:00:07. > :00:10.It's day four here at the greatest flower show in the world and today's
:00:11. > :00:14.show is all about the wonderful small gardens here at Chelsea.
:00:15. > :00:17.But it may take a while to get to them as it's absolutely
:00:18. > :00:21.And who can blame people stopping to get that
:00:22. > :00:23.all-important photo to say - I was there!
:00:24. > :00:24.Which means progress through the showground is best
:00:25. > :00:30.You know what James, if you can't beat
:00:31. > :01:09.Hello and welcome back to the Chelsea Flower Show,
:01:10. > :01:13.it's Thursday, which means the gates have been thrown open to everyone
:01:14. > :01:17.lucky enough to have got their hands on a ticket.
:01:18. > :01:20.Up to 35,000 people are expected through the gates today,
:01:21. > :01:22.which is why it's absolutely heaving!
:01:23. > :01:27.Today, it's all about the small gardens as we're on a mission
:01:28. > :01:30.to prove that even when space is at a premium the ideas
:01:31. > :01:36.Our instant gardener, Danny Clarke, continues to find
:01:37. > :01:39.takeaway inspiration here at Chelsea and today he's looking at novel ways
:01:40. > :01:44.to maximise the potential of your outdoor pots and planters.
:01:45. > :01:47.Special guest, Alex Polizzi, will be joining us to cast her
:01:48. > :01:57.Self-confessed floral fan model, Kelly Brook, joins in the fun too.
:01:58. > :02:00.But time to take a look at the Fresh gardens here at Chelsea,
:02:01. > :02:02.an event supported by M Investments.
:02:03. > :02:04.This year there are seven challenging designs,
:02:05. > :02:07.so Ann Marie Powell has been to try to out what they really
:02:08. > :02:26.I always really enjoy the Fresh gardens at Chelsea. These are the
:02:27. > :02:30.gardens without any kind of constraints. Designers can make them
:02:31. > :02:32.any size they like, embrace brace new technology or a really exciting
:02:33. > :02:45.or unusual idea. This garden by Russian design has
:02:46. > :02:48.particularly caught my eye. The theme of the garden is called
:02:49. > :02:55.Revive. That's wonderfully illustrated here. We have this metal
:02:56. > :02:58.fretwork which runs throughout the space, supporting the natural. Look
:02:59. > :03:02.at those steams. It feels like it's holding the yew up. We have this
:03:03. > :03:10.naturalistic planting behind me here. Moving through all sorts of
:03:11. > :03:14.plants, which is to represent prime evil nature. You have more structure
:03:15. > :03:21.here and there. I think where the garden doesn't quite succeed is that
:03:22. > :03:30.the planting could be bigger and the formal planting isn't formal enough.
:03:31. > :03:33.What unifies nature here is the beautiful lace work that runs
:03:34. > :03:37.through the space. I don't think it's quite enough.
:03:38. > :03:47.I have to say, I really, really love this garden. This garden is by
:03:48. > :03:51.Claudy Jonstra. It's a space in which to work. It's beautiful and
:03:52. > :03:58.practical, too. Let me show you how it works. Every single plant in this
:03:59. > :04:03.whole garden and even nettles are used to make dye. We have these
:04:04. > :04:11.beautiful flow forms. What they do is naturally purify the water, which
:04:12. > :04:17.aids the dying process, as does this Cooper pot which enarrives the
:04:18. > :04:29.colour. The wool goes in, dyede made into balls ever wool. They become
:04:30. > :04:35.magical. Up the steps we have this tapestry. We are losing our dying
:04:36. > :04:43.skills, but this celebrates the craft and I - love it!
:04:44. > :04:45.Whilst the Fresh gardens have continued to push perceptions
:04:46. > :04:48.of what gardens can be, the Artisans have produced a range
:04:49. > :04:50.of designs rooted in the world of traditional craftsmanship.
