:00:08. > :00:13.It's Friday and there is only one day left to see this show.
:00:14. > :00:15.If you haven't got a ticket to Chelsea, then you won't miss
:00:16. > :00:18.a thing because in the next half hour we'll be offering you a front
:00:19. > :00:49.row seat to the most famous flower show in the world.
:00:50. > :00:54.Welcome to the 2016 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
:00:55. > :00:57.This event supported by M Investments is full
:00:58. > :01:00.of drama, adventurous design and inspiring ideas.
:01:01. > :01:02.In the next half hour we will be finding out what you at home think
:01:03. > :01:06.and who you've been voting for in the BBC RHS
:01:07. > :01:11.Today we'll also be joining actress, Meera Syal, as she puzzles over
:01:12. > :01:19.Mary Berry will be talking to us about her passion
:01:20. > :01:24.But first, one of the gardens here is the Winton Beauty
:01:25. > :01:27.of Mathematics Garden designed by Nick Bailey.
:01:28. > :01:30.The aim of this design is to highlight the natural
:01:31. > :01:32.algorithms that underpin all life on earth.
:01:33. > :01:46.Do you understand? I have just about got there! You are so clever!
:01:47. > :01:47.Well yesterday we invited mathematics mastermind
:01:48. > :01:59.I wasn't that bad at maths at school. I seem to have forgotten it
:02:00. > :02:04.all. Can you help? It is a beautiful garden, but it's got an equation
:02:05. > :02:11.here... We have all these plants and they all grow according to
:02:12. > :02:17.mathematics. Alan Turing wrote a paper and he said, if we can make a
:02:18. > :02:22.real computer that could really think... He looked at plants and he
:02:23. > :02:33.looked at how they grow. He found they all use mathematics. It is in
:02:34. > :02:39.the gene. When you get a foxglove or a lupin, all the flowers are
:02:40. > :02:46.identical. Sit to do -- it is to do with the golden ratio. What is the
:02:47. > :02:54.golden ratio? 1.618034... No! Don't test me! There are rhythms? It's a
:02:55. > :02:59.rhythm and a pattern. It is throughout every single plant, every
:03:00. > :03:02.living thing? Every pine cone. There are eight spirals one way and 13 the
:03:03. > :03:09.other way. That is every pine cone that ever existed. Wow! All these
:03:10. > :03:13.plants have got mathematics in the way they replicate the seeds, the
:03:14. > :03:19.leaves, everything. It is all mathematics. That is beautiful.
:03:20. > :03:22.Learning about the way plants grow helped us build the computers we
:03:23. > :03:26.have today. That is why these are so important. I get it now! Don't ask
:03:27. > :03:29.me to quote this equation! Tell us about your experiences of coming to
:03:30. > :03:37.Chelsea over the years and has it changed? For me, it never changes.
:03:38. > :03:44.And there's always something new and it is always wonderful. I'm not a
:03:45. > :03:48.gardener. We have a gardener. I have sold the lawnmower. My wife does the
:03:49. > :03:55.potting. We bought a fountain here, one of the double-deckers. Frankly,
:03:56. > :03:59.it's a pigeon's toilet! What we did this last year in October, listen to
:04:00. > :04:04.this, this is a great tip. What we did, we went down to one of the
:04:05. > :04:12.cheaper supermarkets and we put soil in it and we put those wallflowers
:04:13. > :04:17.in, in October, and we have never... The pigeons haven't used it as a
:04:18. > :04:24.toilet. We have never watered it. It's a bee... I'm a friend of
:04:25. > :04:28.nature! He is very friendly! Those flowers are still there going into
:04:29. > :04:34.June. Ten quid! You have green fingers and you can keep the pigeons
:04:35. > :04:37.off your garden. Absolutely. We have had maths, your own garden, lovely
:04:38. > :04:41.to meet you. I have got my head around it! Thanks for coming.
:04:42. > :04:50.I just about get that. That is the more complicated side of gardening.
