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Welcome to the most famous flower show on earth. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
It's day 5 of this amazing week, the sun is shining, | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
Come with us, as once again we guide you through the gardens, | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
plants and people that make up the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show. | :00:17. | :00:47. | |
Welcome back to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
an event supported by M Investments. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
There is a warm glow over the showground today as designers | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
and growers bask in the glory of their efforts and we reflect | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
on what has been an outstanding week of gardening. | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
The horticultural heroics of the garden designers have been | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
drawing huge crowds to this show from far and wide, with 140 | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
And today the general public are still flooding into the grounds | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
Well this show is far from over | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
and we're keeping some very stylish company today. | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
Meera Syal will be in for a chat to tell us | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
We'll also be seeing what top chef, Monica Galetti, | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
makes of some of the edible exhibits here at the show. | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
And I'll be joining florist to the stars, Mr. | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
Simon Lycett, to create a striking and fabulous floral display. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
This year Chelsea is showcasing bold and new ideas | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
A little earlier I scoured the grounds for the new and | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
This year, Chelsea is showcasing bold and new ideas with an eye to | :01:57. | :02:13. | |
the future. Earlier today I scoured the showground is looking for | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
innovations in horticulture. -- Showgroundss. The LG smart garden | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
harnesses the power of the apt mean I can control almost every function | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
here because they are all connected by Wi-Fi. I can turn the water | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
feature on and off. So you go on holiday, forget you've left the | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
pumps on, they can be instantly turned off at the click of a switch. | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
The only thing I can't control here is the son and the rain. What makes | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
this garden visually so slick is how it seamlessly blends outdoors and | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
indoors, which is in itself a really Modernist idea. I'm going to give | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
this a go for the first time. These shelf lights are going to go on. I | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
could play with this all day. You could have guests who came over and | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
wandered play their own music, they could do that from their phone | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
instantly. There's all kinds of fun stuff here. All of this James Bond | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
stuff could be dismissed as blokes playing with gadgets. Until you | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
consider this. To me this is a Game Changers, and intelligent plant | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
sensor capable of detecting water, fertiliser, temperature and light. | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
This is intelligent technology demystifying horticulture for the | :03:36. | :03:35. | |
masses. New ideas in horticulture aren't | :03:36. | :03:46. | |
just limited to the materials and methods of how you construct a | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
garden, it's also about the ingredients themselves. The plants. | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
Here at the plant of the year is stand there are all sorts of new | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
varieties that have never ever been seen before. One of the things that | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
has really caught my eye is this quirky college chrysanthemum here. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
The vast majority of modern chrysanthemums have been bred using | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
a technique called radiation breeding. There is another technique | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
called grafting, that is where you take two existing varieties and | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
stitch them together, cut and paste them together to create a surgically | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
enhanced hybrid. One example is this over here. And over Jean up top and | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
potato roots. It theoretically gives you twice the crop in the same | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
amount of space. I've never grown this before so can't vouch for how | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
it would function but grafting can be used with amazing effect in | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
gardens. Here at Chelsea horticulture is being dragged into | :04:45. | :04:45. | |
the 21st-century. From looking to the future of | :04:46. | :04:55. | |
gardening to one woman who is looking to change the world. Garden | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
designer Juliet Sargeant tackled a grim and disturbing subject and use | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
this show garden to tell its story. We joined her at the source | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
