:00:32. > :00:35.Hello and welcome back to the Chelsea Flower Show 2017,
:00:36. > :00:38.an event supported by M Investment.
:00:39. > :00:44.If you've just switched over from BBC One you'll have already
:00:45. > :00:47.seen the announcement of the winner of this year's BBC RHS
:00:48. > :01:03.That went to Chris Beardshaw. I am not surprised, he has a big
:01:04. > :01:06.following and also it is the most traditional and accessible garden
:01:07. > :01:14.for a lot of the viewers and visitors. People like the idea of a
:01:15. > :01:18.beautiful garden with lots of flowers and they get confused that
:01:19. > :01:26.the judges can mark that time. It is like catwalk, we need huge variety,
:01:27. > :01:31.this is a show. Gardens don't always have to be challenging. Some can be
:01:32. > :01:38.with difficult concepts and some can just be beautiful and packed full of
:01:39. > :01:46.colour, this is a flower show, we want flowers on display. Variety is
:01:47. > :01:50.the key. Variety to be challenged, provoked. Sometimes. Well done to
:01:51. > :01:54.Chris. We're nearing the end of what has
:01:55. > :01:57.been an extraordinary week here at Chelsea,
:01:58. > :01:59.but we are looking to the future, exploring the show gardens
:02:00. > :02:02.and exhibits to help us get the best Wildlife expert and naturalist
:02:03. > :02:07.Ellie Harrison joins us to reveal why she thinks even the tidiest
:02:08. > :02:11.garden can be a wildlife garden. We meet one ambitious Chelsea
:02:12. > :02:15.exhibitor as he attempts to capture the essence of his five acre garden
:02:16. > :02:20.in a display in the Great Pavilion. And Adam Frost is back -
:02:21. > :02:23.this time he's uncovering the Chelsea designs that
:02:24. > :02:37.will help your garden keep The plants we grew not only enhance
:02:38. > :02:43.our lives visually but they clean the air and provide us with the food
:02:44. > :02:48.we eat. But with the weather becoming more unpredictable, not to
:02:49. > :02:51.say chaotic, the necessity to explore new species that will
:02:52. > :03:01.sustain us in years to come must be addressed. Nick Bailey has been
:03:02. > :03:08.searching the Great Pavilion to discover the plants suited to this.
:03:09. > :03:13.Much of the focus at Chelsea is about plants, ornaments and beauty.
:03:14. > :03:19.But here in the floral marquee there are a stance which focus more on
:03:20. > :03:22.education. I am on the Royal botanic Gardens stand and I am highlighting
:03:23. > :03:28.a recent report they have carried out into the state of the world's
:03:29. > :03:32.plants as a result of climate change. This report could not be
:03:33. > :03:44.more timely. At present, 90% of our diet comes from just 20 plants.
:03:45. > :03:50.There is such a huge range of plants we can potentially grow yet we do
:03:51. > :03:55.not. I think this is a good example of how we are prepared to embrace
:03:56. > :04:01.new vegetables. 30 years ago nobody had heard of a sweet potato and tell
:04:02. > :04:05.it isn't all supermarkets, so easy to cook so if we can embrace this,
:04:06. > :04:12.why not other new vegetables? Another good example is this. The
:04:13. > :04:18.snake good. You can use this in dishes to bulk up very interesting
:04:19. > :04:31.vegetables. And then, I think this is lovely, these little cuca melons.
:04:32. > :04:38.This one apparently tastes a little bit like cuca melons. I will give
:04:39. > :04:44.this a go. Fresh with some cucumber and lime, really good. If we can
:04:45. > :04:51.embrace sweet potatoes, why not other new plants? For some people,
:04:52. > :04:56.having access to a garden is becoming more and more difficult. So
:04:57. > :05:05.the plants we choose for our home are more significant than ever.
:05:06. > :05:11.Plants spring beauty to our homes, everybody knows that, but they have
:05:12. > :05:19.other benefits. Something like this mother-in-law's tongue, when
:05:20. > :05:23.sleeping at night this absorbs toxins from the air and introduces
:05:24. > :05:28.Rex -- Fresh oxygen into the home and it is easy to look after, you
:05:29. > :05:34.can forget to watch this for around three months and it will live. This
:05:35. > :05:39.might explain why sales of house plants in the UK are up by nearly
:05:40. > :05:47.30%. People are slowly waking up to the wider benefits that hides can
:05:48. > :05:54.bring to our lives. With the changing climate, the plants we use
:05:55. > :05:57.and the way we use them is going to have to change. What better place
:05:58. > :06:04.than Chelsea to get a glimpse into the future?