:04:51. > :04:55.For most of you, gardening and Chelsea are all about the pleasure
:04:56. > :05:00.it brings you. Thanks to all of you for getting in touch, including
:05:01. > :05:06.Hilary, who sent in this picture of her father's beautiful garden.
:05:07. > :05:15.Louise sent us a picture of one of her bearded irises.
:05:16. > :05:16.Now every year there are new kids on the block here at Chelsea
:05:17. > :05:18.and designing a large show garden is a brave and often
:05:19. > :05:21.It can be a steep learning curve for some.
:05:22. > :05:33.The youngest designer here is 27-year-old Sam Ovens.
:05:34. > :05:40.Chelsea can be accused of being old school. Every now and then, a new
:05:41. > :05:46.designer makes their way to the show. This year, Sam Ovens has been
:05:47. > :05:53.making the headlines with his Cloudy Bay creation. I met Sam back in 2014
:05:54. > :06:02.when he won the RHS Young Designer of the Year Award for his Skies The
:06:03. > :06:08.Limit design. Sam - I say this to him - he does love a bit of slatted
:06:09. > :06:14.timber. This is cedar and it's polished and planed. He tells me he
:06:15. > :06:18.really likes using it because of the way the light plays across it,
:06:19. > :06:26.casting shadows that change throughout the day.
:06:27. > :06:32.As a rule, young designers don't create theatrical gardens, or
:06:33. > :06:36.gardens that have developed from experiences in their youth because
:06:37. > :06:45.not enough time has elapsed for them to develop into a story or
:06:46. > :06:49.narrative. Where the young bloods always shine
:06:50. > :06:53.is with practical gardens, family gardens. I can tell you, if my
:06:54. > :06:58.nine-year-old daughter was here right now, we would be sat here,
:06:59. > :07:05.shoes and socks off, feet dangling in the water like Pooh Bear and
:07:06. > :07:09.Piglet. There is serious horticulture here. Sam has drawn on
:07:10. > :07:18.the Cornish landscape he knows so well. A mix of heathers and grasses
:07:19. > :07:27.and he's created a garden full of life, that is gaining a life of its
:07:28. > :07:32.own. The hedgerow honeysuckle and the conifers are filling the air
:07:33. > :07:37.with their pollen. I think this design has brought some common-sense
:07:38. > :07:41.to Chelsea. The materials aren't expensive or exclusive, they are
:07:42. > :07:47.just creatively worked. The deck is dark and light. It adds so much to
:07:48. > :07:50.this very useful space. Aren't these concrete benches a triumph? They are
:07:51. > :07:54.so simple, they are a timber box filled with concrete that is
:07:55. > :07:59.polished on the top. I think this design will be very influential. Sam
:08:00. > :08:01.has done that hardest of things - shown that it is not what you use,
:08:02. > :08:18.but how you use it. We have come outside the Great
:08:19. > :08:27.Pavilion now. I'm joined by Meera Syal. Are you a big gardener? Well,
:08:28. > :08:30.I love looking at gardens and I love appreciating other people's gardens,
:08:31. > :08:36.but not keen on doing the dirty work myself. You don't want to get your
:08:37. > :08:40.hands dirty? It is not that. I wasn't brought up particularly with
:08:41. > :08:49.gardening. Even though my mum grew up in a village and knew a lot about
:08:50. > :08:54.nature. Generally, the Indian parents' idea of gardening was to
:08:55. > :08:58.tarmac it over and put in a Swingball. We weren't brought up
:08:59. > :09:04.with a love of that patch of green. I have seen that change a lot with
:09:05. > :09:08.my generation, being a Londoner, so we don't have much gardens so what
:09:09. > :09:11.you have, you really do appreciate and nurture. I have become more
:09:12. > :09:15.interested now in just making my patch of green... You treasure that
:09:16. > :09:21.space? Yes. How big is your patch of green? Oh gosh. I think our back
:09:22. > :09:26.garden is 90-foot. That is not bad. Not bad for London. Still, you know,
:09:27. > :09:30.as my son says, not big enough for a good game of football. And the front
:09:31. > :09:35.garden is tiny. You want some inspiration, that is why you have
:09:36. > :09:39.come here? Have you found anything? What are you looking for? We want to
:09:40. > :09:43.redo our front and we don't have much to play with. I'm interested at
:09:44. > :09:50.looking at the mini gardens because I want to see what you can do with a
:09:51. > :09:54.little space that is still creative, not too high maintenance but just
:09:55. > :10:02.gives your house some individuality and elegance, I suppose. There is a
:10:03. > :10:08.lot you can do and the artisan gardens prove there is so much you
:10:09. > :10:12.can do. Chelsea is a wonderfully British event. It is. I love it for
:10:13. > :10:18.that. I was trying to think if there is anything equivalent in the world
:10:19. > :10:22.and I'm not sure there is. It is a peculiarly British thing that we
:10:23. > :10:29.don't apartment live like a lot of Europe. People still want a garden.