of her inspiration. I'm at the beautiful hole would a | :05:07. | :05:18. | |
state which nearly three centuries ago was owned by William Pitt the | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
Younger. The youngest ever British Prime Minister. It was in these | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
unlikely surroundings that the seeds were sown for a piece of legislation | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
that was going to change Britain for ever. It was the slavery abolition | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
act of 1833. From the early 15 hundredths, it's estimated 11 | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
million Africans were enslaved and forcibly transported to the Americas | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
over a period of about 350 years. By the end of the 18th-century, Britain | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
was a major player in this transatlantic slave trade with | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
around 150 slave ships leaving Liverpool, Bristol and London each | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
year. But around this time the slave trade was also provoking rumblings | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
of discontent and in the 1780s, politician and social reformer | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
William Wilberforce spearheaded a crusade to abolish it. It was here | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
under the branches of an oak tree on May 12 1787 that the Prime Minister, | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
William Pitt, urged his friend, Wilberforce, to present his | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
anti-slavery bill to parliament. It may just looked like a pile of old | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
wood now, but in those days it was a beautiful oak tree. I just love it, | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
that there's something tangible here for us to have a look at and think | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
about, that auspicious moment. After their chat, Wilberforce wrote | :06:55. | :07:12. | |
a passage in his diary, which is inscribed here on this stone bench | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
near to the oak tree. I resolved to give notice on a thick occasion in | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
the House of Commons of my intention to bring forward the abolition of | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
the slave trade. In 1807 the slave trade was banned and in 1833 slavery | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
itself was outlawed and slaves were freed. | :07:34. | :07:43. | |
Sadly, that's not the end of the story of the slave trade. Ashok is a | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
modern-day slave. Nobody prepared to help him. Until we exposed his | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
plight. It's still happening in many | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
different forms, slavery, forced labour, domestic servitude. It's | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
estimated there are 27 million people in slavery around the world. | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
More than in the entire history of the transatlantic slave trade. | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
The good news is that in 2015, Parliament' Modern Slavery act to | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
bring up to date the old legislation. I've celebrated this | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
with the design of the Chelsea garden in the fresh section and | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
called it the Modern Slavery garden. The unique thing about using a | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
garden to express something as complex as this is that a garden | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
gives you so many elements to play with. We have an oak tree that we're | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
going to put in the centre of the garden, it represents William | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
Wilberforce. I wanted to illustrate the fact it's going on in ordinary | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
streets behind ordinary doors. We visited some people who been | :08:58. | :09:08. | |
rescued from slavery in the south of England. They have quite a bit of | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
work to do to get their lives back on track and they told us they | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
garden and allotment and really enjoy doing that. We asked them to | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
grow some of the plants that we'll be using at the Modern Slavery | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
garden. At the moment on their allotment they are looking after oak | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
saplings that we will plant around the base of the main oak tree. I | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
hope people will first of all enjoyed a garden very much, but also | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
that they will enjoy reading the story that the garden is telling. | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
There are many gardens at the show with stories to tell. As we've seen, | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
this garden designed by Juliet Sargeant aims to provoke discussion. | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
What have people at the show made of it? A little bit disturbing when you | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
are in here, because of the bars, and the black. Prison feeling I | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
suppose, yeah. I want to be out there. I find it very confronting, | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
really, to come and an seat we're still talking about slavery these | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
days. It's shocking really. I can't believe it. The garden is very | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
emotional, very emotional. The fact you can actually go in and be the | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
railings, understand what it all represents with the doors, what's | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
