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Welcome to the most famous flower show on earth.

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It's day 5 of this amazing week, the sun is shining,

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Come with us, as once again we guide you through the gardens,

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plants and people that make up the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show.

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Welcome back to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show,

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an event supported by M Investments.

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There is a warm glow over the showground today as designers

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and growers bask in the glory of their efforts and we reflect

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on what has been an outstanding week of gardening.

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The horticultural heroics of the garden designers have been

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drawing huge crowds to this show from far and wide, with 140

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And today the general public are still flooding into the grounds

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Well this show is far from over

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and we're keeping some very stylish company today.

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Meera Syal will be in for a chat to tell us

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We'll also be seeing what top chef, Monica Galetti,

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makes of some of the edible exhibits here at the show.

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And I'll be joining florist to the stars, Mr.

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Simon Lycett, to create a striking and fabulous floral display.

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This year Chelsea is showcasing bold and new ideas

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A little earlier I scoured the grounds for the new and

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This year, Chelsea is showcasing bold and new ideas with an eye to

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the future. Earlier today I scoured the showground is looking for

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innovations in horticulture. -- Showgroundss. The LG smart garden

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harnesses the power of the apt mean I can control almost every function

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here because they are all connected by Wi-Fi. I can turn the water

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feature on and off. So you go on holiday, forget you've left the

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pumps on, they can be instantly turned off at the click of a switch.

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The only thing I can't control here is the son and the rain. What makes

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this garden visually so slick is how it seamlessly blends outdoors and

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indoors, which is in itself a really Modernist idea. I'm going to give

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this a go for the first time. These shelf lights are going to go on. I

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could play with this all day. You could have guests who came over and

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wandered play their own music, they could do that from their phone

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instantly. There's all kinds of fun stuff here. All of this James Bond

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stuff could be dismissed as blokes playing with gadgets. Until you

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consider this. To me this is a Game Changers, and intelligent plant

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sensor capable of detecting water, fertiliser, temperature and light.

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This is intelligent technology demystifying horticulture for the

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masses. New ideas in horticulture aren't

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just limited to the materials and methods of how you construct a

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garden, it's also about the ingredients themselves. The plants.

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Here at the plant of the year is stand there are all sorts of new

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varieties that have never ever been seen before. One of the things that

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has really caught my eye is this quirky college chrysanthemum here.

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The vast majority of modern chrysanthemums have been bred using

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a technique called radiation breeding. There is another technique

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called grafting, that is where you take two existing varieties and

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stitch them together, cut and paste them together to create a surgically

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enhanced hybrid. One example is this over here. And over Jean up top and

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potato roots. It theoretically gives you twice the crop in the same

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amount of space. I've never grown this before so can't vouch for how

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it would function but grafting can be used with amazing effect in

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gardens. Here at Chelsea horticulture is being dragged into

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the 21st-century. From looking to the future of

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gardening to one woman who is looking to change the world. Garden

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designer Juliet Sargeant tackled a grim and disturbing subject and use

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this show garden to tell its story. We joined her at the source

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of her inspiration. I'm at the beautiful hole would a

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state which nearly three centuries ago was owned by William Pitt the

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Younger. The youngest ever British Prime Minister. It was in these

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unlikely surroundings that the seeds were sown for a piece of legislation

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that was going to change Britain for ever. It was the slavery abolition

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act of 1833. From the early 15 hundredths, it's estimated 11

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million Africans were enslaved and forcibly transported to the Americas

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over a period of about 350 years. By the end of the 18th-century, Britain

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was a major player in this transatlantic slave trade with

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around 150 slave ships leaving Liverpool, Bristol and London each

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year. But around this time the slave trade was also provoking rumblings

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of discontent and in the 1780s, politician and social reformer

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William Wilberforce spearheaded a crusade to abolish it. It was here

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under the branches of an oak tree on May 12 1787 that the Prime Minister,

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William Pitt, urged his friend, Wilberforce, to present his

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anti-slavery bill to parliament. It may just looked like a pile of old

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wood now, but in those days it was a beautiful oak tree. I just love it,

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that there's something tangible here for us to have a look at and think

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about, that auspicious moment. After their chat, Wilberforce wrote

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a passage in his diary, which is inscribed here on this stone bench

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near to the oak tree. I resolved to give notice on a thick occasion in

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the House of Commons of my intention to bring forward the abolition of

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the slave trade. In 1807 the slave trade was banned and in 1833 slavery

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itself was outlawed and slaves were freed.

