Episode 13 RHS Chelsea Flower Show

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Welcome back to the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show.

The results of the People's Choice Award voted by you have

Designer Matthew Wilson is chuffed to bits with the news. He's won it.

We will be talking to him later on in the show to get his reaction.

It might be the end of the week but it is not the end of the action

here at The Chelsea Flower Show, an event supported

Tonight we meet a partnership who has put their heart and soul

We'll also be exploring the show gardens here tonight.

And finding out how they keep their sparkle once

The privilege of being allowed on to the gardens in the dark, early in

the morning, is something that we enjoy a lot. Yes. Being at the

Showground, having it to yourself is just amazing. The thing about

Matthew's garden, he was disappointed with his Silver Medal.

I really respect the way he stayed here, he's talked to people, he's

celebrated his garden. That will mean so much to him, that garden.

Getting that award is a big thing here.

There is no denying the popularity of orchids, it's estimated that

an astonishing 15 million of them are sold every year in this country.

James Wong has been to report on this horticultural success story.

I grew up in Singapore. A tiny, tropical island, 60 miles north of

the equator. There, orchids are everywhere. Particularly the orchids

that grow on trees, stuck to their bark and festooned along their

branches. The one orchid I was desperate to grow was this one. The

problem with my garden is, it was too hot for the orchids. At

sea-level, on the equator, it is roasting, packed full of humidity,

really highlight levels and most come from regions further north or

south of the equator, or if they are on the equator, at high altitude.

These are places with cooler temperatures. It never gets

particularly cold, but it doesn't get hot, like a permanent English

summer. These guys thrive in living rooms across the UK because they are

adapted to living room light levels and temperature. For that reason,

the moth orchid makes up 75% of orchid sales in the UK. It is an

industry worth millions of pounds. The variety that plant breeders have

created is staggering. The advent of... Anyone can afford some of the

most beautiful orchids on the planet.

Their flowers are bilaterally symmetrical, so their left side is a

mirror image of their right. They almost appear to be looking at you.

Moth orchids can be found in superstores up-and-down the country,

just one of thousands of species. We visited a nursery just outside Paris

to look at their love affair with these sublime plants.

They always have quite a lot of charm. The diversity and colours is

quite fantastic. This is one of the reasons why I like orchids, if you

look at an orchid, it is something that is peaceful and very nice to

look at. Here in Boissy Saint Leger, we have been growing orchids since

1786. That exhibition my great-grandfather did in 1897. That

is an exhibition in Paris, that is the greenhouses and the chimney

still exists. I think that for people who don't know orchid

greenhouses, to come in an orchid greenhouse is quite a good feeling.

It is a feeling of peace. This year is very particular because it is our

130th anniversary and we are still going and now we are almost the

oldest firm in the world. This is the pansy orchid. It is very

sensitive to water. If you have got water that stays on the flower, then

it stains it. You will find orchids anywhere, anywhere where there is

green, you will find an orchid. You will find orchids in the woods. You

will find orchids in the trees. You will find orchids on the ground.

There are 30,000 species, which is enormous. It is really the largest

flower family in the world. What is interesting about orchids is that

moth orchids will last anywhere from three days to 20 years. Other types

of orchids will last anywhere from two to 100 years. This is one of our

first hybrids. It was done in 1926. You can make the count. It is about

90-years-old. A few years older than me! This is four generation and my

daughter will be the fifth one. If I can help her for a few years, I will

be very happy. For our 130th anniversary, I decided to do the

Chelsea Flower Show, which I don't do very often. When I sort plants

out to come to a show, for example, it is like if I did a painting

because I choose the plants according to what I am going to want

to do. This is probably a plant that I am

going to take to Chelsea. It's a spider orchid. Maybe not all of

them, otherwise the stand is going to be very spidery!

This is the bargely use for the Chelsea Flower Show. It won't float

because it is full of holes! It is a very, very nice boat. I am going to

do a display with this canoe and some ivy, scraped ivy, which will be

mounted in height so that I can present the orchids high and in the

boat. Chelsea, we've done four times. This time, I do hope to get

my Gold Medal. Silver Gilt is a bad taste!