behind closed doors, absolutely amazing, very very good. Excellent. | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
As you heard, this garden has really provoked thought, stirred quite a | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
few emotions come including very uncomfortable ones. To me as a | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
designer I think that's fascinating. Because gardens are so often | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
dismissed as just ornamental frivolity, a space just meant to | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
look pretty. That is not what gardens are, they are just another | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
form of art, their whole function is to reflect and comment on the things | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
going on in wider society. Just because they don't use paint, but | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
use plants as the palate, and their schemes change through the year, | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
makes them an awful lot more complex to do. So well done, Juliet | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
All week Carol has been bringing us some incredible horticultural tales. | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
Today she is back with the tale of a plant that ended up rocking | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
says one plant that helps us spin the world in the opposite direction. | :11:34. | :11:47. | |
You could say it makes us look back in time. Probably the place we most | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
associated with is Flanders Field in Belgium. It is the flower of | :11:57. | :12:08. | |
remembrance. It's the flower that still brings colour to wear the | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
battlefields once were. We use it to commemorate the fallen into the | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
conflict of recent times. It is, of course, the poppy. | :12:20. | :12:31. | |
But the Redfield Poppy has a bigger, rebelled a cousin, the opium poppy. | :12:32. | :12:41. | |
It was sacred to the god of sleep, hypnotic in ancient Greece. He | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
brought prophetic dreams and soothe the pain of those suffering | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
emotional stress and trauma. The Romans called him Somnus. Reflected | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
in the Latin name of the Roman poppy. | :13:02. | :13:11. | |
The poppy had a darker side. It was also associated with the king of the | :13:12. | :13:20. | |
underworld. Excessive use of its milky juice could result in eternal | :13:21. | :13:29. | |
sleep. But the opium poppy does more than make us sleep and dream. It has | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
a magical property. The power to take away the pain. Morphine and | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
almost all painkillers are derived from the opium poppy. Taking pain | :13:40. | :13:49. | |
away is the central, both in medicine and on the battlefield. -- | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
is essential in medicine. Talk about a plant that makes the world go | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
round. The opium poppy shaped the political world as we know it today. | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
Back in the 19th-century when the British Empire was at the height of | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
its power, we took opium to China for our own ends. The effect on the | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
population was devastating. The Imperial Chinese court petitioned | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
Queen Victoria to help. They were ignored. Instead, the British | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
initiated the Opium Wars. In 1842. The Chinese were forced to give us | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
Hong Kong. Whether it's in medicine or politics, in the world today, the | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
poppy has become an iconic plant in all our lives. | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
Isn't it funny that this fragile flower could have made such an | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
impact on the world? Coming up we will take an emotional journey with | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
Adam Frost as he visits the Barnsdale exhibit designed by Geoff | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
Hamilton's son and I will be indulging in one of my highlights | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
when I join Simon to put together a stunning floral decoration. But, | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
right now, I am delighted to be joined by comedian, writer and | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
playwright, Meera Syal. Welcome to Chelsea. Thank you very much. You | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
have only just arrived. We decided to introduce to you Chelsea by | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
putting you on a gold medal-winning Guardiolaen. Wow. -- garden. What | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
are your first thoughts? This is totally my kind of garden. I love | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
the wild flower effect. I love gardens that look like meadows. This | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
feels like a spring meadow. It's beautiful. Does it take you back to | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
your childhood? I grew up in a little village in the Black Country. | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
So, I have always been attracted to that sort of meadow feel. Actually | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
all the hedgerows were full of wild poppies and yarrow and May blossom | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
and foxgloves and were there, nature put them there in a beautiful way. | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
That's the kind of garden I am generally attracted to. Is that what | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
your garden is like? Well, I am redoing my front garden and I am | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
hoping I will get some of a meadow into a three foot square! Good for | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