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Sadly, that's not the end of the story of the slave trade. Ashok is a

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modern-day slave. Nobody prepared to help him. Until we exposed his

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plight. It's still happening in many

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different forms, slavery, forced labour, domestic servitude. It's

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estimated there are 27 million people in slavery around the world.

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More than in the entire history of the transatlantic slave trade.

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The good news is that in 2015, Parliament' Modern Slavery act to

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bring up to date the old legislation. I've celebrated this

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with the design of the Chelsea garden in the fresh section and

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called it the Modern Slavery garden. The unique thing about using a

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garden to express something as complex as this is that a garden

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gives you so many elements to play with. We have an oak tree that we're

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going to put in the centre of the garden, it represents William

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Wilberforce. I wanted to illustrate the fact it's going on in ordinary

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streets behind ordinary doors. We visited some people who been

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rescued from slavery in the south of England. They have quite a bit of

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work to do to get their lives back on track and they told us they

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garden and allotment and really enjoy doing that. We asked them to

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grow some of the plants that we'll be using at the Modern Slavery

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garden. At the moment on their allotment they are looking after oak

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saplings that we will plant around the base of the main oak tree. I

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hope people will first of all enjoyed a garden very much, but also

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that they will enjoy reading the story that the garden is telling.

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There are many gardens at the show with stories to tell. As we've seen,

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this garden designed by Juliet Sargeant aims to provoke discussion.

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What have people at the show made of it? A little bit disturbing when you

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are in here, because of the bars, and the black. Prison feeling I

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suppose, yeah. I want to be out there. I find it very confronting,

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really, to come and an seat we're still talking about slavery these

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days. It's shocking really. I can't believe it. The garden is very

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emotional, very emotional. The fact you can actually go in and be the

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railings, understand what it all represents with the doors, what's

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behind closed doors, absolutely amazing, very very good. Excellent.

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As you heard, this garden has really provoked thought, stirred quite a

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few emotions come including very uncomfortable ones. To me as a

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designer I think that's fascinating. Because gardens are so often

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dismissed as just ornamental frivolity, a space just meant to

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look pretty. That is not what gardens are, they are just another

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form of art, their whole function is to reflect and comment on the things

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going on in wider society. Just because they don't use paint, but

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use plants as the palate, and their schemes change through the year,

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makes them an awful lot more complex to do. So well done, Juliet

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All week Carol has been bringing us some incredible horticultural tales.

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Today she is back with the tale of a plant that ended up rocking

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says one plant that helps us spin the world in the opposite direction.

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You could say it makes us look back in time. Probably the place we most

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associated with is Flanders Field in Belgium. It is the flower of

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remembrance. It's the flower that still brings colour to wear the

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battlefields once were. We use it to commemorate the fallen into the

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conflict of recent times. It is, of course, the poppy.

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But the Redfield Poppy has a bigger, rebelled a cousin, the opium poppy.

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It was sacred to the god of sleep, hypnotic in ancient Greece. He

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brought prophetic dreams and soothe the pain of those suffering

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emotional stress and trauma. The Romans called him Somnus. Reflected

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in the Latin name of the Roman poppy.

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The poppy had a darker side. It was also associated with the king of the

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underworld. Excessive use of its milky juice could result in eternal

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sleep. But the opium poppy does more than make us sleep and dream. It has

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a magical property. The power to take away the pain. Morphine and

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almost all painkillers are derived from the opium poppy. Taking pain

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away is the central, both in medicine and on the battlefield. --

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is essential in medicine. Talk about a plant that makes the world go

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round. The opium poppy shaped the political world as we know it today.

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Back in the 19th-century when the British Empire was at the height of

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its power, we took opium to China for our own ends. The effect on the

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population was devastating. The Imperial Chinese court petitioned

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Queen Victoria to help. They were ignored. Instead, the British

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initiated the Opium Wars. In 1842. The Chinese were forced to give us

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Hong Kong. Whether it's in medicine or politics, in the world today, the

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poppy has become an iconic plant in all our lives.

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Isn't it funny that this fragile flower could have made such an

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impact on the world? Coming up we will take an emotional journey with

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Adam Frost as he visits the Barnsdale exhibit designed by Geoff

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Hamilton's son and I will be indulging in one of my highlights

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when I join Simon to put together a stunning floral decoration. But,

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right now, I am delighted to be joined by comedian, writer and

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playwright, Meera Syal. Welcome to Chelsea. Thank you very much. You

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have only just arrived. We decided to introduce to you Chelsea by

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putting you on a gold medal-winning Guardiolaen. Wow. -- garden. What

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are your first thoughts? This is totally my kind of garden. I love

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the wild flower effect. I love gardens that look like meadows. This

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feels like a spring meadow. It's beautiful. Does it take you back to

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your childhood? I grew up in a little village in the Black Country.

