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This is the Great Pavilion, with over a hundred growers

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showcasing thousands of brilliant blooms, vying for your attention.

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Today, we are in the company of the best turned out

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These people and their plants have plenty to shout about!

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Here at the Chelsea Flower Show, we'll be bringing you the boldest

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blooms, finest flora and passionate people from the world of gardening.

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Welcome back to the 2016 RHS Chelsea Flower Show,

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an event supported by M Investments.

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Today, it's all about the plants in this, the Great Pavilion,

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as we find out who won which of those coveted medals.

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Also on the show, we track down Brendan Cole, as he leads us a merry

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And Danny Clarke dips his toe into the world of garden design,

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as he brings us more instant Chelsea ideas.

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We've barely drawn breath from medals day out on the show

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gardens, but the excitement in here certainly hasn't subsided.

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The displays within this Pavilion were positively glittering with gold

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as the medals were handed out yesterday to the exhibitors.

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The Chelsea Flower Show is the greatest Flower Show on Earth and to

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win any kind of a medal here is an enormous accolade. Whether it is

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Bronze, Silver, silvergilt or Gold, they are all an enormous honour. You

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have one! He has got a Gold! We so pleased.

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What have you got? Fabulous! You go so perfectly with everything, it is

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wonderful. It is a dream to try this. Sorry, I am getting too

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emotional. It was just wonderful. You do not expect it, it makes it

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even better. Gold medal! Cannot do better!

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If you've got a Chelsea gold medal-winning plant,

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then send it to us on Twitter and we'll share the best

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So while every plant in here has been preened

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and every display perfected, a few days ago, it was

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a very different story, as Sophie Raworth discovered.

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The famous Great Pavilion, a massive space to fill. The exhibitors do not

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have much time to do that. Just days to get everything in here looking

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perfect. Sarah, well-known at Chelsea but your first time in the

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Great Pavilion. It is indeed and it is terrifying. In here, it is all

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about the plans. If I place them prominently and on Monday morning

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when the Georges -- when the judges arrived they have not blossomed, it

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is a huge problem. This smells absolutely wonderful. Lots of gap

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filling to do and edges to do and things but we are getting on well.

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So what are you doing here? I am just giving these Primula a quick

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clean and taking out anything bad or not looking at its best. It is

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painstaking work. When you see the end results, it is worth it. You

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have been turned into these all year and getting them ready. Have you got

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any favourites? She my favourite. Oxley. With the face. When she

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flowers, she has a yellow bonnet. Do they all have names? No, just her.

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Is it always a bit of a mad rush? Yes. The weather is not helping me

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this year. The iris looks incredible. Two weeks ago, we

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thought we would not do irises here, we had snow and everything. Suddenly

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it just grew. Perfect timing. I hope so. So much work has gone into

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everything here in the Great Pavilion but it does all seem to be

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Pavilion but it does all seem to be coming together.

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There is no denying that the displays here

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But is it a case of the bigger the better?

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Toby Buckland has been to look at how those in the pavilion

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The time was when all displays were like this, single variety set

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against a black cloth backdrop. But RHS have encouraged people to go

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through in mentoring scheme, to be more maverick and tell stories with

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their plans and think outside the box. -- plants. Chris, it took part

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in the mentoring scheme. How was it for you? We can grow plants and talk

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about them and educate people on the products but how to bring in a theme

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and an idea, we just have not got that sort of design awareness. How

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does it work? The RHS appointed designer, it is Kate Galt who visits

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us at the nursery and we throw it into the melting pot. What is the

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difference between what you have done here and last year? Last year,

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we put the tall ones at the back and the small ones at the front and we

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had 80 at system but this year, we are using a lot of props and we

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would never come up with that idea that the designer Kate encouraged us

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to put the props on the display and incorporate them. You can see the

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sick cakes with the plants rolling out, the film reels. Why the film

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theme of flying down to Rio? It is quite a novel. A friend suggested

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it. A plant was discovered in the mountain regions of Rio de Janeiro.