you. The back garden is about 90 foot but it's mainly a football | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
pitch so I am having to look for hardy plants that can withstand | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
being kicked occasionally. Are you passionate about flowers? I make up | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
for my lack of blooms in the garden by having cut flowers all the time | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
in the house. I have a kitchen island and it looks empty without | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
beautiful cut flowers there. What will be the perfect cut flower for | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
you? Sunflowers, every time, my favourite. I love peonies. I do too. | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
They make me smile. Are you good with names of flowers? No, really | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
not. What's your Latin like? I am going to put you on-the-spot? I did | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
O-Level, we were made to, that's how old I am. Don't know if we did many | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
flowers. We did lots of things about crossing bridges and wars, but not | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
so much flowers. Let's see if we can inspire you. We are asking our | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
guests to name flowers with pot luck. Will you rise to the | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
challenge? I will have a go. Let's look at our plants. | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
We have an assortment for you. I am going to give you some names, | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
the Latin names. You can give me the Latin or the one that most of us | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
know. I can hand them to you. You have roughly 30 seconds. Your time | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
starts now. I know - well, I hope that's a | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
petunia. A good start. It needs a little bit of water, I think. It's a | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
hot day here today. That must be a poppy. That sounds like poppy. That | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
smells like parsley. Keep going. So far I will say so good. Gosh! | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
That could be parsley then. 30 seconds. The clock is ticking. I am | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
going to guess now. What about this blue one? Did you mention that? | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
Quick, quick! I have guessed now. I will swap | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
those around. That's not bad at all. Let's have a quick look. | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
Four out of six. Not bad at all. I am shocked! Thank | :18:31. | :18:40. | |
you so much for joining us today. Enjoy your wander around with your | :18:41. | :18:41. | |
mum. Thank you. All week Danny Clarke has been | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
taking inspiration from the show gardens here and offering | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
you affordable design solutions In his final instalment he looks | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
at some of the finishing touches that can give your garden | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
a touch of Chelsea style. Finishing touches are a great way to | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
complete a garden. I am going to show you how to get the Chelsea | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
look. A great way to bring a finishing | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
touch to your garden is by using a bench. That's a great finishing | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
touch, but not only that a painting, a picture like this mural here. If | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
you are struggling with a small budget you can paint it yourself. | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
That way you are personalising it. It will mean something to you. Let's | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
face it, gardens, like your homes, are a reflection of your own | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
personalities. Finishing touches do not need to | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
cost a Lotto of money. -- to cost a lot of money. | :19:40. | :19:52. | |
Now the reason I am drawn to this garden is the sound of water. | :19:53. | :20:01. | |
I love the sound of water. I find it so relaxing. I think every gardener | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
should have water -- every garden should have water. It need not cost | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
a fortune. All you need is some piping. Piping in the form of | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
guttering, with a bowl underneath. All you have to do then is perhaps | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
get a pump from your local DIY store, doesn't have to cost very | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
much but make sure you get an expert to fit it. | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
Look what you can create. I think this looks absolutely fantastic. | :20:28. | :20:40. | |
Furniture is a great way to achieve the finishing touch to any garden. | :20:41. | :20:50. | |
Now this is a great example of it. You can create this touch yourself. | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
Why not use scaffold boards? That way you have furniture that's | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
costing you half the price. I like to add colour. So, the way I | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
would do that is pick up on colours that's inside your home and transfer | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
them to the wood that's in your garden. I think that will look | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
really funky. Whatever you do there is always a more cost-effective way | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
to get the Chelsea look. This show is full of people that | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