:04:51. > :04:53.James has been to take a look at some of the incredible
:04:54. > :05:10.This Suffolk-themed garden is inspired by the Arts and Craft
:05:11. > :05:15.movement. It was about artisan skills and materials. It's really
:05:16. > :05:20.packed in here. You have tiles in the roof, you have these incredible
:05:21. > :05:25.oak beams from trees grown in Suffolk. We have hand made bricks on
:05:26. > :05:29.the floor. Right at the back you have this flint wall. I don't know
:05:30. > :05:33.how they managed to put it together in the tiny amount of time these
:05:34. > :05:41.gardens have to do. My favourite bit has to be this plaster work. It's
:05:42. > :05:47.apparently a traditional Suffolk way of using plaster on the ex-tieror of
:05:48. > :05:51.a building to create these beautiful leaves. There are iris here,
:05:52. > :05:59.represented at the planting in the front. The person who created this
:06:00. > :06:04.is a third generation. They have been combined in a really small
:06:05. > :06:11.space to create a garden for artistry. This is a design all about
:06:12. > :06:17.practicing music. The word "artisan" in gardening might suggest a design
:06:18. > :06:20.that frozen a couple of hundred years ago. That doesn't have to be
:06:21. > :06:24.the case. What I love about this particular design is it's really
:06:25. > :06:29.playful with the past and the present. For starters, you have
:06:30. > :06:33.these immaculate dry stonewalls. A technology that is thousands of
:06:34. > :06:38.years old. It's contrasted up at the front with these sculpture that is
:06:39. > :06:44.are so cutting-edge, it's literally never been done before. These are 3D
:06:45. > :06:50.scans of real survivors of meningitis that are put into a room
:06:51. > :06:54.in Birmingham and multiple cameras take so many pictures of them you
:06:55. > :07:02.create perfect models in a computer. A robot has gone through layers and
:07:03. > :07:13.layers of cedar and sliced away areas, stuck them together to create
:07:14. > :07:17.a real-life image. The old and new sitting seamlessly alongside each
:07:18. > :07:23.other. Craftmanship can take so many forms.
:07:24. > :07:30.From the achievements of the craftsmen and women
:07:31. > :07:33.in the Artisans, to a designer who has excelled himself this year
:07:34. > :07:35.by embedding the work of some long established artistry
:07:36. > :07:38.Designer Matthew Wilson has only gone and brought
:07:39. > :07:52.We joined him to find out more on the Yorkshire moors.
:07:53. > :07:59.This year I'm doing a garden for the whole of the county of Yorkshire.
:08:00. > :08:03.The attraction for me is, it's a landscape that I absolutely adore. I
:08:04. > :08:09.never get bored of it. I think you can't get bored of it because it's
:08:10. > :08:15.so diverse, from big scale epic stuff right the way down to intimate
:08:16. > :08:20.and very, kind of, costing landscapes. It has everything. You
:08:21. > :08:24.can't take this landscape and stick it into a plot in Chelsea. You can
:08:25. > :08:28.be inspired by the elements, the water, the stone, the plants, the
:08:29. > :08:30.trees and try and get something of that ruggedness and put that into a
:08:31. > :08:42.garden. It's not just about the landscape or
:08:43. > :08:49.the gardens of Yorkshire that inspired the Chelsea garden. It's
:08:50. > :08:54.this, the Great East Window at York Minster, the largest expanse of
:08:55. > :08:59.medieval glass in Britain. What I find incredible about it, and so
:09:00. > :09:04.inspiring about it, is the way that the glass and the light interact and
:09:05. > :09:07.the way it changes through the course of the day. In the same way,
:09:08. > :09:17.actually, that light changes a garden during the course of a day.
:09:18. > :09:24.The garden is effectively the arch of the window, laid on its side. So,
:09:25. > :09:27.I've kind of exploded all the elements and resembled them in a
:09:28. > :09:30.different way, reconfigured them. The planting in a way has been the
:09:31. > :09:35.biggest challenge. I tried to think - how can I get the landscape and
:09:36. > :09:38.the gardens of Yorkshire across through the planting. I have taken
:09:39. > :09:42.the shape of the windows and the size of the individual windows and
:09:43. > :09:47.laid them on to the ground, with the stone edge, and into those stone
:09:48. > :09:50.windows I will effectively be planting plants that represent the
:09:51. > :09:55.colours of the stained glass in planting. That's the plan anyway!
:09:56. > :10:01.I've gone for plants that have got, hopefully, quite a lot of character
:10:02. > :10:06.in them. So rather than things that are absolutely pristine they are
:10:07. > :10:14.more craggey and a bit more Yorkshire.
:10:15. > :10:21.Capturing something on this scale is, obviously a massive challenge
:10:22. > :10:24.for a Chelsea garden, where you're effectively scaling everything down
:10:25. > :10:28.but, at the same time, you have to give it a sense of something big,
:10:29. > :10:37.something impressive, something people will look at and go - wow. We
:10:38. > :10:41.are making a modern East Window, a five meter by three meter stained
:10:42. > :10:45.glass panel which the York Glaziers Trust issic making. It will be big.