:10:30. > :10:32.Even if it is tiny. Something about the Englishman in his castle
:10:33. > :10:39.mentality. It is a rather wonderful thing. You have not been here very
:10:40. > :10:43.much. How have you found it? It is very crowded. Especially around the
:10:44. > :10:47.beautiful displays. I mean, if you want to get a selfie, you have to
:10:48. > :10:51.join a queue! There is a lot of people just soaking in the displays
:10:52. > :10:56.and wanting to be photographed in front of them. But I love that. It
:10:57. > :11:01.is breathtakingly beautiful. Do you not stand there and think, this is
:11:02. > :11:08.really quite eccentric? No, I don't. I sort of get it. I just think that
:11:09. > :11:15.the... I'm looking at this beautiful display behind us. There's so much
:11:16. > :11:19.of nature that we miss. We all lead very busy lives and unless you are
:11:20. > :11:26.lucky enough to live somewhere very rural with a gorgeous view, these
:11:27. > :11:32.little pleasures pass us by. That bumblebee climbing into that flower,
:11:33. > :11:36.so there is something restful and good for the soul. Just look at how
:11:37. > :11:42.beautiful that is and you can have that in your garden. You will have
:11:43. > :11:45.to come back and your gardens will have been transformed. It will be a
:11:46. > :11:58.haven. You are inspired already. Thank you. Pleasure.
:11:59. > :12:00.All week we've been looking at the huge variety of different
:12:01. > :12:01.plants on display in the gardens and within the Great Pavilion.
:12:02. > :12:03.The judges have voted for their favourites
:12:04. > :12:09.but you have also been busy expressing an opinion.
:12:10. > :12:12.Last night Monty and I asked you get in touch to let us know
:12:13. > :12:15.So do you balk at a begonia or cringe over cosmos?
:12:16. > :12:22.Well, it seems nothing divides a nation more than a plant!
:12:23. > :12:33.We have some people who don't like plants known as "baby sick". Is that
:12:34. > :12:39.the scent of it? You should stop feeding your children that! Also,
:12:40. > :12:46.lots of people's least favourite is the marigold. Do you like a
:12:47. > :12:52.marigold? I do. They are often used in garlands outside temples in
:12:53. > :13:01.India. The bright orange colour. Orange is the colour of Chelsea this
:13:02. > :13:09.year. You have upset Meera here. Do you like a marigold? I'm not keen on
:13:10. > :13:18.bright orange flowers. Very last year! You told me it was THIS year!
:13:19. > :13:25.Pampas grass... You know what they say about that? No! I will tell you
:13:26. > :13:30.later. People are saying it is horrible. It is a big grass. Unless
:13:31. > :13:34.somebody chops the flowers off it. I once had to dig one out and it took
:13:35. > :13:37.me a whole day to get one out. It is about texture and grass. There are
:13:38. > :13:42.loads of grasses here this year. That's true.
