:00:07. > :00:08.They say it's the taking part that counts, but let's be honest,
:00:09. > :00:10.if you've put your heart and soul into something,
:00:11. > :00:17.Which is why today is all about the medals.
:00:18. > :00:19.And believe me, all the exhibitors and designers
:00:20. > :00:30.So join us over the next 45 minutes as we reveal this year's roll call
:00:31. > :01:04.Hello and welcome back to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
:01:05. > :01:08.After the glitz and glamour of yesterday's royal visit,
:01:09. > :01:12.it's down to the serious business of the medals results.
:01:13. > :01:15.Yes, medals day can make or break a designer's career,
:01:16. > :01:26.so we'll be looking at the gardens that struck gold and revealing why
:01:27. > :01:30.our instant gardener, Danny Clarke, shows us how to get some
:01:31. > :01:34.Today he's looking at creative ways to spruce up the walkways
:01:35. > :01:38.Carol continues her journey around the world, discovering how plants
:01:39. > :01:43.Plus former news correspondent Kate Adie shares her love of Chelsea
:01:44. > :01:49.and tries her hand at our plant challenge - pot luck!
:01:50. > :01:56.And don't forget we want to hear from you.
:01:57. > :01:59.Get in touch on twitter @BBCFlowerShows using
:02:00. > :02:05.All that and much more to come from the Chelsea Flower Show,
:02:06. > :02:09.an event supported by M Investments.
:02:10. > :02:13.But earlier this morning we were both very lucky to be
:02:14. > :02:16.invited along on the annual RHS medals hand-out, with the main show
:02:17. > :02:22.Not perturbed by the dawn alarm call, Nicki and I joined the RHS
:02:23. > :02:34.It really felt like the calm before the storm, as people gathered on
:02:35. > :02:37.Main Avenue for the main announcements.
:02:38. > :02:40.And when the medals dash starts, you've just got to run with it.
:02:41. > :02:42.And believe me, that's not easy in these heels.
:02:43. > :02:55.It's an early start and I'm sure the designers and exhibitors didn't get
:02:56. > :03:00.a wink of sleep last night, because it's medals day. I will see you on
:03:01. > :03:06.the other side. This is Matthew Wilson. It's his second Chelsea
:03:07. > :03:13.garden. Got a silver gilt last year. I wonder what it will be. A silver
:03:14. > :03:18.medal. I'm really pleased with everybody who's been involved in
:03:19. > :03:23.this garden. It's been a fantastic effort for Yorkshire. Were you going
:03:24. > :03:27.for the gold? Of course we were. Sam is one of the youngest gardeners in
:03:28. > :03:36.Chelsea. I'm over the Moon. Really chuffed. This is James.
:03:37. > :03:46.Congratulations. What are you going to do for the rest of the day? I'm
:03:47. > :03:51.going to bed! We are on the hunt to see if we can find Nick Bailey. It's
:03:52. > :03:56.his first ever Chelsea garden and I think he's pulled it out of the bag,
:03:57. > :04:01.with some really unusual planting. Congratulations on a fantastic
:04:02. > :04:07.garden. Fantastic, thank you. Well done, a silver gilt. I know why we
:04:08. > :04:16.didn't get gold I think. It's the motivation to go in even harder next
:04:17. > :04:23.time. Cleve is one of my all-time design heroes. He's won Best In Show
:04:24. > :04:30.with five golds. Thank you very much. A gold medal.
:04:31. > :04:38.APPLAUSE APPLAUSE. Thank you. It's the best garden I've done here, so
:04:39. > :04:45.I'm very happy. How are you feeling, Jo? I don't think I can actually
:04:46. > :04:52.speak. OK, I'm going to hold your hand. Jo's been here eight times and
:04:53. > :05:03.describes Chelsea as her mountain to climb. Congratulations. Thank you!
:05:04. > :05:06.Well done. I've got a gold! Jo Thompson, congratulations. You are
:05:07. > :05:14.going to love this week at Chelsea. I know it's been a painful build...
