:00:33. > :00:42.Hello. Welcome to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, an event supported by
:00:43. > :00:46.M Investments. It is Thursday and today is the first public day of the
:00:47. > :00:50.show. Visitors have been flocking through the gate since 8am this
:00:51. > :00:54.morning to take a first look at the Great Pavilion and show gardens. I
:00:55. > :01:00.hope do hope they bought umbrellas, because boy, did it rain! I was out
:01:01. > :01:04.there in it! I was luckily undercover in the pavilion. It seems
:01:05. > :01:09.to get everywhere. Here, it was flooded. You'll bobbin everyone runs
:01:10. > :01:14.in there. They were kicking people out. It was torrential. It is good
:01:15. > :01:20.to have a deluge because the plane that dropped their seed pods, they
:01:21. > :01:24.get stuck in the back of your throat and you get at Chelsea cough. It
:01:25. > :01:28.freshens everything up a bit. A little bit less fresh would be
:01:29. > :01:34.good! Something I was told was overheard today in the crowd was
:01:35. > :01:38.that someone very solemnly said, I know how to get a gold medal. The
:01:39. > :01:44.way you get a gold medal this year is put Moss in your garden. The
:01:45. > :01:49.secret is out. Anywhere in particular? Moss equals gold. It is
:01:50. > :01:55.not just Moss that is happening today. You need to make your mind up
:01:56. > :02:01.which is your favourite large garden. The lines are now open to
:02:02. > :02:05.vote in the BBC RHS rebels choice award. You have until midnight
:02:06. > :02:12.tonight. Straight after the show, go to our website to find all the
:02:13. > :02:16.information you need to take part -- People's Choice Award. There is a
:02:17. > :02:22.lot to look forward to tonight. I will be talking to Tom Dyckhoff, the
:02:23. > :02:29.architectural historian on what he thinks about Chelsea. So many of the
:02:30. > :02:36.gardens use architecture, as a stage set. It is great to see those that
:02:37. > :02:39.use architecture with real heft. Designer Marilyn Abbott explains why
:02:40. > :02:44.she moved to the other side of the world to fulfil her gardening
:02:45. > :02:48.dreams. This was a wonderful opportunity to say thank you, as an
:02:49. > :02:54.Australian, to Britain, for teaching us about gardening. We meet the man
:02:55. > :03:00.who is on a mission to make big topical bromeliad plants popular. I
:03:01. > :03:03.wish I had a pound for all the times I am asked which is my favourite
:03:04. > :03:08.plant. It is difficult, really difficult to choose. Every year at
:03:09. > :03:14.Chelsea and REH -- and RHS panel draws up a short list of plants to
:03:15. > :03:18.be considered for Plant Of The Year. They have to reduce this to one
:03:19. > :03:24.plant. It will be crowned with this title. Later, Rachel will find out
:03:25. > :03:32.which one won. It is difficult to say! Importantly, why it won. Which
:03:33. > :03:36.one won what? How do you decide from all the plants and flowers which is
:03:37. > :03:39.best? If you had to choose just one plant to be your Chelsea Plant Of
:03:40. > :03:47.The Year, which would it be? If it was up to me I would have to choose
:03:48. > :03:51.a tree. I was here on the day they were brought on to cite and they are
:03:52. > :03:54.70 years old and they are stunning. I have to treat them like old
:03:55. > :03:59.people, they are delicate, he said to me. They are beautiful. A
:04:00. > :04:04.sculptural form, fantastic autumn colour and a really good flower. It
:04:05. > :04:08.could be. Everyone has an opinion. We asked the rest of our team what
:04:09. > :04:20.they would choose as their personal Plant Of The Year, and why.
:04:21. > :04:26.With so many bold, brilliant plans on display, sometimes it is easy to
:04:27. > :04:32.miss the gems but this one just shone out to me. Those white bracts
:04:33. > :04:37.around the flowers sparkle here in the semi-shade. It is small but
:04:38. > :04:43.perfectly formed. It is my nomination for Plant Of The Year. I
:04:44. > :04:48.must -- we must have plant for me is this. The Canary Island foxglove.
:04:49. > :04:54.Just look at the tone of that flower. The combination of the
:04:55. > :05:01.purple stem, dark green glossy leaves, and it's got a feed with the
:05:02. > :05:07.most enthusiasm. It is a beauty. -- it scattered seed. The sensuous
:05:08. > :05:17.Himalayan plant excite me on every trip out there and this is my plans
:05:18. > :05:24.of the year for 2014. -- plans of the year. The very minute I saw
:05:25. > :05:27.this, I felt deeply in love. It is such an easy, straightforward plant
:05:28. > :05:33.and it mixes and mingles with everything. In fact, it features in
:05:34. > :05:41.most of the gardens on main avenue. My plans pick has such delicate
:05:42. > :05:46.little hours and it gives autumn colour. I have always wanted one,
:05:47. > :05:56.but can't. I don't garden on acidic soil. I think GMs are sadly
:05:57. > :06:00.underrated but this is certainly one of the best. It is called totally
:06:01. > :06:07.tangerine for obvious reasons and it is soft, sophisticated, elegant and
:06:08. > :06:10.pretty -- geum. It is the way it combines with so many of the flowers
:06:11. > :06:19.and foliage that makes it my plans of the year. Well, if you just
:06:20. > :06:24.looked at the show gardens you would be right to think that moves and
:06:25. > :06:33.lilacs, from pink through to dark purple, were the colours of Chelsea
:06:34. > :06:37.through in 2014. We are hearing that blue and black are the hot colours
:06:38. > :06:41.for this year. You do need to take the whole show into consideration
:06:42. > :06:50.before making a judgement. I have to say that my favourite plant of this
:06:51. > :06:56.year, the colour is one which has a wonderful plum, wine colour. Very
:06:57. > :07:01.different from the one I grow in my own garden. I am definitely going to
:07:02. > :07:06.be taking that back with me to the garden. My dry garden. We all have
:07:07. > :07:11.our favourites. No matter what we think is the Plant Of The Year or
:07:12. > :07:14.the colour of the year, ultimately the RHS panel of judges have made
:07:15. > :07:20.their final decision. Later in the programme, Rachel will reveal which
:07:21. > :07:23.perfect specimen they chose to be crowned Plant Of The Year. One of
:07:24. > :07:29.the best things about Chelsea is the opportunity to see lots of rare
:07:30. > :07:33.plants that we otherwise might never come across. Amongst them this year
:07:34. > :07:36.is the garden with a distinct North American flavour. Joe has been
:07:37. > :07:45.taking a look. It is always really interesting how
:07:46. > :07:49.these Chelsea Gardens start and this started with a holiday, to Cape Cod.