:13:43. > :13:43.Well, one thing is for certain, nothing divides
:13:44. > :13:46.The rose is also a bloom that people tend to have a love/hate
:13:47. > :13:47.relationship with, but one woman who loves it is Mary Berry.
:13:48. > :13:49.Earlier this week, I caught up with her in the Great Pavilion
:13:50. > :14:08.to find out about her passion for this plant.
:14:09. > :14:15.No flower show would be complete without roses and I'm with someone
:14:16. > :14:19.who loves roses. She's even just had one named after her, Mary Berry,
:14:20. > :14:24.lovely to see you. This is not just a rose that's been named after you,
:14:25. > :14:35.it is a rose you have chosen? I chose it because I love it, it is
:14:36. > :14:40.such a strong, healthy rose. It is beautiful. It is so fragrant. You
:14:41. > :14:45.were clear about your requirements? I chose this and I'm thrilled to
:14:46. > :14:50.bits with it. It lasts in water. The first thing I do when I come home, a
:14:51. > :14:53.bunch of flowers on the table. You are a very good gardener yourself, I
:14:54. > :14:58.have seen you here many times before. You love it? You come to
:14:59. > :15:02.Chelsea to get new ideas and there is always something. You also meet
:15:03. > :15:06.all the growers and the producers. It is wonderful. It is a huge
:15:07. > :15:10.opportunity to get your questions answered and go to the RHS and ask
:15:11. > :15:32.anything. It is wonderful. You have got a new role with the RHS?
:15:33. > :15:40.We all feel better out of doors it is so healthy.
:15:41. > :15:46.You have become President of The National Garden Scheme, taking over
:15:47. > :15:52.Joe Swift? We have opened our garden for 20 years. It gives such pleasure
:15:53. > :15:56.to people. They come with a friend to get some ideas, to enjoy the
:15:57. > :16:00.fresh air, to perhaps get a good tea.
:16:01. > :16:04.I'm sure they get a good tea at your garden! It inspires everybody to get
:16:05. > :16:09.going. Well, it is wonderful sitting here,
:16:10. > :16:17.surrounded by so many fragrant roses. This is a very quintessential
:16:18. > :16:21.English garden? Well, in my garden, the roses are the most important. I
:16:22. > :16:26.love to pick them and bring them into the house.
:16:27. > :16:31.Every year I have a new tradition to take home a new rose, maybe this
:16:32. > :16:33.year it will have to be the Mary Berry rose for 2016.
:16:34. > :16:49.I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. That rose really is a boosy, Mary
:16:50. > :16:53.Berry, a lovely fragrance. A lucky woman. Well, one nation with a
:16:54. > :17:00.penchant for all thing British is Japan. This year they have two
:17:01. > :17:03.design teams exhibiting at Chelsea. We sent along guest reporter and
:17:04. > :17:13.journalist, Yuko Suzuki, to find out what it has been like for them to
:17:14. > :17:19.recreate a garden so far from home. My name is Yuko Suzuki, living in
:17:20. > :17:22.London for ten years, getting to grips with British culture and
:17:23. > :17:27.social quirks. This year there are two Japanese
:17:28. > :17:37.designers, I want to find out what they really thing of this very
:17:38. > :17:41.British affair! This is an East Meets West garden, this garden was
:17:42. > :17:45.created by two different teams, a Japanese team and a British team all
:17:46. > :17:52.together. So I have to find out what it was like to work with the
:17:53. > :17:56.British? TRANSLATION: It was great fun but
:17:57. > :18:01.obviously a little language barrier. So they needed to take out a mobile
:18:02. > :18:19.phone and use the technology to translate! Yes, they were not very
:18:20. > :18:24.organised but they had this powerful paper and she really enjoyed working
:18:25. > :18:35.with them. Ishihara is the most passionate of
:18:36. > :18:50.designers here. Why are you so excited?