:10:46. > :10:51.Not quite as big as that, it's big none the less. It will be something
:10:52. > :10:57.quite unlike anybody has seen before at Chelsea. I'm very nervous about
:10:58. > :11:02.it. Auto I'd be stupid not to be nervous about it. But, yes, I'm
:11:03. > :11:05.aware a lot of people have spent a lot of time, energy and effort
:11:06. > :11:11.helping me to make this garden happen. So, yeah, I am definitely
:11:12. > :11:22.nervous about it. It's a big thing, isn't it? It's a big thing.
:11:23. > :11:24.As you can see here on Matthew's garden the representation
:11:25. > :11:35.of York Minster's East window is a triumph.
:11:36. > :11:40.A county with medieval features on a modern show. It's near-impossible.
:11:41. > :11:46.He's really pulled it out of the bag. What I really love about this
:11:47. > :11:51.are the incredible attention to detail in artisan features. Starting
:11:52. > :11:55.with one of them, this backlit modern interpretation of a stained
:11:56. > :12:00.glass window made by the same crafts people that are restoring the
:12:01. > :12:07.original. We have the shape of the window reflected in a collapsed way
:12:08. > :12:11.in this central pavilion, made of indigenous materials, like this
:12:12. > :12:20.fabulous stone and these chunky oak beams. The one thing I think is a
:12:21. > :12:25.shape for visitors is this view. You have a wild, stylised interpretation
:12:26. > :12:36.of a Yorkshire landscape, complete with oak tree, framed by a goth
:12:37. > :12:41.arch. The plan of the garden is a cross shape like a cathedral. He's
:12:42. > :12:45.taken thousands of pictures of the cathedral, scattered them around and
:12:46. > :12:51.stitched them back together. An incredible job, Matthew.
:12:52. > :12:54.What's fantastic to see at Chelsea is the number of people
:12:55. > :12:57.who treat a visit to the show as an opportunity for some
:12:58. > :13:00.Our first guest today is one such visitor.
:13:01. > :13:02.Businesswoman and television presenter, Alex Polizzi, takes
:13:03. > :13:04.an annual pilgrimage to the show with her plant-loving
:13:05. > :13:06.mother Olga and every year is a highlight for them both.
:13:07. > :13:15.Is your mum with you? She isn't. She's already been. Good reports? We
:13:16. > :13:19.are excited to see the difference there is this year. When you come
:13:20. > :13:23.with her, what is it that you're looking for when you walk around the
:13:24. > :13:28.gardens? I'm looking for inspiration. I'm looking to see what
:13:29. > :13:33.we can replicate from our small, from this big. It's a chance to see
:13:34. > :13:36.lots of old friends in the horticultural world who are here. My
:13:37. > :13:41.mother is a keen gardener. I have come to it later. I really adore it.
:13:42. > :13:47.Do you? You say later, how late? I'm 44 now. I've been gardening - I was
:13:48. > :13:55.going to ask you how old you are, in the last few years? I opened my
:13:56. > :13:59.mum's hotel in Devon, 15 years ago, I had to become informed because I
:14:00. > :14:02.had to instruct a garden for the first time in my life. We had to
:14:03. > :14:07.make decisions. Quickly I discovered a passion for it. It's a huge
:14:08. > :14:13.restoration project, isn't it? We will see a film on tonight's show.
:14:14. > :14:18.How long has it taken? We have owned the hotel since 2004. Really, every
:14:19. > :14:21.year it's a learning process. Discovering what works in a garden,
:14:22. > :14:26.what doesn't. We keep on trying. Hopefully, we improve on things
:14:27. > :14:30.every year. In your opinion, how important are gardens to hotels
:14:31. > :14:34.Well, I mean certainly there are different types of hotels. If you
:14:35. > :14:39.are a city centre hotel you don't require a garden so much. I do
:14:40. > :14:45.believe gardens are an oasis. I think that's what I look for looking
:14:46. > :14:50.around Chelsea. I like to find contemporary gardens that would fit
:14:51. > :14:55.in any city. In ends Leah garden is essential. That is what people want
:14:56. > :14:59.to see when they stay. Surrounded by beauty. How good is your gardening
:15:00. > :15:05.knowledge. We are having fun with all our guests this week. It's
:15:06. > :15:10.called Pot Luck. In front of us we have selected six beautiful plants.
:15:11. > :15:16.We are wondering if you are good at Latin and could name them for us.