:07:50. > :07:53.Susannah Hunter and Catherine MacDonald went there and thought
:07:54. > :07:56.they wanted to create a slice of that and put it in Chelsea and that
:07:57. > :08:00.is what they have done. But there is more of a story behind that in this
:08:01. > :08:06.garden because we have this shack in the middle of it. This piece of
:08:07. > :08:10.coastline is protected. 1961, JF Kennedy created the national
:08:11. > :08:16.seashore in Massachusetts in Cape Cod. All of these shacks were going
:08:17. > :08:20.to be bulldozed down, they looked a bit messy, but actually there is an
:08:21. > :08:24.artistic enclave that has lived there for generations. It was very
:08:25. > :08:28.important for them to keep them. There was a huge outcry. Petitions
:08:29. > :08:34.were signed and they were saved, fantastic. You can only inherit one
:08:35. > :08:37.of these, not by one. If the family ceases to exist they are protected
:08:38. > :08:42.because they are so important and create the magical landscape. At the
:08:43. > :08:45.back of the garden we have this backdrop. From a distance it looks
:08:46. > :08:50.as if it is painted. Actually, Susannah Hunter worked in detail
:08:51. > :08:55.with leather. It is created with leather, as are the cushions inside
:08:56. > :08:59.the shack, on the benches. Catherine MacDonald is more of a garden
:09:00. > :09:03.designer. She has created a wonderful landscape here. We have
:09:04. > :09:08.sand dunes, which undulate up and down. I love the bleached out
:09:09. > :09:11.decking. You feel as if you are there. We have a railing running
:09:12. > :09:16.through with planting dotted around. It is self seeding around.
:09:17. > :09:22.These plants are tough and have to cope with wind, salt laden winds
:09:23. > :09:27.ripping through the coastline. They have done a really nice job because
:09:28. > :09:32.you can see the sand used as a mulch and dotted down to the path here.
:09:33. > :09:36.The plants, things like the lupins, the Pines, this wonderful pine here,
:09:37. > :09:43.holds the garden together and gives it plenty of height. My criticism I
:09:44. > :09:47.guess is I love this planting and the backdrop, but I am not convinced
:09:48. > :09:51.they actually go together. I know Chelsea is all about theatre. But I
:09:52. > :09:54.feel that some of the backdrop could have been softened with more
:09:55. > :09:59.planting in front. It is a little bit too in your face, as it were.
:10:00. > :10:04.The judges liked it and gave it a silver medal. Well done, two women
:10:05. > :10:11.here at Chelsea the design duo, that is what we need of.
:10:12. > :10:14.Much of that planting on the Massachusetts Garden was specially
:10:15. > :10:18.grown for Catherine and Susanna by a nursery. It did not prove to be an
:10:19. > :10:32.easy task. What was the problem? I browsed through the list, I saw
:10:33. > :10:36.the plants, beach grass, it seemed straightforward. When I looked at
:10:37. > :10:42.the individual species' names they were things that were not available
:10:43. > :10:47.in the UK. Did you realise that? Yes. We wanted to have a garden that
:10:48. > :10:51.was representing Massachusetts and Cape Cod specifically. I was aiming
:10:52. > :10:55.to use as many native and naturalised speeches as possible. I
:10:56. > :11:03.started with a list that had a lot of natives and took it from there.
:11:04. > :11:08.What did you do? Catherine is a scientist, so she is very pedantic
:11:09. > :11:13.unspecific. She kept me on a tight leash. We started off with a list of
:11:14. > :11:18.plants that were endemic to Cape Cod and worked through the list seeing
:11:19. > :11:20.what we could find. When we had exhausted all possible avenues of
:11:21. > :11:25.finding something, then we went on to the B list, which was plants that
:11:26. > :11:31.were introduced into Cape Cod. But maybe naturalised. It is very
:11:32. > :11:36.purist. Do you think the public will realise that? Not necessarily. A lot
:11:37. > :11:40.of the species look similar to plans we have here. But we wanted to try
:11:41. > :11:46.to be as true to Cape Cod and Massachusetts as possible. It was
:11:47. > :11:50.the most difficult plant list I had ever had to work too. We had done
:11:51. > :11:56.plant lists from Corsica and last year, the Australian garden and this
:11:57. > :12:00.was more difficult. Really? New grow plants for shows, sometimes more
:12:01. > :12:05.than one show at a time. Have you had any major disasters in the
:12:06. > :12:09.process? We had a scary moment with the ink very one of our main plants
:12:10. > :12:14.in the garden, because it was starting to go brown and lose its
:12:15. > :12:19.leaves before Chelsea. Catherine came and had a look and instantly
:12:20. > :12:23.saw, which I had not seen, the ones that were losing leaves were the
:12:24. > :12:28.male ones about to flower, and the lovely once had berries result,
:12:29. > :12:34.female ones. You have become used to growing plants for show gardens. How
:12:35. > :12:38.many can you manage at once? I find it really difficult to say no
:12:39. > :12:41.because I adore doing it. Nothing gives me a greater thrill than to
:12:42. > :12:45.get a plant list for a gardening show, particularly if I think I need
:12:46. > :12:50.to jump on a plane and go somewhere to warm to buy the plants. That is
:12:51. > :12:57.exciting. This year we have done 20,000 plants for Chelsea, for seven
:12:58. > :13:01.show gardens. And your own as well. I don't think people realise how
:13:02. > :13:07.much the nursery is put into the show gardens. It is a huge amount.
:13:08. > :13:10.The work starts sometimes a year in advance and the workload itself
:13:11. > :13:16.becomes more and more intense and friends in the closer you get to
:13:17. > :13:20.delivering the plants to the client. -- frenzied. What is the wastage?
