:00:11. > :00:13.This is the Great Pavilion, with over a hundred growers
:00:14. > :00:19.showcasing thousands of brilliant blooms, vying for your attention.
:00:20. > :00:22.Today, we are in the company of the best turned out
:00:23. > :00:26.These people and their plants have plenty to shout about!
:00:27. > :00:29.Here at the Chelsea Flower Show, we'll be bringing you the boldest
:00:30. > :01:05.blooms, finest flora and passionate people from the world of gardening.
:01:06. > :01:07.Welcome back to the 2016 RHS Chelsea Flower Show,
:01:08. > :01:13.an event supported by M Investments.
:01:14. > :01:17.Today, it's all about the plants in this, the Great Pavilion,
:01:18. > :01:20.as we find out who won which of those coveted medals.
:01:21. > :01:24.Also on the show, we track down Brendan Cole, as he leads us a merry
:01:25. > :01:31.And Danny Clarke dips his toe into the world of garden design,
:01:32. > :01:33.as he brings us more instant Chelsea ideas.
:01:34. > :01:35.We've barely drawn breath from medals day out on the show
:01:36. > :01:43.gardens, but the excitement in here certainly hasn't subsided.
:01:44. > :01:46.The displays within this Pavilion were positively glittering with gold
:01:47. > :01:56.as the medals were handed out yesterday to the exhibitors.
:01:57. > :02:03.The Chelsea Flower Show is the greatest Flower Show on Earth and to
:02:04. > :02:07.win any kind of a medal here is an enormous accolade. Whether it is
:02:08. > :02:15.Bronze, Silver, silvergilt or Gold, they are all an enormous honour. You
:02:16. > :02:33.have one! He has got a Gold! We so pleased.
:02:34. > :02:42.What have you got? Fabulous! You go so perfectly with everything, it is
:02:43. > :02:54.wonderful. It is a dream to try this. Sorry, I am getting too
:02:55. > :03:00.emotional. It was just wonderful. You do not expect it, it makes it
:03:01. > :03:04.even better. Gold medal! Cannot do better!
:03:05. > :03:06.If you've got a Chelsea gold medal-winning plant,
:03:07. > :03:09.then send it to us on Twitter and we'll share the best
:03:10. > :03:14.So while every plant in here has been preened
:03:15. > :03:17.and every display perfected, a few days ago, it was
:03:18. > :03:44.a very different story, as Sophie Raworth discovered.
:03:45. > :03:53.The famous Great Pavilion, a massive space to fill. The exhibitors do not
:03:54. > :04:01.have much time to do that. Just days to get everything in here looking
:04:02. > :04:06.perfect. Sarah, well-known at Chelsea but your first time in the
:04:07. > :04:10.Great Pavilion. It is indeed and it is terrifying. In here, it is all
:04:11. > :04:14.about the plans. If I place them prominently and on Monday morning
:04:15. > :04:20.when the Georges -- when the judges arrived they have not blossomed, it
:04:21. > :04:26.is a huge problem. This smells absolutely wonderful. Lots of gap
:04:27. > :04:36.filling to do and edges to do and things but we are getting on well.
:04:37. > :04:41.So what are you doing here? I am just giving these Primula a quick
:04:42. > :04:45.clean and taking out anything bad or not looking at its best. It is
:04:46. > :04:49.painstaking work. When you see the end results, it is worth it. You
:04:50. > :04:53.have been turned into these all year and getting them ready. Have you got
:04:54. > :05:02.any favourites? She my favourite. Oxley. With the face. When she
:05:03. > :05:07.flowers, she has a yellow bonnet. Do they all have names? No, just her.
:05:08. > :05:15.Is it always a bit of a mad rush? Yes. The weather is not helping me
:05:16. > :05:21.this year. The iris looks incredible. Two weeks ago, we
:05:22. > :05:26.thought we would not do irises here, we had snow and everything. Suddenly
:05:27. > :05:32.it just grew. Perfect timing. I hope so. So much work has gone into
:05:33. > :05:34.everything here in the Great Pavilion but it does all seem to be
:05:35. > :05:37.Pavilion but it does all seem to be coming together.
:05:38. > :05:39.There is no denying that the displays here
:05:40. > :05:42.But is it a case of the bigger the better?