:15:17. > :15:17.Are you feeling confident? No. I'm liking your honesty. I will do my
:15:18. > :15:36.best. This one is that. Can you pronounce
:15:37. > :15:43.it? Calor fear. There is lavender here. This is cosmos. This is
:15:44. > :15:58.beautiful. I think you are doing quite well, Alec 's. That is that
:15:59. > :16:07.one. I am just going on the colour for this one. In actual fact, you
:16:08. > :16:14.haven't done badly, four out of six if we swap those two round. Well
:16:15. > :16:19.done, indeed. We are looking forward to you chatting to Monty Don tonight
:16:20. > :16:23.on BBC Two. Enjoyed your time here at Chelsea. I do intend to, thank
:16:24. > :16:28.you. Our instant Gardener Danny Clarke
:16:29. > :16:29.is on the loose again with great ideas to enhance your
:16:30. > :16:33.garden at home. Today, he's out to prove you don't
:16:34. > :16:37.even need to have a garden - there's a lot you can achieve
:16:38. > :16:47.with just a pot and some I want to make gardening accessible.
:16:48. > :16:53.All week I have been looking for ideas for you at home. The designers
:16:54. > :16:59.here are fantastic. I want to transmit some of their genius to
:17:00. > :17:06.your plots at home. Don't worry, if you haven't got a garden, I have
:17:07. > :17:12.ideas for you also. I feel like a boy in a sweet shop. Big nose to
:17:13. > :17:19.prove you can plant anything of any size in parts. These large trees
:17:20. > :17:27.give this space majority. It is fantastic. What is great, you can
:17:28. > :17:32.change a landscape. All you need to do is move these pots around, all
:17:33. > :17:35.you need to do is move them like your furniture indoors. We have
:17:36. > :17:47.vegetables growing in this. It goes to show, when it comes to pots,
:17:48. > :17:53.anything grows. Anne-Marie Powell is so clever. It is not all about using
:17:54. > :17:58.the same plants, she has used different one, different heights and
:17:59. > :18:03.different materials. On the roof, she has utilised that as well. It is
:18:04. > :18:08.a great place for the plants to get the sunshine. Look at these, all
:18:09. > :18:13.these lovely colours. Although they will not see the winter through, you
:18:14. > :18:24.can move this indoors and give it lots of protection. If you bring it
:18:25. > :18:32.indoors, look at this. It is an old crate. My favourite, the bottler
:18:33. > :18:38.sink. Having this array of choices is such a great thing. Let's talk
:18:39. > :18:47.about size. Chelsea is all about big, bold designs. That is what we
:18:48. > :18:53.have got here. Why not buy one big pots instead of several small ones.
:18:54. > :18:59.They work on all sorts of levels and these beauties are fantastic.
:19:00. > :19:02.Most of the plants and flowers on display here at Chelsea have been
:19:03. > :19:06.through an almost scientific routine of temperature control to be
:19:07. > :19:09.at their absolute peak this week, but Graham Blunt believes his
:19:10. > :19:12.exhibit is best left to mother nature.
:19:13. > :19:15.It's a brave approach, so we went along to find out
:19:16. > :19:26.more about from the no nonsense nurseryman.
:19:27. > :19:35.We are in the south-east of England on the Sussex border. We have been
:19:36. > :19:41.looking for a plot of land to develop and turn into a nursery. We
:19:42. > :19:46.found this in 1995. It was a field full of cat. We have built the
:19:47. > :19:54.nursery, the office and created this out of nothing. -- cattle. We are
:19:55. > :19:57.totally off grid, the power, we create ourselves. We have put in
:19:58. > :20:05.solar panels, which is how we survived. We are short in winter,
:20:06. > :20:12.but we never have power cuts. The only things we are missing is a
:20:13. > :20:18.fridge and freezer. We eat fresh all the time, but I do miss having a
:20:19. > :20:22.freezer, because when we have a lot of vegetables, it gets boring eating
:20:23. > :20:26.loads of courgettes, so it would be nice to freeze them. I hope in the
:20:27. > :20:31.future we can bypass that problem. We don't have cooling or heating
:20:32. > :20:37.units, but as I never went to horticultural college, I wouldn't
:20:38. > :20:41.know how they work anyway. I grow things and if they are ready, they
:20:42. > :20:49.are ready, if they are not, they are not. We want to grow the plants
:20:50. > :20:57.tough. My plants may look British and rugged, but they will grow. Dig
:20:58. > :21:04.a hole. If it is going to rain that night, don't rather watering it.
:21:05. > :21:10.They will just grow. This comes all the way from Madagascar. It is a
:21:11. > :21:22.lovely plant, it will flower through to early November. Easy to grow,
:21:23. > :21:27.should it in a pots. In the winter, bring it in. The leaves will fall
:21:28. > :21:32.off and in the spring, start watering it again and it will start
:21:33. > :21:40.to shoot. They have tiny little seeds, but don't eat them because
:21:41. > :21:44.they are poisonous. And this one, it is as hard as nails, coming from
:21:45. > :21:50.North America in the Rocky Mountains. As tough as old boots.