:13:21. > :13:26.New grow the plants, they cannot all be used, can they? Sometimes we grow
:13:27. > :13:32.five or six times the number of plants that are actually used in the
:13:33. > :13:36.show garden. Not in this case. Dave was only able to 55 or seven in the
:13:37. > :13:43.country and that was all we had, so there is not a lot of waste -- five,
:13:44. > :13:48.or seven. You still managed to make your own display look fantastic. We
:13:49. > :13:51.did. The pianist did not quite behave themselves in the way they
:13:52. > :13:58.should have done, but we got there -- peonies. We have to make sure
:13:59. > :14:03.that designers like Catherine are happy first. It looks good. Over the
:14:04. > :14:08.years I have been lucky enough to visit far-flung parts of the world
:14:09. > :14:10.to enjoy gardens and plants, growing especially in the natural
:14:11. > :14:15.environment. A few years ago I travelled to south-east Australia to
:14:16. > :14:19.see Marylyn Abbott's garden at Kennerton Green, which is a very
:14:20. > :14:24.English garden in Australia. She is a native Australian, but she moved
:14:25. > :14:30.the other side of the world to fulfil her dream of owning and
:14:31. > :14:35.making her very own English garden. Last month, we joined her at her
:14:36. > :14:40.home in West Green House near Witney, Hampshire, near to where I
:14:41. > :14:41.grew up. The inspiration for her debut Artisans garden here at
:14:42. > :14:59.Chelsea. This garden is my dream. I would
:15:00. > :15:02.always have wanted an English garden.
:15:03. > :15:08.Like most Australians of my generation, we are all of British
:15:09. > :15:17.ancestry. You scratch an Australian, you will find an Englishman, an
:15:18. > :15:23.Irishman and a Scotsman! In the 1830s, my family came to Australia.
:15:24. > :15:26.The young men that came out to re-establish themselves or to make
:15:27. > :15:34.money for their families, they wanted to have gardens like they
:15:35. > :15:37.left at home. My mother and my grandmother grew what they thought
:15:38. > :15:45.were English gardens in a harsh climate. So I was indoctrinated,
:15:46. > :15:50.that this was a paradise on earth, this was England, that this is where
:15:51. > :15:53.gardening happened. So therefore my thoughts on gardening will be based
:15:54. > :16:01.always on the English concept of gardening.
:16:02. > :16:05.I retired from the Sydney Opera House. I was looking for a new
:16:06. > :16:09.adventure. I had a garden in Australian but with the climate
:16:10. > :16:14.there, you could not really grow a proper English garden. So over a
:16:15. > :16:19.three-year period I came to England backwards and forwards, looking for
:16:20. > :16:26.a garden. 20 years ago I had the opportunity of purchases the 99-year
:16:27. > :16:30.lease of West Green House. It was in ruins but the heart ruled and it was
:16:31. > :16:35.the most wonderful thing I have ever done.
:16:36. > :16:41.The day I arrived, I came in the back gates to the garden, all I saw
:16:42. > :16:46.was a jungle and the remains of walls. This area was the worst.
:16:47. > :16:53.Where I'm standing now, I'm on the edge of a very large thick concrete
:16:54. > :16:59.swimming pool. The bottom was broken. There are were saplings and
:17:00. > :17:03.all of those nasty slimy things at the bottom of the pool. The building
:17:04. > :17:09.that is now the bothy, it had been used as a changing room, with no
:17:10. > :17:14.roof and only three walls standing and weeds growing up it. It was a
:17:15. > :17:19.horrible area. The first thoughts when looking at the garden and the
:17:20. > :17:26.terrible black hole of a swim pool, I felt like Alice in Wonderland. It
:17:27. > :17:31.was a bit of fun then and we took that theme a little further. As you
:17:32. > :17:36.can see, the tea pot is a part of it and the little topiaries are the
:17:37. > :17:42.pawns. When I was asked to do a garden for
:17:43. > :17:49.Chelsea, I thought what are the things that say West Green? I was
:17:50. > :17:58.reading a book about topiary. I saw that the name for fancy gardening
:17:59. > :18:02.was opera topiary. I thought this was be marvellous, to link the two
:18:03. > :18:12.together for opera and gardening. So where were the best examples of
:18:13. > :18:16.topiary? It was the bothy garden. Imagined a gentleman who would have
:18:17. > :18:24.been here perhaps at the beginning of the 19th century. He was a young
:18:25. > :18:28.man who during the day had to be a gardener, a handyman, because in
:18:29. > :18:34.those days, the gardener had to do everything. He had to be a very good
:18:35. > :18:39.artisan. I looked at our old bothy and I thought this is where he would
:18:40. > :18:46.have come at night. As he relaxed he do could have planted the left over
:18:47. > :18:53.favoured flowers and all of the topi a ry he wanted to do and any left
:18:54. > :18:57.over bulbs, he could have planted in the pots. So the garden I have
:18:58. > :19:05.created for Chelsea incop rates all of this, the chimney, the old black
:19:06. > :19:08.windows and the old door, it is all exactly the same -- incorporates all
:19:09. > :19:19.of this. I hope that I have created his
:19:20. > :19:24.little world. Marylyn Abbott, congratulations!
:19:25. > :19:28.This is a beautiful garden. It got a Silver Medal. What is astonishing is
:19:29. > :19:33.the way you have brought West Green House to Chelsea, seemingly in every
:19:34. > :19:40.detail? If you come to West Green House you see that the bricks all
:19:41. > :19:51.have holes in them. That is the motions of the wasps. We sat here
:19:52. > :19:55.burrowing to get the same effect. One thing that everyone has
:19:56. > :20:00.commented on is that it takes on everything that is English. It takes
:20:01. > :20:07.someone that removed to do this? Well, to me to play hollage of
:20:08. > :20:14.hundreds of years of knowing that ordinary British men and women who
:20:15. > :20:18.came to Australia, to create their British gardens and this was a
:20:19. > :20:24.wonderful opportunity to say thank you to you for teaching us so much
:20:25. > :20:28.about the English garden. You crammed a lot into a small
:20:29. > :20:35.place. It was tricky. How did you select the plants you have chosen? I
:20:36. > :20:42.have chosen plants that grow on a wide range of soils.
:20:43. > :20:45.I look for plants to perform under a wide spectrum of claimant
:20:46. > :20:49.conditions. You talk about resilient plants,
:20:50. > :20:55.obviously we have the loopiness, what other plants do you think are
:20:56. > :21:01.resilient and adaptable? Well, just about everything here is adaptable.
:21:02. > :21:15.Foxgloves, we can grow them in new south Wales and here. Once again, a
:21:16. > :21:18.wide spectrum. This, Cranesborough, it is a main stay of nearly
:21:19. > :21:24.everyone's garden. It is almost a weed, isn't it!
:21:25. > :21:32.Clearly it is stunning. You to branch out to a larger garden after
:21:33. > :21:36.this? Well, age will be part of this. My knees have been killing me
:21:37. > :21:39.this year! But it has been a wonderful thing to do. Chelsea is
:21:40. > :21:45.the ideal for all gardeners to attempt. But I think that age has a
:21:46. > :21:47.lot to do with it! Well, thank you very much indeed.