:05:43. > :05:45.Toby Buckland has been to look at how those in the pavilion
:05:46. > :06:03.The time was when all displays were like this, single variety set
:06:04. > :06:06.against a black cloth backdrop. But RHS have encouraged people to go
:06:07. > :06:09.through in mentoring scheme, to be more maverick and tell stories with
:06:10. > :06:22.their plans and think outside the box. -- plants. Chris, it took part
:06:23. > :06:26.in the mentoring scheme. How was it for you? We can grow plants and talk
:06:27. > :06:31.about them and educate people on the products but how to bring in a theme
:06:32. > :06:36.and an idea, we just have not got that sort of design awareness. How
:06:37. > :06:42.does it work? The RHS appointed designer, it is Kate Galt who visits
:06:43. > :06:46.us at the nursery and we throw it into the melting pot. What is the
:06:47. > :06:51.difference between what you have done here and last year? Last year,
:06:52. > :06:55.we put the tall ones at the back and the small ones at the front and we
:06:56. > :07:00.had 80 at system but this year, we are using a lot of props and we
:07:01. > :07:04.would never come up with that idea that the designer Kate encouraged us
:07:05. > :07:07.to put the props on the display and incorporate them. You can see the
:07:08. > :07:15.sick cakes with the plants rolling out, the film reels. Why the film
:07:16. > :07:20.theme of flying down to Rio? It is quite a novel. A friend suggested
:07:21. > :07:25.it. A plant was discovered in the mountain regions of Rio de Janeiro.
:07:26. > :07:29.They looked delicate and tropical but they are really easy and you
:07:30. > :07:35.just needs to neglect them. Away from the frost. A lot of natural
:07:36. > :07:39.light and above freezing. What has reaction been from the crowd here at
:07:40. > :07:43.Chelsea? Really impressed, they really like it, very warmly
:07:44. > :07:46.received. We have really enjoyed working with the designer, coming up
:07:47. > :07:53.with the idea and she helps to expand on it. So it looks like the
:07:54. > :07:58.mentoring scheme is really working. And for the nurseries as well. I
:07:59. > :08:05.have never seen the Great Pavilion looking so, for! . Colourful! And
:08:06. > :08:12.who would have thought the Great British big chart would make such a
:08:13. > :08:17.great backdrop? But it does. I'd cannot work out which are the most
:08:18. > :08:24.colourful, fantastic! So big used to be best but it seems imaginative and
:08:25. > :08:27.This exhibit by the Horticultural Trade Association showcases
:08:28. > :08:29.different ideas for front gardens and bedding plants
:08:30. > :08:43.Yes, ladies and gentlemen, apparently bedding plants are back
:08:44. > :08:50.and I have noticed this guy, a new variety called Campfire. I associate
:08:51. > :08:54.this with acid green and lemon yellow at this burning ambition had
:08:55. > :09:00.is more subtle and more understated, I love the stuff! Another display
:09:01. > :09:02.using bedding plants to Olympic proportions is the sporty display by
:09:03. > :09:06.Birmingham City Council so we went to Birmingham to meet a man with his
:09:07. > :09:15.eye on the detail of this extraordinary effort. There is a
:09:16. > :09:20.reputation of the city as being concrete and industrial, we think we
:09:21. > :09:23.are a very horticultural city. We believe that we are one of the best
:09:24. > :09:33.local authorities for horticulture not in the UK but worldwide. Why
:09:34. > :09:39.not? We have produced around 2.5 million plants a year from our free
:09:40. > :09:45.nurseries and we take around 5,000 down to Chelsea. We have always
:09:46. > :09:48.tried to do something different at Chelsea. Every display has been
:09:49. > :09:54.completely different to the year before. We take the same plants, we
:09:55. > :09:58.are bedding displays, the majority of our plants. So we have to think
:09:59. > :10:03.of a different way of displaying those. This year's theme, we were
:10:04. > :10:07.really keen to do something about activity, we are doing a lot of work
:10:08. > :10:13.about getting people active and that is why we are calling it this. One
:10:14. > :10:19.small step. We have a wicker figure of Mo Farah and Usain Bolt. Usain
:10:20. > :10:22.Bolt, we have picked his trainers and we have a representation in
:10:23. > :10:28.carpet bedding. This year, we have been able to get involved with
:10:29. > :10:31.somebody adding a completely new Di mentioned to the display. So it will
:10:32. > :10:38.not just be the flowers on the display but actual pieces of art. I
:10:39. > :10:43.am a microscope to and I collect the smallest sculptures in the world and
:10:44. > :10:51.I put them through the high of a needle. I started off as a five-year
:10:52. > :10:57.old building furniture. And houses. For ants. When I started school, I
:10:58. > :11:06.realised that was a bit of a problem. I was told that I was
:11:07. > :11:10.nothing. So I am now exhibiting what they say is nothing. At when they
:11:11. > :11:20.see it, it will be the biggest nothing that they will ever see. I
:11:21. > :11:24.am bringing something to the Chelsea Flower Show that nobody has ever
:11:25. > :11:30.seen before. We are going to have microscopes especially made. With
:11:31. > :11:35.the sculptures inside. They will see a microscopic flower in the eye of a
:11:36. > :11:40.needle. They will see the four seasons, they will see a hummingbird
:11:41. > :11:42.taking nectar from a flower. So many things happening in the world today,
:11:43. > :11:56.we need to see some beauty. This is one of the mock-ups of one
:11:57. > :12:02.of the needles. I have never had something made big for something so
:12:03. > :12:06.small. So this is where we turn the plants into reality. The three
:12:07. > :12:14.needles are the focal point, the main thing that people see and that
:12:15. > :12:20.brings the two elements together. Your iconic hummingbird, we have
:12:21. > :12:24.recreated it out of fibreglass and we have sprayed it with car paint.