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So, I have always been attracted to that sort of meadow feel. Actually

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all the hedgerows were full of wild poppies and yarrow and May blossom

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and foxgloves and were there, nature put them there in a beautiful way.

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That's the kind of garden I am generally attracted to. Is that what

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your garden is like? Well, I am redoing my front garden and I am

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hoping I will get some of a meadow into a three foot square! Good for

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you. The back garden is about 90 foot but it's mainly a football

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pitch so I am having to look for hardy plants that can withstand

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being kicked occasionally. Are you passionate about flowers? I make up

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for my lack of blooms in the garden by having cut flowers all the time

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in the house. I have a kitchen island and it looks empty without

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beautiful cut flowers there. What will be the perfect cut flower for

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you? Sunflowers, every time, my favourite. I love peonies. I do too.

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They make me smile. Are you good with names of flowers? No, really

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not. What's your Latin like? I am going to put you on-the-spot? I did

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O-Level, we were made to, that's how old I am. Don't know if we did many

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flowers. We did lots of things about crossing bridges and wars, but not

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so much flowers. Let's see if we can inspire you. We are asking our

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guests to name flowers with pot luck. Will you rise to the

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challenge? I will have a go. Let's look at our plants.

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We have an assortment for you. I am going to give you some names,

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the Latin names. You can give me the Latin or the one that most of us

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know. I can hand them to you. You have roughly 30 seconds. Your time

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starts now. I know - well, I hope that's a

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petunia. A good start. It needs a little bit of water, I think. It's a

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hot day here today. That must be a poppy. That sounds like poppy. That

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smells like parsley. Keep going. So far I will say so good. Gosh!

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That could be parsley then. 30 seconds. The clock is ticking. I am

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going to guess now. What about this blue one? Did you mention that?

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Quick, quick! I have guessed now. I will swap

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those around. That's not bad at all. Let's have a quick look.

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Four out of six. Not bad at all. I am shocked! Thank

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you so much for joining us today. Enjoy your wander around with your

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mum. Thank you. All week Danny Clarke has been

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taking inspiration from the show gardens here and offering

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you affordable design solutions In his final instalment he looks

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at some of the finishing touches that can give your garden

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a touch of Chelsea style. Finishing touches are a great way to

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complete a garden. I am going to show you how to get the Chelsea

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look. A great way to bring a finishing

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touch to your garden is by using a bench. That's a great finishing

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touch, but not only that a painting, a picture like this mural here. If

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you are struggling with a small budget you can paint it yourself.

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That way you are personalising it. It will mean something to you. Let's

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face it, gardens, like your homes, are a reflection of your own

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personalities. Finishing touches do not need to

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cost a Lotto of money. -- to cost a lot of money.

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Now the reason I am drawn to this garden is the sound of water.

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I love the sound of water. I find it so relaxing. I think every gardener

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should have water -- every garden should have water. It need not cost

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a fortune. All you need is some piping. Piping in the form of

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guttering, with a bowl underneath. All you have to do then is perhaps

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get a pump from your local DIY store, doesn't have to cost very

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much but make sure you get an expert to fit it.

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Look what you can create. I think this looks absolutely fantastic.

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Furniture is a great way to achieve the finishing touch to any garden.

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Now this is a great example of it. You can create this touch yourself.

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Why not use scaffold boards? That way you have furniture that's

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costing you half the price. I like to add colour. So, the way I

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would do that is pick up on colours that's inside your home and transfer

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them to the wood that's in your garden. I think that will look

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really funky. Whatever you do there is always a more cost-effective way

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to get the Chelsea look. This show is full of people that

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are fiercely passionate There is one man who has brought

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a plant here and has Rachel De Thame went

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to find out more about Hepaticas are dainty little plants

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closely related to buttercups. They thrive in woodland and are found on

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mountain slopes in Asia, North America and Europe. Pushing their

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way up through the melting snows of spring.

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If you get up close to them like this you see all the differences.

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Look at this one. Beautiful pale pink and then the

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stamens in a dark pink. Wonderful. The only trouble being intr like

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this is it makes you feel incredibly greedy!

