:00:12. > :00:18.We have had lots of laughter. We have had tears and there have been
:00:19. > :00:25.more than a few surprises, but we have now reached the finale. The
:00:26. > :00:31.show is over for another year, but here is a look at some of the
:00:32. > :00:32.highlights. Sit back, put your feet up and enjoy our flower filled
:00:33. > :00:59.feast. up and enjoy our flower filled
:01:00. > :01:22.highlights. Sit back, put your feet up and
:01:23. > :01:22.Chelsea flower show. The last six days
:01:23. > :01:32.Chelsea flower show. The last six some of the world's
:01:33. > :01:49.Chelsea flower show. The last six spectacular. It
:01:50. > :01:49.Chelsea flower show. The last six the memory of the landscape.
:01:50. > :01:56.Recreating the landscape doesn't the memory of the landscape.
:01:57. > :02:06.has taken a memory and turned it into a garden, which is beautiful.
:02:07. > :02:06.How into a garden, which is beautiful.
:02:07. > :02:06.I love it, but the most into a garden, which is beautiful.
:02:07. > :02:28.moments was approaching this big into a garden, which is beautiful.
:02:29. > :02:33.chance to catch up with highlights from this very special week in the
:02:34. > :02:36.gardening calendar. We are revisiting some of our favourite
:02:37. > :02:42.show gardens, remembering who triumphed, and meeting some of the
:02:43. > :02:46.exhibitors and designers who hope to make this Chelsea flower show one to
:02:47. > :02:50.remember. The build-up began at the start of May when Sophie visited
:02:51. > :02:59.what would become the main showground.
:03:00. > :03:05.This is main avenue and it is about modes, rain and beautiful trees. It
:03:06. > :03:08.is hard to believe that in less than two weeks, this place will be
:03:09. > :03:20.transformed into spectacular show gardens. There are 17 show gardens
:03:21. > :03:28.in total, with some of the biggest names in garden design working very
:03:29. > :03:32.hard to get them ready. I have got this dry climate thing going on.
:03:33. > :03:40.Which is hard to imagine today. Look at us! It is a stage where it is a
:03:41. > :03:43.hole in the ground and mount wondering what I was thinking. The
:03:44. > :03:48.pressure, more than any other year, has been immense. For the first
:03:49. > :03:56.time, I am not liking it. The most exhausting thing about being here is
:03:57. > :04:03.not a building, it's not the plans, it is the fear of being crushed to
:04:04. > :04:09.death. So many vehicles and I'm convinced something is going to get
:04:10. > :04:15.me. This is perfect Chelsea weather. Every year, you wonder why you do
:04:16. > :04:36.it. You are in the rain and I am now stuck. The top goes up. Fantastic.
:04:37. > :04:43.It is a bit up in the air at the moment, but one of my favourite
:04:44. > :04:49.things is this tree. You come to Chelsea to seep perfection, but then
:04:50. > :05:02.you get this tree. They got a bit keen with the chainsaw. But that is
:05:03. > :05:11.the look. Seven days later and a lot has changed. Not least, the weather.
:05:12. > :05:18.You have got your first show garden here. Huge amounts of work. The
:05:19. > :05:22.husband will be inside where you normally are? I am stupid to have
:05:23. > :05:32.started this, show garden and inside. Totally bonkers. With this
:05:33. > :05:38.planting, it is celebrated as soon as it starts to rain. We are doing a
:05:39. > :05:52.little rain dance. It is working because you have a full day of rain
:05:53. > :05:59.tomorrow. It is a smart garden. You can water your garden whilst you are
:06:00. > :06:10.on the tube. Get your phone out? You think, what can I do, I can turn it
:06:11. > :06:14.on from my phone. How is this going? We have had tree problems, water
:06:15. > :06:21.problems. But we are there now, nearly. It is the hardest garden I
:06:22. > :06:24.have ever done. You are getting married and month after Chelsea.
:06:25. > :06:36.What has been the most stressful? Chelsea. First show garden how has
:06:37. > :06:41.it been? It has been amazing, horrendous, fantastic. I have never
:06:42. > :06:55.been so scared. It is the best flower show in the world and to have
:06:56. > :06:58.my space! It is just amazing. Once the building was complete, the
:06:59. > :07:11.doors were thrown open. I was privileged to get Mike first glimpse
:07:12. > :07:17.of the finished gardens at dawn. It is a fine, clear morning rising over
:07:18. > :07:20.London. I have Chelsea, not quite to myself, I am sharing with a few
:07:21. > :07:26.photographers, but the chance to look at the show gardens. And the
:07:27. > :07:31.weeks of work has come to an end. They are ready. Not yet judged, not
:07:32. > :07:44.yet seen by the world, but poised and perfect. What you're looking for
:07:45. > :07:50.at Chelsea is the special. Things that immediately hit you. This is
:07:51. > :08:00.one of them, the Telegraph garden designed by Andy Sturgeon. Andy has
:08:01. > :08:05.made a garden with geological power, using vast slabs of triangular
:08:06. > :08:14.stones but combining it with a very subtle, gentle planting. Using a
:08:15. > :08:18.palette that is low-key, but never drab, makes a combination that is
:08:19. > :08:30.entrancing. I think this is a really special garden.
:08:31. > :08:37.This garden, called the antithesis of supper guide, by Martin Cook and
:08:38. > :08:42.Gary Breeze looks like an enormous block of granite surrounded by drab
:08:43. > :08:49.gravel. It seems not a lot is going on. But then you notice there are
:08:50. > :08:56.tiny little holes on the side of the block. If you look through those
:08:57. > :09:01.holes, what is revealed is a beautiful garden. The combination of
:09:02. > :09:06.the stone and the garden hidden inside it creates one of the most
:09:07. > :09:18.uplifting things that I have ever seen at Chelsea. I
:09:19. > :09:24.think the M garden designed by Cleeve West is lovely. Inspired, I
:09:25. > :09:28.love the way the stones are manipulated and used and then become
:09:29. > :09:35.quite modern garden with an open space. That takes real skill.