:21:51. > :22:00.You can snow and rain on it, it doesn't care. Really beautiful. Like
:22:01. > :22:05.everything in the nursery, we have grown this ourselves, it was born
:22:06. > :22:09.here seven or eight years ago from seeds. Everything is grown from
:22:10. > :22:17.scratch and read propagate everything ourselves. My record
:22:18. > :22:24.isn't brilliant, I would love to have loads of gold medals, but I
:22:25. > :22:29.stick to my principles. This is how, if you grew the plans, this is how
:22:30. > :22:36.they would look. They are not perfect, so when it comes to judging
:22:37. > :22:44.I get slightly critiqued and the judges are the first two at made it
:22:45. > :22:48.-- the first to admit it. It has been a struggle, myself and my wife
:22:49. > :22:52.lived in a mobile home for five or six years. I don't know how she put
:22:53. > :22:58.up with it will stop to finally have the house makes everything tastier.
:22:59. > :23:10.I love it. I would not swap it for the world. This is the life? Yes,
:23:11. > :23:25.growing the plants that we love, and working with the person I love. I am
:23:26. > :23:28.here with his apprentices who designed this, Will Williamson and
:23:29. > :23:37.Gemma Nannery. You must be the youngest designers this year? Quite
:23:38. > :23:48.possibly. I am 22. I am 20. Congratulations. Tell me about the
:23:49. > :23:57.exhibit? We wanted to try and show life as we go round the exhibit,
:23:58. > :24:04.starting as a kid, then the proposal and then she is pregnant. This has
:24:05. > :24:09.been a leap year and she is asking the gentleman to marry her? We
:24:10. > :24:16.thought as it is leap year, why not? How easy was it to design? It took
:24:17. > :24:28.awhile, but we knew it was the right thing to do. These are very unusual,
:24:29. > :24:36.where did they come from? Mike Aunty made them. She has done an amazing
:24:37. > :24:42.job. Has it been a fantastic experience, nerve wracking? It has
:24:43. > :24:52.been unreal, but we can now relax a little bit, it is amazing. Enjoy it.
:24:53. > :25:01.It isn't over for you, you are designing a garden at Hampton Court
:25:02. > :25:05.this year? I am indeed. The theme is around Sussex, so it will be a good
:25:06. > :25:11.experience. What are we, six weeks away? Yes. Thank you very much. Hope
:25:12. > :25:15.it goes well. All this week, Carol Klein has been
:25:16. > :25:18.taking us on a journey around the globe to reveal how plants have
:25:19. > :25:21.transformed our lives. Today, it's the turn of the humble
:25:22. > :25:40.pea to take centre stage in, We live in a world that is full of a
:25:41. > :25:51.seemingly infinite variety of colour, form and texture. The
:25:52. > :25:58.diversity of nature is staggering. We take it for granted that trades
:25:59. > :26:03.like red petals, blonde hair, brown eyes are passed on from one
:26:04. > :26:16.generation to another. We even know how. It is a story that started in
:26:17. > :26:22.Austria. It is the story of one man and one plans, you could say,
:26:23. > :26:31.unlocked the secrets of life itself. What am I doing here? The planned in
:26:32. > :26:35.question is the humble pea. It is thanks to the pea we now know all
:26:36. > :26:41.about the laws of inheritance. I am not talking about how much your
:26:42. > :26:46.great grandma left in her will. I am talking about the way in which
:26:47. > :26:51.children resemble their parents, whether they be pea or people. And
:26:52. > :27:07.the man who discovered how was a pioneering Austrian monk who went by
:27:08. > :27:12.the name of Gregor. He was a very patient man. He spent eight years
:27:13. > :27:19.carefully crossbreeding peas. He chose them for their different
:27:20. > :27:25.touristic. Some had purple peas, some Paul Weitz, some were green,
:27:26. > :27:32.Sunway yellow. Some were short, somewhere big. But he made careful
:27:33. > :27:37.notes of all his experiments. These are sweet peas, but you get the
:27:38. > :27:44.idea. He revealed the basic instruction sheet for all living
:27:45. > :27:50.things. Nowadays, we have all heard of dominant and recessive genes, but
:27:51. > :28:05.without Gregor, we might not have the modern science of genetics at
:28:06. > :28:07.all. Here at Chelsea, plant breeders use knowledge of genetics, to
:28:08. > :28:18.introduce a new varieties every year. We may be able to use it to
:28:19. > :28:23.improve human health. And it is thanks to the pea, we can all look
:28:24. > :28:35.forward to a healthier, brighter and more colourful future. From the
:28:36. > :28:40.familiar pea to the new kids on the block. This has been the perfect
:28:41. > :28:46.place to launch new varieties of flowers. Let me introduce you to a
:28:47. > :28:50.brand-new shrub rose. It is Sandringham, chose by the Duchess of
:28:51. > :28:55.Cornwall when she attended the Sandringham flower show at the years
:28:56. > :29:00.ago. They have these wonderful double petals, it smells divine.