:18:51. > :18:57.He said he had so many staff working with him, it was such a big
:18:58. > :19:03.responsibility and then he found out he got the gold, he is so relieved,
:19:04. > :19:13.and also happy. Why do you think you keep winning gold here in Chelsea?
:19:14. > :19:16.He's got beautiful details in his garden, that is something that he
:19:17. > :19:24.thinks that the judges love about his garden.
:19:25. > :19:35.He has said, that he is also the Wizard of Green! Now with all the
:19:36. > :19:41.courthouse thousands of people at Chelsea it can be hard to see the
:19:42. > :19:45.detail that makes the plants medal-winning. Toby Buckland has
:19:46. > :19:54.been having a close of up look at the wonderful blooms.
:19:55. > :20:00.There is more to the beauty of the garden than the first impression of
:20:01. > :20:04.the leaf form and the flowers. You take the time to get up close and
:20:05. > :20:11.examine the miracle of nature that so many blooms are. Often there are
:20:12. > :20:14.plants with a long structure, that shape indicates that is pollinated
:20:15. > :20:22.by humming birds, that use their bakes. That, or moths or butterflies
:20:23. > :20:27.with long tongues to reach the nectar in the bottom. Bees don't
:20:28. > :20:34.come close, so for the butterflies it is exclusive dining! This is a
:20:35. > :20:41.moth orchid. It is called Little Zebra. You probably is a orchids in
:20:42. > :20:46.the bathroom or your window sill, they are easy to grow. There is a
:20:47. > :20:52.landing pad for the bees here, in the wild, the orchid produces a lip
:20:53. > :20:57.to look exactly like a single species of bee, a female, ready for
:20:58. > :21:03.fertilisation. That attracts the males, tricks them into pollinating
:21:04. > :21:13.the plant, the males get nothing but the flowers are fertilised! It is
:21:14. > :21:16.not just flowers that look spectacular in close-?700, fowliage
:21:17. > :21:23.can too. This is aptly called The Buddhist
:21:24. > :21:28.Temple. It reminds me something that you can
:21:29. > :21:34.build in Dubai. The leaves are like a ripple running up the central
:21:35. > :21:38.stem. It is impossibly complex. It looks man-made, engineered. Nature
:21:39. > :21:45.is amazing. Although so much of Chelsea is about
:21:46. > :21:53.the big picture in design, take your time, look closer, there are
:21:54. > :21:59.miracles right under your nose. It's been a long and emotional week
:22:00. > :22:05.for all of the exhibltors. Adam Frost checked in with some of his
:22:06. > :22:09.old peers, to see how they are faring at the end of the busy week.
:22:10. > :22:13.Now that the horticultural celebration is drawing to an end, it
:22:14. > :22:17.will be nice to see how the designers are coping with the
:22:18. > :22:21.emotion and the tension that Chelsea brings. I reckon it is time to find
:22:22. > :22:28.out how they are dealing with the Chelsea hangover.
:22:29. > :22:35.How are you, mate? Mr Frost! Hello, how are you? So, your first Chelsea,
:22:36. > :22:39.what has it been like? Stressful! The judging is out of the way, the
:22:40. > :22:44.medals are out of the way. That is gone. Now you can spend this part of
:22:45. > :22:47.the show talking to people. I love it.
:22:48. > :22:50.It is probably one of the few professions where you can do
:22:51. > :22:58.something creative and people can see it in person.
:22:59. > :23:05.Sniefrjts Queen Elizabeth loved it. Did she? Yes! Do you sleep? Yes, I
:23:06. > :23:10.sleep. It is the air! I tend to wake in the middle of the night worrying
:23:11. > :23:14.about the things have to do in the next day.
:23:15. > :23:20.I have been sleeping for four hours a night. For three weeks.
:23:21. > :23:32.You look fantastic on four hours' of sleep! I met James, I love him.
:23:33. > :23:38.You do know he is married? Yes, damn it! I love the Chelsea gardens that
:23:39. > :23:46.capture a mood, with a certain spirit. You can see that in the ones
:23:47. > :23:50.that medal very well. There are designers that have been
:23:51. > :23:54.thinking about details for months and months.