:06:05. > :06:10.Almost all the gardens at this year's show has some type of water
:06:11. > :06:11.feature incorporated within its design and
:06:12. > :06:18.It can add sound, reflection, colour and movement and create
:06:19. > :06:21.a calming effect and when it takes centre stage, water opens up a whole
:06:22. > :06:27.It opens up the range of plants you can grow.
:06:28. > :06:30.To find out more about which plants work well in the wet,
:06:31. > :06:32.we travelled to Leicestershire to visit a veteran Chelsea exhibitor
:06:33. > :06:34.who's devoted the last 20 years of her life
:06:35. > :07:00.I love to see what in a garden, it can be tranquil and reflective. --
:07:01. > :07:04.water in a garden. The most important thing about water is the
:07:05. > :07:11.wildlife literally arrives in your garden. It should be the centre part
:07:12. > :07:23.of any garden, you can grow so many different things, it is just
:07:24. > :07:27.wonderful. I am Linda Smith and I run Waterside Nursery. We grow and
:07:28. > :07:38.sell aquatic plants. The troughs are full of water, we have tanks of
:07:39. > :07:43.water. Water everywhere. I think a lot of gardeners come to aquatics
:07:44. > :07:52.because they want to create a haven for wildlife. Sometimes it is nice
:07:53. > :08:02.just to enjoy what water brings to the garden. And just being able to
:08:03. > :08:08.see these newts coming back every spring is lovely. We should probably
:08:09. > :08:18.do some work! A waste of time but so much fun! A lot of experienced
:08:19. > :08:24.gardeners will say this is in the area to Explorer and is a range of
:08:25. > :08:34.plants they never encountered. The most colourful at the moment is the
:08:35. > :08:39.Marsh Marigold. They do create quite a splash of colour. They can help
:08:40. > :08:44.water over the top of the basket by an inch or two why that can't be in
:08:45. > :08:53.a bloody situation. But others actually need water over the top
:08:54. > :09:01.permanently. So the water plantain... This will flower in July
:09:02. > :09:05.or August. It will always have water over the basket top or its crime and
:09:06. > :09:14.it could be up to around six inches of water. I love what Hawthorne,
:09:15. > :09:18.they are white flower with black centres. They brighten up the
:09:19. > :09:31.surface of the water, long before the water lily leaves to come up to
:09:32. > :09:40.the sunshine. Chelsea this year will be different for us. Since we were
:09:41. > :09:43.at Chelsea in 2016, we have moved the entire nursery. The first thing
:09:44. > :09:53.we have to do was level an area of ground. The whole area was at the
:09:54. > :09:57.same height as that lower field. So all of this has been raised up to
:09:58. > :10:03.make it flat for us. We have moved every trough, every plant. We have
:10:04. > :10:10.transported probably more than 20,000 plants, about 0.9 of a mile,
:10:11. > :10:14.from one end of the village to another, all a bit daunting because
:10:15. > :10:26.everything we knew about how to prepare plans for Chelsea is not the
:10:27. > :10:31.same any more. The new display panel for Chelsea is holding more heat
:10:32. > :10:35.than the older one. It is 20 degrees here and this is a dull day so we
:10:36. > :10:41.have had it much harder in the recent sunshine. You can see the odd
:10:42. > :10:46.flower coming out but unfortunately he was not be going to Chelsea
:10:47. > :10:53.because they are too far on. But the others, we have some buds were
:10:54. > :10:57.trying to hold back by bringing them into the cold and we can hopefully
:10:58. > :11:12.go back to those and get those flowering and bring them on quicker.