:12:25. > :12:29.That is beautiful. And we have lighting. On the day, it will look
:12:30. > :12:35.even better. Especially with the light shining through to give it
:12:36. > :12:40.that illuminates element. And in the tents, you get atmospherics and we
:12:41. > :12:47.hope the hummingbird was slightly bounced so it is actually really
:12:48. > :12:51.effective. I like the way everything has come together. And it is nice to
:12:52. > :12:55.have something big to represent something very small. My mother used
:12:56. > :13:00.to say, you can say something really big with something really small. And
:13:01. > :13:06.they are doing that, we are complementing each other so it is
:13:07. > :13:11.big versus the small. Going to the Chelsea Flower Show will be the
:13:12. > :13:15.first time for me. Yes, I think I am going to go for the smallest Gold
:13:16. > :13:22.medal ever made in the eye of a needle! I am here with the man of
:13:23. > :13:27.himself, had Birmingham city parks department, Darren Share. This is so
:13:28. > :13:32.compact but together, you must be so proud of yourself? Very proud to be
:13:33. > :13:39.here at the show and to represent Birmingham so loving it. What is the
:13:40. > :13:43.trickiest bit to do? The needles. Getting the large needles in place,
:13:44. > :13:47.imposition. They are nearly five metres tall and we have to be a
:13:48. > :13:51.seesaw at the top so that was a challenge at the beginning. You have
:13:52. > :13:53.structural engineering underneath before you start on the
:13:54. > :13:59.horticulture. We have the engineering and the X and the water
:14:00. > :14:02.and that sometimes does not mix! It has been worth it I understand
:14:03. > :14:08.because you have done well. We got a Gold medal which we are over the
:14:09. > :14:14.moon with. Fantastic. How many Gold medals is it? More than one. It is
:14:15. > :14:19.our 26 in total. You must have a fort Knox of a downstairs toilet!
:14:20. > :14:22.They are all over the wall in the office and we are proud of
:14:23. > :14:27.everything. What is the secret to success to get a Gold medal every
:14:28. > :14:31.year? Having a different theme. The plants are important and we grow
:14:32. > :14:34.everyone ourselves and they have to be perfect but what we do different
:14:35. > :14:40.is add a bit of theatre by using props and wicker, carpet bedding. So
:14:41. > :14:44.that is what we try and do every year. It is working really well, I
:14:45. > :14:49.cannot wait to see what you have got in store next year!
:14:50. > :14:52.dancer, Brendan Cole, and we caught him stepping out under this very
:14:53. > :15:02.roof. Here we are today, complete with
:15:03. > :15:05.dancers, at about an exhibit, that has proved popular with the general
:15:06. > :15:12.public, leading me nicely to my guest today, and it is great to see
:15:13. > :15:15.you, Brendan. Were you in ties to hear by the thought of dancing, is
:15:16. > :15:19.it the flowers that have really one your heart? -- Bowden exhibit. It is
:15:20. > :15:23.something that we look forward to every year, my wife and I, we soaked
:15:24. > :15:28.up the atmosphere and see what is new and what is old and we enjoy it.
:15:29. > :15:32.What is Chelsea mean to you? Inspiration is everything when it
:15:33. > :15:35.comes to gardening, we love our gardening, we do not have enough
:15:36. > :15:39.time for it, what we get from here, we get a touch of, I suppose, the
:15:40. > :15:43.magnificence of it, you try to recreate it at home, it never comes
:15:44. > :15:48.together like you see it done here of course. So many ideas, certainly
:15:49. > :15:52.getting ideas, originally you are from New Zealand, what is your UK
:15:53. > :15:59.garden like? I have an ongoing discussion with my wife, I love more
:16:00. > :16:02.of a structural planting, tree ferns, for example, but I live in an
:16:03. > :16:06.English country garden, quite a big garden, very hard to transform the
:16:07. > :16:10.whole thing into what I like or what Zoe likes, as she tends to keep it
:16:11. > :16:17.quite flowery, I keep bamboos and tree ferns, the Aces, that kind of
:16:18. > :16:22.thing. Am I allowed to test you? We have a test going on with all of the
:16:23. > :16:27.VIP guests, six plants for you to take a look at. I had wondered what
:16:28. > :16:32.they were. I am going to see if you know the names. You have got to put
:16:33. > :16:39.the right name with the right plant. Lets do it! You are used to being
:16:40. > :16:47.judged. All of the time, lovely part of my life(!) you have 32nd. -- you
:16:48. > :16:53.have 30 seconds. Named those plants! Lets see how we get on. We have that
:16:54. > :16:58.in my garden... That could be... That is that one there... That is a
:16:59. > :17:04.bit of a guess, it looks like that... Hold on, that must be
:17:05. > :17:11.yellow... I have done it wrong. Quick swap. I'm thinking this one
:17:12. > :17:17.here. Are you recognising any of the Latin names? I don't recognise
:17:18. > :17:23.them... What is that little one? I don't know. And Primula, we have a
:17:24. > :17:27.view that do not look like that, so that must be, Bosch, there we go.