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They looked delicate and tropical but they are really easy and you

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just needs to neglect them. Away from the frost. A lot of natural

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light and above freezing. What has reaction been from the crowd here at

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Chelsea? Really impressed, they really like it, very warmly

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received. We have really enjoyed working with the designer, coming up

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with the idea and she helps to expand on it. So it looks like the

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mentoring scheme is really working. And for the nurseries as well. I

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have never seen the Great Pavilion looking so, for! . Colourful! And

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who would have thought the Great British big chart would make such a

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great backdrop? But it does. I'd cannot work out which are the most

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colourful, fantastic! So big used to be best but it seems imaginative and

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This exhibit by the Horticultural Trade Association showcases

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different ideas for front gardens and bedding plants

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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, apparently bedding plants are back

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and I have noticed this guy, a new variety called Campfire. I associate

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this with acid green and lemon yellow at this burning ambition had

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is more subtle and more understated, I love the stuff! Another display

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using bedding plants to Olympic proportions is the sporty display by

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Birmingham City Council so we went to Birmingham to meet a man with his

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eye on the detail of this extraordinary effort. There is a

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reputation of the city as being concrete and industrial, we think we

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are a very horticultural city. We believe that we are one of the best

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local authorities for horticulture not in the UK but worldwide. Why

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not? We have produced around 2.5 million plants a year from our free

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nurseries and we take around 5,000 down to Chelsea. We have always

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tried to do something different at Chelsea. Every display has been

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completely different to the year before. We take the same plants, we

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are bedding displays, the majority of our plants. So we have to think

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of a different way of displaying those. This year's theme, we were

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really keen to do something about activity, we are doing a lot of work

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about getting people active and that is why we are calling it this. One

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small step. We have a wicker figure of Mo Farah and Usain Bolt. Usain

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Bolt, we have picked his trainers and we have a representation in

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carpet bedding. This year, we have been able to get involved with

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somebody adding a completely new Di mentioned to the display. So it will

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not just be the flowers on the display but actual pieces of art. I

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am a microscope to and I collect the smallest sculptures in the world and

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I put them through the high of a needle. I started off as a five-year

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old building furniture. And houses. For ants. When I started school, I

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realised that was a bit of a problem. I was told that I was

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nothing. So I am now exhibiting what they say is nothing. At when they

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see it, it will be the biggest nothing that they will ever see. I

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am bringing something to the Chelsea Flower Show that nobody has ever

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seen before. We are going to have microscopes especially made. With

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the sculptures inside. They will see a microscopic flower in the eye of a

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needle. They will see the four seasons, they will see a hummingbird

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taking nectar from a flower. So many things happening in the world today,

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we need to see some beauty. This is one of the mock-ups of one

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of the needles. I have never had something made big for something so

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small. So this is where we turn the plants into reality. The three

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needles are the focal point, the main thing that people see and that

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brings the two elements together. Your iconic hummingbird, we have

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recreated it out of fibreglass and we have sprayed it with car paint.

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That is beautiful. And we have lighting. On the day, it will look

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even better. Especially with the light shining through to give it

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that illuminates element. And in the tents, you get atmospherics and we

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hope the hummingbird was slightly bounced so it is actually really

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effective. I like the way everything has come together. And it is nice to

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have something big to represent something very small. My mother used

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to say, you can say something really big with something really small. And

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they are doing that, we are complementing each other so it is

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big versus the small. Going to the Chelsea Flower Show will be the

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first time for me. Yes, I think I am going to go for the smallest Gold

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medal ever made in the eye of a needle! I am here with the man of

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himself, had Birmingham city parks department, Darren Share. This is so

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compact but together, you must be so proud of yourself? Very proud to be

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here at the show and to represent Birmingham so loving it. What is the

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trickiest bit to do? The needles. Getting the large needles in place,

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imposition. They are nearly five metres tall and we have to be a

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seesaw at the top so that was a challenge at the beginning. You have

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structural engineering underneath before you start on the

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horticulture. We have the engineering and the X and the water

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and that sometimes does not mix! It has been worth it I understand

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because you have done well. We got a Gold medal which we are over the

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moon with. Fantastic. How many Gold medals is it? More than one. It is

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our 26 in total. You must have a fort Knox of a downstairs toilet!

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They are all over the wall in the office and we are proud of

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everything. What is the secret to success to get a Gold medal every

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year? Having a different theme. The plants are important and we grow

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everyone ourselves and they have to be perfect but what we do different

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is add a bit of theatre by using props and wicker, carpet bedding. So

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that is what we try and do every year. It is working really well, I

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cannot wait to see what you have got in store next year!

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dancer, Brendan Cole, and we caught him stepping out under this very

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roof. Here we are today, complete with

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dancers, at about an exhibit, that has proved popular with the general

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public, leading me nicely to my guest today, and it is great to see

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you, Brendan. Were you in ties to hear by the thought of dancing, is

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it the flowers that have really one your heart? -- Bowden exhibit. It is

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something that we look forward to every year, my wife and I, we soaked

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up the atmosphere and see what is new and what is old and we enjoy it.