:05:15. > :05:23.But it's been worth it. Tears of joy. Thank you, thank you! As ever
:05:24. > :05:28.it was a real privilege to be part of the present ace this morning. In
:05:29. > :05:33.total, there were six gold medals handed out on Main Avenue alone, so
:05:34. > :05:37.James, what does that say about the standard this year? Six is only one
:05:38. > :05:40.less than last year. The thing about perfection is it is difficult to
:05:41. > :05:46.attain. The standards are high for a reason. We are standing on a gold
:05:47. > :05:52.medal-winning garden, Paul Martin. He must be thrilled. Why in your
:05:53. > :05:56.opinion did the judges decide this was worthy of a gold medal? It is
:05:57. > :06:01.hard to tell unless you can see the brief, but the attention to detail.
:06:02. > :06:06.It is dripping in glass. You step in and you do feel the sense of
:06:07. > :06:09.atmosphere, like you've been transported somewhere else. That's
:06:10. > :06:13.what designing is all about. Everyone is appearing for these gold
:06:14. > :06:19.medals, and you've won a couple in your career here alone, but you have
:06:20. > :06:23.won silver gilt and silver. What goes through your mind? That's
:06:24. > :06:29.because no-one sees me when the medals are handed out, because I am
:06:30. > :06:35.one of those people who can't hold their disappointed face. It's tricky
:06:36. > :06:39.isn't it? It is totally worth it. There'll be more analysis tonight.
:06:40. > :06:47.Monty will be revealing who has won the Best Show Garden for 2016. The
:06:48. > :06:54.margins between a gold and silver gilt medal can be minimal. Toby
:06:55. > :07:03.Buckland reveals why he thinks these gardens just missed out on gold.
:07:04. > :07:10.I've been coming to Chelsea for a very long time and I have never
:07:11. > :07:14.heard the crowds whoop at a garden like they do at Diarmuid Gavin's
:07:15. > :07:20.before. He got a silver gilt, not a gold. I can't help but think if this
:07:21. > :07:24.garden and the other winners of silver gilt just a decade, they
:07:25. > :07:31.would have a gold award. What's changed in that time is the judging
:07:32. > :07:37.has become harsher, more picky. This is a theatrical garden, and that's
:07:38. > :07:44.its Achilles heel. I don't think the resin matches the real stuff in the
:07:45. > :07:48.garden below. While the planting a joyous, it works brilliantly, I
:07:49. > :07:57.don't think the judges would like the way the plants brush and bruise
:07:58. > :08:02.against each other as they move. When I heard that Hugo Bugg's garden
:08:03. > :08:08.hasn't won a gold, I was as surprised as anybody. It is based on
:08:09. > :08:13.the landscape of Jordan. No-one knows that one better than Hugo.
:08:14. > :08:17.He's been out there for two years designing a botanic garden. Its
:08:18. > :08:22.brief was about the preciousness of water. Then I was looking at the
:08:23. > :08:26.planting. I thought, well, it's a lovely mix of arid plants, plants
:08:27. > :08:33.that will survive in the driest of conditions. But I feel really bad
:08:34. > :08:38.saying this, the grass in particular, it just wouldn't grow
:08:39. > :08:43.like that. Normally you have a parent plant and the progeny seeds
:08:44. > :08:49.itself outwards from it, with different sizes, some up from the
:08:50. > :08:55.gravel, and some around its feet. This looks a bit plonked in. It is
:08:56. > :09:00.splitting hairs, but it's true. Catherine McDonald's garden is
:09:01. > :09:05.another triumph. It is a lovely mixture of lush planting and the
:09:06. > :09:08.pool and the trees conspire to create a soft humidity that's so
:09:09. > :09:13.welcome here in London. What's let her down is technology and new
:09:14. > :09:17.materials. Inside the greenhouse she's got a glass floor. Glass is a
:09:18. > :09:21.difficult material to snag, because it doesn't show its faults
:09:22. > :09:26.immediately. It needs to bed in before flaws inherent within the
:09:27. > :09:32.glass start to show. The other thing the judges might not like, and this
:09:33. > :09:36.is just my opinion, is the pond. It lacks the technology, the filtration
:09:37. > :09:40.system needed to keep it clean, particularly with large fish in it,
:09:41. > :09:44.and the drag out the leaves when the birch trees drop them in the autumn.