:17:28. > :17:36.Killing it! How do you think you have done? I think that one is
:17:37. > :17:42.right! Are you able to pronounce it. -- bosh! You want to know how you
:17:43. > :17:46.have done, you are going to be pretty impressed, you have got six
:17:47. > :17:53.out of six! Well done, Brendan Cole, what a star. More than I thought I
:17:54. > :17:56.would get. You may be a passionate gardener, you are also an informed
:17:57. > :18:03.one. Six out of six, congratulations. Enjoy it, the rest
:18:04. > :18:08.of your day, thank you. Pleasure. I know that you often want to by
:18:09. > :18:12.things that you see, as a big fan, then spent too much money! Another
:18:13. > :18:15.man who knows his onions, Danny Clark, the instant gardening
:18:16. > :18:19.himself, he has been picking out ideas from across the showground,
:18:20. > :18:22.and advising an affordable turn it is. Here he is with some ideas to
:18:23. > :18:34.get your garden going. Look at this, I am in the Cathedral
:18:35. > :18:39.of London plane trees, and they are absolutely wonderful.
:18:40. > :18:45.Every garden should have a tree in it, does not matter how big or small
:18:46. > :18:46.your plot is, at the end of the day, you have got to choose a tree that
:18:47. > :18:59.is right for you. This is an example of how to use
:19:00. > :19:04.trees really well, and I think I know the reason why he has used this
:19:05. > :19:08.tree here, this offers dappled shade, not blocking out all of the
:19:09. > :19:12.light, I hear people say to me that they will not use trees in a garden
:19:13. > :19:15.for that reason, that you do not have to have any worries with a tree
:19:16. > :19:22.like this, this is what is called a wedding cake tree.
:19:23. > :19:29.Is so exciting, I think this garden is brilliant, and this is a small
:19:30. > :19:34.plot, what he has done is use the snowdrop tree, this tree will not
:19:35. > :19:38.grow much bigger than this. It is great for a plot this size. Look at
:19:39. > :19:44.this one over here, you might find this hard to believe, this is a
:19:45. > :19:48.birch tree. Many of us know that. But don't be frightened to mix
:19:49. > :19:52.varieties up, it will make your garden appear very interesting. With
:19:53. > :19:56.this you will have to keep it pruned, but it will not take long to
:19:57. > :19:58.do that, you can keep it under control, it will not get out of
:19:59. > :20:14.hand. If you have a small garden, what a
:20:15. > :20:19.better tree then this, an acer. Look at the varieties, brilliant, amazing
:20:20. > :20:23.colours, and what is brilliant about these, you can grow them in pots,
:20:24. > :20:27.they are portable, you can move them around the garden, if you know the
:20:28. > :20:31.weather will be inclement, then you can move the part closer to the
:20:32. > :20:36.house, and you can keep it cosy and out of harms way. If you move house,
:20:37. > :20:46.then you can take them with you, all in all, great tree for a small plot.
:20:47. > :20:50.-- move the pot closer to the house. Whether your garden is large or
:20:51. > :20:54.small, you should get a tree in your garden.
:20:55. > :21:04.Some brilliant cost ideas there, and I am with him on the acers, I have a
:21:05. > :21:08.small garden and they work perfectly. I am now joined by a man
:21:09. > :21:14.with his finger on the pulse of horticulture, lovely to see you.