I don't know about Silver Gilt being bad taste. There's a lot of Silver

Gilt around here. The most important thing is, you have a Gold this year?

Gold is fantastic. I am very proud and very happy to have succeeded.

Yeah. That is good taste. Wonderful taste! Very good. Very good taste.

I'm very happy to share it with everybody, so it is fantastic. It

doesn't surprise me. Your exhibit is stunning. It really is a picture.

You have got your wooden boat here. That's right. It comes from Thailand

and it's a boat that I brought on my boat trailer. How has it been

transporting the plants over here? Has that been a problem? Or easy? It

is never a problem. It takes a long time to pack. Very carefully. Once

they are packed and together, they don't move, so it is very easy. The

spider orchid, that is the weirdest orchid? It is a very impressive

flower. Very fine, very easy to grow. So it is a very nice plant to

show. Is it really easy to grow? It is, as long as you get light, water

when it needs it, no problem. You make it sound so easy. Orchids are

easy. The one in the middle has caught my eye? It is a very special

plant, which when it matures, when they go straight, they are better

than when it goes down. That is when we know we have got a good one! The

two parents, one has very straight and the other one has one that goes

down. Your father, has he pushed you into doing this or has he drawn you

in? You are going to be running the nursery in the future. It is

fantastic having the younger generation of nursery women coming

through? Yes. How do you feel? I feel really proud about the work

that my father does and the other generations. I think he is not

pushy, not really. He's just got a passion and it is a passion

throughout the family? Yeah, that's right. Can you see yourself in the

future coming back and doing a Chelsea exhibit like this?

I would be happy to do this by myself, but it would be really hard.

He is really good. He is good. The whole family are keeping that

tradition going and that is marvellous? I think she will

succeed. You have a lot of faith in your daughter and so you should

have. Lovely to meet you both. Lovely to meet you.

All week we've been inviting guests from beyond the horticultural

world to give their take on The Chelsea Flower Show.

One person who is no stranger to the international world of design

Originally trained as an architect, she's been a trustee of the Victoria

and Albert Museum but most of her time is spent

as editor in chief of homes and lifestyle magazine,

Welcome to Chelsea. Thank you. Are you a frequent visitor? Quite a new

visitor. It is only in the last couple of years I have had a garden

so I didn't want to tempt myself with things I couldn't take home and

do myself. You have spent your entire lifetime immersed in design.

How does that affect your approach to gardening? I'm the first one, I

call myself an intuitive gardener so I haven't a clue! I don't know any

Latin names, but I feel my way through and choose plants because I

like the way they look, or their colours, or their textures.

Sometimes it means we have disasters. Other times, it is that

loose, free-flowing look which is what I favour. I thoroughly approve

of that kind of gardening, that is what I do, too! It can seem

intimidating, Chelsea, if you don't feel you are a trained gardener, or

you don't know all the Latin names. What are you looking for

specifically when you come? I really like what I would call very easy,

loose gardens, that you feel they could have been there forever and

you have stumbled across them. Even though I know this sort of planting,

which looks so informal takes hours of preparation, you get that

wonderfully optimistic sense that you could have done this, or you

could have a go. It is that democratic sense of gardening that I

love. The British tend to see gardens as somewhere to garden in.

And I know from my travels that isn't true internationally. In a

design world, I suspect they are seen more as rooms. Is that

something you think is increasing, or that is lacking from our gardens?

Absolutely increasing. In the design world, they talk about outdoor

living. The idea that you dissolve the back wall of your house to

extend your lounge into the outside space, and there are incredible

lights and rugs designed for outdoor use. You will be looking for that.