:11:13. > :11:19.Our Chelsea display is based around an L shape of ponds, there is about
:11:20. > :11:24.800 gallons, about 3.5 tonnes of water. Dealing with water in that
:11:25. > :11:28.quantity is quite difficult, we have to make sure our tanks and structure
:11:29. > :11:35.is a outburst in the middle of the showground! We would never go again,
:11:36. > :11:38.we would be thrown out! It is another challenge. The new nursery
:11:39. > :11:57.and going for another gold. Hah! Lender, did you get the gold? Yes,
:11:58. > :12:01.we are thrilled. Congratulations. I have been coming to their stand for
:12:02. > :12:06.years and I have never seen it looking so colourful, more flowers
:12:07. > :12:11.than ever? The water lilies love the new tunnels and the sun and the heat
:12:12. > :12:18.we have had. The Annie Mac says has done very well, -- and obsess. It
:12:19. > :12:28.loves the new heat. Would that normally be in bud? Pushing to get
:12:29. > :12:31.some flower, this year it is flowering very well. Iris and
:12:32. > :12:40.Primula on the banks, they look stunning. They have that internal
:12:41. > :12:44.glow? Yes, flowering very nicely. Great this year. Some of the other
:12:45. > :12:52.flowers love the heat too much. They went over to early. Plan be. We
:12:53. > :12:59.brought the outside 1's back in for a quick burst of extra heat. This is
:13:00. > :13:03.the smoke and mirrors of the Chelsea exhibit! These are just some of the
:13:04. > :13:08.runners and riders? You have hundreds to pick out, just that
:13:09. > :13:13.doesn't that come from each variety. You have left how many back that
:13:14. > :13:18.could have come here? More than we brought. You are literally picking
:13:19. > :13:23.which one to come but you have already discarded some that have
:13:24. > :13:27.flowered too early and you put them in different situations to bring
:13:28. > :13:30.them all at different stages so you are constantly altering and bringing
:13:31. > :13:35.little groups forward to make the right one on the right day. You have
:13:36. > :13:43.a team, the new nursery. Will you come back next year with a lake?
:13:44. > :13:51.Please! No! Nothing bigger, I don't think we could stand it!
:13:52. > :13:54.It's with the help of experts like Linda that our garden ponds can
:13:55. > :13:58.be not only beautiful but also diverse and rich ecosystems
:13:59. > :14:00.which attract and support wildlife, and that's important
:14:01. > :14:03.because as gardeners we have a role to play
:14:04. > :14:07.And to discuss that role, I'm joined by passionate naturalist
:14:08. > :14:20.What is the easiest way for a gardener to get this going, to
:14:21. > :14:25.attract wildlife? The first thing to remember is if you look after the
:14:26. > :14:28.invertebrates, the creepy crawlies, that'll feed animals further up the
:14:29. > :14:33.food chain, if you want badgers or birds you must start with the
:14:34. > :14:39.invertebrates. The simplest and most effective scientifically proven way
:14:40. > :14:47.to bring wildlife is trees, there is a greater living space, if you
:14:48. > :14:56.imagine blue tips, 15 times their birth weight in two weeks. So many
:14:57. > :14:59.caterpillars there. And the bark is home to the composers. And it will
:15:00. > :15:04.make the garden writer. Most people will have small Gardens, which trees
:15:05. > :15:08.in particular are likely to attract wildlife?
:15:09. > :15:16.Any tree. We are obsessed with native trees but it isn't necessary.