:21:15. > :21:20.This was a real team effort, your exhibit. We had students working on
:21:21. > :21:26.it from design all of the way through to creating, we have had
:21:27. > :21:31.students looking at seed catalogues, choosing some of the pulse that we
:21:32. > :21:39.have grown, and down to the nuts and bolts of putting it together. What
:21:40. > :21:43.is so fascinating? We often take them for granted, pulses? They have
:21:44. > :21:48.kind of become a poor man's food, and yet there are so many benefits
:21:49. > :21:51.to growing them, nutritional benefits, social and economic
:21:52. > :21:56.benefits, and environmental benefits as well. -- socio economic. Going
:21:57. > :22:00.forward with the increasing population, we need an alternative,
:22:01. > :22:05.and pulses are the alternative. We are trying to re-educate ourselves
:22:06. > :22:10.as to what we should meet day-to-day, this term, superfood, we
:22:11. > :22:15.hear it so often, do they come under this category? We have quite a
:22:16. > :22:20.variety in front of us. Indeed, the actual nutritional benefits as a
:22:21. > :22:25.dried pulse is really high, and yet a lot of these can be eaten as a
:22:26. > :22:29.bean sprout, sprouting beans, really trendy, a lot of people using them
:22:30. > :22:36.because they have slightly different chemical make up to dried pulse. The
:22:37. > :22:42.nutritional value is lastly increased. Is this message just to
:22:43. > :22:48.the UK, are you trying to spread its overseas as well? It is a global
:22:49. > :22:52.initiative, the United Nations, they have designated 2016 as the
:22:53. > :22:57.International year of pulses, there is a global initiative, and so at
:22:58. > :23:01.the moment as we speak, over in Turkey, there is a conference going
:23:02. > :23:07.on, 138 delegates, from 138 different countries, all discussing
:23:08. > :23:15.how they can improve and expand the use of pulses. Zephaniah, Thank you
:23:16. > :23:19.the joining us. You will be joining us later on BBC Two, looking at
:23:20. > :23:23.Artisan gardens, we will enjoy that. I'm looking forward to it.
:23:24. > :23:30.As much as we all love gardening, there is far more to plants than
:23:31. > :23:34.simply being the object of our desire, always, Carol has been
:23:35. > :23:39.investigating those plants that make the world go round, you she is with
:23:40. > :23:48.another horticultural revelation. VOICEOVER: There is a plant that is
:23:49. > :23:54.growing all around the year, a national icon. -- all around here.
:23:55. > :24:01.Should I say, a national acorn, of course, it is the oak. The nation,
:24:02. > :24:09.the country we are talking about, England. Once upon a time, our
:24:10. > :24:14.islands were bounded with oak forests, we have used them to build
:24:15. > :24:20.our houses, and build our ships. 6000 oak trees were used to build
:24:21. > :24:25.Nelson's flagship, the victory. The oak supports the greatest diversity
:24:26. > :24:31.of insects of any British tree. -- the Victory. More than 400 different
:24:32. > :24:36.species. It is the combination of one of these with the oak tree
:24:37. > :24:42.itself which creates the botanical growth which gave us the written
:24:43. > :24:50.word. The growth in question, this, it is an oak apple, it is not a
:24:51. > :24:56.fruit. It is a call. There is many sorts of calls, they develop on the
:24:57. > :25:03.buds and acorns of acorns, and they are triggered by parasitic gall
:25:04. > :25:09.wasps. An egg is laid in the oak bud. Instead of growing normally,
:25:10. > :25:16.the bud will develop into a weird misshapen structure. The gall. This
:25:17. > :25:19.is what the wasp grub eats as food. If you look very carefully, you can
:25:20. > :25:27.see this tiny hole, where the hatched wasp left and flew away.
:25:28. > :25:32.What is the connection between an oak gall and the written word?
:25:33. > :25:40.Heaven knows how, but somehow people discovered that oak galls were rich
:25:41. > :25:45.in tanning, a dark stain, and when combined with iron sulphate, wine,
:25:46. > :25:52.even with year in, they found that it created, by chemical reaction,
:25:53. > :25:56.this magical substance, think. -- tannin. -- you're in. The
:25:57. > :26:02.cornerstone of culture, the ability to be able to permanently recalled.
:26:03. > :26:08.Poetry, literature, music, great works of art. Without it, we may
:26:09. > :26:14.never have listened to a symphony by Beethoven, never have read one of
:26:15. > :26:18.Keats Ba'ath poems, never read Shakespeare, alas, poor Yorick, what
:26:19. > :26:26.would we have done without it? -- never read one of Keats's poems.
:26:27. > :26:33.Thanks to the engine unity of our ancestors, parasitic wasps and the
:26:34. > :26:37.gall it created, we have found a permanent way of recording some of
:26:38. > :26:42.the most important documents recorded in human history.