Do you think that the design element, because it is not just a

gardening show, is well represented at Chelsea? I think so. I guess I'm

always coming from that point of view that I don't like gardens that

you have to look and keep your hands off. Yeah. Gardens that have got a

rugged sense to them, so I have seen some beautiful pathways and there's

one that's inspired by Exmoor, that have got these gravel pathways that

I think is a wonderful sort of... You are talking about style rather

than design. Maybe. Gardening seems freer and you have more room to play

and do what you feel. Maybe I have a romantic vision of it. Well, hang

onto that romantic vision and take it with you. I would like you to go

around Chelsea, look and find the things that interest and inspire

you, and tell us about it and take them back home to your garden. Thank

you for joining us. I will be very interested to see what you make of

the show. Thank you for having me. When you first come to the show,

there are so much to take in, but when you have been here all week,

you start to see some of these gardens and plants in more detail. I

just love this combination here. We have got the spires of a really big

plant at the show this year. Then we have the building head -- these

nodding heads. These flower in my garden every month of the year. Put

them together, and you have a winning combination. These lead

details are evident throughout the show. Carol has been in the Great

Pavilion, looking at some subtle plants.

# you can walk right by me and never know I'm there.

I want to find some of those quieter plants, the unloved, the plants

hiding away in the shadows, and give them their moment in the limelight.

I love these. I have grown it for quite some time in a damp, shady

corner of the garden. It is a kind of plant that peoples eyes go to

straightaway. It has got red buds and purple flowers, but along comes

its most beautiful sister, brand-new this year. The Alison Holland is a

delightful plant, green buds opening to white flowers. She is just the

sort of plant you can imagine in a dark corner, lightening up the whole

place. Sweet Woodruff is the kind of plant that is easy to take for

granted. It is often used as a foil for other plans. It makes a

wonderful carpet. It has these worlds of green leaves right up the

stems, and other top, an almost bouquet of tiny white flowers. It is

not just its look that is so appealing, it is also its fragrance.

If you tread on it, you get this beautiful smell of new mown hay. But

there is one plant that must be the shyest and most retiring in the

whole pavilion. Spotty Dottie has become a popular plant in recent

times, not because it is a huge ear in the I'd sort of plant, quite the

opposite. It is a very subtle beauty. But where are the flowers?

First of all, there is no sign of them, and then you look carefully

underneath. And here they are, hiding away, out of sight, but

utterly beautiful. The whole idea of this is so that pollinating insects

can get into those flowers undisturbed. You would never even

know it was there. # never even know I'm there. #.

Earlier in the week, we met gardener Mark Lane.

Mark has had to take a different approach to gardening since his

diagnosis with spina bifida, but that hasn't held him back.

And this week, he has been exploring some of the gardens

People shouldn't be afraid to talk about disability or any illnesses.

That is the reason why I am here in this meningitis futures garden. The

garden reads from left to right, and is split into three sections. Here

on my left, you have the diagnosis. When you are diagnosed with

something or you have a long term condition, suddenly you are thrown

against the brick wall, this is demonstrated in the garden. In the

centre, you have hope and you have someone reaching through the wall.