:09:45. > :09:49.But these are minute points but they are exactly what the judges use to
:09:50. > :09:54.differentiate the brilliant silver gilt winners from those that have
:09:55. > :09:58.the top mark of gold. One man who knows from experience the enormous
:09:59. > :10:03.effort needed to strike gold here at Chelsea is Cleve West, winner of two
:10:04. > :10:13.Best In Show awards, he's back this year bringing a very personal vision
:10:14. > :10:19.of Exmoor to Main Avenue. I was born in London and grew up in
:10:20. > :10:26.Thames Ditton. When I was 14 years old, in 1972, my whole family moved
:10:27. > :10:32.to Exmoor, to run this hotel, the Lorna Doon. I think my fondest
:10:33. > :10:36.memory of this place is the fact that we came here exactly at the
:10:37. > :10:47.same time as Fawlty Towers was popular on TV and my dad was Basil
:10:48. > :10:51.Fawlty. It was hilarious. Quite a culture shock coming to a quiet
:10:52. > :10:57.little village, but on the other side we had the lovely countryside
:10:58. > :11:11.to roam in and escape into. I used to high tail off into the hills down
:11:12. > :11:18.to the sea. It was just perfect. We are in this wood, which is just up
:11:19. > :11:22.Porlock Hill. The atmosphere of this place was really powerful. That
:11:23. > :11:27.stayed with me for such a long time. I used to do athletics and run in
:11:28. > :11:31.the hills. I competed against the likes of Daley ey Thompson and
:11:32. > :11:39.Linford Christie - obviously I let them win! It's come as quite a shock
:11:40. > :11:49.that I've become a gardener and a garden designer. I'm trying to evoke
:11:50. > :11:54.a memory. That's the most difficult thing at Chelsea. I've decided I'm
:11:55. > :11:59.going to have oak trees. Oak trees are key to the whole garden. I will
:12:00. > :12:04.use things like blueberries in the garden, just as a token, but I
:12:05. > :12:13.really don't want to recreate this. You can't do it in a 10 by 22 metre
:12:14. > :12:20.space. The amazing thing about Exmoor is the diversity. You've got
:12:21. > :12:25.the rockscape, the sea views, moorland, Coombes, valleys, fields.
:12:26. > :12:31.It is so diverse it's incredible. Stone is going to play a large part
:12:32. > :12:37.in this garden. Not in a natural way as you see here. It's going be more
:12:38. > :12:44.contrived so they form retaining walls and benches. We are going to
:12:45. > :12:49.have a mixture of rough hewn stone and sawn stone, so you get
:12:50. > :12:54.contemporary edge to the whole thing. It is interesting on the way
:12:55. > :13:00.up here we were passing all sorts of woodland plants like wild garlic and
:13:01. > :13:04.Angellica. All the things you associate with woodland. But I don't
:13:05. > :13:08.think I was conscious of that when I was in my teenage years. I certainly
:13:09. > :13:15.wouldn't have known the names of them. I wasn't interested in
:13:16. > :13:21.gardening at that time, but now it is a new experience for me coming up
:13:22. > :13:26.here and being able to read the landscape more clearly. When I was
:13:27. > :13:32.about 18 we moved back to London as a family. I went to a college to do
:13:33. > :13:36.art and physical education. Very fortunate to have worked in David
:13:37. > :13:41.Hockney's studio for a week. I had an aunt who lived just around the
:13:42. > :13:47.corner. I used to spend lunch times with her. She had a big garden in
:13:48. > :13:52.Chiswick. I suddenly got hooked on gardening. The penny dropped at that
:13:53. > :13:56.moment. When my aunt died she left me a small legacy and I was able to
:13:57. > :14:02.support myself at the Hampton Court Flower Show. That got me on the
:14:03. > :14:06.first rung of the ladder. So I'm eternally grateful to her for that.