:26:43. > :26:50.I'm joined by Noah Huntley, your first time here. We know you from
:26:51. > :27:00.Holby city, you're from Emmerdale as well, so many huge movies. We did
:27:01. > :27:03.not know that you love gardening! It is meditative and grounding for me,
:27:04. > :27:07.usually I'm flying over the Atlantic, most of my life, at the
:27:08. > :27:12.moment, getting back to my allotment, particularly, is
:27:13. > :27:18.incredibly grounding. -- Holby City. It is necessary. Tell me about the
:27:19. > :27:22.allotment. We were brought up on a big farm in Sussex, seven acres
:27:23. > :27:27.around, I am from that environment, when I moved to Hanwell, ten years
:27:28. > :27:32.ago, partly because I wanted to get into the West of England, which I
:27:33. > :27:37.adore, the rural areas, this allotment is in the middle of a golf
:27:38. > :27:43.course, which is around the park that I live in, and so I can
:27:44. > :27:46.literally walk across fields to the allotment, and it feels like a
:27:47. > :27:51.natural thing to be doing. Ying and yang of your life, what do you grow
:27:52. > :27:55.on the allotment? Usually potatoes, the only thing that can last with me
:27:56. > :27:59.going away for weeks on end and not doing anything! The lowest
:28:00. > :28:04.maintenance kind of gardening going, that's me, really. Herbs are... They
:28:05. > :28:10.give you so much common nature gives you so much, but in terms of what I
:28:11. > :28:14.grow, usually things that I can eat. Route and veg, what would your
:28:15. > :28:20.perfect pea? Are we sitting in it? -- fruit and veg. This has taken so
:28:21. > :28:29.much care and consideration. -- perfect garden the? My garden is not
:28:30. > :28:32.that, it is purely practical. It is where I can go to get out of the
:28:33. > :28:40.house. The flats that I live in are so confining. -- garden be? Nature
:28:41. > :28:44.is so generous, it is evolving everyday, experienced change, you
:28:45. > :28:49.see change, it is inspiring. The walls in my flat are not inspiring.
:28:50. > :28:52.You are going to love your day here at Chelsea. You will definitely go
:28:53. > :28:59.home inspired. Thank you for joining us. The gardens at Chelsea are full
:29:00. > :29:04.of striking planting, Adam has been to admire some of the more
:29:05. > :29:10.architectural splendour is on show -- splendours. -- on show. I like to
:29:11. > :29:18.have words in my head when I'm designing borders, romantic, cool,
:29:19. > :29:25.hot... Sometimes, it is drama... I do not think there is any thing more
:29:26. > :29:29.dramatic than this tree fern, for me, they are wonderful plants, they
:29:30. > :29:34.are prehistoric, if you have a really lovely shady spot in a
:29:35. > :29:38.garden, little bit of moisture, protected in the winter, I come
:29:39. > :29:41.alive in the spring, they begin to unfurl, they are crackers! -- they
:29:42. > :29:56.come alive in the spring. Look at this beauty! For me, this
:29:57. > :30:01.evokes childhood memories. I remember in the 1970s my grandmother
:30:02. > :30:06.having these all over her garden and then spiking into the garden. This
:30:07. > :30:11.could be the back of a reptile. What does it bring to your garden? I
:30:12. > :30:14.would use this in a pot on the terrace and I would give it
:30:15. > :30:21.protection in the winter if it needed it.
:30:22. > :30:24.One of my favourite plants for adding structure to a herbaceous
:30:25. > :30:32.border is this angelic which takes on a life of its own. So it will
:30:33. > :30:41.seed around and really start to naturalise.
:30:42. > :30:44.I really love these ferns that work their way through the garden and
:30:45. > :30:50.they have been well tailored and the canopies have been listed -- lifted
:30:51. > :30:54.to expose the bark which exposes the timber and copper working through
:30:55. > :31:00.the garden. They could be used as one plant, as a focal point. Could
:31:01. > :31:05.you imagine this bark on a cold and crisp morning? And when you look
:31:06. > :31:09.closer, these beautiful pine cones gift that wonderful detail. And they
:31:10. > :31:13.will hold through most of the year. Throughout the year, they will
:31:14. > :31:16.provide something and they are really, really stunning.
:31:17. > :31:18.New and interesting plants are the lifeblood of Chelsea
:31:19. > :31:20.and the designers scour the world for ideas.
:31:21. > :31:23.This year, Hugo Bugg made a video diary of his journey to find
:31:24. > :32:02.I had been visiting Jordan for as few years now, it is such a magical
:32:03. > :32:12.place. Beyond the city, the countryside is truly breathtaking.
:32:13. > :32:19.The Dibeen is a Mediterranean pine forest in North West Jordan, they
:32:20. > :32:24.contain some of the last examples of pine oak habitat in the Middle East.
:32:25. > :32:33.Due to the underlying limestone, any water that falls swiftly drains
:32:34. > :32:39.away. Seeing these incredible plants grow in such a harsh landscape
:32:40. > :32:44.inspired my garden at Chelsea this year. I was fascinated to see how
:32:45. > :32:48.little rainfall this beautiful for required and I really want my garden
:32:49. > :32:52.to convey that message, that water is so vital for the environment.
:32:53. > :32:56.Look at these red and enemies behind me under the pine trees, I hope mine
:32:57. > :33:02.in the UK will be just right for the show -- an enemy. They are followed
:33:03. > :33:05.by red buttercups and poppies and I will grow all three in the UK so
:33:06. > :33:12.hopefully one of them will be just right for the show. Walking further
:33:13. > :33:18.into the landscape, another hidden gem, growing in the wild. I have
:33:19. > :33:22.just found this lovely drift of wild loop in which the incredible and the
:33:23. > :33:26.bees have gone crazy. I have to have them for Chelsea but I do not know
:33:27. > :33:36.if that is possible so back to the UK, to ask the nursery very nicely!