There is help. There are charities out there, and there is someone

leaning over the wall with a reaching hand. But the most poignant

thing is the bit on the right, and that is the recovery. And there is a

wonderful figure of a man with prosthetic legs come in looking out

into the world, looking forward because he knows there is somewhere

to go beyond his condition. This is the garden that has caught my

attention. It is called together, we can. It is a sensory garden. The

whole garden is inspired by the works of the deaf percussionist dame

Idlib Glennie. It is all about bringing the music and plants

together. -- Damon Eveleigh and Glennie. We have the water, we have

the alliums like drumsticks. And which you don't CR hidden, tiny

microphones inside the water. They bring another element to the whole

experience. Music therapy also has a wonderful way of getting you to

understand and come to terms with conditions and illnesses, but at the

same time be rooted in the place where you are. This is just a

wonderful place to be. You just feel so relaxed and calm and tranquil. I

am inside the hospice, and this is the garden bed. The important thing

about this garden bed is that it can be wheeled outside. So you can go

into a garden and have it be surrounded by plants that people

will be familiar with in the last moments of their lives. It has very

pastoral colours. It has good texture, good form, but it also

allows the blue sky to shine through, so you get dappled shade as

well while you are lying there in bed. This garden is personally

interesting to me, because I am designing a garden at the moment

where we are doing the same thing. We are trying to get people who are

bedbound outside to enjoy nature and be surrounded by plants and their

loved ones and just enjoy themselves. And where better to end

down here in the RHS garden green in Great Britain? It is wonderful. We

are surrounded by plants of all different colours. It is a

kaleidoscope of colours. We have oranges, reds, purples, pinks. It is

a feast for the eyes, and it lifts my mood. I am up in the heavens, but

actually, I am here, Heaven on Earth, surrounded by all these

plants. Now, there has been a lot of

discussion and celebration of the fact that growing fruit and veg not

only provides you with delicious food, but is inherently a healthy

activity, good for you physically and mentally. Over here, we have a

representation of a conventional allotment. Bring vegetables to

produce as much food as possible. When I was a child, we all did that

-- growing vegetables. Modern life is getting more and more crowded. We

have less personal space, and it can feel as though there is no

opportunity to grow vegetables, even if you would love to. Well, that

isn't the case. You really can, and I love this display of how much you

can grow and how cleverly you can do it. We have Oakleaf letters. Cut

them with a knife and enjoy them. -- lettuce. You can be adventurous. For

example, we have wasabi going here. I didn't know you could grow wasabi

so easily, so I have learned something. Despite all the talk of

the virtues of veg and how much good it does you, don't forget that it

can look stunning, to. This looks fantastic. Thank you. Do you think

more people will be showing vegetables, or is it too difficult?

At Chelsea, it is always difficult. 40 years ago, there were all the

seed houses with vegetable displays. But yes, to encourage more people,

we would love to see more veg stands. Now, ladies, if you just had

to choose one of veg for its eating, as opposed to is growing, which

would it be? I have got to say that you can't have any dish without an

onion. I like salads. My ideal tea is a nice salad of something strong

flavoured with watercress. I am glad you are still getting pleasure from

eating as well as growing them so superbly and giving us so much

pleasure. We think about vegetables before what we have with it. When I

was a child, we add potatoes every single day. Here at Chelsea, there

is a stand showing that they come in a huge rioting of shape, colour and

science. This is a spud which is Highland burgundy red. Cut that

open, and you get that intense colour in the middle. So not only

are potatoes good for you, but they look fantastic as well. Chelsea is a

floured, but it is also a vegetable show -- it is a flower show, and it

is a vegetable show, displaying vegetables so they look as good as

they could and also inspiring all of us, wherever we are, to grow them

and enjoy them at home. One man making a name for himself in

the world of vegetables is Mike Smith of Tom Smith plants. Mike

started showing ten years ago and has now reached the dizzy heights of

Chelsea Flower Show. We went to see him in his nursery in north Wales.

I find it unbelievable that it has only taken seven years to go from

entering a small village show it to entering the largest show in the

world, Chelsea. Veg, to me, is a thing we started

growing when I was a child. Without growing it, we wouldn't be eating.

When you start growing vegetables competitively, the passion really

gets to you, and we started growing them in the house as well. Here we

are. How about that? What do you think? That is what you call a leek,

isn't it? Without the two of us working together, Alison and myself,

it wouldn't happen. Can you open the door to make sure there is

ventilation? Will do. It takes total commitment, a total love of what we

are doing, to produce the results. I am the go for, really. I jump every

time he says quick march, do this, do that. Grid Europe and the other

one as well? It's open. Oh, excellent. We get on well. You can't

have two bosses. I know that sounds terribly chauvinist, but you can't

have two bosses. I suppose that makes me the boss, not(!). If you

have two leaders, you will end up falling out. True. We are not

professional, we are amateurs. We are new to this, really. BLEEP!

BLEEP. My dad was the local butcher. He was a keen gardener. He came home

from work and would go straight into the garden. Unfortunately, I lost my

dad when I was 14. He passed away on my 14th birthday of a heart attack,

and left a big hole in my life. At that point, I had to look after the

garden myself, so I had to get my sleeves rolled up and work to get

the garden sorted. Come into our world. We named the business after

my dad vomiting tribute to him, as our thank you -- green and it after

my dad, in tribute to him. Chelsea is a challenge. Broad beans are not

bad. Broad beans are quite an easy vegetable to grow. Peas are more

tricky, but we will get there. Fruit is as important as veg. Veg is one

thing, but fruit is something else. We grow oranges, lemons, mandarins,

lines tangerines. We also have an apricot tree in the back. And those

are our apricots growing on the tree. We were asked whether we would

like to put an application in for Chelsea, so we did last year. And

October came and this large envelope came through the post with RHS on

it. Opened the envelope and read it and went oh, my God, we are going to

Chelsea! I said, what have you let me in for!