are fiercely passionate There is one man who has brought | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
a plant here and has Rachel De Thame went | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
to find out more about Hepaticas are dainty little plants | :21:27. | :21:43. | |
closely related to buttercups. They thrive in woodland and are found on | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
mountain slopes in Asia, North America and Europe. Pushing their | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
way up through the melting snows of spring. | :21:52. | :22:00. | |
If you get up close to them like this you see all the differences. | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
Look at this one. Beautiful pale pink and then the | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
stamens in a dark pink. Wonderful. The only trouble being intr like | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
this is it makes you feel incredibly greedy! | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
At his nursery in south Staffordshire, John is so passionate | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
about hepaticas he has built this alpine house especially for his ever | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
growing collection. It's like being a kid in a sweet | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
shop. It's wherever you look it's fantastic! I sense a bit of an | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
obsession here. Yeah. How many plants have you got in here? Oh, I | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
don't know. I am terrible at that! A lot? Yeah, a lot. I know that these | :22:49. | :22:57. | |
are global. They're right through the northern temperate zones of | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
Europe, Asia and North America and Canada. They're all small perennial | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
woodland plants growing on sunny slopes which is strange because most | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
people think of them as needing shade but they flouer in the sun and | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
as soon as they finish flowering they're under trees. They're | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
opportunists and take the early spring sun and when the leaf canopy | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
fills in they've the sun in the summer. They'll take it stronger | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
then, as well. John's travelled the world in search | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
of rare varieties of hepaticas. It's his ambition to use his | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
collection to breed more remarkable variations of this gorgeous plant. | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
These are from America. They're really hairy. They're really hairy! | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
All the leaves on hepaticas are covered with hairs, as well. This is | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
one with two species in America. There is this... Oh, we are off! | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
Hang on. This is the other one that is Americana which is much smaller. | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
It's stunning. I love when a plant draws you in. You really have to | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
look at this close up to appreciate it. | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
This is the beauty of them. To my mind part of the charm of hepaticas | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
is the simple beauty. The more tender Asian varieties can | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
be more of a challenge to grow and are best grown in pots under glass | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
where the temperature doesn't fall below minus five degrees Celsius. | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
The Japanese are more complex. You have far more variation. Stamen | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
coloured petal and hundreds of different doubles. It's a love-hate | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
relationship with the Japanese because I can't resist them but I | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
know they're no good outside! I always tell myself, no, we don't | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
need any more, but as soon as you see a different one, oh, must have | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
it! If you want to have a go at growing | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
hepaticas at home and you haven't got a magnificent alpine house like | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
this one, you could grow them in a pot in the garden. Then put it | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
somewhere where the pot can get lots of bright sunshine in the spring and | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
it's flowering and as the weather warms up, towards the summer, move | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
it out and put it in the shade, just a quiet part of the garden where it | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
won't be noticed. Hopefully you will have these for many years to come. A | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
talking point, something to show off. | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
Perhaps a little bit challenging, but 100% worth it. | :25:41. | :25:49. | |
John Massey scooped gold and the Diamond Jubliee Award | :25:50. | :25:50. | |
and he actually did something no-one else has ever done before. | :25:51. | :25:52. | |
He managed to bring a plant that flowers in February | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
Like John, there have been many gardening pioneers over the years. | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
Geoff Hamilton, Gardeners World presenter, was one of them. | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
Can you believe it's 20 years since we lost him? | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
This year, in memory of his late father, his son Nick Hamilton has | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
brought Geoff's garden Barnsdale to Chelsea. | :26:20. | :26:21. | |
Adam Frost, who worked with Geoff, took an emotional | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