:29:01. > :29:03.Good resistance to disease and where it is different from others,
:29:04. > :29:07.hopefully it will flower all summer long.
:29:08. > :29:09.The British love affair with another flowering beauty, clematis,
:29:10. > :29:14.One first-time exhibitor of this climbing beauty hoping to give
:29:15. > :29:18.the crowds what they want is Marcel Floyd.
:29:19. > :29:21.We caught up with him to discover the pressures of bringing a firm
:29:22. > :29:47.I'm a clematis grower, and I love them. My name is Marcel Floyd. Back
:29:48. > :29:52.in the early 1980s I had no other work on at all, so someone said -
:29:53. > :29:56.would you like to work in the garden centre? I thought, I'll give it a
:29:57. > :30:00.whirl. I was playing football, going to see bands. That was my life.
:30:01. > :30:10.Wasn't fussed with anything to do with gardening at the time. In 1984
:30:11. > :30:19.I decided, oh, Chelsea Flower Show's on. Let's see what it's about.
:30:20. > :30:26.Nothing took my centre that much until I saw this, my bug started
:30:27. > :30:30.ford clematis. I bought 40 and planted them around my parents
:30:31. > :30:36.garden. They thought I was going through a phase. I had 90 clematis
:30:37. > :30:43.in that garden. Abit addicted to them was an under statement.
:30:44. > :30:53.Obsession, yeah, to a certain extent. My first daughter is called
:30:54. > :31:00.Albany. My second daughter is named Jasmine. We were going to call Jake,
:31:01. > :31:06.our little boy, the Potato Vine, but we thought that would be cruel on
:31:07. > :31:13.him. He is stuck with the name Jake. We named a clematis after him. That
:31:14. > :31:18.was Jolly Jake. I love clematis because they give you so much.
:31:19. > :31:25.December it can be snowing. I would have Winter Beauty in flower. A
:31:26. > :31:36.couple of months later, armandii, scented flowers. Then in April we
:31:37. > :31:41.have koreana. They thrive on neglect. This will flower in April,
:31:42. > :31:51.May and again in August, September time. Any aspect. They're tough.
:31:52. > :31:55.Then you come on to the big flowering ones, the showstoppers.
:31:56. > :32:00.How the hell has that flowered that big? You think, it's a dinner plate
:32:01. > :32:04.much you can't eat off it, no, about about but you can look at it and
:32:05. > :32:11.appreciate it. It's brilliant. All year round they will give you flower
:32:12. > :32:16.and they're just beautiful. Chelsea is the biggest show on earth in the
:32:17. > :32:21.horticultural cadden Darryl. There is nowhere in the world that comes
:32:22. > :32:26.close to. We are chuffed, proud, it's an under statement, to be in.
:32:27. > :32:31.Our theme at Chelsea is Japanese. We are doing a Japanese tea house
:32:32. > :32:40.because many of our big flowering varieties in our garden today began
:32:41. > :32:45.in Japan. This is the roof. The first part. A lot of curves and a
:32:46. > :32:50.lot of work has gone into this. This will be covereded in wooden
:32:51. > :32:54.shingles. On each of the four corners, eight foot high on posts,
:32:55. > :33:00.there will be panels on every single corner where you can look through to
:33:01. > :33:03.the lovely polished floor. The chap working with me decides halfway
:33:04. > :33:07.through the build he is going on holiday for three weeks - bless him.