It is a dream of Mike's? It is more than a dream. It is something I

never thought I would achieve. And just the two of us. And just the two

of us. Mike, first-timer at Chelsea, it must be hugely exciting to be

here? I still can't believe I'm here. You are here! I know. It is

incredible. Your exhibit is looking stunning. What medal did you get?

Silver Gilt. You happy with that? Chuffed to bits. You have an

interesting relationship with Alison, your wife. There is a

division of labour, can I call it that? We work well together. A

garden doesn't stop at 5.00. We work together.

She knows what I'm thinking. I know what she's thinking. You are saying,

go and do that! You are making her run around a bit? She wants to keep

fit! Fantastic. You have bought an exhibit here, it is about growing

veg in containers. I'm passionate about it. You have shown so many

different ways to do it. Run us through a few of them. A galvanised

tub. And this is just a tower of peas, nothing could be easier. A lot

of people haven't got much space and they might not own their home, too,

so they can move pots around with them. Of course they can. You have

the greenhouse in there. Do you have to have one of those? That is the

last thing you need. You need space. There's vertical space as well. You

are trying to... You want to bring youngsters through as well, getting

youngsters into it? Very much. It is fun as well. I love showing. I love

it. Which is a different standard of plant. Still, people need to have a

go. It is just good fun. And what can be better than growing your own

stuff? Yes. What else have you got? The leek. What has the response been

from the visitors? Unbelieve nl. -- unbelievable. Can they relate to

your exhibit? Oh yes. A lot of passionate veg growers get into the

nitty-gritty of growing veg. Anybody can do it. It isn't hard. You need

time and love. You need Alison to run around as well! She is a bonus!

She is here with you? Of course she is. She is hiding! You will come

back to Chelsea? Of course I am. Do you need to go for the Gold? It is

important. I will have another go. Right now, it's a dream. You feel

like you are living the Chelsea dream? Yes. Lovely to see you. No

doubt I will see you next year. That would be great.

Coming up, we'll be talking to the winner

And we'll be exploring the beauty of the gardens here at night.

Earlier, we met design expert Michelle Ogundehin,

a woman with her finger on the pulse of creative Britain.

We sent her into the Chelsea grounds to get her assessment

The idea of a perfect garden for me is absolute balancing, the modernity

and speed of life. It is somewhere to retreat and relax and engender a

sense of wellbeing. So I love gardens that have a healing

component to them. This is a glorious super bespoke

greenhouse-cum-conservatory, that blurs the boundaries between inside

and out, using these huge panels of glass.

Then the whole thing is floating on a fish pool. What really works for

me here, though, is that you have got this contemporary glass house

that could be quite hard and cold, but it's not because it's balanced

beautifully by the frothy woodland planting, so the whole thing becomes

very calm and meditative which is quite a feat to have pulled off.

This is probably my favourite expression of the indoor-out door

thing. Here we are using the natural components of a garden to create and

colour and craft that outdoor space so you have carved a space for

yourself to sit and enjoy this beautiful garden where the plants

are woven in amongst the stones. It is just the sort of place that

transports me. That is what I like about it.

I love this garden because it really is the ultimate expression of the

indoor-outdoor concept, the idea of the planted borders sort of right

between the lounge space here and then the dining-entertaining space

so there is no barrier, boundary between one and the other. You are

using all those interiors tricks that you would see inside but the

flow of continuous flooring, things like mirroring to reflect the garden

back to you. And there's some wonderful contemporary touches like

this very strong, graphic, cantilevered pergola and it is

softened with this wonderful foliage. It is my dream scenario.

When life today is so busy and you are always racing from one place to

the other, the idea of coming home to a retreat like this would be

glorious. Here at Nigel Cooper's

carnivorous plant stand, there is a whole host of weird

and wonderful specimens that look This grows in acid bogs in North

America. They also grow in my greenhouse. You can grow them on a

windowsill or in a porch. As long as they have got lots of water. They

need little treatment and they consume flies as their main source

of nutrition. Ann-Marie Powell has been hunting

down even more here at Chelsea. House plants are making a comeback.