:21:48. > :21:53.Thank you. You can always guarantee a range of
:21:54. > :21:58.different gardens at Chelsea. Similar-sized plots, yet so many
:21:59. > :22:02.different interpretations of that space.
:22:03. > :22:12.I am with Paul Hervey-Brookes. We have the reconnaissance
:22:13. > :22:17.reconnaissance -- Renaissance Garden, you got a Bronze Medal, how
:22:18. > :22:28.do you feel about that? I think when you work for something like this,
:22:29. > :22:33.you aim for gold, you hope for gold. Did you appreciate the Bronze Medal?
:22:34. > :22:37.I felt gutted. For the people that came, that
:22:38. > :22:43.volunteered and that poured their hearts and souls into the garden.
:22:44. > :22:48.There is a huge team behind you but it is not just you but the pressure
:22:49. > :22:52.is on you, I guess? Yes. But for everyone involved, I thought I had
:22:53. > :22:57.let them down. You cannot escape that feeling. But by the time I got
:22:58. > :23:02.here, I thought, it is what it is, there is no point crying over it,
:23:03. > :23:06.just get on with it and engage with everyone.
:23:07. > :23:09.You have not let anyone down. The visitors love it.
:23:10. > :23:15.That is the main point, I think. What was the judge's feedback? One
:23:16. > :23:19.judge put it brilliantly, death by 1,000 cuts! I liked the phrase. All
:23:20. > :23:23.of the elements in the individual settings are good. One said that the
:23:24. > :23:27.planting was beautiful. But together for them it did not
:23:28. > :23:31.work as a whole unit. So you have to accept what they say.
:23:32. > :23:36.Do you feel you have learned something from that? I think if you
:23:37. > :23:40.get Gold Medal like last year or Bronze Medal like this year, the
:23:41. > :23:44.judges' feedback is important. They are people to look up to, they have
:23:45. > :23:47.a huge knowledge of wealth to draw on.
:23:48. > :23:52.What would you have done differently now you have had the feedback?
:23:53. > :23:57.Anything? I don't know that I would have, actually. The judges' feedback
:23:58. > :24:02.is one thing but I made a garden that followed my own heart. I met
:24:03. > :24:07.the brief of the sponsor, so I hope that other people stand in front of
:24:08. > :24:14.it to take bits from. To me, if one person stands and looks that they
:24:15. > :24:17.would like those things, that to me, shows me I have done my job.
:24:18. > :24:21.This is clear. shows me I have done my job.
:24:22. > :24:27.that you can take away, think about, shows me I have done my job.
:24:28. > :24:33.With this judgement, I will reflect on the garden for the next time.
:24:34. > :24:39.This will not change but I can use the sheet for better understanding
:24:40. > :24:43.for the next thing -- time. That is crucial.
:24:44. > :24:48.Well, the next time, you are coming back to Chelsea? I hope.
:24:49. > :24:54.You have done a large garden, do you think you will do a small garden, a
:24:55. > :25:00.fresh garden, an artisan garden? Any ideas? It depends. I liked having
:25:01. > :25:04.the luxury of the space. In the odd way, the judges set a challenge. To
:25:05. > :25:08.satisfy myself, I have to come back and do better. So the first option
:25:09. > :25:12.is to come and prove that I can do it.
:25:13. > :25:17.Well, a Bronze Medal at Chelsea have a huge achievement. You did not let
:25:18. > :25:21.anybody down and everybody loves your gardens. Congratulations. Nice
:25:22. > :25:28.to see you, and hope to see you back! You never know! You can always
:25:29. > :25:34.get something from a garden, it does not matter the medal that it has
:25:35. > :25:39.got. Immediately I saw this, I was struck by the pool. The lovely dry
:25:40. > :25:43.Stonewall at the bottom and the straight lines rippling in the
:25:44. > :25:46.water. That is what matters. You pluck from gardens the things you
:25:47. > :25:51.like. Paul was amongst a few of designers
:25:52. > :26:02.who included sculpture. Toby has been enjoying sculpture as Chelsea
:26:03. > :26:06.in all of its shapes and forms. -- at Chelsea in all of its shapes
:26:07. > :26:11.and forms. There is no shortage of sculpture
:26:12. > :26:20.here at Chelsea this year, in fact, I have never known so much! With new
:26:21. > :26:25.materials, tools and manufacturing techniques, it is as if the limits
:26:26. > :26:40.on what artists can achieve have been removed.
:26:41. > :26:50.For some of the original sculptures at Chelsea, you get in a knee deep
:26:51. > :27:00.pocket, or something bigger to get them home.
:27:01. > :27:05.But the rules are always the same. Framing is key. If you use
:27:06. > :27:10.overhanging trees or hedges... Or oak panels like this, it can show
:27:11. > :27:17.off the sculpture to the best. That is whether it is a bird bath or
:27:18. > :27:24.mashle representation of the sound wave when you say "light" fanned you
:27:25. > :27:34.are clever with the framing you can completely change the way a
:27:35. > :27:40.sculpture looks. The sculpture you choose is down to
:27:41. > :27:46.personal taste but the backdrop needs careful consideration. Grass,
:27:47. > :28:04.or foliage or even better, a colour that makes your piece of artwork
:28:05. > :28:10.shine out. And that is true whether you are
:28:11. > :28:18.using stone, willow wig womens for the sweet peas to train up, or you
:28:19. > :28:29.are using sparkling silver bench. -- wigwams.
:28:30. > :28:36.Access is essential. With statues, the touching is half of the fun. It
:28:37. > :28:53.is essential if you grow your own to keep them tightly clipped.
:28:54. > :28:59.And that's when you realise, when you see the gardens at Chelsea, that
:29:00. > :29:04.every element from the planting, the paving, the stone in the walls it is
:29:05. > :29:17.treated like a piece of sculpture, framed with a beautiful backdrop.
:29:18. > :29:29.That's why the gardens here look this good! That is fantastic,
:29:30. > :29:34.though, isn't it? Every night this week I am being joined by people
:29:35. > :29:38.from different creative disciplines to give us their Angolan Chelsea
:29:39. > :29:42.flower full show. Joining me is the architectural historian Tom
:29:43. > :29:48.Dyckhoff. Is this your first Chelsea? I have not been for a few
:29:49. > :29:54.years, so I am eager to see how it has changed. Are you a gardener?