:15:17. > :15:19.Across the whole northern hemisphere, plants are not that
:15:20. > :15:23.different. Snowdrops came over with the Romans but we considered them to
:15:24. > :15:26.be native. It's about making sure you have that space. If you have a
:15:27. > :15:31.small garden, trees will not be ideal. At one garden in Bristol we
:15:32. > :15:36.went to, they had a plastic bucket, and that water was bringing
:15:37. > :15:42.important things in. That leads to another point. You say bring in
:15:43. > :15:47.fallow deer, but I don't want fallow deer. A lot of the things I have to
:15:48. > :15:54.deal with is, how do I kill slugs? How do I get rid of moles and
:15:55. > :15:56.rabbits? At what point should we treat things as pests and at what
:15:57. > :16:05.point should we accept some amount of damage to our gardens to
:16:06. > :16:08.encourage wildlife? The majority of invertebrates that come into gardens
:16:09. > :16:13.are good for them. There are the odd one or two you would prefer not
:16:14. > :16:17.have. It's useful to garden without chemicals where you can, so if you
:16:18. > :16:22.are worried about a particular insect, pick them off or put them in
:16:23. > :16:25.a bird table or, if you are obsessed with slugs, consider using nematodes
:16:26. > :16:31.rather than chemicals. When the chemicals get into the food change,
:16:32. > :16:37.-- food chain, is a depressing long death for hedgehogs and so on. Is
:16:38. > :16:40.there any point in the food chain which is more critical than anything
:16:41. > :16:48.else? Should we be thinking, we are going to focus on birds? Is there
:16:49. > :16:51.one point we should come in at and nail it? Absolutely the
:16:52. > :16:56.invertebrates. Get your creepy crawlies right. Let's say you have
:16:57. > :17:00.planted up a beautiful area. You have kept the soil organic and you
:17:01. > :17:05.have got spring tales, mites, slugs, snails, centipedes, they will feed
:17:06. > :17:11.frogs, toads and slow worms and the birds, and you will get what you
:17:12. > :17:17.want. The other thing I am keen on is some long grass. It provides
:17:18. > :17:21.cover. That's true. People often worry with wildlife gardening that
:17:22. > :17:25.it needs to be scruffy, that you need nettles and scruffy patches,
:17:26. > :17:31.and you don't. The cover can be long grass or just plants, which is great
:17:32. > :17:38.cover for birds and hedgehogs, a darker, safer place. A garden can
:17:39. > :17:42.look good and it can have a wide and varied, diverse ecosystem. You can
:17:43. > :17:48.do it with great ease. Thank you very much.
:17:49. > :17:52.Our gardens really are a haven for wildlife. I have lived in garden all
:17:53. > :17:58.of my life and it is a great challenge to create it with wildlife
:17:59. > :18:02.in mind. Gary McDermott, a Great Pavilion incident, is set himself
:18:03. > :18:06.the challenge of representing a five acre garden on his much smaller
:18:07. > :18:10.display. Garden designer Arit Anderson went to discover if he was
:18:11. > :18:12.happy with results, but first a look at his journey and the landscape
:18:13. > :18:24.that really him to do it. Alpine planted woodland plants are
:18:25. > :18:29.very hardy and they need to be to grow in this area. We are in
:18:30. > :18:32.north-east England. This is County Durham, about eight miles north of
:18:33. > :18:38.Durham city. We get low temperatures. We are on a very
:18:39. > :18:45.exposed site. They are the kind of plants that work well for us. Myself
:18:46. > :18:50.and my business partner, Paul, started this nursery from an old
:18:51. > :18:55.farm about 12 years ago. I've been interested in Alpine and woodland
:18:56. > :19:01.plants for a long time. I suppose, from childhood, I remember my
:19:02. > :19:04.parents and grandparents' gardens. There will always help in scoring.
:19:05. > :19:08.One in particular remember was a saxifrage. We still grab it now. A
:19:09. > :19:17.lot of people would note as London pride. These are some of the
:19:18. > :19:21.woodland plants, which we hope to take Chelsea. It's a process now of
:19:22. > :19:25.keeping an eye on plants. If they need a bit more heat, we will give
:19:26. > :19:32.them back. If they need to be cooled down, we will do that. People have
:19:33. > :19:36.the impression that this type of poppy is a bit difficult to grow.
:19:37. > :19:40.Given the right conditions, they are not. A damp, shady area in neutral
:19:41. > :19:49.to acid soil is good for these plants. So this one is quite a
:19:50. > :19:56.special plant for us. This is a primula, but unlike the normal type
:19:57. > :20:03.with the two tone pink and lilac flowers, this one is a white form.