:14:07. > :14:14.It is curious how things work out. This wasn't planned by any stretch
:14:15. > :14:19.of the imagination. What I want to try and do is to make a very
:14:20. > :14:24.contemporary space that acknowledges the memory of living in Porlock and
:14:25. > :14:27.Exmoor. Iving in Porlock and Exmoor. We've got the ingredients - oak
:14:28. > :14:34.trees, stone, water and woodland planting. The trick is going to be
:14:35. > :14:36.to mix those up and make it a modern, contemporary garden that
:14:37. > :14:40.evokes Exmoor without it looking like Exmoor. It's a bit of an
:14:41. > :14:46.experiment really and I'm a little bit nervous about it. It's a
:14:47. > :14:58.challenge. I always enjoy a challenge at Chelsea.
:14:59. > :15:05.The man has smashed it. One of the really tricky things as a designer.
:15:06. > :15:14.How do you get the feeling of it without copying it? How do it
:15:15. > :15:17.without creating a Las Vegas or Disney creation? You feel as if
:15:18. > :15:24.you've been dropped into Devon, but in a really, clean, crisp, amazing
:15:25. > :15:26.way. You've got this super, modernist landscaping here, matching
:15:27. > :15:31.traditional materials and some attention to detail. So this water
:15:32. > :15:36.feature for example, I think many other designers might feel the
:15:37. > :15:39.testimonidation to dye their water. What that does, it means you can
:15:40. > :15:47.hide all the stuff underneath the water. Here you have almost like a
:15:48. > :15:58.herring bone pattern. Crisp and clean. I have pictures of people
:15:59. > :16:07.with perpits cleaning around every rock. It says a lot. Cleve how are
:16:08. > :16:11.you feeling? Exhausted, but very, very happy. What's the trickiest bit
:16:12. > :16:16.of the build? Well, it all went to plan. The trickiest bit pass putting
:16:17. > :16:21.the posts up. I got the measurements wrong! This lush naturalistic look
:16:22. > :16:26.is the hardest thing to achieve and make it look natural. Formal blocks
:16:27. > :16:35.are easier to put together? Well, we practised a lot with this. We
:16:36. > :16:40.practised at the nursery. You've won so many golds, does it still feel
:16:41. > :16:46.exciting? It is a big thing winning a gold medal. I'm happy for
:16:47. > :16:51.everyone. Great teamwork. Ideas bubbling for the future? I may have
:16:52. > :16:56.peaked with this one. It is a very personal garden. I may have to think
:16:57. > :17:00.carefully before I do another one. Well done. Thank you very much. The
:17:01. > :17:04.gardens here at the show may look wildly out of reach, but that
:17:05. > :17:11.doesn't stop them from being inspiring. This week, the Instant
:17:12. > :17:16.Gardener Danny Clarke is looking for clever ideas to max maougs your
:17:17. > :17:23.garden's potential. Today, he has got a step by step guide to pathway
:17:24. > :17:27.perfection. Chelsea is a great place to have a
:17:28. > :17:31.look at landscaping. It is a show room of exquisite building
:17:32. > :17:35.materials. They might be high end and expensive, but the ideas are
:17:36. > :17:41.there for free. So what ideas are there out there for our paths? Now,
:17:42. > :17:46.this is Andy sturgeon's garden. This is high end Chelsea. It is so
:17:47. > :17:52.pristine, I've even had to take my shoes off! This is what you call
:17:53. > :17:56.crazy paving. I'm sure you're familiar with it. Although, it is
:17:57. > :18:02.expensive, it is possible for you to have this in your garden, but what I
:18:03. > :18:05.would be inclined to do is get off cuts from a local builder's
:18:06. > :18:16.merchants and get large ones and that will do the trick. It doesn't
:18:17. > :18:21.have to be expensive. The pathway, in Hugo Ugg's garden
:18:22. > :18:25.appears to be deconstructed. It takes you around the garden so it is
:18:26. > :18:30.a voyage of exploration, he is not just using concrete. He's using
:18:31. > :18:33.gravel as well. Now, by using gravel, he is giving himself extra
:18:34. > :18:38.planting opportunities because what you can do, is plant straight into
:18:39. > :18:43.the gravel here. Like he has done all over the plot over there. If
:18:44. > :18:46.you've got a small garden at home, by using this deconstructive
:18:47. > :18:53.principle that Hugo used, you can make your garden look bigger than it
:18:54. > :18:59.actually is. This is Nick Bailey's show piece and
:19:00. > :19:03.I love it! Now, unlike the previous garden this is all gravel and the
:19:04. > :19:07.pathways are defined by the plants. Now you can literally get up close
:19:08. > :19:13.and personal with them and you can go off in any direction you wish to
:19:14. > :19:18.choose. Now, it is a win, win situation here because the gravel
:19:19. > :19:22.will also mean that you've got a low maintenance garden. It will keep the
:19:23. > :19:28.weeds down and it will also keep the rainwater in. This is the same sort
:19:29. > :19:31.of agoey gate they use at the palace of Versailles, but at the end of the
:19:32. > :19:38.day this is just gravel and you can get it from any garden centre.