Scler There's so much inspiration to be had here with the designs in the | :26:24. | :26:40. | |
gardens and plants. For me, a real inspiration sometimes comes from | :26:41. | :26:40. | |
people. This is Barnsdale Gardens, the | :26:41. | :26:53. | |
garden Geoff Hamilton started. I was lucky enough to spend seven years | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
working for him. Straightaway this brings back huge | :26:58. | :27:07. | |
memorieses. You think about that. That bird bath, I think that's been | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
in the garden for ages. Geoff Hamilton rose, that's cool to have | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
it named after you. It looks absolutely fantastic. How did you | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
manage to get that in there? I said I was worried about putting it in | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
because I didn't think the RHS would understand it. What did you end up | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
with? I ended up with gold. To me you need to take one look at it and | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
you think of my dad. Even the old rock. Yeah. It's wonderful. You | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
always have to have a rock in the display. Actually the whole feel, | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
the cottage garden feel, everything, you know, it captures, for me, that | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
moment in time. My dad was there for 17 years and left a massive legacy. | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
But as with all gardens it moves on. The main focus for this year is the | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
winter border. We are marking the 20 years since my father died with this | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
redevelopment of one of his first projects. I wanted to make it a | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
personal thing. I contacted friends and ex-colleagues, obviously you | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
being one of them, and asked them if they would like to donate a plant to | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
go in that winter border. I think it's definitely worthy of gold. | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
Lovely to see you. Cheers. For me, if I am honest, I am finding | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
this all pretty tough. I think you meet certain people in | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
life that have a major effect on you. We are nearly 20 years on and | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
people still talk about Geoff and Gardeners World and that's amazing. | :28:41. | :28:50. | |
While many of us don't have gardens on the same scale | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
of those here at the show, there is a way of bringing a bit | :28:57. | :28:59. | |
I'm joined by floral designer, Simon Lycett. | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
How can we create the magic we see here today? This year's Chelsea, for | :29:06. | :29:12. | |
me, seems to really resonate with pops of explosive colour. I have | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
replicated a bit of that there. Thank you for dressing to match! Do | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
you like the outfit? Loving the outfit. This year we have seen a few | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
different colours coming in. I think there is a brave use of colour this | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
year. I love the fact rose gold seems to be one of the background | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
colours and pops of good vibrant orange which I am a fan of. What are | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
we doing here, how are we creating? Because it's a hot day flowers don't | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
really like to go into flower foam unless they have to, so I am using | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
chicken wire, it's two-inch wire I am using and that means they support | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
the stems and then that way they're able to drink water, rather than | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
having to suck it out of the foam. Wherever possible, are you using | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
British flowers? Yeah, at this time of year what better to sell British | :29:58. | :30:04. | |
flowers than these beautiful cornflowers which are an amazing | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
colour. How long would this last in a display? Depending on the heat, | :30:08. | :30:10. | |
you are arranging them into water and it will give them more of a | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
chance and if you change the water daily they'll last longer. Certainly | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
you will get three, four, five days out of them. I noticed when you hold | :30:19. | :30:22. | |
them, you hold them in - cut them all the same, don't you? Yeah, small | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
flowers like this I arrange in a little cluster because you get more | :30:28. | :30:29. | |
impact rather than dotting them throughouted the design. | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
What about the colour schemes, do they all sit well together? You can | :30:35. | :30:42. | |
look at the whims of a butterfly or hummingbird and realise any colour | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
can sit together. Actually, within our decorations this year we've been | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
quite bright and bold and a lot of this will have been used. I've seen | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
so many in the gardens. They are quite lethal. It's the type of | :30:55. | :31:00. | |
Thistle. They are great, they are quite architectural, we can add them | :31:01. | :31:03. | |
into our designs to give a little bit of structure, in the same way | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
they've been used within the gardens. I have to reduce these, | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
peonies, my absolute favourite, I was talking to Meera Syal earlier | :31:12. | :31:16. | |