:33:08. > :33:11.We will get it done. We will get it done. There is a lot of work to be
:33:12. > :33:19.done, but it will look great on the day. Gold would be lovely. It would
:33:20. > :33:22.just be the icing on top of the cake, to be honest. Us being there
:33:23. > :33:37.is what it's really about for us. Floyds did brilliantly. They won a
:33:38. > :33:43.silver gilt medal. I wander around Chelsea and can't help but feel
:33:44. > :33:48.inadequate. Everything is so unbelievable pristine. Almost 3D
:33:49. > :33:53.printer perfect. The wonderful thing about clematis is that they are
:33:54. > :33:56.relatively easy to grow. If you have a couple of tips you could get
:33:57. > :34:03.something almost as beautiful as this. The first one is heads in the
:34:04. > :34:09.sun, feet in the shade. That's about siting. Where you plant your
:34:10. > :34:16.clematis. They like a cool root zone but sun on their leaves. That is how
:34:17. > :34:20.climbers grow in the wild. They scramble up from the forest floor to
:34:21. > :34:26.the top of trees. There is another one which is about pruning this can
:34:27. > :34:30.be a hornets nest. There are different varieties, classified into
:34:31. > :34:32.different groups, all of which require different methods of
:34:33. > :34:37.pruning. There are tables and books about this. There is a simple way
:34:38. > :34:42.through it. If it flowers before June, don't prune. Clematis
:34:43. > :34:43.varieties that flower in the early summer don't require winter pruning.
:34:44. > :34:50.Simple as. Good luck. Our next special guest is best known
:34:51. > :34:53.as one of Britain's most But when she's not adorning
:34:54. > :34:56.the cover of a magazine, she can be found indulging
:34:57. > :34:58.in a hobby that may well surprise you -
:34:59. > :35:08.she's a secret gardener! Thank you for having me. It
:35:09. > :35:11.surprised us. I believe it surprised your friends, they have seen a
:35:12. > :35:17.different side to you? I surprised myself, actually. I required a
:35:18. > :35:21.property 10 years ago. It came with beautiful gardens. I didn't know a
:35:22. > :35:26.thing about gardening. My grandfather was a keen gardener. I
:35:27. > :35:34.remember watching him tinkering in the vegetable patch. He had aviaries
:35:35. > :35:40.and amazing birds. I bought this property and was overwhelmed by the
:35:41. > :35:44.maintenance. I have five acres. That isn't a usual garden? It was a fruit
:35:45. > :35:48.farm. An apple and pear orchard connected to the house. I had to
:35:49. > :35:52.have that with the house. I just wanted the house. Within a year the
:35:53. > :35:56.farmer that looked after it retired. He left me with all this land to
:35:57. > :36:02.look after. Where do you start? Exactly. It looks absolutely
:36:03. > :36:06.beautiful. Oh, thank you. It's ongoing, isn't it? Absolutely. Well,
:36:07. > :36:10.it started when I realised that I wasn't in the country the whole time
:36:11. > :36:14.much I needed to make the garden less maintenance. I didn't want to
:36:15. > :36:21.scrap out the orchard. I live in Kent. It's famous for the blossom
:36:22. > :36:27.trails. I love the blossom in the springtime. It's gorgious. I wanted
:36:28. > :36:31.the structure of the orchard. I removed every other tree it looked
:36:32. > :36:37.like an old orchard and maded it into a meadow. Sprinkled wildflower,
:36:38. > :36:45.meadow seeds, poppy seeds. Just let it kind of do its own thing. After a
:36:46. > :36:48.while you get wild orchids, buttercups, that's great for the
:36:49. > :36:54.wildlife. You are hands on, you do-it-yourself? Absolutely. What is
:36:55. > :36:59.your favourite part? When you have five acres, that's a lot to look
:37:00. > :37:08.after? My favourite garden isn't far from I live. What is the favourite
:37:09. > :37:12.part of yours? I was inspired by seeing rooms made in the garden. I
:37:13. > :37:16.wanted areas great for the wildlife, that weren't overly managed. I think
:37:17. > :37:21.there's nothing more beautiful than natural beauty. Then I also wanted
:37:22. > :37:28.things that were more conned and more for mall. My favourite at the
:37:29. > :37:34.moment would have to be a topiary maze of roses inside. I will see how
:37:35. > :37:38.they do this year. That is like an Alice in Wonderful land inspired
:37:39. > :37:45.garden. Beautiful. That is my favourite. Every year it changes. Do
:37:46. > :37:49.gardens reflect our lives, the highs and lows we go through? I think so.
:37:50. > :37:55.I never went to a gardening school. I was never taught about gardening.
:37:56. > :37:59.In the past 10 years I've learnt so much about plants and structures and
:38:00. > :38:04.just - I want someone to have an experience when they come into my
:38:05. > :38:09.garden. I'm about kind of having your eye travel through the property
:38:10. > :38:13.and just create a journey, really. You are a natural, natural designer.