:23:55. > :24:08.A birdie tells me you have been out on the scout? No, that is a rumour,
:24:09. > :24:15.we all get on together. Would you come back? I would come
:24:16. > :24:25.back. If asked to, I would come back. It is a tough gig.
:24:26. > :24:29.This is a picture of calm personified.
:24:30. > :24:34.You can see that the designers have poured their heart and souls into
:24:35. > :24:37.the gardens. If they haven't a hangover now, they will when the
:24:38. > :24:43.week is over. I saw the designers this afternoon,
:24:44. > :24:47.they are looking exhausted. Not just the designers but everyone
:24:48. > :24:51.working here. Everyone must lie down for a day or two after this.
:24:52. > :24:56.What are your favourites? I think that there are two fantastic show
:24:57. > :25:01.gardens out here and the weather has been glorious.
:25:02. > :25:14.It really has been. The thing that sticks with me, the poppies and the
:25:15. > :25:18.box, the antithesis of Sarcofhagaii, the holes, it is a stunner.
:25:19. > :25:22.There are so many we cannot mention all of them. Here is a look at a few
:25:23. > :26:01.of the Chelsea highlights. Gardening is rock and roll, and it's
:26:02. > :26:23.good for the soul! Yeah! Well, the show gardens have been a
:26:24. > :26:28.big highlight here at Chelsea this week. You have been voting in your
:26:29. > :26:34.thousands. This is for the garden that you want
:26:35. > :26:38.to win, the BBC RHS People's Choice. Now, we are about to reveal the
:26:39. > :26:41.winner. They are talking to Joe, they think they are talking about
:26:42. > :26:54.trees, right now. Let's surprise them.
:26:55. > :27:01.Somebody kindly said does this have mildew... Matthew Wilson, can I
:27:02. > :27:08.interrupt you, briefly. Hi, yes.
:27:09. > :27:17.You have been chosen... As... BBC RHS People's Choice!
:27:18. > :27:22.APPLAUSE. Well done. Well den. Amazing.
:27:23. > :27:28.Congratulations! I was not expecting that.
:27:29. > :27:31.You fooled me big time. I was just about to talk about the oak tree as
:27:32. > :27:36.well. That is fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.
:27:37. > :27:40.I mean, it's been a real labour of love, this garden. There has been a
:27:41. > :27:46.lot of people involved in creating it. I've had a great sponsor,
:27:47. > :27:51.Welcome to Yorkshire. They have been brilliant. We have had help from all
:27:52. > :28:00.around the county to make a really big garden on a very small budget.
:28:01. > :28:07.You got the silver last year, what does this mean to you? It means a
:28:08. > :28:11.huge amount. It is people responding to the garden, responding to the
:28:12. > :28:17.concept, finding beauty in the stone glass, in the planting. I had, I
:28:18. > :28:22.think one of the high points was yesterday when somebody said "I'm
:28:23. > :28:26.going to vote for your garden, and I'm from Lancashire. " So there you
:28:27. > :28:29.go. The people of Yorkshire and
:28:30. > :28:34.Lancashire have been behind your work. Congratulations.
:28:35. > :28:40.Thank you very much. Well, it has been an incredible week
:28:41. > :28:45.at Chelsea. The designers and the exhibitors have put on a superb
:28:46. > :28:50.show. Don't go away. Switch over to BBC Two so you can join Monty and me
:28:51. > :28:53.straight after this programme. So, for now, from both of us,
:28:54. > :29:06.goodbye. Goodbye.
:29:07. > :29:08.Hello, I'm Elaine Dunkley with your 90-second update.
:29:09. > :29:11.Katrina and Karlina Rayba were paralysed in a car crash last year.
:29:12. > :29:13.A camera caught the moment a driver swerved into their car
:29:14. > :29:18.Andrew Nay's been jailed for dangerous driving