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What is Chelsea mean to you? Inspiration is everything when it

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comes to gardening, we love our gardening, we do not have enough

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time for it, what we get from here, we get a touch of, I suppose, the

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magnificence of it, you try to recreate it at home, it never comes

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together like you see it done here of course. So many ideas, certainly

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getting ideas, originally you are from New Zealand, what is your UK

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garden like? I have an ongoing discussion with my wife, I love more

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of a structural planting, tree ferns, for example, but I live in an

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English country garden, quite a big garden, very hard to transform the

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whole thing into what I like or what Zoe likes, as she tends to keep it

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quite flowery, I keep bamboos and tree ferns, the Aces, that kind of

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thing. Am I allowed to test you? We have a test going on with all of the

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VIP guests, six plants for you to take a look at. I had wondered what

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they were. I am going to see if you know the names. You have got to put

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the right name with the right plant. Lets do it! You are used to being

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judged. All of the time, lovely part of my life(!) you have 32nd. -- you

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have 30 seconds. Named those plants! Lets see how we get on. We have that

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in my garden... That could be... That is that one there... That is a

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bit of a guess, it looks like that... Hold on, that must be

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yellow... I have done it wrong. Quick swap. I'm thinking this one

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here. Are you recognising any of the Latin names? I don't recognise

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them... What is that little one? I don't know. And Primula, we have a

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view that do not look like that, so that must be, Bosch, there we go.

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Killing it! How do you think you have done? I think that one is

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right! Are you able to pronounce it. -- bosh! You want to know how you

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have done, you are going to be pretty impressed, you have got six

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out of six! Well done, Brendan Cole, what a star. More than I thought I

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would get. You may be a passionate gardener, you are also an informed

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one. Six out of six, congratulations. Enjoy it, the rest

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of your day, thank you. Pleasure. I know that you often want to by

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things that you see, as a big fan, then spent too much money! Another

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man who knows his onions, Danny Clark, the instant gardening

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himself, he has been picking out ideas from across the showground,

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and advising an affordable turn it is. Here he is with some ideas to

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get your garden going. Look at this, I am in the Cathedral

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of London plane trees, and they are absolutely wonderful.

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Every garden should have a tree in it, does not matter how big or small

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your plot is, at the end of the day, you have got to choose a tree that

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is right for you. This is an example of how to use

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trees really well, and I think I know the reason why he has used this

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tree here, this offers dappled shade, not blocking out all of the

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light, I hear people say to me that they will not use trees in a garden

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for that reason, that you do not have to have any worries with a tree

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like this, this is what is called a wedding cake tree.

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Is so exciting, I think this garden is brilliant, and this is a small

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plot, what he has done is use the snowdrop tree, this tree will not

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grow much bigger than this. It is great for a plot this size. Look at

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this one over here, you might find this hard to believe, this is a

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birch tree. Many of us know that. But don't be frightened to mix

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varieties up, it will make your garden appear very interesting. With

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this you will have to keep it pruned, but it will not take long to

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do that, you can keep it under control, it will not get out of

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hand. If you have a small garden, what a

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better tree then this, an acer. Look at the varieties, brilliant, amazing

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colours, and what is brilliant about these, you can grow them in pots,

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they are portable, you can move them around the garden, if you know the

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weather will be inclement, then you can move the part closer to the

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house, and you can keep it cosy and out of harms way. If you move house,

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then you can take them with you, all in all, great tree for a small plot.

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-- move the pot closer to the house. Whether your garden is large or

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small, you should get a tree in your garden.

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Some brilliant cost ideas there, and I am with him on the acers, I have a

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small garden and they work perfectly. I am now joined by a man

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with his finger on the pulse of horticulture, lovely to see you.

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This was a real team effort, your exhibit. We had students working on

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it from design all of the way through to creating, we have had

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students looking at seed catalogues, choosing some of the pulse that we

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have grown, and down to the nuts and bolts of putting it together. What

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is so fascinating? We often take them for granted, pulses? They have

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kind of become a poor man's food, and yet there are so many benefits

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to growing them, nutritional benefits, social and economic

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benefits, and environmental benefits as well. -- socio economic. Going

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forward with the increasing population, we need an alternative,

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and pulses are the alternative. We are trying to re-educate ourselves

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as to what we should meet day-to-day, this term, superfood, we

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hear it so often, do they come under this category? We have quite a

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variety in front of us. Indeed, the actual nutritional benefits as a