:29:55. > :29:57.Sadly, not. I live in London and house prices being what they are, I
:29:58. > :30:03.have a flat, not even with a balcony. I have a window box, it
:30:04. > :30:07.looks sad at the moment. I am very keen attentional -- potential
:30:08. > :30:12.gardener. My dad was a great lover of the garden. I remember from my
:30:13. > :30:18.childhood, I would love to have a crack. What are you looking forward
:30:19. > :30:21.you'll come to Chelsea? Two things, the relationship between the garden
:30:22. > :30:27.and the structures and hard landscaping inside the gardens, and
:30:28. > :30:29.secondly I am looking at the planting themselves, looking at the
:30:30. > :30:35.3-dimensional itty of it, the structure, the form, the shape, the
:30:36. > :30:41.plan. Those key elements towards architecture, I am looking for that
:30:42. > :30:45.in a garden as well. And has gardening ever influenced the way
:30:46. > :30:49.you look at architecture? Very much so. If you look back through
:30:50. > :30:53.history, if you look behind us here, the former tea, the connection
:30:54. > :30:56.between the building, the landscape, it has been the key to
:30:57. > :31:02.architecture going back to Stonehenge. Thousands of years,
:31:03. > :31:06.right the way through to 16th and 17th and 18th century gardens as
:31:07. > :31:09.well. One of the strange things about show gardens here at Chelsea
:31:10. > :31:18.is buildings and structures tend to be used either to hide what is going
:31:19. > :31:23.on, or just to add some shape and form. They tend not to be used as
:31:24. > :31:28.building. Exactly. I am looking to look for real architecture. I am
:31:29. > :31:30.looking for heft and might, that integration, that relationship
:31:31. > :31:35.between the building, the structure, whatever it is, and the
:31:36. > :31:38.landscaping and the plants as well. At the moment within architecture
:31:39. > :31:42.there is a great resurgence of interest in planting and integrating
:31:43. > :31:48.with the most modern of architecture. I am thinking of a
:31:49. > :31:51.place in New York, very fashionable in architecture, where an architect
:31:52. > :31:56.has worked with a landscape designer to create an amazing structure.
:31:57. > :31:59.Yesterday, we had Dan Pearson and Thomas heather Wick, who are
:32:00. > :32:04.starting work on the garden bridge, the same idea. One of the things, we
:32:05. > :32:07.can grow plants cheaply, we can raise plants from seed and take
:32:08. > :32:10.cuttings and as gardeners that is what we love to do. We can't grow
:32:11. > :32:14.buildings from seed. what we love to do. We can't grow
:32:15. > :32:19.expensive. They are expensive and slow and generally pretty weighty.
:32:20. > :32:23.But that said there are amazing structures that are much more
:32:24. > :32:27.affordable and I am interested in this country in self build, building
:32:28. > :32:31.your own structures. There is stuff out there, Kit Holmes, Kit
:32:32. > :32:36.architecture, that is light weight. I would love to see that in Chelsea
:32:37. > :32:40.in years to come. Are there any particular designers you have
:32:41. > :32:44.enjoyed at the show? Or is it just general? A general wander around,
:32:45. > :32:48.looking forward to seeing what the latest trends are in gardens.
:32:49. > :32:54.Gardens are not my speciality, I can't wait to look round. I will be
:32:55. > :32:58.interested to see what you make of it. If you want to add architectural
:32:59. > :33:03.form to your garden, you can do it with plants because you can add
:33:04. > :33:06.something big and preferably exotic. Carroll has been taking a look at
:33:07. > :33:18.plants that can help you to structure your borders.
:33:19. > :33:25.You can almost feel the temperature rising. How about that for a spot
:33:26. > :33:27.You can almost feel the temperature tropical colour? These wonderful
:33:28. > :33:34.plants come in this enormous range of oranges, pinks, even a few black
:33:35. > :33:38.ones, dark and dangerous. Very mysterious. But the other thing they
:33:39. > :33:46.have got, apart from their colour, is this fabulous structure. It is
:33:47. > :33:50.almost surrealist, this spade that wraps around the inside workings of
:33:51. > :33:57.the flower. It lowers insects in. You might assume that because the
:33:58. > :34:01.topical as you Benteke -- these tropical, exuberant appearance they
:34:02. > :34:05.were difficult to grow, but not a bit of it. Put them out for the
:34:06. > :34:09.summer, at them into your pots, anywhere you like, where you want
:34:10. > :34:17.the colour. But then, when Frost threatens, bring them indoors. A
:34:18. > :34:21.cool conservatory, a greenhouse, you -- your porch, anywhere will do and
:34:22. > :34:26.withdraw all water from them. They want to be bone dry. In the spring,
:34:27. > :34:30.start watering them again. They will burst into growth, promising you
:34:31. > :34:47.another summer of exuberant colour and beautiful structure.
:34:48. > :34:52.Structure is not always about being solid and sculptural. Sometimes it
:34:53. > :35:00.is quite the opposite. In the case of these, it is about being willowy
:35:01. > :35:07.and wafting around. Yet this beautiful construction would look
:35:08. > :35:12.brilliant in anybody's garden. These plans are from South Africa. They
:35:13. > :35:16.are not grasses. They are separate group of their own. It is a vast
:35:17. > :35:22.group. Some of them are tall and wonderful. Some of them have tiny
:35:23. > :35:27.little in fluorescences right at the stems which twinkle in the light.
:35:28. > :35:30.But in terms of their cultivation they are very straightforward. They
:35:31. > :35:34.are not as hardy as most of the ornamental grasses that we grow in
:35:35. > :35:41.our gardens, but they will take temperatures down to about -8. What
:35:42. > :35:45.they really love neutral to added -- acid soil and adequate moisture. A
:35:46. > :35:50.great idea if you feel you must have one of these gorgeous plants is to
:35:51. > :35:54.grow one in an enormous pot and thinking into the ground and then
:35:55. > :35:59.come with the help of a friend, when it starts to get really cold, bring
:36:00. > :36:03.it indoors under cover -- think it into the ground. Bring it in,
:36:04. > :36:12.somewhere where it is bright and light.
:36:13. > :36:21.These are an incredibly aristocratic group of plants. But hailing as they
:36:22. > :36:27.do from Himalayan Woodlands, the one thing they detest is a soggy
:36:28. > :36:35.bottom. So if you want to grow them yourself, give them a bit of shade,
:36:36. > :36:41.give them really excellent drainage and Woody soil. You can't go wrong.