:09:36. > :09:42.Knowing when to stop, knowing when not to fill a space with something
:09:43. > :09:48.is the sign of a master at his peak. Just for a short time, at the
:09:49. > :09:54.beginning of this long day, I have been able to share these gardens
:09:55. > :10:03.with a kind of innocents, and on sullied perfection. That has been a
:10:04. > :10:10.treat. This year there were 17 gardens are
:10:11. > :10:14.all vying for attention. Inspired by landscapes and plants from all four
:10:15. > :10:17.corners of the globe. Here is a taste of some of the gardens that
:10:18. > :10:23.went all out to grab international headlines.
:10:24. > :10:31.I found myself in one of my favourite places on Earth which is
:10:32. > :10:38.northern Provence. James, you won a gold medal, congratulations. Thank
:10:39. > :10:43.you. The garden is wonderful, but I have heard people say, it is very
:10:44. > :10:49.similar to last year. Are you repeating theme you are good at? It
:10:50. > :10:52.is the study of landscape each time and these landscapes have a tone to
:10:53. > :11:01.them, add texture to them. People react to the tone and texture. They
:11:02. > :11:04.see this bright flush and then this brown, slightly dry garden and they
:11:05. > :11:09.think it is the same as last year. But if you look at it closely it is
:11:10. > :11:14.a study of a completely different part of southern France. We just
:11:15. > :11:21.need to learn a bit more and pay more attention to detail. Like the
:11:22. > :11:24.landscape of Yorkshire. If you look at Yorkshire there are 15 different
:11:25. > :11:32.landscapes. The detail is remarkable. Any particular things
:11:33. > :11:39.that prove difficult or problematic? The real difficulty was the
:11:40. > :11:43.complexity, 200 species of plants. The way we manage that was spinning
:11:44. > :11:48.personalities through the garden. We put some of the girls putting their
:11:49. > :11:58.stuff in and then characterful people. It interesting people's
:11:59. > :12:02.personality comes through. It is my wife's favourite garden and I know
:12:03. > :12:19.the crowds and the viewers will love it also. This is Charlie Albo's
:12:20. > :12:23.second garden in a row. This has got plenty of structure, it is a
:12:24. > :12:29.minimalist, it is designed incredibly formal. We have these
:12:30. > :12:35.Hornbeam is hedges which create a courtyard feel up here. And we stand
:12:36. > :12:40.from one level down to the other. Everything feels so familiar and it
:12:41. > :12:44.feels very English. But when you look in detail at the plants, there
:12:45. > :12:49.is something slightly different going on, something more Australian.
:12:50. > :12:58.This box hedging which goes round to the bottom level, was all clipped on
:12:59. > :13:03.site. One guy did it so meticulously and it creates such a strong
:13:04. > :13:12.structure. C, your planting looks familiar, but it somehow isn't. We
:13:13. > :13:19.have all different things in. You are playing on a theme? The
:13:20. > :13:27.Melbourne climate is fantastic and you can grow a lot of plants. You
:13:28. > :13:33.could grow them here. You don't get a harsh frost like here. It can get
:13:34. > :13:39.a bit hot in the summer but not the baking heat like Sydney can get. I
:13:40. > :13:43.get a lot of support from my own garden going home after a busy week
:13:44. > :13:50.and it relaxes me and that is what I wanted to create. Was it easier this
:13:51. > :13:55.time? It was more stressful because you had the fear of the unknown last
:13:56. > :13:59.time around, but now you have two come up with what you know needs to
:14:00. > :14:04.be delivered. We have put so much work into this garden, we get here
:14:05. > :14:10.first and we leave last. You are showing the Brits up. We just want
:14:11. > :14:20.to do well. It is a fantastic garden. You must be delighted with
:14:21. > :14:27.this garden? I am thrilled to bits. My plants are looking like little
:14:28. > :14:32.jewels. They are standing to attention and flowering. The
:14:33. > :14:36.foxgloves were closed, but since I planted them, they are flowering.
:14:37. > :14:41.Just looking like butterflies, wonderful. You have been in the
:14:42. > :14:47.great Pavilion many times, but this is your first show garden. It is
:14:48. > :14:50.wonderful there are so many women this year? It is great we can show
:14:51. > :14:55.how skilled and there are some absolutely beautiful gardens
:14:56. > :15:06.The herbs you have grown, nurtured like babies, tell me about some of
:15:07. > :15:10.them. In this area, there's thyme, chamomile and menthol. All of them
:15:11. > :15:16.are edible. The chamomile is double flowered. You could make tea from
:15:17. > :15:21.it. You can use it in cooking. But it's the bees and butterflies that
:15:22. > :15:26.will come. If you're sitting here you have something to watch, as well
:15:27. > :15:31.as the water. This is your reflexology path. Yes, it is. It
:15:32. > :15:35.really does work. It's not so good to stand still on, to be honest. You
:15:36. > :15:39.have to keep moving around. It's fantastic. I wish you every bit of
:15:40. > :15:45.luck with your first show garden. Thank you very much indeed.
:15:46. > :15:51.There were a total of six gold medals awarded in the main show
:15:52. > :15:58.gardens. Chris Beardshaw's Great Ormond Street opt garden made for a
:15:59. > :16:01.beautiful, reflective sanctuary. It appears at the show before it moves
:16:02. > :16:04.to the roof garden of the hospital, where it will be enjoyed by the
:16:05. > :16:10.parents and families of children being treated there.
:16:11. > :16:14.A sense of peace and calm was captured's in Paul Martin's garden,
:16:15. > :16:18.which scooped gold for the clean lines and sharp details, against the
:16:19. > :16:23.foil of multistemed trees and subdued planting. Winning gold for
:16:24. > :16:29.the sixth time was Cleve West, with his M garden, which evoked his
:16:30. > :16:33.childhood memories of Exmoor, with its oak trees and the contrast of
:16:34. > :16:41.natural and precision with cut stone. Jo Thompson's Gold Medal
:16:42. > :16:46.design featured her take on a 21st century Rose Garden, complete with
:16:47. > :16:52.huge water fall leading down to an inviting lawn. A slice of France was
:16:53. > :16:55.brought to south-west London with this award-winning L'Occitane
:16:56. > :16:59.Garden. Andy Sturgeon was on the verge of tears, when he not only won
:17:00. > :17:03.gold but scooped his second Best Show Garden award for the dynamic
:17:04. > :17:09.telegraph garden. Many congratulations. Thank you.