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At his nursery in south Staffordshire, John is so passionate

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about hepaticas he has built this alpine house especially for his ever

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growing collection. It's like being a kid in a sweet

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shop. It's wherever you look it's fantastic! I sense a bit of an

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obsession here. Yeah. How many plants have you got in here? Oh, I

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don't know. I am terrible at that! A lot? Yeah, a lot. I know that these

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are global. They're right through the northern temperate zones of

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Europe, Asia and North America and Canada. They're all small perennial

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woodland plants growing on sunny slopes which is strange because most

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people think of them as needing shade but they flouer in the sun and

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as soon as they finish flowering they're under trees. They're

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opportunists and take the early spring sun and when the leaf canopy

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fills in they've the sun in the summer. They'll take it stronger

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then, as well. John's travelled the world in search

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of rare varieties of hepaticas. It's his ambition to use his

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collection to breed more remarkable variations of this gorgeous plant.

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These are from America. They're really hairy. They're really hairy!

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All the leaves on hepaticas are covered with hairs, as well. This is

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one with two species in America. There is this... Oh, we are off!

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Hang on. This is the other one that is Americana which is much smaller.

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It's stunning. I love when a plant draws you in. You really have to

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look at this close up to appreciate it.

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This is the beauty of them. To my mind part of the charm of hepaticas

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is the simple beauty. The more tender Asian varieties can

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be more of a challenge to grow and are best grown in pots under glass

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where the temperature doesn't fall below minus five degrees Celsius.

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The Japanese are more complex. You have far more variation. Stamen

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coloured petal and hundreds of different doubles. It's a love-hate

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relationship with the Japanese because I can't resist them but I

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know they're no good outside! I always tell myself, no, we don't

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need any more, but as soon as you see a different one, oh, must have

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it! If you want to have a go at growing

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hepaticas at home and you haven't got a magnificent alpine house like

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this one, you could grow them in a pot in the garden. Then put it

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somewhere where the pot can get lots of bright sunshine in the spring and

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it's flowering and as the weather warms up, towards the summer, move

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it out and put it in the shade, just a quiet part of the garden where it

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won't be noticed. Hopefully you will have these for many years to come. A

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talking point, something to show off.

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Perhaps a little bit challenging, but 100% worth it.

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John Massey scooped gold and the Diamond Jubliee Award

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and he actually did something no-one else has ever done before.

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He managed to bring a plant that flowers in February

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Like John, there have been many gardening pioneers over the years.

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Geoff Hamilton, Gardeners World presenter, was one of them.

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Can you believe it's 20 years since we lost him?

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This year, in memory of his late father, his son Nick Hamilton has

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brought Geoff's garden Barnsdale to Chelsea.

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Adam Frost, who worked with Geoff, took an emotional

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Scler There's so much inspiration to be had here with the designs in the

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gardens and plants. For me, a real inspiration sometimes comes from

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people. This is Barnsdale Gardens, the

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garden Geoff Hamilton started. I was lucky enough to spend seven years

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working for him. Straightaway this brings back huge

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memorieses. You think about that. That bird bath, I think that's been

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in the garden for ages. Geoff Hamilton rose, that's cool to have

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it named after you. It looks absolutely fantastic. How did you

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manage to get that in there? I said I was worried about putting it in

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because I didn't think the RHS would understand it. What did you end up

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with? I ended up with gold. To me you need to take one look at it and

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you think of my dad. Even the old rock. Yeah. It's wonderful. You

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always have to have a rock in the display. Actually the whole feel,

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the cottage garden feel, everything, you know, it captures, for me, that

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moment in time. My dad was there for 17 years and left a massive legacy.

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But as with all gardens it moves on. The main focus for this year is the

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winter border. We are marking the 20 years since my father died with this

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redevelopment of one of his first projects. I wanted to make it a

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personal thing. I contacted friends and ex-colleagues, obviously you

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being one of them, and asked them if they would like to donate a plant to

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go in that winter border. I think it's definitely worthy of gold.

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Lovely to see you. Cheers. For me, if I am honest, I am finding

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this all pretty tough. I think you meet certain people in

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life that have a major effect on you. We are nearly 20 years on and

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people still talk about Geoff and Gardeners World and that's amazing.

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While many of us don't have gardens on the same scale

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of those here at the show, there is a way of bringing a bit

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I'm joined by floral designer, Simon Lycett.