:36:42. > :36:48.In terms of a flower that perfectly epitomises poison -- poise and
:36:49. > :36:52.grace, what could do it better than this beautiful plant? She is like a
:36:53. > :36:57.flower that has been to finishing school, or an absolute diva. But I
:36:58. > :37:13.think it is she who steals the show. It is one thing to look like a
:37:14. > :37:18.floral opera singer, but the plans I have got here to my mind looks like
:37:19. > :37:22.a cross between a floral cockatoo and a hand grenade. It is certainly
:37:23. > :37:28.explosive. It is a pineapple. A bromeliad. But it may look like a
:37:29. > :37:33.pineapple, but it will not taste like one. It is not edible. As a
:37:34. > :37:38.variegated, exotic plant, it could be exactly the thing you need to be
:37:39. > :37:43.an eye-catcher. But the truth is not everybody is going to like it. The
:37:44. > :37:47.Great Pavilion is packed with exhibits but nobody is going to like
:37:48. > :37:52.all of them. Some people, quite frankly, will dislike some of them a
:37:53. > :37:56.lot. That is particularly the case with exotic blooms. Really adds like
:37:57. > :38:02.this pineapple do so more than anybody else -- bromeliads. Don
:38:03. > :38:05.Billington will not be swayed from his one-man mission to bring this
:38:06. > :38:15.much maligned plant to the nation's heart.
:38:16. > :38:23.I think the problem we have with bromeliad As is nobody really knows
:38:24. > :38:29.them yet and to look at them for the first time, they probably frighten
:38:30. > :38:33.people with their vibrant colours. Is this going on after nine o'clock,
:38:34. > :38:38.because some of the ones people can sometimes pass comments in a naughty
:38:39. > :38:44.but nice sort of way. As well as being quite passionate over
:38:45. > :38:48.bromeliad As, I am passionate over a guy called Rod Stewart and the name
:38:49. > :38:55.of the company derives from the fact he had an LP out in 1971 called
:38:56. > :38:59.every picture tells a story. I want to see gel -- Rod Stewart at the
:39:00. > :39:08.Chelsea Flower Show, so I developed my collection in the hope I might
:39:09. > :39:11.one day meet Rod Stewart. # Wake-up medley, I think I've got
:39:12. > :39:18.something to say to you #. . Bromeliads are one of the largest
:39:19. > :39:27.plants in the plant kingdom, from the Americas. These plants grow on
:39:28. > :39:31.every sort of level. The plants I like to display are more of the
:39:32. > :39:37.jungle type, but some are close to cacti and succulents and Le Fondre
:39:38. > :39:46.deserts. -- they live on deserts. I like to grow epiphytess. You have a
:39:47. > :39:49.parasite that will collect to a host and take from it, and epiphytes
:39:50. > :39:58.lives on it and it connects onto it. This birdies -- on this bed, you can
:39:59. > :40:03.see from the base of the plant where the offsets start to form. Each one
:40:04. > :40:07.will send out three or four. When they get to one third of the size of
:40:08. > :40:11.the parent plant it is possible to take them off and repot them, or
:40:12. > :40:15.collect them onto a brunch somewhere else. You can see how this is fading
:40:16. > :40:23.away. We have one of the young ones starting to come out.
:40:24. > :40:28.I got interested in bromeliads when I was working at Liverpool but Onyx
:40:29. > :40:35.and helping to build Liverpool national collections. In 2008, while
:40:36. > :40:40.at Chelsea, I purchased about 200 or ?300 worth of bromeliads and that is
:40:41. > :40:43.how I started my collection. I have three national collections within
:40:44. > :40:50.the family, which includes one of these. The idea of what we are
:40:51. > :40:53.trying to do is to show people the diversity of not just all the
:40:54. > :41:00.different colours you can get, but also the sizes and shapes of them.
:41:01. > :41:03.This particular plant we are looking at now, you can see the
:41:04. > :41:06.inflorescence coming out which is going to form the flowers. A
:41:07. > :41:11.question I am often asked is how we can get these to flower again. At a
:41:12. > :41:15.recent presentation with the RHS I was asked that question. If you get
:41:16. > :41:20.a plant about this size, the funnel this size, get an apple, put it on
:41:21. > :41:24.the side of the pot, cover the whole plant and the apple with a paper
:41:25. > :41:29.bag, feel it, leave it for 12 or 14 days. After that period of time the
:41:30. > :41:34.apple will rot down, release a gas called ethylene and the ethylene
:41:35. > :41:39.induces the flower. If you use a pair, you will get two flowers. One
:41:40. > :41:40.of the judges what if you use a banana skin? I said, you will get a
:41:41. > :41:51.bunch! We were first at Chelsea in 2012 and
:41:52. > :41:55.low and behold, the first time we had entered and our first time of
:41:56. > :41:59.asking we got a gold medal. We were lucky enough to achieve the same
:42:00. > :42:05.again last year. This year, we are hoping for the same again. With Rod
:42:06. > :42:10.Stewart appearing in the UK, he might take the day off to visit the
:42:11. > :42:13.Chelsea Flower Show and if that is the case I will be there, looking
:42:14. > :42:23.for him to see if he wants my autograph!
:42:24. > :42:30.Did not turn up? No, he never turned up. I am really disappointed. I only
:42:31. > :42:35.do the Chelsea Flower Show in the hope of meeting him. Maybe next
:42:36. > :42:39.year? Why should I bother next year, if he does not turn up to see me
:42:40. > :42:44.this year. I go to see him in concert, so he should turn up to see
:42:45. > :42:51.me here. You got a gold medal. I did. Three in a row for the company.
:42:52. > :42:55.Fantastic. I love the idea you first saw bromeliads at Chelsea and now
:42:56. > :43:00.bring them here every year. In 2008, I bought some and it has grown and
:43:01. > :43:05.grown into something as big as this. To beat -- do people either love
:43:06. > :43:10.them or hate them? They do. They are frightened of them. The colours are
:43:11. > :43:13.so vibrant and they think they cannot look after them. But it is
:43:14. > :43:20.one of the easiest plants to look after, otherwise I would not do it.
:43:21. > :43:27.Some of them look plastic. They do. I could put a few plastic ones in
:43:28. > :43:32.and the judges might not notice! You have this one trooping down,
:43:33. > :43:35.creating the mood of the exhibit. It gives an airy atmosphere and
:43:36. > :43:41.encloses the divine in. You have other ones as well. Quite a range.