:17:10. > :17:14.APPLAUSE Thank you very much. Now you can
:17:15. > :17:20.have this beautifully heavy... Congratulations. Well done. That's
:17:21. > :17:24.fantastic. You've won gold and done a fabulous garden. How does it feel
:17:25. > :17:32.to be best? Absolutely brilliant. I know it means a huge amount of work
:17:33. > :17:37.It's not just for me. This was a big journey, this garden. It's a huge,
:17:38. > :17:40.monumental task. I know a lot of people during the construction, even
:17:41. > :17:43.a few days ago, thinking oh, my God, those guys are never going to
:17:44. > :17:49.finish. There's so many heavy bits of stone, it's a huge task. The guys
:17:50. > :17:53.who have built this garden, Crocus, all the guys and girls who. Planting
:17:54. > :17:59.with me, they've done an amazing job. This is very much for
:18:00. > :18:05.everybody, I think. Congratulations, well done. Many congratulations.
:18:06. > :18:08.Thank you. For over a century the Great Pavilion has been the place to
:18:09. > :18:13.see plants from all over the world at the peak of their perfection.
:18:14. > :18:17.Inside horticulture's big top there were plenty of show stoppers which
:18:18. > :18:23.gave the gardens outside a run for their money.
:18:24. > :18:30.People have a tendency to think of gardens as natural. But really you
:18:31. > :18:33.use natural ingredients to create artificial theatre and there's no
:18:34. > :18:38.garden that's more theatrical than this. Tell me about it. It's a
:18:39. > :18:44.massive theatrical jigsaw, to take people on a journey, onto a 1920s
:18:45. > :18:49.British Pullman carriage. You come out and you're in Malaysia. You've
:18:50. > :18:53.been on a trip. 60 feet long, 38 tons To be able to go in and pop out
:18:54. > :18:58.on the other side, you really feel you've been on a journey. I hope so.
:18:59. > :19:05.And I hope it encourages people for their own gardens. I love the tree
:19:06. > :19:10.firms. The hairy tree fern, that's fantastic. It has scales on it. Also
:19:11. > :19:14.the silver tree fern. We probably got the only two left in Europe now.
:19:15. > :19:23.All this afternoon and dantsing girls! -- dancing girls! Chelsea is
:19:24. > :19:26.all about drama, all about excitement and if you're looking for
:19:27. > :19:34.that, this stand has it more than anyone else.
:19:35. > :19:39.Sarah Eberle has created a massive exhibit here. It's 22 metres by 12
:19:40. > :19:43.metres, which easily makes it one of the biggest gardens at the show,
:19:44. > :19:49.bigger than most of the things on Main Avenue. It's got 4,000 plants,
:19:50. > :19:57.towering trees, beautiful, modern pavilion and a lake. For me, this is
:19:58. > :20:03.a game changer for the pavilion. The thing that I absolutely love
:20:04. > :20:07.about the pavilion is this sense of anarchy. Outside the show gardens
:20:08. > :20:11.are sponsored and marked by points. The whole thing feels that so much
:20:12. > :20:17.work has gone into it, so much precision. I like the very British,
:20:18. > :20:22.slightly chaotic eccentricity of the pavilion. I like the different
:20:23. > :20:25.sizes. You might have a husband and wife with an exhibit and someone
:20:26. > :20:32.like Birmingham City Council with ten or 15 people involved, a huge
:20:33. > :20:35.exhibit. The different scale, of the plants, and the sizes of the
:20:36. > :20:42.exhibits. Then people who can show just one plant, just seeing a Gold
:20:43. > :20:44.Medal display of saracenia, and thinking it's the most interesting
:20:45. > :20:49.thing in the world, which it is for that moment. It's a celebration of
:20:50. > :20:55.obsession. It certainly is. When it all comes down to it, those
:20:56. > :20:57.spectacular displays are nothing without the award-winning
:20:58. > :20:59.performances from some unique individuals in their own starring
:21:00. > :21:13.roles Everyone's dressed to the nines,
:21:14. > :21:18.trying to stand out from the crowd. I'm not talking about the people!
:21:19. > :21:21.I'm talking about the plants. I want to find those subjects who are truly
:21:22. > :21:39.worthy of regal attention. On parade today, two ladies in
:21:40. > :21:49.waiting from the truly noble family. Their family name trips off the
:21:50. > :21:53.tongue. The first is agapanthus. They're renowned for growing these
:21:54. > :21:57.beautiful plants. They were flowers that were beloved by the Queen
:21:58. > :22:02.Mother. In fact it's even -- there's even one called Queen mum. Although
:22:03. > :22:08.we've become familiar with them in our gardens, they still retain this
:22:09. > :22:21.exulted status. They're very, very special plants. No wonder. Waiting
:22:22. > :22:28.in the wings are these Deb students -- debutantes. They're narines. They
:22:29. > :22:32.hold their elegant heads high. It's their very first time here and
:22:33. > :22:37.you're not expecting to see them, because essentially they are
:22:38. > :22:43.Autumn-flowering bulbs. But somehow Hoyland plants have managed to
:22:44. > :22:53.conjure them into bloom for their very first royal performance.
:22:54. > :23:01.Talk about regiments, Pomp and Circumstance - just take a look at
:23:02. > :23:10.these vegetables! This truly is Trooping The Colour. Is this a
:23:11. > :23:15.pyramid, a pillar or a pinnacle of purple podded peas? It sure puts
:23:16. > :23:25.those busbys in bearskins in the shade.
:23:26. > :23:31.Long before you see the brilliant colours of these beautiful
:23:32. > :23:34.hyacinths, you can detect their fragrance wafting around the Great
:23:35. > :23:42.Pavilion. They truly are the princesses of perfume.
:23:43. > :23:47.For me, this is the ultimate royal gala performance, the like of which
:23:48. > :23:54.we've never seen before. It's composed of the crown jewels of the
:23:55. > :24:05.floral world, hipaticus. It makes me feel like a queen.
:24:06. > :24:12.That beautiful stand won the prestigious Diamond Jubilee award.