:19:39. > :19:46.Whatever path you create in your own back garden, make sure it takes you
:19:47. > :19:50.on a voyage of discovery. If you don't have the luxury of having a
:19:51. > :19:57.garden to put Danny's advice into practise, there is a wealth of house
:19:58. > :20:06.plants that can add serious wow factor to your home like these
:20:07. > :20:09.plants. These have become big name in house plants over the last 40
:20:10. > :20:14.years and they have got 26 gold medals here at Chelsea. They have
:20:15. > :20:20.become the biggest grower in the UK of the popular flowering plant,
:20:21. > :20:24.Streptocarpus. We caught up with Lynn Dibley as she prepared to win
:20:25. > :20:27.40 different varieties to Chelsea this year. I love Streptocarpus
:20:28. > :20:31.because they are easy plants to grow. They flower for such a long
:20:32. > :20:36.time and there is any colour practically that you could want for.
:20:37. > :20:40.I like to think that my family have been instrumental of bringing
:20:41. > :20:45.Streptocarpus to the fore and turning it into the supermodel of
:20:46. > :20:49.the house plant world. There is all sorts of colours. There
:20:50. > :20:54.is patterns, there is speckles, and there is lovely mixtures of yellows,
:20:55. > :20:57.blues, pinks, purples. They are one of the most popular house plants in
:20:58. > :21:03.the UK now. They're beautiful plants. It all started over 40 years
:21:04. > :21:08.ago when my father was given plants of Streptocarpus. I don't have as
:21:09. > :21:13.much input now as I used to. It was once upon a time practically all me,
:21:14. > :21:19.but now I leave it to the youngsters to do most of the day-to-day work!
:21:20. > :21:23.My father is always around. If he is not in the greenhouse, he is
:21:24. > :21:28.probably out with a gauge rail where he has, but he is always around
:21:29. > :21:32.here. And coming down and criticising what's going on
:21:33. > :21:36.occasionally as well! That's my job! I was looking at the Chelsea plants.
:21:37. > :21:42.I think they want some work doing on them. This is our main glasshouse
:21:43. > :21:45.here where we produce the Streptocarpus and we'll somewhere in
:21:46. > :21:49.the region of 50 to 60,000 plants here at any one time. We're the
:21:50. > :21:53.biggest growers of Streptocarpus in this country and we supply the big
:21:54. > :21:57.garden centres throughout the UK. We do mail order into Europe. We sell
:21:58. > :22:02.the plug plants, the starter plants. And we supply throughout the EU.
:22:03. > :22:05.Scandinavia is a big market for us because they have a short summer
:22:06. > :22:16.season so house plants are very popular over there.