:38:14. > :38:17.Natural gardener. You must be in your element here at Chelsea? I
:38:18. > :38:21.think it's absolutely fantastic to be here. I'm so dreading going
:38:22. > :38:30.shopping down that lane with all the little shops. I just saw the most
:38:31. > :38:35.incredible plant, I planted two, they grow huge. I saw one, I thought
:38:36. > :38:41.- is that how big mine is going to get? It's frightening. You get so
:38:42. > :38:46.much inspiration. It's perfect and pristine. My leaves are browner than
:38:47. > :38:51.that! There is so much beauty in the Great Pavilion and in all the
:38:52. > :38:55.gardens. If Kelly Brook was a flower, what would you be? An
:38:56. > :38:59.English rose. I grow different varieties of roses in my garden. An
:39:00. > :39:04.English rose. If I could come back as anything! You will see wonderful
:39:05. > :39:11.varieties here. Is it true you are a beekeeper as well? Yes. I have four
:39:12. > :39:16.beehives much I keep them in the orchard. Great for the blossom, the
:39:17. > :39:21.whole garden. What a retreat. You would have to come down. I would
:39:22. > :39:23.love to. I'm a Kent gardener myself. Enjoy your day here. I know your'
:39:24. > :39:31.going to love it. Thanks very much. Down here, in the artisan
:39:32. > :39:33.gardens, you'll notice how But this hasn't hindered
:39:34. > :39:38.a rich variety of planting If you've got an equally shady
:39:39. > :39:44.spot in your garden, then there are plants that suit
:39:45. > :39:58.the shadows and can still add If I was to pick one plant for a
:39:59. > :40:02.small garden, in the shade, it would have to be the Japanese maple. They
:40:03. > :40:06.really do have Everything Eventually. For starters in lowlight
:40:07. > :40:10.levels it's difficult to get things which have large amounts of colour.
:40:11. > :40:15.Few flowers will flower for a long period of time and in bright
:40:16. > :40:18.colours. With maples they have this leaf diversity that comes in every
:40:19. > :40:23.shade for months and months of the year. Also they have a small size.
:40:24. > :40:29.Even at that level, they have lots of character, like the shape of a
:40:30. > :40:33.much larger tree. You can pack in loads loads into a tiny space. This
:40:34. > :40:38.garden is not much bigger than the living room of my tiny London flat.
:40:39. > :40:42.There are 30maples in here. It feels like you are in a woodland Glenn in
:40:43. > :40:54.a postage sized garden. -- glen. People often talk about
:40:55. > :40:59.shady fwardens like they are some kind of terrible, horticultural
:41:00. > :41:04.disadvantage. Why on earth would you want a hot, dry border when you
:41:05. > :41:11.could have cool, calm, shade-loving ground cover like this? It's like
:41:12. > :41:15.diving into the ocean floor. You have beautiful hostas here. When
:41:16. > :41:20.water droplets from rain hit this they look like Mercury as they dance
:41:21. > :41:28.around the surface. The glossy leaves here. You have apple green
:41:29. > :41:36.foliage here. Shade is not your enemy.
:41:37. > :41:42.Flowers in shade can look just as striking as those in full sun. From
:41:43. > :41:57.a design point of view, it helps to know what colours to pick. Like this
:41:58. > :42:01.wonderful californicum with yellows. It works on hard landscaping
:42:02. > :42:05.materials. They turn into giant reflectors. Bouncing the light in
:42:06. > :42:12.around the space making it appear to glow in the twilight. If you want to
:42:13. > :42:17.create the atmosphere of cool, calm escapism, it's just got to be a
:42:18. > :42:22.shady garden. I'd actively prefer one over a flot in full sun.
:42:23. > :42:33.We are lucky today. The sunshine is back.
:42:34. > :42:35.Earlier this week the RHS awarded their prestigious
:42:36. > :42:37.Best Show Garden to Andy Sturgeon, but did you agree?
:42:38. > :42:39.Or do you prefer another show garden?
:42:40. > :42:48.Well, it's time for you to have your say.
:42:49. > :42:50.It's an award all the designers would love to win.
:42:51. > :42:52.There's nothing quite like getting the recognition
:42:53. > :43:03.It's like the final endorsement. Absolutely.
:43:04. > :43:05.You can vote right now for your favourite show garden.
:43:06. > :43:09.Just go to our website, bbc.co.uk/chelsea, where you can
:43:10. > :43:13.have a look at all of the amazing gardens and find out how to vote.
:43:14. > :43:15.You've got until 9.30pm tonight to make your decision.
:43:16. > :43:18.You can find out the winner on BBC One tomorrow evening at 7.30pm.
:43:19. > :43:23.Monty and Joe are back tonight on BBC Two at 8.00pm
:43:24. > :43:26.with all the action from a busy day here at Chelsea.
:43:27. > :43:29.And remember, get voting for your People's Choice winner!
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