:24:13. > :24:16.John was somewhat surprised to receive it, while he was enjoying
:24:17. > :24:25.his exhibitors lunch. Carol caught up with him to get his reaction.
:24:26. > :24:30.John, congratulations. I mean, huge congratulations. As far as I'm
:24:31. > :24:36.concerned, this award could not have gone anywhere else at all. I think
:24:37. > :24:40.sometimes if you believe you can - that something's worth doing, that
:24:41. > :24:48.you can achieve it. To do the stand is a dream. To get this as well,
:24:49. > :24:51.it's surreal, really. I'll probably - when I sober up tomorrow
:24:52. > :24:55.morning... LAUGHTER
:24:56. > :25:01.I might believe it. No, it's fantastic. What is it about these
:25:02. > :25:05.flowers that make them so special? What do you love? Why are you so
:25:06. > :25:12.fascinated by them? I just fell in love with them. When? Can you
:25:13. > :25:16.remember? When I was about 11. They were in my parents' garden, when
:25:17. > :25:22.they moved house. It was the worst place for a rock garden under a
:25:23. > :25:28.sycamore tree. There was a stream, there was water and they were
:25:29. > :25:35.growing there so happily. I was just intrigued. Then many years I was
:25:36. > :25:41.asked to do a talk in Japan on hellibores. And I said I'd go if I
:25:42. > :25:45.could see the hipaticus in the mountains and they did. That was it.
:25:46. > :25:49.You really are quite obsessional about these plants. I'm totally
:25:50. > :25:54.crazy because I wouldn't dream of going to another country if they
:25:55. > :26:00.weren't growing there. There's no point is there? ! Is that what it
:26:01. > :26:06.says on your passport, collector? Yeah! It's always been a dream to
:26:07. > :26:12.try and bring this sort of display to Chelsea, but it wouldn't have
:26:13. > :26:18.been possible without - Without your wonderful team. They are. Philip,
:26:19. > :26:21.Rupert, Simon, all the lads. You can't name them all. It's the end of
:26:22. > :26:24.the programme! LAUGHTER
:26:25. > :26:34.Congratulations, John. Very well done. I'm very proud to be here.
:26:35. > :26:39.Outside the smaller show gardens fall into two categories - the more
:26:40. > :26:44.conceptual fresh gardens which aim to deliver a message through design
:26:45. > :26:48.and planting and the bijou artisan gardens the jewels in Chelsea's
:26:49. > :26:54.crown, each created in a plot measuring around 25 square metres.
:26:55. > :27:00.With seven fresh gardens competing this year, Ann Marie and Toby went
:27:01. > :27:05.to have a closer look. I always really enjoy the fresh
:27:06. > :27:09.gardens at Chelsea. These are the gardens without any constraints. The
:27:10. > :27:23.designers can make them any size they like, embrace new technology or
:27:24. > :27:27.an exciting, unusual idea. This garden has particularly caught my
:27:28. > :27:30.eye. The theme of the garden is called Revive. That's wonderfully
:27:31. > :27:34.illustrated here. We've got this metal fret work that runs throughout
:27:35. > :27:41.the space supporting the natural. Look at those stems. It really feels
:27:42. > :27:47.like it's holding the yew up. We've got this naturalistic planting
:27:48. > :27:52.behind me here, moving through all sorts of plants, this represents
:27:53. > :27:55.Primaeval nature. Further round the space, more structure here and
:27:56. > :27:59.there. However I think where the garden doesn't quite succeed is the
:28:00. > :28:02.naturalistic planting could be bigger and the formal planting isn't
:28:03. > :28:08.formal enough. The only thing that really unifies nature here is the
:28:09. > :28:10.beautiful admittedly, lace work that runs through the space, but I don't
:28:11. > :28:26.think it's quite enough. I have to say, I really, really love
:28:27. > :28:30.this garden. This garden is a space in which to work. It's not only
:28:31. > :28:37.beautiful, but practical too. Let me show you how it works. So every
:28:38. > :28:41.single plant in this whole garden, the borage, and even nettles are
:28:42. > :28:46.used to make Dai. Here we've got these beautiful flow forms and what
:28:47. > :28:50.they do is naturally purify the water, which aids the Daiing
:28:51. > :28:54.process, as does this copper pot, which really enriches the colour.
:28:55. > :28:59.The wool goes in, it's Daied and is made into balls of wool, which I
:29:00. > :29:05.just love. The balls of wool become something completely magical. Up the
:29:06. > :29:11.steps and we've got this wonderful, tactile tapestry. Now the garden
:29:12. > :29:15.really highlights that we're losing our dying traditional skills, but my
:29:16. > :29:21.word it celebrates the craft and I love it! This is an unusual fresh
:29:22. > :29:26.garden design because it is a true garden. Yes there's two categories,
:29:27. > :29:30.conceptual and show gardens. I designed this together with Paul
:29:31. > :29:34.Robinson and we've created an urban space that you can sit and enjoy
:29:35. > :29:40.with friends, come together and just relax in a nice environment.
:29:41. > :29:50.here it has a wonderful sense of enclosure, but it is the size of a
:29:51. > :29:54.few car parking spaces yes, they will be broke up after the show and
:29:55. > :30:00.put into areas in London. So people can enjoy the space. This is the
:30:01. > :30:05.launch of the idea. It is about bringing premium quality green
:30:06. > :30:10.spaces to London. These small spaces face in on each other. I guess it is
:30:11. > :30:17.to bring different parts of the community together. Yes, the outside
:30:18. > :30:23.is a bit undulating, bit unknown and isolated. Inside, there is a party
:30:24. > :30:28.going on. Right colours, glitter in the paving. These cute little booths
:30:29. > :30:33.which make you feel safe and happy. If bees are drawn to flowers and we
:30:34. > :30:36.are drawn to colour and that is the thinking behind it? Yes, we have
:30:37. > :30:44.used organic and natural things to paint the trees with. They will
:30:45. > :30:51.hopefully act as beacons to drop people into these urban spaces. I
:30:52. > :30:55.love the orchids. It is a hardy garden orchid, specially bred for
:30:56. > :31:02.the show. Last year you got a silver last year, what you think you will
:31:03. > :31:07.get this year rush to mark I will be happy with a silver and above.