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How can we create the magic we see here today? This year's Chelsea, for

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me, seems to really resonate with pops of explosive colour. I have

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replicated a bit of that there. Thank you for dressing to match! Do

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you like the outfit? Loving the outfit. This year we have seen a few

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different colours coming in. I think there is a brave use of colour this

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year. I love the fact rose gold seems to be one of the background

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colours and pops of good vibrant orange which I am a fan of. What are

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we doing here, how are we creating? Because it's a hot day flowers don't

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really like to go into flower foam unless they have to, so I am using

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chicken wire, it's two-inch wire I am using and that means they support

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the stems and then that way they're able to drink water, rather than

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having to suck it out of the foam. Wherever possible, are you using

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British flowers? Yeah, at this time of year what better to sell British

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flowers than these beautiful cornflowers which are an amazing

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colour. How long would this last in a display? Depending on the heat,

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you are arranging them into water and it will give them more of a

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chance and if you change the water daily they'll last longer. Certainly

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you will get three, four, five days out of them. I noticed when you hold

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them, you hold them in - cut them all the same, don't you? Yeah, small

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flowers like this I arrange in a little cluster because you get more

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impact rather than dotting them throughouted the design.

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What about the colour schemes, do they all sit well together? You can

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look at the whims of a butterfly or hummingbird and realise any colour

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can sit together. Actually, within our decorations this year we've been

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quite bright and bold and a lot of this will have been used. I've seen

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so many in the gardens. They are quite lethal. It's the type of

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Thistle. They are great, they are quite architectural, we can add them

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into our designs to give a little bit of structure, in the same way

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they've been used within the gardens. I have to reduce these,

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peonies, my absolute favourite, I was talking to Meera Syal earlier

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about them. This is called Coral charm, it starts that colour, and

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this colour. Chelsea medal winning flower? Absolutely, peonies are red

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Chelsea flower for me. Another that is a real Chelsea flower for me is

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the slightly humble Lupin that I love, you see them growing along the

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sides of motorways, wild, quite often. I think they are a great

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flower in your garden. I'll get you to tidy it up but I admit it's

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looking gorgeous already. Little bit of Chelsea Magic we can all create

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in our own home. Simon, as ever, thank you very much indeed. Many of

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the cut flowers that find their way to Chelsea come from Covent Garden

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Flower Market just out of the river. After decades of supply and flowers

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to the whole country they've bought their own special tribute to Chelsea

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for the very first time, to celebrate the Queen's 90th birthday.

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Early one morning Adam Frost ventured out ahead of their

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preparations to experience this busy trading floor for himself.

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Whilst London sleeps, a whole world of horticulture stirs down by the

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Thames. I feel a bit like Charlie walking

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into Charlie and the chocolate factory.

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I can't believe it's Faure am. And all this is going on. Lynch 4am.

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Kisses for London florist. 75% of London florist 's come here. You can

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see why, the place is not only massive, there's everything you

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could imagine. Hydrangeas from Colombia. Peonies from Italy. Sweet

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peas from England. They've literally come from all over the world.

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What is your week? You must live in a slightly different universe?

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Monday morning at half past 12 in the morning, Tuesday, Wednesday,

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Friday, Saturday, 3am. A lie in. Yeah, we have a lie in. Where did

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these bits and pieces come from? These come from South America. The

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grasses from Canada. The fan palms from Peru. When would this be cut?

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It would have been cut last Tuesday, packed and sent and a riding over

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the weekend for today. A week really. Just under a week? Yeah. Why

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do you do this job? The main reason is I love pretty things, flowers are

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pretty and we get a lot of pretty women in here. Best thing about the

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job. If you are single this is the best place to come. I'm not here

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just to look at the flowers, I'm here to meet international floral

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designer. She creates floral designs for weddings, parties, events, the

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whole shebang. Not just in the UK but across the world. Do you come

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here a lot? Four times a week if I can. Every day is different,

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colours, smells, the people, the history. It's an amazing place. My

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year you're doing something for the Chelsea flower show. Really

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exciting, we've been asked by new Covent Garden market to do a display

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for them. Behind every great florist is the market, this is what these

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guys do, really support every single florist. It's the first time they

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and we have ever displayed. So this is the plan? This is the plan, this

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side shows the flower market in itself. Buckets as you can see on

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the stand. And all the way up through? A whole wall of buckets

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showing the strength and support that the market gives florists. The

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buckets in here all come into a call, then burst onto the other side

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in colour. All of this is green and white, really simple, then you come

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onto the other side. It's the Queens head! Because the Queen opens the

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flower market in 1975. And it's her 90th birthday. This will be in

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strong colours, owing for the fashionable colours now, yellow,

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orange, purple and blue. It looks like it layers back all the way

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through to the other side. From this site you can't see any of the

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buckets but when you come from the other side you can't see the Queen.