:43:42. > :43:47.They are very diverse. We have these with the tops. Also, up there, we
:43:48. > :43:50.have much bigger ones. What is called Samantha, which was entered
:43:51. > :43:55.into the Plant Of The Year a couple of years ago. We have really big
:43:56. > :44:01.ones which look totally different from the airy one growing down. A
:44:02. > :44:06.fantastic exhibit and you got your gold medal. Have you got one on the
:44:07. > :44:11.front of your car? Not at the moment, no. If I get rich, I will
:44:12. > :44:17.get one made, like a Bentley or something like that. Earlier in the
:44:18. > :44:20.week Don put is really a Brazil forward to the RHS judges to be
:44:21. > :44:25.considered for the RHS Plant Of The Year. Was it a contender? Who won
:44:26. > :44:29.and who decides what makes a Plant Of The Year? Rachel has been finding
:44:30. > :44:33.out. RHS Chelsea Plant Of The Year is in
:44:34. > :44:37.its fourth year here at the show and it is an extremely prestigious award
:44:38. > :44:40.which showcases the work that all of these nurseries that exhibit here
:44:41. > :44:42.are doing with their breeding programmes. It also creates
:44:43. > :44:57.something of a buzz. The winning plant will have been
:44:58. > :45:03.chosen from more than 60, introduced at Chelsea this year. They range
:45:04. > :45:08.from bulbs, like this beautiful Narcissus, right through to
:45:09. > :45:14.perennials, climbers and shrubs, even a black-skinned tomato. That
:45:15. > :45:18.sounds exotic. It seems to me like the judges have their work cut out.
:45:19. > :45:22.James, tell me about the process behind this particular award? Right,
:45:23. > :45:26.any grower can submit their favourite plant for this.
:45:27. > :45:31.Then it is selected by all of the members of all of the RHS Plant
:45:32. > :45:37.Committees. We started with a list of 60, that is whittled down to a
:45:38. > :45:41.shortlist of 20. Then the Sunday before Chelsea, there is a meeting
:45:42. > :45:49.and all of the people in the plant Committees, about a couple of
:45:50. > :45:53.hundred but normally about 75, each one incredibly knowledgeable, so
:45:54. > :45:58.knowledgeable, and they decide which one of the 20 is the Plant of the
:45:59. > :46:07.Year. I have to ask you, what happened to
:46:08. > :46:11.Don's Bromeliad? He reached the last list and we hope he enters next
:46:12. > :46:19.year. What are the judges looking for? For
:46:20. > :46:23.impact. Something to make the judges go "wow." And again REAL appeals to
:46:24. > :46:31.the public. Tell me about the winner this year?
:46:32. > :46:37.Hydrangea macrophylla, Miss Saori it was named after the plant breeder's
:46:38. > :46:41.wife. The first plant he bred he thought worthy to be named after his
:46:42. > :46:46.wife. Andy, so when you first saw this
:46:47. > :46:52.hydrangea, did you think, that is a winner? Yes. It has the wow factor,
:46:53. > :46:57.hasn't it? It has the wonderful meringue quality it looks like a
:46:58. > :47:01.dessert! People look at it and they can feast on this one.
:47:02. > :47:05.I think it is very delicious. What about the competition? Have you
:47:06. > :47:09.looked at the other contenders? I have had a look around. What is
:47:10. > :47:14.great in this competition is that you are seeing lots of different
:47:15. > :47:19.types of plant. They are assessed both on appearance and on their
:47:20. > :47:24.potential. New introductions come and sometimes they just disappear
:47:25. > :47:28.thereafter but I this with this type of competition and the numbers of
:47:29. > :47:31.people looking and assessing them, they have a far better chance of
:47:32. > :47:34.choosing a plant that will be a long-termer.
:47:35. > :47:38.What does it mean to you to have won this? Is it a big deal? Yes, it is
:47:39. > :47:43.great. I was going to say it is the icing
:47:44. > :47:47.on the cake but looking at this, I am not sure I can say that! But it
:47:48. > :47:51.is fantastic. You have plantsmen voting, people who are a part of the
:47:52. > :47:55.show, people who are a part of the society that are dealing with a
:47:56. > :48:01.great variety of plant material. So to get a win it really mean as lot.
:48:02. > :48:05.Well, many congratulations to Andrew and his team.
:48:06. > :48:10.Now, the concept of plants being in vogue, in one year, out the next,
:48:11. > :48:15.has been going on in gardening for years but it is very hard to
:48:16. > :48:19.understand. Why do trends come and go and plants suddenly become the
:48:20. > :48:26.thing we must have in our gardens? Chris Beardshaw is trying to unravel
:48:27. > :48:31.the fickleness of fashion! We are remarkably blessed in Britain as to
:48:32. > :48:35.the range of plant species we can cultivate within the confines of our
:48:36. > :48:39.garden. There is a claim that nowhere else in the world can you
:48:40. > :48:44.grow such a broad range of plant material from so many different
:48:45. > :48:49.climates. However, occasionally, we back a little too spoiled. Plants go
:48:50. > :48:52.in and out of fashion. Sometimes we plainlily fall out of love with them
:48:53. > :48:57.as we are overused to them. But sometimes a new plant is revealed
:48:58. > :49:00.and we clamour for it in our gardens, to then discover that
:49:01. > :49:04.perhaps we didn't quite have the conditions that suited it. It
:49:05. > :49:08.becomes a bit of a prima dona, too much trouble to grow. But then there
:49:09. > :49:14.are the plants that fall out of faufr that are really worth growing.
:49:15. > :49:20.Every time we see them, we think, well, I don't understand why we are
:49:21. > :49:28.not growing it more often. This is one of those specimens, Rosa glauca.