:31:08. > :31:14.Anything silver and above will be great. Good luck, he deserve it.
:31:15. > :31:19.Back to the small gardens and the partisan category, the brief is
:31:20. > :31:35.firmly rooted in the celebration of traditional crafts. This is the arts
:31:36. > :31:40.and craft inspired garden. Traditional music and flowers. My
:31:41. > :31:46.favourite part is this oak framed structure. It is chunky with a built
:31:47. > :31:52.in seat. It gives you a view out onto the world, an imaginary
:31:53. > :31:57.landscape. You got a silver medal, which is a great medal at Chelsea. I
:31:58. > :32:02.think the judges thought he was trying to fit too much into a small
:32:03. > :32:07.space. Lots of elements going on, but they don't come together in a
:32:08. > :32:20.cohesive garden. It is meant to energise and relax and in a small
:32:21. > :32:24.space it is hard to do two things. It is a fact our gardens are getting
:32:25. > :32:31.smaller so we have to be more ingenious with the way we use our
:32:32. > :32:35.space. And this Japanese designer has shown you can create a garden
:32:36. > :32:40.that is beautiful, but also space-saving. I think he has cracked
:32:41. > :32:45.it. With a small footprint he has created a two tier garden. What I
:32:46. > :32:49.like it he has planting up at this level. He is creating the scene with
:32:50. > :32:55.the maples and the masts so the whole scheme is integrated, even at
:32:56. > :33:00.this level. As you come down the stairs, you have this vertical
:33:01. > :33:06.garden, but it is also coming out at you like three-dimensional. You can
:33:07. > :33:10.get nice and close to plants like this time, that looked like they are
:33:11. > :33:16.growing out of the walls. Water features and it draws you to it
:33:17. > :33:27.beautifully. We have a terrace, a great garden. There is even space
:33:28. > :33:36.for a car. You would expect to see a Japanese import. No, this is Chelsea
:33:37. > :33:39.after all. At the way, everybody! Chelsea first time that lives a
:33:40. > :33:47.stone's throw away from the showground is Nick Bailey. He has
:33:48. > :33:56.designed, what I think of is the mathematics garden. It has caused
:33:57. > :34:05.quite a stir, it is a big garden, but it is a complicated theme. Maybe
:34:06. > :34:11.not to you if you are a mathematician. Was that deliberate?
:34:12. > :34:17.I am aware that all plants are run by these algorithms. All this stuff
:34:18. > :34:21.is going on inside so the garden was trying to extract and show the idea
:34:22. > :34:29.that mathematics underpins all life and growth. How have people
:34:30. > :34:34.responded? Most people arriving see the colour and the form and the
:34:35. > :34:38.void. It was important, but it was about showing the wildness of the
:34:39. > :34:43.beautiful plants and then subtly extract some of the mathematics. The
:34:44. > :34:49.water bowl at the front, has an incredible spiral that you find so
:34:50. > :34:53.commonly in nature, in Sunflowers, pine cones and pineapples. Elsewhere
:34:54. > :34:59.we have tried to pick plans with obvious geometric forms. The big
:35:00. > :35:03.message is this copper band that swirls through the garden that
:35:04. > :35:09.carries these real plans growth algorithms. Using copper like that
:35:10. > :35:13.was a big decision? It was, but I love copper as a material and we
:35:14. > :35:19.used it in so many different ways to try out the colours. We tried out
:35:20. > :35:24.scrambled eggs. You place scrambled eggs across the surface of copper
:35:25. > :35:31.and it brings out this incredible mottled texture. This is your first
:35:32. > :35:38.show garden, did it much your expectations? It exceeded my
:35:39. > :35:44.expectations, inasmuch as it took all my arts, energy and soul to
:35:45. > :35:49.produce it as well as the 40 people I worked with to produce it. We look
:35:50. > :35:54.forward to you coming back to Chelsea. I do hope so. All the
:35:55. > :36:00.wonderful designs would be nothing without the plants. A relationship
:36:01. > :36:09.between grower and designer is the key to a successful show. My name is
:36:10. > :36:14.Dave and I am the owner of a nursery in Somerset.
:36:15. > :36:19.I started growing plants when I was 16. I went to university and studied
:36:20. > :36:24.horticulture and I have been in the nursery business ever since, which
:36:25. > :36:30.is over 30 years. We first started growing plants for other Chelsea
:36:31. > :36:35.gardens in 2008 when we were approached by Andy Sturgeon. We got
:36:36. > :36:43.asked to grow the things nobody else wanted to touch. We have got 39 days
:36:44. > :36:47.to supply over 25,000 plants to seven different Chelsea flower show
:36:48. > :36:52.gardens. This is one of the main growing tunnels for plants for
:36:53. > :36:58.Chelsea. It is our hothouse. It is about 10 degrees a minimum to bring
:36:59. > :37:06.on some of the plants that are a bit slow at the moment. We are growing
:37:07. > :37:13.for quite a spread across the globe of plants. We are growing something
:37:14. > :37:19.for Nick Bailey which is called the chicken wire plans. It is the Zig
:37:20. > :37:26.Zag leaves which make it look like chicken wire when you look down at
:37:27. > :37:28.it. Our speciality is plants from a specific location. One of the
:37:29. > :37:39.craziest plants we are doing comes from New Zealand. It has got this
:37:40. > :37:46.registered, spiny leaves. We grow for designers from Australia, Japan.