:22:17. > :22:21.Well, actually Streptocarpus do come from South Africa originally and the
:22:22. > :22:26.wild varieties are quite different from the hybrid varieties we sell
:22:27. > :22:30.here. I've been to South Africa five times and seen Streptocarpus growing
:22:31. > :22:34.in the wild. They grow in woodlands so they're not outside in the
:22:35. > :22:42.pairries where it is really hot, but they are growing underneath trees,
:22:43. > :22:50.over rocks on trees even. The foliage looks like a primrose, but
:22:51. > :22:56.they are not related at all. Well, I suppose, starting with the constant
:22:57. > :23:00.nymth, my father started growing that over 40 years ago. That was the
:23:01. > :23:03.first one we started with. It just gradually evolvedful it was a hobby
:23:04. > :23:10.and just growing a few and showing a few and then we started selling a
:23:11. > :23:13.few. No one knew what they were and when you showed them, people thought
:23:14. > :23:17.they were very hard to grow because they looked so exotic, but they
:23:18. > :23:21.weren't, they were easy to grow and easy to propagate. You've got your
:23:22. > :23:26.potting compost. Yeah, I've got some here. We propagate from leave
:23:27. > :23:32.cuttings to increase our stock so from one plant and one leaf you can
:23:33. > :23:39.get several hundred plants which are identical to the parent plant. From
:23:40. > :23:43.these secondary veins, you will get a young plantlet growing from one of
:23:44. > :23:50.these. We will take the leafs and sow them into the seed tray. But the
:23:51. > :23:54.leaf a third deep into that and back fill it. So from the cuttings I'm
:23:55. > :23:59.taking now, this is a seed tray that was done probably about 12 weeks ago
:24:00. > :24:02.and then what you just do is take sections with the compost and the
:24:03. > :24:11.roots all intact and that can be planted in a small pot and it will
:24:12. > :24:14.create a new plant. So that is how you create a perfect clone to the
:24:15. > :24:18.parent, but if you want to create something new and different, you
:24:19. > :24:26.need to take the pollen from one flower, by taking it from this one
:24:27. > :24:32.and put that on to the stigma of the other plant. Gently dust it on to
:24:33. > :24:38.the stigma and that will grow into a seed pod which in about three months
:24:39. > :24:43.time, you can sow the seed and each seedling will be different hopefully
:24:44. > :24:48.to the parent plant. We've bred over 70 different new
:24:49. > :24:58.hybrids over the years and we keep producing more as well.
:24:59. > :25:07.Lynn scooped gold and we will be discovering how later this week.
:25:08. > :25:18.The abundance of perfume plants and flowers create a blanket of scent
:25:19. > :25:22.across the showground. These beautiful flowers, lilies smell
:25:23. > :25:28.design, but which plants and flowers on show here can we use at home to
:25:29. > :25:34.make sure our gardens look a million dollars and smell fantastic too?
:25:35. > :25:41.Rachel de Thame has the answers. Sadly, smellivision Hasn't been
:25:42. > :25:45.invented yet, but there are great examples of scent here at Chelsea
:25:46. > :25:54.and good ideas to take home and where better than to start than
:25:55. > :25:58.here. This is the Queen of herbs and this beautiful garden has been
:25:59. > :26:04.awarded a silver gilt medal. She uses one of the best tricks in the
:26:05. > :26:07.book by planting a scented plant along the side of a path. In this
:26:08. > :26:13.case, it is lavender and that means as you walk past, you brush past it,
:26:14. > :26:19.you release the essential oils and that aroma just comes wafting up.
:26:20. > :26:24.Visitors to James' garden are commenting on unusual, warm
:26:25. > :26:31.fragrance and it is coming from the this beautiful acidic yellow plant.
:26:32. > :26:37.Of course, it was used to make a blue dye and it ferments and makes
:26:38. > :26:43.an almighty stink, it isn't pleasant. With the heat, it releases
:26:44. > :26:48.the flowers beautifully. They say that good things come in small
:26:49. > :26:53.packages and here, you've spotted some lily. The fragrance that's
:26:54. > :26:57.released from it is really delicious. It is also a shade lover.
:26:58. > :27:05.So if you've got a shady garden, that would be the perfect choice. Jo
:27:06. > :27:08.Thompson's garden features masses of beautifully fray grant roses
:27:09. > :27:17.including one of my favourite old roses. Lovely soft petals. It is
:27:18. > :27:22.bred in the 1850s. And a real classic in terms of fragrance. Of
:27:23. > :27:28.course, many new introductions also have really good fragrance. This is
:27:29. > :27:32.an English rose from David Austin. Although it only flowers once in the
:27:33. > :27:37.season, the fragrance on this, oh, that really is good. Often the first
:27:38. > :27:47.thing to catch your eye about a plant at Chelsea is its colour or
:27:48. > :27:52.its form. But its most captivating feature is the power of its scent.