:20:04. > :20:06.We launched this at Chelsea in 2016. It was actually found by chance in
:20:07. > :20:12.the garden of a gentleman in Northumberland. It is named after
:20:13. > :20:21.Alison Hollins after the gentleman's daughter-in-law. Alpine plants grow
:20:22. > :20:26.at high altitudes, very hardy. The definition really is plants which
:20:27. > :20:31.grow above the tree line. This is another star turn for Chelsea this
:20:32. > :20:36.year, a new Edelweiss called blossom of smoke after the song. The
:20:37. > :20:38.difference with this one is it grows very tall flower stems and it's
:20:39. > :20:44.suitable for a cut flower. This will be launched at Chelsea, we are going
:20:45. > :20:50.to exhibit it at our stand and it is in for Chelsea plant of the year. If
:20:51. > :20:56.all this growing wasn't enough for me, I've also started this huge
:20:57. > :20:58.project of a five and a half acre garden in the field next to the
:20:59. > :21:06.nursery, which is all-encompassing at the moment. What we've done is,
:21:07. > :21:11.because the area was so wet, we've excavated these naturally fed ponds,
:21:12. > :21:14.and the soil from that has been used to create some mounded areas, which
:21:15. > :21:19.will give some shade to the plants which need it. What I wanted to show
:21:20. > :21:25.here is that the plants which I enjoyed growing will actually grow,
:21:26. > :21:30.in some cases, where they shouldn't grow. This site is very exposed and
:21:31. > :21:33.windy. It's a bit like ripping up the rule book, but the proof is in
:21:34. > :21:39.the ceiling. The plants are there and they are flourishing. -- the
:21:40. > :21:43.proof is in seeing it. This is what inspired our Chelsea exhibit this
:21:44. > :21:49.year. We have a lot of Mac and not since as long as a lot of primulas.
:21:50. > :21:53.In this area, we have a stream running through. We wanted to create
:21:54. > :21:57.a similar display at Chelsea, so there will be the suggestion of
:21:58. > :21:59.water and shady areas. It's a bit like taking a slice of County Durham
:22:00. > :22:16.down to Chelsea. This one, this type of plant
:22:17. > :22:23.normally dies after flowering. This one dies after flowering. When these
:22:24. > :22:26.shells open, the flower unfolds like silk and it gives this spectacular
:22:27. > :22:32.display. It looks fragile but really it isn't. Many of the Alpine is that
:22:33. > :22:40.we are exhibiting at Chelsea are actually growing here, outside in
:22:41. > :22:47.the garden. There is a phlox pickled crackerjack -- crackerjack, --
:22:48. > :22:50.called crackerjack. As long as they are not too wet, especially in
:22:51. > :22:58.winter, they will survive in most gardens. It's always been a kind of
:22:59. > :23:03.pet project of mine at the back of my mind that I wanted to create an
:23:04. > :23:06.area where I could grow the kind of plants that I enjoy. Some people
:23:07. > :23:10.would say it was madness, but looking back at it, it's been hard
:23:11. > :23:19.work but we've made a start, and we are pleased with the results so far.
:23:20. > :23:29.Lovely to meet you, Gary. Bringing your slice of County Durham to
:23:30. > :23:34.Chelsea. We finally managed it and we are pleased with results it looks
:23:35. > :23:41.fantastic. I am drawn in by so many things. This site is shadier. Yes,
:23:42. > :23:47.the exhibit is split into two parts. One is the alpines in containers, in
:23:48. > :23:53.the sunny position, and the other half is plants for damp, shady
:23:54. > :23:57.areas. There is the mecanopsis. It looks fabulous. Still one of my
:23:58. > :24:05.favourites. This one sings out at me. This primula isn't often seen
:24:06. > :24:09.around, because it is sterile so it doesn't grow from seed, but it is
:24:10. > :24:16.quite vigorous and it can be propagated by division. Wood and
:24:17. > :24:20.this one is gorgeous! This is a Japanese woodland plant, so it is
:24:21. > :24:31.suitable for a shady area, in most, would free greening soil. -- in
:24:32. > :24:37.moist, wood free soil. There is an interesting story about this one. It
:24:38. > :24:42.has been really well received at the show. We launched it here last year
:24:43. > :24:48.and lots of interest, and the same this year. I prefer this one. So do
:24:49. > :24:54.I. It gives a cooler, calmer effect. It's beautiful, really pretty. What
:24:55. > :25:02.we saw on the film was the Edelweiss. To give it its correct
:25:03. > :25:07.name... It is called blossom of snow. It's so pretty. You talked
:25:08. > :25:13.about the fact that they don't often have flowers coming up this high.
:25:14. > :25:22.Much taller flower stem, and it's really good for re-flowering. So it
:25:23. > :25:26.flowers again? Yes. So we can sit all of these in containers so
:25:27. > :25:32.anybody with a patio or a balcony can recreate it. Yes, they are all
:25:33. > :25:36.good for containers. So everybody has their favourite Alpine planting
:25:37. > :25:42.in their space! I can't help but be dazzled by your gold medal. Yes,
:25:43. > :25:51.really pleased. Thank you so much. You're welcome.