:37:47. > :37:51.The challenge is what excites me. There is a lot of victories this
:37:52. > :37:57.year. A little bit of a new thing for us. These came in yesterday from
:37:58. > :38:04.Germany and you could buy quite a nice car for the price of one of
:38:05. > :38:12.these trees. The brief I had on this was that I needed to find one branch
:38:13. > :38:17.like that and one like that. We have got this for the Japanese guys at
:38:18. > :38:24.Chelsea, I think it is about 50 years old. We are a pretty small
:38:25. > :38:28.nursery, nine guys here, ten, 12 different growing locations. Gary
:38:29. > :38:33.manages the team on a day-to-day basis and they are a great bunch of
:38:34. > :38:36.people. Last couple of days we have had beautiful sunshine, a lot of
:38:37. > :38:40.things flowering and things moving so we are putting them in a cooler
:38:41. > :38:45.climate to make sure they are on target for the show. I lay awake at
:38:46. > :38:50.night sometimes thinking about the enormity of what we are doing but
:38:51. > :38:55.somehow it all works out in the end. Gary and I have a close working
:38:56. > :38:59.relationship, virtually every day we will walk the entire nursery in the
:39:00. > :39:04.morning and look at every single plans for every job and every
:39:05. > :39:08.designer. The most difficult and challenging plans we are growing
:39:09. > :39:14.this year is Lupin 's. They are nightmares. We only need a couple of
:39:15. > :39:21.days. Gary goes to London about halfway through the build-up. It is
:39:22. > :39:28.full on, 24 hours a day. It is crazy, absolutely crazy. Whilst we
:39:29. > :39:38.miss him here, the brilliant thing is, he is now based in London. We
:39:39. > :39:41.are in Chelsea, you get a bit hectic and people get pent but ultimately
:39:42. > :39:46.the plants come and they are nice, and that is what everybody cares
:39:47. > :39:53.about. Everything is looking good. It has just gone mid-day and I have
:39:54. > :40:00.had 27 phone calls. Clients get more stressed the closer to the show we
:40:01. > :40:07.get. It is our job to manage them and just say, it is OK, we know what
:40:08. > :40:13.we are doing, don't worry about it. It is incredibly full on at this
:40:14. > :40:17.time of the year. Constantly things are going round in your head.
:40:18. > :40:25.Failure, we don't talk about failure. It is not an option.
:40:26. > :40:31.Here I am on the mathematics garden with Dave. You have supplied a lot
:40:32. > :40:37.of plants? Yes, some of the shrubs, the trees and eclectic perennials.
:40:38. > :40:45.The diversity is extraordinary. It must make your job difficult? It was
:40:46. > :40:53.quite a challenge and even more so because the only joint Nick on the
:40:54. > :41:00.project in February. I love thinking, where will we find this,
:41:01. > :41:08.where do we go next. A lot of it is hunting them. I am their personal
:41:09. > :41:15.shopper. You go all over Europe, you know the guys in the nurseries in
:41:16. > :41:18.Europe. With Nick we went to Germany, we went to Belgium twice,
:41:19. > :41:26.we have been to Italy, Spain and Cicely. Just picking up 12 the
:41:27. > :41:32.plants. You have got to be a serious horticulturist and know what someone
:41:33. > :41:41.wants. It is not just finding it, it is getting the quality. You have got
:41:42. > :41:46.to have a beautiful one. You have to go and see it, that is what makes
:41:47. > :41:52.the job so time-consuming. You have do see it in person. Do you do most
:41:53. > :41:56.of your business through Chelsea now throughout the whole year? Are
:41:57. > :42:03.nursery is really geared around Chelsea. You have got a silver this
:42:04. > :42:09.year? Yes, and we worked with Tom hobbling as well. Lovely to see you
:42:10. > :42:17.Dave, keep supplying those fabulous plants. Thank you. Awards can and
:42:18. > :42:21.always will divide opinion and one man who is used to controversy is
:42:22. > :42:26.the artist and former Turner prizewinner Grayson Perry. Thank you
:42:27. > :42:35.for coming. Have you been here often? Never, I am a virgin. Your
:42:36. > :42:39.first visit, what are you expecting? I was expecting amazing
:42:40. > :42:46.craftsmanship, and that is what I am seeing. The love of it, the detail,
:42:47. > :42:52.the precision and the perfection. I am seeing it in all of the gardens.
:42:53. > :42:58.What about the social events? Chelsea has become this huge,
:42:59. > :43:03.ritualistic event? It is what I would call a mega fate of Britain.
:43:04. > :43:06.You have Wimbledon, the Royal Academy summer show, the Proms. It
:43:07. > :43:11.is the celebration of British culture that goes on over the
:43:12. > :43:21.summer. This is a big part of it. It is the produce show on steroids. Do
:43:22. > :43:24.you garden at home? No, I was put off by my parents. I was slave
:43:25. > :43:28.labour to my parents when I was young, and it puts me off. I love
:43:29. > :43:33.looking at gardens and I love sitting in the garden. I love the
:43:34. > :43:39.philosophy of what they mean. What do you think they mean? They are a
:43:40. > :43:45.meditation on mortality, in some ways. As I age and every spring, I
:43:46. > :43:49.find myself sighing and going, I have made it another year. There is
:43:50. > :43:53.something very touching about that. When you see the trees, the flowers
:43:54. > :43:59.coming out and the birds are nesting, it is like, we have made it
:44:00. > :44:04.through the winter. I find that very moving, more moving eg as I age. We
:44:05. > :44:12.send him off to look around the show. I like the idea of this garden
:44:13. > :44:19.very much. It's about dyes and natural colours. I am partial, often
:44:20. > :44:25.I use natural colours like cobalt and copper and so, I can have a
:44:26. > :44:30.sympathy for these shades. I'd like it see these gardens in about five
:44:31. > :44:34.years, see what they look like when they're mossy, rusty, dirty and
:44:35. > :44:37.crumbly and overgrown. I'm not so particularly keen on the shape of
:44:38. > :44:41.the garden. I think the stinging nettles on the corner is a wise,
:44:42. > :44:45.tactical plant. I can imagine the wear and tear on these gardens is
:44:46. > :44:54.heavy that. Will keep the corner nice and crisp. That's clever. This
:44:55. > :44:59.amazing stand of chrysanthemums here is a weird alienness that I find
:45:00. > :45:04.attractive and spooky. As a creative person, often I think that my job is
:45:05. > :45:09.to have my own series of mistakes really. That's what I do. There's no
:45:10. > :45:18.perfect art. It's marvellous to see the perfection of nature, I suppose.