:27:53. > :27:57.From the power of scent to power plants. As all week Carol Klein is
:27:58. > :28:00.revealing the increditble impact some had on the way we live our
:28:01. > :28:05.lives. In today's plants that make the world go round, Carol is finding
:28:06. > :28:13.out how the humble tulip help create one of the world's best loved
:28:14. > :28:19.cities. It is May and the grand finale of
:28:20. > :28:24.one of the most colourful and elegant of all flowers, but it is a
:28:25. > :28:33.plant that changed the course of history.
:28:34. > :28:36.It caused one of the great financial crashes of the it is a story that
:28:37. > :28:44.has its beginnings in the Netherlands. The plant, of course,
:28:45. > :28:49.is the tulip! We love tulips for their grace and
:28:50. > :28:56.the huge variety of their form and colour and they are the basis of a
:28:57. > :29:01.multi-million euro industry and who could possibly be surprised by that?
:29:02. > :29:09.Think of tulip and you usually think of the Netherlands, but in actual
:29:10. > :29:16.fact they come from this huge area which runs from Turkey through to
:29:17. > :29:21.China. Tulips arrived in the Netherlands in
:29:22. > :29:26.the late 16th century and nobody had ever seen their like before. Such
:29:27. > :29:29.colours. Such forms. It started a craze and that was the beginning of
:29:30. > :29:46.tulip mania! The tulip that was the most sought
:29:47. > :29:52.after was the broken tulip. It looked a lot like this, a white
:29:53. > :30:02.background and these red lines. But that amazing colouration was caused
:30:03. > :30:09.by a virus. By 1637, a bulb of one of these broken tulips could cost
:30:10. > :30:14.you as much as an Amsterdam canal house - more than ?2 million in
:30:15. > :30:20.today's money. But you weren't buying a bulb, but the promise of a
:30:21. > :30:26.bulb. It was the start of the first futures market. But they were
:30:27. > :30:33.trading in diseased bulbs. The bulbs didn't increase and promises could
:30:34. > :30:37.not be fulfilled. The bubble burst. Almost overnight the economy
:30:38. > :30:42.collapsed. The Netherlands could no longer afford to maintain their Army
:30:43. > :30:47.and Navy. They lost lots of their overseas colonies. And in one of
:30:48. > :30:56.them the English moved in without a single shot being fired. And New
:30:57. > :31:06.Amsterdam became... New York. Start spreading the news, I'm leaving
:31:07. > :31:16.today, Iwana be a part of it, New York, New York.
:31:17. > :31:20.It's not often you see high kicks in the Great Pavilion. Well done,
:31:21. > :31:24.Carol! This year a new trend has emerged at Chelsea which has seen
:31:25. > :31:27.big name garden designers collaborating with organisations and
:31:28. > :31:34.nurseries to create ambitious Zimbabwe its inside the Great
:31:35. > :31:37.Pavilion. Tom Hoblyn is one of them and he is here championing
:31:38. > :31:42.sustainability projects in the developing world. This is a kitchen
:31:43. > :31:48.garden I believe. I've never seen anything like it before. This is the
:31:49. > :32:04.Tamil in additionue kitchen garden -- this is the Tamil Nadu companien
:32:05. > :32:07.garden. They focus on bitter gourds, and we've grown tomatoes,
:32:08. > :32:14.aubergines, even ginger and cardamom. And this is all in India,
:32:15. > :32:18.where you've travelled extensively. We've been working out there, so
:32:19. > :32:25.when the charity asked me to help them, I was only too pleased to do
:32:26. > :32:30.it. The charity gives free seeds to the villagers. It is such a neat
:32:31. > :32:35.idea, I couldn't resist joining in. This huge plant, is this for shade,
:32:36. > :32:42.decoration, or is it a food source? It is a food source. Remember we
:32:43. > :32:48.used to make tap yolk ka alschool... Yes. They make food from it.