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dried pulse is really high, and yet a lot of these can be eaten as a

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bean sprout, sprouting beans, really trendy, a lot of people using them

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because they have slightly different chemical make up to dried pulse. The

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nutritional value is lastly increased. Is this message just to

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the UK, are you trying to spread its overseas as well? It is a global

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initiative, the United Nations, they have designated 2016 as the

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International year of pulses, there is a global initiative, and so at

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the moment as we speak, over in Turkey, there is a conference going

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on, 138 delegates, from 138 different countries, all discussing

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how they can improve and expand the use of pulses. Zephaniah, Thank you

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the joining us. You will be joining us later on BBC Two, looking at

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Artisan gardens, we will enjoy that. I'm looking forward to it.

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As much as we all love gardening, there is far more to plants than

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simply being the object of our desire, always, Carol has been

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investigating those plants that make the world go round, you she is with

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another horticultural revelation. VOICEOVER: There is a plant that is

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growing all around the year, a national icon. -- all around here.

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Should I say, a national acorn, of course, it is the oak. The nation,

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the country we are talking about, England. Once upon a time, our

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islands were bounded with oak forests, we have used them to build

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our houses, and build our ships. 6000 oak trees were used to build

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Nelson's flagship, the victory. The oak supports the greatest diversity

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of insects of any British tree. -- the Victory. More than 400 different

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species. It is the combination of one of these with the oak tree

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itself which creates the botanical growth which gave us the written

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word. The growth in question, this, it is an oak apple, it is not a

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fruit. It is a call. There is many sorts of calls, they develop on the

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buds and acorns of acorns, and they are triggered by parasitic gall

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wasps. An egg is laid in the oak bud. Instead of growing normally,

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the bud will develop into a weird misshapen structure. The gall. This

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is what the wasp grub eats as food. If you look very carefully, you can

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see this tiny hole, where the hatched wasp left and flew away.

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What is the connection between an oak gall and the written word?

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Heaven knows how, but somehow people discovered that oak galls were rich

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in tanning, a dark stain, and when combined with iron sulphate, wine,

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even with year in, they found that it created, by chemical reaction,

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this magical substance, think. -- tannin. -- you're in. The

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cornerstone of culture, the ability to be able to permanently recalled.

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Poetry, literature, music, great works of art. Without it, we may

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never have listened to a symphony by Beethoven, never have read one of

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Keats Ba'ath poems, never read Shakespeare, alas, poor Yorick, what

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would we have done without it? -- never read one of Keats's poems.

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Thanks to the engine unity of our ancestors, parasitic wasps and the

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gall it created, we have found a permanent way of recording some of

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the most important documents recorded in human history.

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I'm joined by Noah Huntley, your first time here. We know you from

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Holby city, you're from Emmerdale as well, so many huge movies. We did

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not know that you love gardening! It is meditative and grounding for me,

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usually I'm flying over the Atlantic, most of my life, at the

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moment, getting back to my allotment, particularly, is

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incredibly grounding. -- Holby City. It is necessary. Tell me about the

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allotment. We were brought up on a big farm in Sussex, seven acres

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around, I am from that environment, when I moved to Hanwell, ten years

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ago, partly because I wanted to get into the West of England, which I

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adore, the rural areas, this allotment is in the middle of a golf

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course, which is around the park that I live in, and so I can

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literally walk across fields to the allotment, and it feels like a

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natural thing to be doing. Ying and yang of your life, what do you grow

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on the allotment? Usually potatoes, the only thing that can last with me

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going away for weeks on end and not doing anything! The lowest

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maintenance kind of gardening going, that's me, really. Herbs are... They

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give you so much common nature gives you so much, but in terms of what I

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grow, usually things that I can eat. Route and veg, what would your

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perfect pea? Are we sitting in it? -- fruit and veg. This has taken so

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much care and consideration. -- perfect garden the? My garden is not

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that, it is purely practical. It is where I can go to get out of the

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house. The flats that I live in are so confining. -- garden be? Nature

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is so generous, it is evolving everyday, experienced change, you

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see change, it is inspiring. The walls in my flat are not inspiring.