:33:37. > :33:46.-- lupin. This hostile landscape is home to the Bedouin people. I am
:33:47. > :33:50.intrigued by the traditional cloth they craft and I have managed to
:33:51. > :33:56.persuade them to supply me with some of this unique fabric. On the way to
:33:57. > :34:01.a small village in the Northern part of Jordan. We are going to get the
:34:02. > :34:07.fabric and see it being woven for the Chelsea garden. This is my first
:34:08. > :34:11.chance to see this wall close-up in a raw state before it is spun and
:34:12. > :34:24.woven. Is that one piece or three woven together? This is ready for
:34:25. > :34:34.weaving. That is ready for weaving. So it goes through two faces. --
:34:35. > :34:38.phases. They wash it. They cut it and wash it. And they make it to
:34:39. > :34:43.drive. And then they start the spinning. So this fabric is made
:34:44. > :34:51.from goat had, but local Gert Spey -- the local goats are heard, and
:34:52. > :34:56.they spin it to make the acacia -- the wool and it is a very coarse
:34:57. > :35:00.fabric but it is beautiful. They are quite brown, they are older and they
:35:01. > :35:06.start like. They leave sections every year and replace those with
:35:07. > :35:11.holes in. Some of them are new and some, 20 years old. How long does it
:35:12. > :35:16.take to leave this amount of fabric? I am hoping that the fabric I need
:35:17. > :35:24.will not take long to make. It takes one year to make one metre by 15.
:35:25. > :35:33.And we have asked for 30 metres by three metres. So quite a couple of
:35:34. > :35:37.years worth of work! By my reckoning, it will take 2.5 years
:35:38. > :35:44.the great fabric I need. But luckily, numerous ladies in the
:35:45. > :35:49.village weaving for Chelsea so we be all right. And with the deal done,
:35:50. > :35:53.we only have the small talent of shipping the fabric to Devon and
:35:54. > :36:01.hand waxing it to approve its durability in the UK climate.
:36:02. > :36:04.-- improved. As a botanist, this is one of my favourite gardens because
:36:05. > :36:08.the plants, I have never seen some of them and they look so
:36:09. > :36:14.naturalistic. Thank you for saying that. We had a difficult palette of
:36:15. > :36:17.this year because we wanted to capture that area in the Northern
:36:18. > :36:24.part of Jordan, where it is really lush. Adonis is one of our most
:36:25. > :36:30.popular plants and every body keeps asking what it is. You can never
:36:31. > :36:33.tell what people will pick up on and it is incredible, almost like the
:36:34. > :36:38.anenomes you mentioned. That was going to be slightly bigger like the
:36:39. > :36:41.poppy but because of the warm December, they started flowering and
:36:42. > :36:45.that was gone so we went with the Adonis and the poppy. The tricky
:36:46. > :36:49.thing with being gay garden designer, it is like being a painter
:36:50. > :36:53.and except your palate is not playing ball and you have to
:36:54. > :36:58.constantly adapt. It is tricky, we grew so many more plans than we have
:36:59. > :37:01.used and we did not decide the colour palette until three weeks
:37:02. > :37:06.before the show because we did not know what would flower in time and
:37:07. > :37:10.we have had to adapt. Even though it is incredibly exotic, you could
:37:11. > :37:15.probably find most of this in the UK. Free draining soils and this
:37:16. > :37:21.garden will be a bit more mild so most of it will survive. Hyde Hall
:37:22. > :37:25.famously has the same amount of rainfall as Jerusalem so perfect for
:37:26. > :37:28.drought tolerant gardens in the South East. Yes, that would be
:37:29. > :37:31.great. It is a total triumph, thank you very much. Thank you.
:37:32. > :37:34.Wouldn't it be wonderful to own a garden like this?
:37:35. > :37:38.There is no doubt that these designs at the show are at the high end
:37:39. > :37:45.But not wanting to go home totally empty-handed,
:37:46. > :37:47.I have challenged Rachel de Thames to create the best
:37:48. > :37:58.I have been absorbing the essence of the plantings on the gardens and I
:37:59. > :38:04.have come up with something that has a feel for it. A lot of them very
:38:05. > :38:08.naturalistic so I am going that as an idea. What have you seen at
:38:09. > :38:13.Chelsea we are going to use? I have found a lovely container. Quite big,
:38:14. > :38:18.I have the compost in already. Any particular compost? A multipurpose
:38:19. > :38:24.compost mixed with soil -based Compostela which holds the water
:38:25. > :38:29.well and you do not need to water it as much -- soil -based compost. This
:38:30. > :38:38.keeps producing those beautiful daisy flowers. Can you pass me the
:38:39. > :38:42.one here? I have seen those all over the showground but I have not seen
:38:43. > :38:48.them in the past. You are right. They seem to be everywhere this
:38:49. > :38:53.year. And this one has got this gorgeous soft peachy colouring. That
:38:54. > :38:57.is going to work really well. Easy to maintain? Easy to maintain, it
:38:58. > :39:01.you get a second flush of flowers if you deadhead. That is really
:39:02. > :39:07.beautiful. And also, and wanted to get that sense of naturalness and
:39:08. > :39:13.this is British and native wild flower. Do you know what it is?