Whilst lots of the old classics are returning, there are tonnes of new

stuff that you can choose from. Some house plants can really add drama to

an interior landscape. Here, this is beautiful. It needs to be kept humid

and in the shade. It will reward you year after year with these gigantic

elephant-ear-sized leaves. He has some small beauties down here. When

you are thinking about plant associations with your interior,

think about it as you would outside. Think about colour, texture and

growing conditions and put the plants together.

I really love the flowers here. That red colour will last for months.

You could partner that plant with this one, which is perfect for

bathrooms. I know you want to keep your house plants looking good. To

clean these leaves, remember a dry cloth.

Put these plants in the same place and you will have a wonderful, low

maintenance scheme. I know people worry about how much

time they have got to look after their house plants so I am pleased

with this little self-watering plant pot. Here, we have a ceramic disc,

and the roots will regulate its water uptake. That will last for a

month. If you are busy, or you have to go away, this self-watering

system will make sure you don't have to water your plants for weeks.

I have always liked these upside-down planters which make

plants grow in a whole new way. They are structural, elegant and fun!

I think that cactus are some of the hippiest plants you can get. There

is so much variation? They are very cool, as it were. People use them a

lot more now and they mainly as well for the structural design. They

become part of the layout of your room. The bigger the plant, the more

impact it has. Cacti are ideal house plants and they will outlive the

owners if they are looked after properly. If you treat these plants

well, they will become your companion in your home for the rest

of your life. I need a new friend! Some great ideas for house plants

there. If you have a steamy bathroom with no direct sunlight, what would

you plant in it? There is a clue in the product in front of you. You got

it in one. They are perfect for your steamy bathroom.

Well, another very popular plant to grow

indoors is the colourful Streptocarpus, or the Cape Primrose.

We visited Dibley's Nurseries to find out more about this rather

I love them because they are such easy plants to grow. They flower for

such a long time. There is any colour you could want for. I like to

think my family have been instrumental in bringing them to the

fore. And turning it into the supermodel of the house plant world.

There is all sorts of colours, patterns, speckles, and there are

mixtures of yellows, blues, pinks, purples. They are beautiful plants.

It all started over 40 years ago when my father was given some

plants. I don't have as much input now as I used to. It was once upon a

time all me, but now I leave it to the youngsters. My father's always

around. If he is not in the greenhouse, he is probably out with

the railway, but he always is around here. Coming down and criticising

what is going on occasionally as well. That is my job! I was looking

at the Chelsea plants. They want some work doing on them. This is our

main glasshouse, where we produce all the plants. We will have 50,000

to 60,000 plants here at any one time. We are the biggest growers in

this country and we supply the big garden centres throughout the UK. We

do mail order into Europe. We sell the plug plants, the starter plants,

and we supply throughout the EU. Scandinavia is a big market for us

because they have a short summer season, so house plants are very

popular over there. They do come from South Africa originally. And

the wild varieties are quite different from the hybrid varieties

we sell here. I have been to South Africa five times and seen them

growing in the wild. They are not outside, but they are growing

underneath trees, on trees, under rocks. The Cape Primrose is the

common name. I suppose started growing over 40 years ago. It

evolved as a hobby and I started growing a few and showing a few,

then we started selling a few. When you show them, people think they

were very hard to grow because they look so exotic. But they weren't,

they were easy to grow. You have your potting compost? Yes. We

propagate from leaf cuttings to increase our stock so from one plant

and one leaf, you can get several hundred young plants which are

identical to the parent plant. From all of these secondary veins, which

I have exposed, you will get a young plant growing from each one of

these. We will take these leaves and then sow them into the seed tray.

Put the leaf a third deep into that and then backfill it. From the

cuttings I'm taking now, this is a seed tray that was done probably 12

weeks ago and then what you do is take sections with the compost and

the roots all in tact and that can be planted in a small pot and it

will create a new plant. So that is how you create a perfect

clone to the parent. But if you want to create something new and

different, you need to take the pollen from one flower. And then put

that on to the stigma of the other plant. Gently dusted onto the

stigma, and that will grow into a seed pod which in about three

months' time, you can sow the seed, and each seedling will be slightly

different, hopefully, to the parent plant. We have bred over 70

different hybrids over the years. And we keep producing more as well.