about them. This is called Coral charm, it starts that colour, and | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
this colour. Chelsea medal winning flower? Absolutely, peonies are red | :31:20. | :31:26. | |
Chelsea flower for me. Another that is a real Chelsea flower for me is | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
the slightly humble Lupin that I love, you see them growing along the | :31:31. | :31:34. | |
sides of motorways, wild, quite often. I think they are a great | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
flower in your garden. I'll get you to tidy it up but I admit it's | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
looking gorgeous already. Little bit of Chelsea Magic we can all create | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
in our own home. Simon, as ever, thank you very much indeed. Many of | :31:48. | :31:53. | |
the cut flowers that find their way to Chelsea come from Covent Garden | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
Flower Market just out of the river. After decades of supply and flowers | :31:58. | :32:00. | |
to the whole country they've bought their own special tribute to Chelsea | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
for the very first time, to celebrate the Queen's 90th birthday. | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
Early one morning Adam Frost ventured out ahead of their | :32:10. | :32:13. | |
preparations to experience this busy trading floor for himself. | :32:14. | :32:19. | |
Whilst London sleeps, a whole world of horticulture stirs down by the | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
Thames. I feel a bit like Charlie walking | :32:23. | :32:45. | |
into Charlie and the chocolate factory. | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
I can't believe it's Faure am. And all this is going on. Lynch 4am. | :32:51. | :32:58. | |
Kisses for London florist. 75% of London florist 's come here. You can | :32:59. | :33:07. | |
see why, the place is not only massive, there's everything you | :33:08. | :33:09. | |
could imagine. Hydrangeas from Colombia. Peonies from Italy. Sweet | :33:10. | :33:17. | |
peas from England. They've literally come from all over the world. | :33:18. | :33:23. | |
What is your week? You must live in a slightly different universe? | :33:24. | :33:31. | |
Monday morning at half past 12 in the morning, Tuesday, Wednesday, | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
Friday, Saturday, 3am. A lie in. Yeah, we have a lie in. Where did | :33:37. | :33:41. | |
these bits and pieces come from? These come from South America. The | :33:42. | :33:51. | |
grasses from Canada. The fan palms from Peru. When would this be cut? | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
It would have been cut last Tuesday, packed and sent and a riding over | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
the weekend for today. A week really. Just under a week? Yeah. Why | :34:02. | :34:07. | |
do you do this job? The main reason is I love pretty things, flowers are | :34:08. | :34:11. | |
pretty and we get a lot of pretty women in here. Best thing about the | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
job. If you are single this is the best place to come. I'm not here | :34:16. | :34:21. | |
just to look at the flowers, I'm here to meet international floral | :34:22. | :34:29. | |
designer. She creates floral designs for weddings, parties, events, the | :34:30. | :34:34. | |
whole shebang. Not just in the UK but across the world. Do you come | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
here a lot? Four times a week if I can. Every day is different, | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
colours, smells, the people, the history. It's an amazing place. My | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
year you're doing something for the Chelsea flower show. Really | :34:50. | :34:52. | |
exciting, we've been asked by new Covent Garden market to do a display | :34:53. | :34:59. | |
for them. Behind every great florist is the market, this is what these | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
guys do, really support every single florist. It's the first time they | :35:04. | :35:09. | |
and we have ever displayed. So this is the plan? This is the plan, this | :35:10. | :35:14. | |
side shows the flower market in itself. Buckets as you can see on | :35:15. | :35:20. | |
the stand. And all the way up through? A whole wall of buckets | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
showing the strength and support that the market gives florists. The | :35:27. | :35:30. | |
buckets in here all come into a call, then burst onto the other side | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
in colour. All of this is green and white, really simple, then you come | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
onto the other side. It's the Queens head! Because the Queen opens the | :35:40. | :35:47. | |
flower market in 1975. And it's her 90th birthday. This will be in | :35:48. | :35:50. | |
strong colours, owing for the fashionable colours now, yellow, | :35:51. | :35:57. | |
orange, purple and blue. It looks like it layers back all the way | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
through to the other side. From this site you can't see any of the | :36:02. | :36:05. | |
buckets but when you come from the other side you can't see the Queen. | :36:06. | :36:09. | |
You have to go all the way around. To get the full experience. I hope | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
you come and see it. I can't wait to come and see it. This is the | :36:15. | :36:25. | |
opposite side by score of the exhibit. They've been topping it up | :36:26. | :36:30. | |
all week with flowers from the market and the scent is incredible. | :36:31. | :36:34. | |
This year many of the gardens have been using flowers and plants from | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
warmer climates and Anne Marie Powell has been looking around the | :36:39. | :36:42. | |
shelf for ways to bring the Mediterranean feeling to your own | :36:43. | :36:51. | |
garden. Let's face it, we all know British weather can be tempestuous. | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
We all need a holiday every now and again. | :36:57. | :37:01. | |
Wouldn't it be lovely to return home after a long day of work to a little | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
bit of Mediterranean magic in your own back garden? | :37:08. | :37:15. | |
They think the real secret in recreating the Mediterranean scheme | :37:16. | :37:22. | |