:39:14. > :39:19.Ragged robin. Is it? We have seen a lot of this. This is literally
:39:20. > :39:24.everywhere. Jo and Monty had been talking about the colour schemes, a
:39:25. > :39:28.lot of Orange and burned colours and these dusky pinks and the mud.
:39:29. > :39:34.Exactly, I am going for that. I am going for that. Some gardens have
:39:35. > :39:39.little colour. This is going to get a bit of height and it is picking up
:39:40. > :39:44.the peachy tones. I spoke to Kate Adie yesterday and she loves these
:39:45. > :39:49.but they overtook her garden. In a container, it you can keep an eye on
:39:50. > :39:53.it. That is a very good point. That goes in there and for balance, they
:39:54. > :39:58.look better in a threesome. This is perfect for May and would it last
:39:59. > :40:03.through the Summer? This, not so much. And with a container like
:40:04. > :40:06.this, think of it almost is something to use that address
:40:07. > :40:13.occasionally and you take some of the plants out and refresh it and
:40:14. > :40:18.put in other things. -- you use that to set dresser. When you finish
:40:19. > :40:22.coming you give it a good water. Yes, keep on top of a container like
:40:23. > :40:28.this, at least once a day. This looks beautiful, I think it is
:40:29. > :40:28.coming home with me. Thank you very much.
:40:29. > :40:31.Earlier this week, there was a challenge of a different
:40:32. > :40:33.kind here at Chelsea, when the contenders
:40:34. > :40:37.for Young Florist of the Year lined up to find out who had won
:40:38. > :40:41.Adam was there to report on the winner.
:40:42. > :40:48.Every year, we hear so much about the Show Gardens. And the awards.
:40:49. > :40:52.But there is a certain presentation that can really change a young
:40:53. > :41:00.person's life. I am talking about the florist of the year. If you have
:41:01. > :41:05.not already guessed, this year's theme is the Brazilian Carnival,
:41:06. > :41:10.inspired by the Rio Olympics. These youngsters have had eight weeks to
:41:11. > :41:13.produce these wonderful headdresses. I know what it is about in the Show
:41:14. > :41:22.Gardens and the amount of attention to detail but these are just
:41:23. > :41:27.absolutely fantastic! Over 500 people have applied for
:41:28. > :41:31.this and it has been whittled down to 16 entrants. And even the people
:41:32. > :41:33.who have entered have really achieved something. Really
:41:34. > :41:39.interesting to find out who the winner is! Attention is really
:41:40. > :41:44.building. These youngsters waiting for the award, and remember what it
:41:45. > :41:47.felt like waiting for that, it is a really horrible feeling! This could
:41:48. > :41:52.really change their lives. I had better get into place, they are just
:41:53. > :42:00.about to announce it. The RHS John Chelsea Florist of the
:42:01. > :42:07.Year is Kay Willis! -- younger Chelsea florist.
:42:08. > :42:12.Absolutely incredible. You looked really shocked. How did it feel when
:42:13. > :42:16.they said your name? I really was not expecting it with the standard
:42:17. > :42:22.of the competition. I just am lost for words! Were to be inspiration
:42:23. > :42:27.come from? I am more of a creative person when I begin working --
:42:28. > :42:30.wedded the inspiration come from? I instantly thought of the collar,
:42:31. > :42:37.Orange and pink and red and getting in the tones. I went down and bought
:42:38. > :42:43.a load of wool in the colours I wanted it and I'd built it out
:42:44. > :42:49.aluminium and wool. Did you think you had a chance? The just be here
:42:50. > :42:55.is fantastic and to get such high marks to win the title, I does
:42:56. > :42:59.cannot believe that! Desk I just cannot believe that. We
:43:00. > :43:03.might have just met the next oral superstar! -- Laurel.
:43:04. > :43:06.It has been a wonderful day here at the show.
:43:07. > :43:08.The Great Pavilion is looking at its very best.
:43:09. > :43:13.And don't forget to send us pictures of your gold medal-winning plants.
:43:14. > :43:16.Rachel has done a tremendous job. It really is beautiful.
:43:17. > :43:19.The gardens here are also still looking great,
:43:20. > :43:22.but if you're not able to get to the show, you can take part
:43:23. > :43:25.in voting for your favourite in the BBC RHS People's Choice
:43:26. > :43:41.The details of all of the large show gardens here can be
:43:42. > :43:43.And we will be back at the same time tomorrow. Goodbye!