show this year
:20:55. > :21:05.was I am looking for a piece of sculpture for my garden and
:21:05. > :21:07.
:21:07. > :21:15.something here might fit the bill. I am totally in love with your horse
:21:15. > :21:21.and I want it desperately. This piece would take about five days to
:21:21. > :21:25.put together and another three days of preparation. I have a courtyard
:21:25. > :21:35.garden, and I will tell everyone you did it, and maybe you will give it
:21:35. > :21:37.
:21:37. > :21:47.to me. It was worth a try. It is quite wonderful! This is heaven. The
:21:47. > :21:54.
:21:54. > :21:57.only thing that could make it better is a nice glass of fizz. Cheers!
:21:57. > :22:05.couldn't get herself that sculpture but she got herself a glass of
:22:05. > :22:12.bubbly. She was enchanting company. I have always been a fan and it was
:22:12. > :22:16.lovely not to have my illusions dashed. I met her briefly and she
:22:16. > :22:19.was adorable. In the late 1960s there was a
:22:19. > :22:22.metamorphosis in garden design, as the notion of the outdoor room
:22:22. > :22:25.became a popular concept. The idea of creating an extra room outside
:22:25. > :22:27.was also reflected at Chelsea, primarily through the work of the
:22:27. > :22:30.influential designer John Brookes. Today the trend for outdoor living
:22:30. > :22:36.can still be found in the show gardens as I discovered earlier this
:22:36. > :22:41.week. The idea of the outdoor room is on the rise, but here in the
:22:41. > :22:47.seeds of change garden, the gardener has pretty much created an entire
:22:47. > :22:52.house complete with dining room, kitchen, pantry, outdoor classroom
:22:52. > :22:57.and playground as well. When I am designing a garden, I always think
:22:57. > :23:02.about where I am going to put the seating area and work off that. I
:23:02. > :23:09.like to be generous with space as well, like this one here. You have
:23:09. > :23:14.got a vantage point across the garden, you don't just feel like you
:23:14. > :23:20.are stuck on the back of the house. This is a kitchen area complete with
:23:20. > :23:23.bespoke garden you. You might be able to go to the shop and buy one,
:23:23. > :23:31.but think about integrating it into the space rather than an
:23:31. > :23:41.afterthought. He has built into the walls these lovely bits of timber
:23:41. > :23:45.
:23:45. > :23:51.and drilled holes in them so it doesn't feel like the sterile space.
:23:51. > :23:58.This garden is absolutely exquisite, and it is tiny. The entire garden is
:23:58. > :24:03.five metres by seven metres and it has this lovely little tatami room,
:24:03. > :24:08.which takes its name from the tatami mat I am sitting on. In here you
:24:08. > :24:13.would meet some important people and make some important decisions while
:24:13. > :24:17.looking out on the landscape beyond. If, like me, you don't know anyone
:24:17. > :24:24.important, you can have the whole place to yourself. I could sit here
:24:24. > :24:28.all day. It is lovely to have some time to
:24:29. > :24:33.yourself, but we all have to be a bit more outward facing and
:24:33. > :24:38.communicates with the larger world around us and that is what this
:24:38. > :24:43.garden communicates, it has a dual personality where everything is
:24:43. > :24:52.structured and open so the public can see you. Over here, it is a
:24:52. > :24:58.different story. It is lovely in here. You come down three steps and
:24:58. > :25:03.you are into a sunken garden, a very secluded and private place. Rather
:25:03. > :25:07.than overlooking the plants, you feel like they are overlooking you
:25:07. > :25:12.and that is a good tip, to get plants to eye level so you are
:25:12. > :25:16.looking through them. The idea of an outdoor room is not particularly
:25:16. > :25:25.new, but there are many different interpretations of that concept here
:25:25. > :25:29.at Chelsea. Well that's nearly it for another year. But before we go
:25:29. > :25:32.there's time to fuse the past with the present - join us as we enjoy
:25:32. > :25:42.nature at its most perfect from this year's show accompanied by the music
:25:42. > :25:42.
:25:42. > :27:03.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds
:27:03. > :27:08.that delighted the crowds back in 100 years? More to the point, next
:27:08. > :27:15.year? I want to see experimentation, adventurous design
:27:15. > :27:19.is going out there, heading for a gold medal, knowing where they will
:27:19. > :27:25.head and pleasing their sponsors. I want to see some interesting design
:27:25. > :27:32.that is pushing the boundaries a bit more. Surprisingly people a bit.
:27:32. > :27:37.Taking risks. Also, can I make a plea for getting rid of graph paper
:27:37. > :27:42.and having some curves? Sometimes the most outlandish thing is having
:27:42. > :27:47.a diagonal rather than a square, but don't get me wrong, these are the
:27:47. > :27:54.most talented designers on earth, but I agree with you entirely -
:27:54. > :28:03.let's see something that surprises us a bit. We have got to think
:28:03. > :28:08.forward 100 years from now and the next bicentenary, what will garden
:28:08. > :28:12.design be like then? We don't know, but next year, curves, gentlemen.
:28:12. > :28:15.Make it shapely. It's time to say goodbye to the 2013 RHS Chelsea
:28:15. > :28:22.Flower Show. We've had a glorious week, as we always do. There's just
:28:22. > :28:27.time to say join us next year when we'll be doing it all again. Alas,