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You are going to love your day here at Chelsea. You will definitely go

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home inspired. Thank you for joining us. The gardens at Chelsea are full

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of striking planting, Adam has been to admire some of the more

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architectural splendour is on show -- splendours. -- on show. I like to

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have words in my head when I'm designing borders, romantic, cool,

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hot... Sometimes, it is drama... I do not think there is any thing more

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dramatic than this tree fern, for me, they are wonderful plants, they

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are prehistoric, if you have a really lovely shady spot in a

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garden, little bit of moisture, protected in the winter, I come

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alive in the spring, they begin to unfurl, they are crackers! -- they

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come alive in the spring. Look at this beauty! For me, this

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evokes childhood memories. I remember in the 1970s my grandmother

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having these all over her garden and then spiking into the garden. This

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could be the back of a reptile. What does it bring to your garden? I

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would use this in a pot on the terrace and I would give it

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protection in the winter if it needed it.

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One of my favourite plants for adding structure to a herbaceous

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border is this angelic which takes on a life of its own. So it will

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seed around and really start to naturalise.

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I really love these ferns that work their way through the garden and

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they have been well tailored and the canopies have been listed -- lifted

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to expose the bark which exposes the timber and copper working through

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the garden. They could be used as one plant, as a focal point. Could

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you imagine this bark on a cold and crisp morning? And when you look

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closer, these beautiful pine cones gift that wonderful detail. And they

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will hold through most of the year. Throughout the year, they will

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provide something and they are really, really stunning.

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New and interesting plants are the lifeblood of Chelsea

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and the designers scour the world for ideas.

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This year, Hugo Bugg made a video diary of his journey to find

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I had been visiting Jordan for as few years now, it is such a magical

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place. Beyond the city, the countryside is truly breathtaking.

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The Dibeen is a Mediterranean pine forest in North West Jordan, they

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contain some of the last examples of pine oak habitat in the Middle East.

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Due to the underlying limestone, any water that falls swiftly drains

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away. Seeing these incredible plants grow in such a harsh landscape

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inspired my garden at Chelsea this year. I was fascinated to see how

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little rainfall this beautiful for required and I really want my garden

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to convey that message, that water is so vital for the environment.

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Look at these red and enemies behind me under the pine trees, I hope mine

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in the UK will be just right for the show -- an enemy. They are followed

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by red buttercups and poppies and I will grow all three in the UK so

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hopefully one of them will be just right for the show. Walking further

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into the landscape, another hidden gem, growing in the wild. I have

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just found this lovely drift of wild loop in which the incredible and the

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bees have gone crazy. I have to have them for Chelsea but I do not know

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if that is possible so back to the UK, to ask the nursery very nicely!

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-- lupin. This hostile landscape is home to the Bedouin people. I am

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intrigued by the traditional cloth they craft and I have managed to

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persuade them to supply me with some of this unique fabric. On the way to

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a small village in the Northern part of Jordan. We are going to get the

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fabric and see it being woven for the Chelsea garden. This is my first

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chance to see this wall close-up in a raw state before it is spun and

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woven. Is that one piece or three woven together? This is ready for

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weaving. That is ready for weaving. So it goes through two faces. --

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phases. They wash it. They cut it and wash it. And they make it to

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drive. And then they start the spinning. So this fabric is made

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from goat had, but local Gert Spey -- the local goats are heard, and

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they spin it to make the acacia -- the wool and it is a very coarse

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fabric but it is beautiful. They are quite brown, they are older and they

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start like. They leave sections every year and replace those with

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holes in. Some of them are new and some, 20 years old. How long does it

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take to leave this amount of fabric? I am hoping that the fabric I need

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will not take long to make. It takes one year to make one metre by 15.

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And we have asked for 30 metres by three metres. So quite a couple of

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years worth of work! By my reckoning, it will take 2.5 years

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the great fabric I need. But luckily, numerous ladies in the

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village weaving for Chelsea so we be all right. And with the deal done,

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we only have the small talent of shipping the fabric to Devon and

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hand waxing it to approve its durability in the UK climate.

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-- improved. As a botanist, this is one of my favourite gardens because

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the plants, I have never seen some of them and they look so

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naturalistic. Thank you for saying that. We had a difficult palette of

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this year because we wanted to capture that area in the Northern

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part of Jordan, where it is really lush. Adonis is one of our most

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popular plants and every body keeps asking what it is. You can never

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tell what people will pick up on and it is incredible, almost like the

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anenomes you mentioned. That was going to be slightly bigger like the

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poppy but because of the warm December, they started flowering and

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that was gone so we went with the Adonis and the poppy. The tricky

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thing with being gay garden designer, it is like being a painter

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and except your palate is not playing ball and you have to

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constantly adapt. It is tricky, we grew so many more plans than we have

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used and we did not decide the colour palette until three weeks

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before the show because we did not know what would flower in time and

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we have had to adapt. Even though it is incredibly exotic, you could

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probably find most of this in the UK. Free draining soils and this

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garden will be a bit more mild so most of it will survive. Hyde Hall

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famously has the same amount of rainfall as Jerusalem so perfect for

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drought tolerant gardens in the South East. Yes, that would be

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great. It is a total triumph, thank you very much. Thank you.