:45:19. > :45:23.Because flowers, they are so transitory. What they're screaming
:45:24. > :45:29.at us is a beautiful, psychelelic vision of mortality. The joy of a
:45:30. > :45:36.garden for me is it's my private space, where I can just have a beer
:45:37. > :45:48.and watch the birds and watch the sun go down. For other people it's
:45:49. > :45:51.like an art gallery. These head dresses, they're amazingly well
:45:52. > :45:56.crafted. The thing that screams out for me on these is they're on male
:45:57. > :46:02.torsos. That made me think of the notion of flowers. Flowers are
:46:03. > :46:06.almost "the" symbol of femininity in many ways. Looking across the crowd
:46:07. > :46:12.here at Chelsea, I'm interested in the gender balance. It's about 70%
:46:13. > :46:17.female today, I'd say. We still think of the traditional horny
:46:18. > :46:23.handed son of the soil as being a man. I have a suspicion that most
:46:24. > :46:27.gardeners are female. One thing men do like is convenience. Maybe
:46:28. > :46:30.gardening is too hard work. I love this garden, it might be my
:46:31. > :46:36.favourite so far. I spent some time in Japan. For me, Japanese gardening
:46:37. > :46:40.for me is something, the attention to detail and the overall
:46:41. > :46:47.traditional aesthetic of it, I think the thing that really I love about
:46:48. > :46:50.Japanese gardening is there is something, an implicit ageing about
:46:51. > :47:03.it. They love a bit of moss. Every single detail has been made to look
:47:04. > :47:08.artificially natural. I'm kind of drawn into this one because I kind
:47:09. > :47:12.of match. That immediately sets off thoughts in my head about taste.
:47:13. > :47:19.Because taste is something that I've been fascinated with all my life.
:47:20. > :47:24.When people say I like something, that's a huge, complex thought. What
:47:25. > :47:29.makes us like something? Our whole lives are leading up to that moment
:47:30. > :47:32.we say I like something, your class, background, education, your job, how
:47:33. > :47:41.old you are, what gender you are, everything is coming to bear on why
:47:42. > :47:45.you like this thing. One person's horrific, vulgar naffness is another
:47:46. > :47:49.person's sublime beauty. Because taste is just a way of signalling to
:47:50. > :47:56.people in your tribe that you belong. There's no such thing as bad
:47:57. > :48:01.taste. Maybe... It's been something of a roller
:48:02. > :48:05.coaster ride for Matthew Wilson. He came to Chelsea last year and did
:48:06. > :48:10.his first show garden and was definitely disappointed to receive a
:48:11. > :48:13.silver gilt. Undeterred, this year he was back for more with a garden
:48:14. > :48:22.inspired by a beautiful part of England.
:48:23. > :48:30.This year I'm doing a garden for the whole of the county of Yorkshire.
:48:31. > :48:34.The attraction for me is it's a landescape that I absolutely adore.
:48:35. > :48:40.I never get border of it. I think you can't get border of it, because
:48:41. > :48:44.it's so diverse from big-scale, epic stuff right the way down to really
:48:45. > :48:48.intimate and very Kos eking landscape. It's got everything
:48:49. > :48:55.really. You can't take this landscape and stick it into a 22 by
:48:56. > :48:58.12 metre plot in Chelsea. You can be inspired by the elements - water,
:48:59. > :49:00.stone, plants, trees - and try to get something of that ruggedness and
:49:01. > :49:14.put that into a garden. It's not just about the landscape or
:49:15. > :49:19.the gardens of York Shh... Shire that have inspired -- Yorkshire that
:49:20. > :49:23.have inspired the Chelsea garden, it's this window, the greatest at
:49:24. > :49:27.Yorkshire, the largest expanse of medieval glass in Britain. What I
:49:28. > :49:32.find incredible about it, and so inspiring about it, is the way that
:49:33. > :49:37.the glass and the light interact and the way it changes through the
:49:38. > :49:38.course of the day. In the same way, actually, that light changes a
:49:39. > :49:54.garden during the course of a day. The garden is effectively the arch
:49:55. > :49:59.of the window laid on its side. So I've exploded all the elements and
:50:00. > :50:02.re-assembled them in a different way. The planting has been the
:50:03. > :50:05.biggest challenge. How can I actually get the landscape and the
:50:06. > :50:09.gardens of Yorkshire across through the planting? I've taken the shape
:50:10. > :50:13.of the windows and size of the individual windows and laid them
:50:14. > :50:19.onto the ground with a stone edge. Then into those stone windows, I've
:50:20. > :50:22.effectively planted plants that represent the colours of the stained
:50:23. > :50:28.glass in planting. That's the plan any way. I've gone for plants that
:50:29. > :50:33.have got hopefully quite a lot of character in them. Rather than
:50:34. > :50:37.things that are pristine, they're a bit more naturally and -- gnarly,
:50:38. > :50:51.craggy - a bit more Yorkshire. Capturing something on this scale is
:50:52. > :50:54.obviously a massive challenge for a Chelsea garden, where you're
:50:55. > :50:59.effectively scaling everything down. At the same time you've got to give
:51:00. > :51:04.it a sense of something big, impressive, something that people
:51:05. > :51:07.will go "wow". We are making a modern evokation of the Great East
:51:08. > :51:11.Window in the form of a five by three metre stained glass panel
:51:12. > :51:16.which the York glazers trust are making. And it will be big, not
:51:17. > :51:20.quite as big as that. But it's big nonetheless. It will be something
:51:21. > :51:28.quite unlike anything people have seen before at Chelsea. I'm very
:51:29. > :51:32.nervous about it. I'd be very stupid not to be nervous about it. Yes, I'm
:51:33. > :51:36.aware that a lot of people have spent a lot of time and energy and
:51:37. > :51:41.effort helping me to make this garden happen. So, yeah, I am
:51:42. > :51:51.definitely nervous about it. It's a big thing, isn't it? It's a
:51:52. > :51:56.big thing. There was a happy ending, because
:51:57. > :52:02.the public just loved his design, over all others and voted his garden
:52:03. > :52:07.as the RHS peoples choice for Best Show Garden.