:49:29. > :49:34.It is from the mountains of central and southern Europe. A rose species
:49:35. > :49:40.that gives a classic five-petalled flower. The flowers fragile, falling
:49:41. > :49:45.if you try to harvest them and shove them in a vase. They do not like to
:49:46. > :49:50.be confined to that watery space. But this is a plant whose muted
:49:51. > :49:57.shades and amping stems suits a gravel garden like this or a rampant
:49:58. > :50:02.hedgerow but is equally happy jostling with perennials in a stiff
:50:03. > :50:07.or a formal boarder. If you buy one rose for the garden this year, make
:50:08. > :50:14.it this one. If you talk about dwarf confers, to
:50:15. > :50:18.a gardener under the age of 70, you can see the eyes rolling and the
:50:19. > :50:24.taste police being called for. But there is a group of confers that are
:50:25. > :50:30.well worth including, especially in a contemporary garden. This is one
:50:31. > :50:40.of them. Not as dwarf as a rockery confer we are used to seeing in the
:50:41. > :50:47.1970s. But this is pinussilvestrus. It is seen in the rocky clags in the
:50:48. > :50:58.Highlands on exposed sights. But this is cultivate cultivated species
:50:59. > :51:03.it is called watereri. It really does very admirably is to produce a
:51:04. > :51:07.series of legs from the ground with beautiful pink bark exposed,
:51:08. > :51:12.becoming the centre piece of the garden. One group of
:51:13. > :51:13.becoming the centre piece of the undervalued is amongst the olding
:51:14. > :51:17.becoming the centre piece of the living and remaining plant that is
:51:18. > :51:23.the ferns. They are the most amazing, adaptive
:51:24. > :51:31.species. They grow all over the world on every continent in all
:51:32. > :51:35.sorts of climates but we associate them most with damp moist woodland,
:51:36. > :51:40.clinging to rocks and cliffs and boulders. This is a wonderful
:51:41. > :51:48.example of how to use the ferns. This is polysticken. Soft, the
:51:49. > :51:54.foliage delicate to the touch. But they have root-like structures that
:51:55. > :51:59.bind and clove and cover, so as a consequence you get a carpet of
:52:00. > :52:07.wonderful fronds. Ferns offer so much more than just a
:52:08. > :52:11.backdrop. The right plant in the right place offers a wonderful
:52:12. > :52:21.scene. This is what has happened here. We think of ferns being green
:52:22. > :52:26.but look at this underside of that wallicianafrond. Tonally, it matches
:52:27. > :52:31.with the viola, that is tumbling around. It is a beautiful
:52:32. > :52:39.combination. Subtle but still beautiful. From a slightly more
:52:40. > :52:46.acidic colour, well how about the sensitive ferns, the acids 34567ing
:52:47. > :53:03.with the yellows of the iris sibe are, ica behind.
:53:04. > :53:08.-- siberica. Oft an the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
:53:09. > :53:14.we celebrate the exotic plant and sometimes forget we have a wealth of
:53:15. > :53:19.natives, well worth growing in the gardens and can take centre stage.
:53:20. > :53:24.This is one that deserves that centre stage it is the native, the
:53:25. > :53:29.common field maple. The reason for growing it is because it will
:53:30. > :53:36.produce this wonderful multi-stem. It you allow it to produce multiple
:53:37. > :53:42.stems, there is a canopy of golden foliage to emerge in autumn, as well
:53:43. > :53:46.as supporting a wealth of wildlife and mammels with its seeds. This is
:53:47. > :53:52.one of the first trees I grew as a child. It has emotional memories for
:53:53. > :53:57.me, and the first tree that I built my first tree house in. And seeing
:53:58. > :54:03.plants coming in and out of fashion, maybe we should not worry about it.
:54:04. > :54:08.We allow ourselves to indulge in a particular species or flower, then
:54:09. > :54:13.we rediscover something afresh. As long as we keep ourselves
:54:14. > :54:18.open-minded to the wealth of plants out there, we are then sure to fill
:54:19. > :54:23.our gardens with joy! It is funny how plants do definitely go in and
:54:24. > :54:29.out of fashion. When I was a child my moth mother grew dail areas as
:54:30. > :54:37.cut flowers. They were not considered worthy of the main
:54:38. > :54:43.garden. Now we have dahlias grow growing here aplenty. 30 years ago,
:54:44. > :54:49.I would not have seen dead in this type of garden but certainly things
:54:50. > :54:53.change. These are beautiful. Earlier, Tom Dyckhoff joined us here
:54:54. > :54:58.to talk about his personal thoughts and opinions of Chelsea. He has been
:54:59. > :55:07.taking a look around and we joined him to see how he was getting on.
:55:08. > :55:12.The way that we design landscapes and buildings often reflects how we
:55:13. > :55:17.review the universe throughout centuries. Looking back to
:55:18. > :55:22.Stonehenge or 17th century classism, and the relationship to physics,
:55:23. > :55:27.often the architecture and the gardens that we create are framing
:55:28. > :55:39.devices for the landscape. I love the idea of the star-gazing garden.
:55:40. > :55:45.There is an amazing pool where the night sky casts itself at night.
:55:46. > :55:53.This is an actual building to be used after the show, used
:55:54. > :55:57.appropriately as an observatory for gazing at the stars! I love this
:55:58. > :56:02.garden. It is like a piece of architecture. Like walking into
:56:03. > :56:09.somebody's house. Here is the entrance hall with this lovely
:56:10. > :56:14.chunky basalt underfoot. Here the doorway with the copper. And here
:56:15. > :56:23.you have rooms. Each room has its own feel. Almost like a dining room
:56:24. > :56:28.and a living room. Down here, beautiful iris and hostas.
:56:29. > :56:36.And there is a change of scale, moving up, at the back here to this
:56:37. > :56:42.garden room at the rear. There are great chunky red cedar columns. Like
:56:43. > :56:49.they have been plucked from a Greek temple. And they smell amazing from
:56:50. > :56:54.the rain. I like the combination of the geometric structure and then the
:56:55. > :56:59.plants bursting forth from the architectural frame it puts me in
:57:00. > :57:04.mind of a citizen garden or Japanese. It feels calm and
:57:05. > :57:09.structured. But the designer left off the roof. We could have done
:57:10. > :57:18.with that a few minutes ago, when there was torrential rain here! This
:57:19. > :57:24.structure is not even a show garden. It is a trade stand. But this is so
:57:25. > :57:29.inventive. Compared to the show-stoppers. This is a little
:57:30. > :57:36.rough around the edges, you can move into it straight away. This is using
:57:37. > :57:42.shipping containers, that is very fashionable at moment. And there is
:57:43. > :57:48.lots of roofed greenery. So many of the gardens at Chelsea
:57:49. > :57:55.use arc feck tower like a stage set, push it and -- use architecture like
:57:56. > :58:02.a stage set, push it and it may fall over, so it is great to see this
:58:03. > :58:11.design, using real heft! I like a bit of heft in a garden building
:58:12. > :58:17.too! That is all for tonight's show. Nicki and Andy are back tomorrow.
:58:18. > :58:21.They have David Linley with them. And tomorrow, the BBC RHS People's
:58:22. > :58:29.Choice Award. Your vote could make a difference. You have until midnight
:58:30. > :58:33.to vote. You can find out how to vote by going online.
:58:34. > :58:35.We are back here also tomorrow night at 8.00pm. Until then, goodbye.
:58:36. > :58:47.Goodbye.