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Wouldn't it be wonderful to own a garden like this?

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There is no doubt that these designs at the show are at the high end

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But not wanting to go home totally empty-handed,

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I have challenged Rachel de Thames to create the best

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I have been absorbing the essence of the plantings on the gardens and I

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have come up with something that has a feel for it. A lot of them very

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naturalistic so I am going that as an idea. What have you seen at

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Chelsea we are going to use? I have found a lovely container. Quite big,

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I have the compost in already. Any particular compost? A multipurpose

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compost mixed with soil -based Compostela which holds the water

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well and you do not need to water it as much -- soil -based compost. This

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keeps producing those beautiful daisy flowers. Can you pass me the

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one here? I have seen those all over the showground but I have not seen

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them in the past. You are right. They seem to be everywhere this

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year. And this one has got this gorgeous soft peachy colouring. That

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is going to work really well. Easy to maintain? Easy to maintain, it

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you get a second flush of flowers if you deadhead. That is really

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beautiful. And also, and wanted to get that sense of naturalness and

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this is British and native wild flower. Do you know what it is?

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Ragged robin. Is it? We have seen a lot of this. This is literally

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everywhere. Jo and Monty had been talking about the colour schemes, a

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lot of Orange and burned colours and these dusky pinks and the mud.

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Exactly, I am going for that. I am going for that. Some gardens have

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little colour. This is going to get a bit of height and it is picking up

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the peachy tones. I spoke to Kate Adie yesterday and she loves these

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but they overtook her garden. In a container, it you can keep an eye on

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it. That is a very good point. That goes in there and for balance, they

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look better in a threesome. This is perfect for May and would it last

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through the Summer? This, not so much. And with a container like

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this, think of it almost is something to use that address

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occasionally and you take some of the plants out and refresh it and

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put in other things. -- you use that to set dresser. When you finish

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coming you give it a good water. Yes, keep on top of a container like

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this, at least once a day. This looks beautiful, I think it is

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coming home with me. Thank you very much.

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Earlier this week, there was a challenge of a different

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kind here at Chelsea, when the contenders

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for Young Florist of the Year lined up to find out who had won

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Adam was there to report on the winner.

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Every year, we hear so much about the Show Gardens. And the awards.

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But there is a certain presentation that can really change a young

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person's life. I am talking about the florist of the year. If you have

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not already guessed, this year's theme is the Brazilian Carnival,

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inspired by the Rio Olympics. These youngsters have had eight weeks to

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produce these wonderful headdresses. I know what it is about in the Show

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Gardens and the amount of attention to detail but these are just

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absolutely fantastic! Over 500 people have applied for

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this and it has been whittled down to 16 entrants. And even the people

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who have entered have really achieved something. Really

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interesting to find out who the winner is! Attention is really

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building. These youngsters waiting for the award, and remember what it

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felt like waiting for that, it is a really horrible feeling! This could

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really change their lives. I had better get into place, they are just

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about to announce it. The RHS John Chelsea Florist of the

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Year is Kay Willis! -- younger Chelsea florist.

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Absolutely incredible. You looked really shocked. How did it feel when

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they said your name? I really was not expecting it with the standard

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of the competition. I just am lost for words! Were to be inspiration

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come from? I am more of a creative person when I begin working --

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wedded the inspiration come from? I instantly thought of the collar,

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Orange and pink and red and getting in the tones. I went down and bought

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a load of wool in the colours I wanted it and I'd built it out

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aluminium and wool. Did you think you had a chance? The just be here

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is fantastic and to get such high marks to win the title, I does

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cannot believe that! Desk I just cannot believe that. We

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might have just met the next oral superstar! -- Laurel.

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It has been a wonderful day here at the show.

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The Great Pavilion is looking at its very best.

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And don't forget to send us pictures of your gold medal-winning plants.

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Rachel has done a tremendous job. It really is beautiful.

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The gardens here are also still looking great,

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but if you're not able to get to the show, you can take part

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in voting for your favourite in the BBC RHS People's Choice

:43:23.:43:25.

The details of all of the large show gardens here can be

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And we will be back at the same time tomorrow. Goodbye!

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