Lyn, what did the judges say? They were really pleased with what we did

and they have given us that gold medal. Congratulations, but you are

getting used to those. How many now? That is 27 now. I am laughing in

admiration, fantastic. You have explained clearly how easy they are

to propagate, but I know some people get anxious about general

maintenance. Should they have a rest period to allow them to flower, how

much water, how much sun and shade? What is the key to growing them

happily? Well, they don't need a rest. If they want to flower, let

them flower. Feed them a high potassium feed, something like a

tomato feed, once a fortnight at a half strength. From March through to

October, you will get a nine-month flowering season. And what about

watering? Keep them on the dry side. Wait until the compost gets slightly

dry and then give them water. Don't leave them sitting in water. You

often see people thinking all house plans have to be in a saucer. You

can put them in a saucer, but poor any surplus waterway. Finally, in

that film, you showed them in deep shade. How much sun will they

tolerate? They will take a certain amount, early morning and evening

sunlight. But they will not like midday sunshine, so ideally, grow

them on an east or west facing windowsill. How hardy are they? They

are not frost hardy, but keep them dry and they will go down to quite a

cold temperature. So cold greenhouse or reporter be fine. The

streptocarpus are looking amazing. Last night, I was as rude as I could

be. I summoned all the rudeness in my being about big O'Neills. You

did! -- about begonias. I have to say, these are looking fantastic.

Well, these are grown for their foliage, not the flowers. You get

pinks, purples and Greens all within the foliage. Maybe my taste is

maturing. Thank you for bringing us such a fantastic stand. Thank you

very much. Huge amounts of energy and materials

go into building these gardens and in the past, the whole process

of putting on this show has been But for many of the gardens,

life doesn't end when the gates The Morgan Stanley garden is going

long stock and barrel onto the roof of Great Ormond Street. It was

always designed that way. I caught up with Chris earlier. Chris,

stunning garden. It has Chelsea garden quality written all over it.

It is rich and herbaceous, but more importantly, it is rich and shade

loving and herbaceous. This is unusual in show garden terms because

it was specifically designed to be on the roof of Great Ormond Street

Hospital. Not a lot of sunshine gets there, surrounded by other things,

so we had to use a shade loving palates. As well as the plants,

because it has a life after, does that change the way you approach the

design? It certainly changes the approach, because everything was

dictated by the end location. So the amount of shade we have got, the

fact that it is in a wind tunnel to provide protection, you need a sense

of it sitting back in the garden. You need more resilient plants.

There was a great risk, because there was no real compromise of the

design to bring it to Chelsea. It was entirely designed for Great

Ormond Street, and then we hoped that piece of work would make its

way and perform at Chelsea, which we are thrilled with. It is for Great

Ormond Street, but it is not for the children, it is for the parents of

the children at Great Ormond Street. It is not meant to be accessible and

wheelchair friendly, this is a space mainly to relax in and get away from

it all. It is primarily aimed at the parents. When you think the children

at Great Ormond Street face a very uncertain future, one of the key

ways in which they are able to prosper within that hospital is of

course the support of their parents. And the pressure that is put on the

parents is extraordinary, so we wanted to create a green church, if

you like, into which the children could dispatch their parents and

say, this is a place to go and recharge, to embolden the spirit and

emotions, and then come back onto the ward with a smile and a renewed

enthusiasm and determination to cope with the situation. It is the way

things are going. We are now understanding the benefits of

gardening and health and therapy and recovery. A lot of hospitals and

hospices don't have outside space to relax in. It is extraordinary. All

the data from around the world them and stressed the health giving

properties of green space on whether you can access it or whether you can

even see it. One piece of research said there was a 60% reduction in

self-induced painkillers if people could see out into a green space.

And we as designers need those numbers to be able to say, this is

valuable. It is key. Design a green space first, then designed the

hospital around it. Absolutely. You're planting has got better and

better throughout the week. You have got another gold medal, Chris. It is

so nice that this is going to live on at Great Ormond Street.