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You have to go all the way around. To get the full experience. I hope

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you come and see it. I can't wait to come and see it. This is the

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opposite side by score of the exhibit. They've been topping it up

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all week with flowers from the market and the scent is incredible.

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This year many of the gardens have been using flowers and plants from

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warmer climates and Anne Marie Powell has been looking around the

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shelf for ways to bring the Mediterranean feeling to your own

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garden. Let's face it, we all know British weather can be tempestuous.

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We all need a holiday every now and again.

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Wouldn't it be lovely to return home after a long day of work to a little

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bit of Mediterranean magic in your own back garden?

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They think the real secret in recreating the Mediterranean scheme

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is in capturing its atmosphere. James does that beautifully in his

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garden. We've got heat, sunlight, space

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around the plants. It echoes the natural landscape with rocks and

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boulders. It all comes together wonderfully.

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Now, if you want to grow these plants at home, the secret of their

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success is in sharp drainage. Here, plants growing amongst and gravel.

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At home you can do the same with builders rubble.

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Many of the plants in this garden are naturally aromatic, just like

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the scrambling lavenders whose oils are heated in the sunshine and then

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released with intoxicating perfume. It's the same for so many of our

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herbs. Sage, rosemary and thyme, which would work just as well in a

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pot as they do in the garden. A south facing slope would be ideal.

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These plants need a lot of sun. It's not just about herbs. The trees are

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the anchors here. Not done Nani, they have character and movie I

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around the space. James has used pines and almonds. In a small garden

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you could use evergreen shrubs. Don't be tempted to add mulch or

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improve your soil, as these plants thrive on hard living. Which means

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you can take a break from all the hard graft.

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Some things here at Chelsea are good enough to eat and somebody who can

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put those ingredients to good use is chef Monica Galetti.

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Welcome. I think we've picked the perfect garden for you here, we've

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got plants, flowers, and we are surrounded by herbs as well. This is

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a stunning garden, this would be my dream kitchen garden right here.

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I've been walking around eating everything. I need to stop or there

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won't be anything left. What is your garden like? I'd like to say it's

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like this but it isn't. It was beautiful when I bought the house

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but I bought a dog, a boxer. Two years into it he has destroyed my

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plants. It goes in phases, you either leave it alone and three

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months later he rips something out. It drives me crazy. You really have

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to think about what you are planting. Without a lovely dog in

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your life what would be your ideal garden, what would you have?

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Something like this, the herbs, plants. That I like things like wild

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grasses, ferns. I come from New Zealand to they remind me of my

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house by the sea. Quite wild. Ferns have been a big part of my life.

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Palm trees as well. Sounds gorgeous. Do you garden on your own or does

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the family get involved? I like to get my nine-year-old daughter

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involved will stop I started gardening with my parents, helping

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out in the garden. I grew to love it from that. She loves it now. The two

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of us would rather be outside in the garden than insight doing housework.

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Leave my husband to it. My father and mother got me

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encouraged, I used to grow rhubarb, that is where my love of gardening

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came. Did you grow your own fruit and vegetables? I've got rhubarb as

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well. It's a great way to get children eating food. When we grow

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peas my daughter is happy to eat them because she's growing them

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herself, putting a mixture of different tomato varieties in this

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year. She's looking forward to being able to pick them. Grow our own

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strawberries. Plum trees. The apple tree will hopefully survive the dog

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this year. Is it important to explain to children from pot to

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plate they know where their food comes from? Very important. Children

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learn so much more when they are hands-on. My daughter loves to grow

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things from the seasons, her own corn. She'll watch it grow. She is

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responsible for looking after it. Children grow up understanding food

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better. Health wise it's an essential part of growing. It's been

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lovely talking to you. Been a pleasure, thank you.

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It has been an incredible week here at Chelsea,

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Here are the highlights that we've really enjoyed this week.

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Garden is rock and roll and good for the soul.

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Here is Simon Lycett's finished arrangement, it's quite beautiful.

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James, it's been a tremendous week, what has been your highlight? For me

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it is the sense of fun and frivolity use the amongst the main garden

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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

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garden designers but the exhibitors in the great marquee. Weeks, months

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and years of preparation and it's all paid off, they can relax and

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enjoy. Absolutely. Well sadly we have to leave this

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show behind but there is still lots more to come from the Chelsea Flower

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Show. Join Sophie Raworth and Joe Swift

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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!

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ALL: To the bride and groom! The Old Bill are going

:43:36.:44:16.

to be all over this.

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