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