One last result was announced today, and this is the winner of the BBC

RHS People's Choice Award. The result was God 's own county, a

garden for Yorkshire. I'm here with the designer, Matthew. People

obviously love this garden and voted for it in their thousands. What do

you think they particularly liked? Well, from talking to people, I

think they got the concept of the garden. They love the stained glass

and the relationship between the stained glass and the planting. That

is not something people will have seen at Chelsea before. I think

people like the craftsmanship, starting with the stained glass and

also the stonework. And I think they love the planting. I have heard

lovely comments about it. The planting has come alive over the

last week, not that it wasn't before, but it has noticeably

settled in and grown and flowered. This is an aspect of Chelsea that

one doesn't really consider. No, but of course you are at the prime

growing time across the UK, the third week of May. Plants are

growing like the clappers, and here they are getting lots of attention

and being watered. It has been a lovely week for whether. I sat here

earlier, watching honeybees weaving in and out of the flowers and

thinking, wow, four weeks ago this was just a dull, grassy bank. Now I

am feeding London's honeybees. New won a silver medal from the judges.

I know it was a bit of a disappointment, although you are

gracious about it. Does this make up for it? Absolutely. This is such a

wonderful thing, because it reinforces all the wonderful

comments I had during the week. And it speaks from real gardeners,

people watching the programme night after night, day after day, enjoying

the gardens and seeing something in this that they find inspirational,

aspirational, that they can take home. That is why people voted for

it. Well done. Those of you who voted for Matthew have made him one

happy man tonight. We've seen how fantastic these

gardens look in daytime, but when the sun goes

down, the magic doesn't to see the gardens in

a completely different light. Toby Buckland has been to find out

how the gardens at the show When the sun sets over Chelsea,

there is not a cue for all the show gardens to go to bed. Some are

designed to impress 24 hours a day. Sure, the life of a show garden

might be short, but when darkness falls, they light up the night like

fireflies. I like the way this garden is lit, because it is warm,

useful and inviting. And best of all, it has a cockpit. The, garden

light is a spot lamp. The tradition is to direct it to whatever you want

to eliminate, but the beam is as bright as a car head lamp. It can be

blinding. This light uses regular spot lamps, but they are directed

onto a white wall and the light is bounced to create a lovely, soft

glow. There are no shadows, but the light is bright enough to read a

book by. Lighting is so transformative, especially when used

to pick out individual plants. These, when lit from below, are

turned from leather really at plants by date into geographers' maps with

yellow rivers cutting through verdant green mountainsides,

wonderful. This garden also has LED lights embedded in box hedges. They

are like the portholes of planes, exciting, raising a sense of

anticipation. Used well with water, garden lighting can be otherworldly

and can add another dimension. But designers also use it to focus on

their guard and's message. -- on the garden's message. Light can make the

mundane seem special. But even here at Chelsea, where perfection is

everywhere, it adds another layer, a lair of romance.

Although good lighting does look fantastic, turn it off when you go

to bed, because it is not so good for what life. -- for wildlife. Joe,

this year has been special. What have you noticed? In the last couple

of days, some of the gardens, their plants are still growing. Those

gardeners who have taken the plants out of the pots are relaxed. It is

going to be ashamed to take them away. If I had to put you on the

spot, is there any one thing you want to take with you? There is one

that holds water and is a bird bath. I have thought about this and what I

would take is the Granite Square, the sarcophagus. I would put that in

at Longmeadow, and it is only 44 tonnes. You could take it back on

the bus! Joe and I are both on the rocks, which is a hint that that is

it. We've had a glorious

week here at Chelsea, and all good things must come

to an end. Tomorrow, the bell will ring

at 4 o'clock to mark the famous Chelsea plant sell-off

and all the gardens and exhibits bringing about the end of another

year here at the most famous Joe and I will be back tomorrow

night on BBC Two at 7.30pm to share more of our favourite moments

from across the week. Until then, from the 103rd RHS

Chelsea Flower Show, it's goodbye! The biggest and bloodiest

naval battle...