:32:49. > :32:53.Everything is edible. Lovely to see you here. All the best with the
:32:54. > :33:01.project. Thank you. Tom isn't the only designer in here this year.
:33:02. > :33:04.Sarah has teamed up with hilliers to create this enormous garden, with a
:33:05. > :33:09.lake containing 25,000 litres of water. Monty and Joe will have the
:33:10. > :33:15.full story tonight. The number of exhibitors in the
:33:16. > :33:19.Great Pavilion growing fruit and veg has dwindled in recent years, but
:33:20. > :33:28.Tom Smith plants are proving you don't need a big operation to
:33:29. > :33:32.compete in the big time. I find it unbelievable that it has only taken
:33:33. > :33:36.us seven years to go from entering a small village show to entering the
:33:37. > :33:53.largest tering a small village show to entering the largest show in the
:33:54. > :33:58.world - Chelsea. Veg to me is a I veg to me is something we grew as a
:33:59. > :34:03.child. If if you didn't grow it, you wouldn't be eating. When we grew
:34:04. > :34:10.then competitively the passion gets to you and you start growing them in
:34:11. > :34:17.the house as well. Here we. How about that? What do you think?
:34:18. > :34:23.That's what you call a leek isn't it! I will tell you straight,
:34:24. > :34:26.without the two of us working together, Alison and myself, I
:34:27. > :34:30.wouldn't happen. Can you open the door to make sure there's
:34:31. > :34:40.ventilation when the sun comes out? Will do. OK. It takes total
:34:41. > :34:49.commitment, a total love of what we're doing, to produce the results.
:34:50. > :34:53.I'm the gopher really. I jump every time he says, quick march, do this,
:34:54. > :35:00.do that. Do you want to open the other one as well while you're at
:35:01. > :35:07.it? It open. Oh, right. Excellent. We get on well. We are a team. You
:35:08. > :35:10.can't have two bosses. And I though that sounds totally chauvinist, but
:35:11. > :35:15.you can't have two bosses. I suppose that makes me the boss... Not. If
:35:16. > :35:24.you have two leaders, you will end up falling out. True. We were not
:35:25. > :35:38.professional. We're amateurs. We're new to this really. Oh... (BLEEP).
:35:39. > :35:45.Things happen. (BLEEP). My dad was the local butcher in Ruth in. He was
:35:46. > :35:50.a keen gardener. He would come hope from work and go straight out in the
:35:51. > :35:56.garden. I lost my dad on my 4th birthday. He passed away of a heart
:35:57. > :36:00.attack. He left a big hole in my life. At that point I had to look
:36:01. > :36:08.after the garden myself, so I had to get my sleeves rolled up and see how
:36:09. > :36:21.to work the ground to get the garden sorted. Ta-da! Come in to our world.
:36:22. > :36:27.We named the business after my dad, in tribute to my dad, as a thank you
:36:28. > :36:32.for showing me what it's all about. Chelsea is a challenge, because we
:36:33. > :36:38.are totally out of season. Broad beans are not bad. They are quite an
:36:39. > :36:42.easy vegetable to grow out of all of them. Go on to peas, they're a
:36:43. > :36:47.little more tricky, but we get there. Fruit is as important as veg.
:36:48. > :36:54.Veg is one thing, but I think growing fruit is something else. We
:36:55. > :37:00.grow oranges and lemons and mandarins, limes, tangerines. And
:37:01. > :37:06.we've also got an apricot tree at the back. Our little apricots are
:37:07. > :37:11.growing and they are swelling it beautifully. We were asked if we
:37:12. > :37:16.would like to put an application in for Chelsea, which we did last year.
:37:17. > :37:21.An envelope came in the post with RHS on it. I opened the envelope and
:37:22. > :37:27.thought, oh my God, we are going to Chelsea! What have you let me in
:37:28. > :37:31.for?! It is a dream of Mike's really. It was more than a dream. It
:37:32. > :37:35.is something I never thought I would achieve. Just from two little
:37:36. > :37:45.polytunnels in a field. That's basically what it is And just the
:37:46. > :37:47.two of us. Just the two of us. What a colourful couple