is in capturing its atmosphere. James does that beautifully in his | :37:23. | :37:23. | |
garden. We've got heat, sunlight, space | :37:24. | :37:35. | |
around the plants. It echoes the natural landscape with rocks and | :37:36. | :37:38. | |
boulders. It all comes together wonderfully. | :37:39. | :37:44. | |
Now, if you want to grow these plants at home, the secret of their | :37:45. | :37:51. | |
success is in sharp drainage. Here, plants growing amongst and gravel. | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
At home you can do the same with builders rubble. | :37:57. | :38:00. | |
Many of the plants in this garden are naturally aromatic, just like | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
the scrambling lavenders whose oils are heated in the sunshine and then | :38:07. | :38:09. | |
released with intoxicating perfume. It's the same for so many of our | :38:10. | :38:20. | |
herbs. Sage, rosemary and thyme, which would work just as well in a | :38:21. | :38:22. | |
pot as they do in the garden. A south facing slope would be ideal. | :38:23. | :38:37. | |
These plants need a lot of sun. It's not just about herbs. The trees are | :38:38. | :38:42. | |
the anchors here. Not done Nani, they have character and movie I | :38:43. | :38:48. | |
around the space. James has used pines and almonds. In a small garden | :38:49. | :38:57. | |
you could use evergreen shrubs. Don't be tempted to add mulch or | :38:58. | :39:01. | |
improve your soil, as these plants thrive on hard living. Which means | :39:02. | :39:09. | |
you can take a break from all the hard graft. | :39:10. | :39:16. | |
Some things here at Chelsea are good enough to eat and somebody who can | :39:17. | :39:19. | |
put those ingredients to good use is chef Monica Galetti. | :39:20. | :39:27. | |
Welcome. I think we've picked the perfect garden for you here, we've | :39:28. | :39:33. | |
got plants, flowers, and we are surrounded by herbs as well. This is | :39:34. | :39:38. | |
a stunning garden, this would be my dream kitchen garden right here. | :39:39. | :39:41. | |
I've been walking around eating everything. I need to stop or there | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
won't be anything left. What is your garden like? I'd like to say it's | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
like this but it isn't. It was beautiful when I bought the house | :39:51. | :39:54. | |
but I bought a dog, a boxer. Two years into it he has destroyed my | :39:55. | :40:00. | |
plants. It goes in phases, you either leave it alone and three | :40:01. | :40:04. | |
months later he rips something out. It drives me crazy. You really have | :40:05. | :40:07. | |
to think about what you are planting. Without a lovely dog in | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
your life what would be your ideal garden, what would you have? | :40:12. | :40:15. | |
Something like this, the herbs, plants. That I like things like wild | :40:16. | :40:21. | |
grasses, ferns. I come from New Zealand to they remind me of my | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
house by the sea. Quite wild. Ferns have been a big part of my life. | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
Palm trees as well. Sounds gorgeous. Do you garden on your own or does | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
the family get involved? I like to get my nine-year-old daughter | :40:37. | :40:39. | |
involved will stop I started gardening with my parents, helping | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
out in the garden. I grew to love it from that. She loves it now. The two | :40:44. | :40:49. | |
of us would rather be outside in the garden than insight doing housework. | :40:50. | :40:50. | |
Leave my husband to it. My father and mother got me | :40:51. | :40:58. | |
encouraged, I used to grow rhubarb, that is where my love of gardening | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
came. Did you grow your own fruit and vegetables? I've got rhubarb as | :41:03. | :41:07. | |
well. It's a great way to get children eating food. When we grow | :41:08. | :41:10. | |
peas my daughter is happy to eat them because she's growing them | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
herself, putting a mixture of different tomato varieties in this | :41:15. | :41:18. | |
year. She's looking forward to being able to pick them. Grow our own | :41:19. | :41:22. | |
strawberries. Plum trees. The apple tree will hopefully survive the dog | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
this year. Is it important to explain to children from pot to | :41:27. | :41:29. | |
plate they know where their food comes from? Very important. Children | :41:30. | :41:35. | |
learn so much more when they are hands-on. My daughter loves to grow | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
things from the seasons, her own corn. She'll watch it grow. She is | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
responsible for looking after it. Children grow up understanding food | :41:46. | :41:50. | |
better. Health wise it's an essential part of growing. It's been | :41:51. | :41:54. | |
lovely talking to you. Been a pleasure, thank you. | :41:55. | :41:57. | |
It has been an incredible week here at Chelsea, | :41:58. | :41:59. | |
Here are the highlights that we've really enjoyed this week. | :42:00. | :42:29. | |
Garden is rock and roll and good for the soul. | :42:30. | :42:51. | |
Here is Simon Lycett's finished arrangement, it's quite beautiful. | :42:52. | :42:58. | |
James, it's been a tremendous week, what has been your highlight? For me | :42:59. | :43:02. | |
it is the sense of fun and frivolity use the amongst the main garden | :43:03. | :43:06. | |
designers. It's a good thing that they are not taking themselves so | :43:07. | :43:11. | |
seriously. What about you? It's got to be medal day, not just for the | :43:12. | :43:14. | |
garden designers but the exhibitors in the great marquee. Weeks, months | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
and years of preparation and it's all paid off, they can relax and | :43:20. | :43:21. | |
enjoy. Absolutely. Well sadly we have to leave this | :43:22. | :43:24. | |
show behind but there is still lots more to come from the Chelsea Flower | :43:25. | :43:27. | |
Show. Join Sophie Raworth and Joe Swift | :43:28. | :43:29. | |
at 7.30 on BBC1 as they reveal the winner of the BBC RHS | :43:30. | :43:32. | |
People's Choice Award. The bride and groom! | :43:33. | :43:35. | |
ALL: To the bride and groom! The Old Bill are going | :43:36. | :44:16. | |
to be all over this. | :44:17. | :44:24. |