:52:08. > :52:11.What does that mean to you? A huge amount. It reinforces the fantastic
:52:12. > :52:14.feed back we've had during the week, people really responding to the
:52:15. > :52:18.garden. Yesterday somebody came up to me and said, "I'm going to vote
:52:19. > :52:23.from your garden and I'm from Lancashire!" People obviously loved
:52:24. > :52:26.this garden. Voted for it in their thousands. What do you think it was
:52:27. > :52:32.that they particularly liked about it? Well, I hope that they - and I
:52:33. > :52:35.think from talking to people, they got the concept of the garden quite
:52:36. > :52:40.easily. They loved the stained glass. An the relationship between
:52:41. > :52:43.the stained glass and the planting. That's not something people will
:52:44. > :52:46.have seen at Chelsea before, certainly not on that scale. I think
:52:47. > :52:51.people like the craftsmanship and there is a lot of craftsmanship in
:52:52. > :52:55.the garden, the glass, the stone work and so on. I think they loved
:52:56. > :52:59.the planting. I've had such lovely comments about the planting. The
:53:00. > :53:03.planting has come alive over the last few days, not that it wasn't
:53:04. > :53:07.before, but it has noticeably settled in and grown and flowered.
:53:08. > :53:11.This is an aspect of Chelsea that one doesn't really consider very
:53:12. > :53:17.much. No, of course, we're at the prime growing time across the UK.
:53:18. > :53:20.Third week of May, plants are growing like the clappers. Here
:53:21. > :53:23.they're getting lots of attention. They're being watered. It's been a
:53:24. > :53:27.lovely weather week. Everything's growing together. I sat over there
:53:28. > :53:31.earlier on, watching honeybees weaving in and out of the flowers
:53:32. > :53:36.and thinking, wow, four weeks ago, this was a dull, old, grassy bank.
:53:37. > :53:40.Now I'm feeding London's honeybees. You won a silver medal from the
:53:41. > :53:44.judges. I know that although you were gracious about, it it was a bit
:53:45. > :53:49.of a disappointment. Yes, it was. Does this make up for it? Oh, yes,
:53:50. > :53:54.absolutely. This is such a wonderful thing because it reinforces all the
:53:55. > :53:59.wonderful comments I've been having during the week. It speaks from real
:54:00. > :54:02.gardeners, doesn't it, people watching the programme, night after
:54:03. > :54:08.night, day after day, enjoying the gardens and seeing something in this
:54:09. > :54:11.that they find inspirational, aspirational that they can take
:54:12. > :54:14.home, all those wonderful things. I think that's why people have voted
:54:15. > :54:19.for it. Well done, great success. Enjoy it. Thank you very much.
:54:20. > :54:26.Congratulations to Matthew. He's chuffed to bits. Congratulations
:54:27. > :54:29.also to Juliet Sargeant who won the RHS people's choice award in the
:54:30. > :54:33.fresh garden category. Does that surprise you? It doesn't. People
:54:34. > :54:36.always respond to a story, particularly, let's be Frank about
:54:37. > :54:40.it, if it plucks at the heart strings. It's a very serious message
:54:41. > :54:42.behind it. Absolutely, people feel somehow it deserves to be taken
:54:43. > :54:46.seriously and given an award. That's understandable. But of course, the
:54:47. > :54:51.judges don't do that. Nor should they. They are judging it on the
:54:52. > :54:55.garden. They don't care how much work went into it or what the back
:54:56. > :54:59.story is or anything like that. It's rare that the people's choice is the
:55:00. > :55:04.same as the judges' choice for Best Show Garden. Now in the artisan
:55:05. > :55:09.category, there was the meningitis garden which won the people's choice
:55:10. > :55:13.award. There's all the sculptures coming through the walls, again, a
:55:14. > :55:17.strong message. I think viewers can really connect with that. That's
:55:18. > :55:23.what it's about. It is, but you can't blame the judges for following
:55:24. > :55:26.their brief. No. That's the thing. People get confused about that
:55:27. > :55:32.sometimes, I think. The people's choice is about the people's choice!
:55:33. > :55:39.It certainly S It is now over for the people, for the judges and all
:55:40. > :55:42.of us. The RHS Flower Show 2016 an event supported by M Investments
:55:43. > :55:47.is coming to an end. We have been here all week from dawn till dusk.
:55:48. > :55:52.Tell me about it! Trust Toby to go the extra mile and do the night
:55:53. > :55:58.shift. He was rewarded with a magical, out of hours spectacle.
:55:59. > :56:07.When the sun sets over Chelsea, it's not a cue for all the show gardens
:56:08. > :56:11.to go to bed. Some are designed to impress 24 hours a day. Sure, the
:56:12. > :56:18.life of a show garden might be short, but when darkness falls, they
:56:19. > :56:23.light up the night like fireflies. I like the way this garden is lit
:56:24. > :56:30.because it's warm, it's useful, it's inviting. Best of all, it's easy to
:56:31. > :56:34.copy. The most common type of garden light say spot lamp. The temptation
:56:35. > :56:39.is always to direct it straight onto what you want to illuminate. That
:56:40. > :56:45.beam is as bright as a car head lap p and blinding. What I like about
:56:46. > :56:49.this design is he uses regular spot lamps, but they're directed onto a
:56:50. > :56:55.white wall and the light is bounced and it creates a lovely, soft glow.
:56:56. > :57:00.There's no shadows, but the light is bright enough to read a book by.
:57:01. > :57:06.Lighting is so transformative, especially when used to pick out
:57:07. > :57:11.individual plants. When lit from below, these are turned from
:57:12. > :57:16.leathery leaved plants by day into geographer's maps with yellow rivers
:57:17. > :57:21.cutting through verdant green mountainsides, just wonderful. This
:57:22. > :57:25.garden there are LED lights embedded in box hedges. They're like the port
:57:26. > :57:34.holes a plane, exciting, and raising a sense of anticipation.
:57:35. > :57:41.Used well with water, garden lighting can be other worldly, it
:57:42. > :57:44.can add another dimension. But designers also use it to focus on
:57:45. > :57:59.their garden's message. Light can make the mundane seem
:58:00. > :58:06.special. But even here at Chelsea, where perfection is everywhere, it
:58:07. > :58:17.adds another layier, a layer of romance. That's just about it from
:58:18. > :58:21.us at Chelsea. I'll be back next Friday, as usual, in the usual slot,
:58:22. > :58:25.Gardners' World and Joe and I will be there to bring you coverage from
:58:26. > :58:27.Hampton Court Flower Show at the beginning of July. Until then,
:58:28. > :58:54.bye-bye. Bye-bye. Once upon a time, there was
:58:55. > :58:59.a great and glorious king.