:25:52. > :25:55.James, you are a long-standing and experienced RHS judge. I like to
:25:56. > :26:00.think so. I have this piece of paper. I think a lot of people have
:26:01. > :26:04.been asking, how do you go about judging in detail? I know you always
:26:05. > :26:09.say it is transparent. Here we are, on this garden, which got a gold
:26:10. > :26:13.medal, and this relates to this garden. It relates to the scores the
:26:14. > :26:16.garden was given by the judges. We give this piece of paper to the
:26:17. > :26:26.designer the day that the medals are issued. It explains to you why these
:26:27. > :26:31.are aligned as they are. This one says, realisation of Clyde's brief,
:26:32. > :26:37.very good but not excellent. Does that mean that they lose a point?
:26:38. > :26:40.Yes. The brief for this garden is really quite complicated. We were
:26:41. > :26:44.worried it was too complicated for the public to fully understand it.
:26:45. > :26:48.The brief is the document that the designer produces with his drawing
:26:49. > :26:52.that says what he or she is going to do. For example, they say, we are
:26:53. > :26:57.going to create a Mediterranean paradise. If when we get here it
:26:58. > :27:03.isn't a Mediterranean paradise, lose a point for it. This one says,
:27:04. > :27:08.overall impression, attention to detail, choice of materials, polish
:27:09. > :27:15.and dressing. It lost a point. This is the designed details of it,
:27:16. > :27:21.anything from cushioned and benches -- cushions and benches. There was a
:27:22. > :27:27.little problem with the way that the rill enters the pond. The staring is
:27:28. > :27:35.a little bit clumsy. That is harsh! But it does well on ambition, design
:27:36. > :27:38.and special composition, construction... This is a
:27:39. > :27:44.beautifully built garden, and that mark really goes to the landscape.
:27:45. > :27:48.You've got plant association, sustainability, but they've lost a
:27:49. > :27:53.mark. You've got some plants in there that you know they will
:27:54. > :27:56.outgrow the space very fast. We are a horticultural society and we are
:27:57. > :28:00.trying to teach people good horticulture. If a visitor says, I
:28:01. > :28:06.like that, and they take it home, they will be disappointed. So the
:28:07. > :28:18.giant grass, it gets the same size as you. It's rather stuff in there.
:28:19. > :28:23.Anything else? There is some. We know it will go over very fast. --
:28:24. > :28:27.some catmint. So if they are too close together or far apart, you
:28:28. > :28:32.will lose a point. Do you ever say, the truth is, it's well done but we
:28:33. > :28:40.don't like it. We don't use the word liking it. Anybody who uses the word
:28:41. > :28:43.has to wash their mouth out! We have to look at it scientifically and
:28:44. > :28:52.objectively. So everybody gets one of those. To get a gold medal, how
:28:53. > :28:56.many points do you need? 28. So if you had six ticks in the excellent
:28:57. > :29:03.column, he would win. Correct. Thank you.
:29:04. > :29:07.Lots still dance night at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, an event
:29:08. > :29:14.supported by M Investments. Coming up, we travel to Hampshire to meet a
:29:15. > :29:18.nurseryman whose childhood obsession with plants that are coniferous has
:29:19. > :29:25.led to a collection of 20,000. We catch up with Andy Sturgeon, as he
:29:26. > :29:28.plans his next big eco-garden. And Floella Benjamin joins us to discuss
:29:29. > :29:32.how she is working with the RHS to get the next generation of gardeners
:29:33. > :29:36.ready. To create a display at Chelsea takes
:29:37. > :29:40.months of planning, growing and stress and, without the right team
:29:41. > :29:44.behind you, it's impossible to achieve. Most of us get into
:29:45. > :29:48.gardening through our parents and grandparents, and in the Great
:29:49. > :29:52.Pavilion, over 70% of nurseries family run businesses, which can be
:29:53. > :29:59.both a help and a hindrance, as Rachel de Thame discovered.
:30:00. > :30:09.I hear that both of you were brought together because of plants? That is
:30:10. > :30:16.right. We met at the horticultural college. Was she the flower for you
:30:17. > :30:22.straightaway? Something like that! Do you have different roles within
:30:23. > :30:26.the business? Whatever I say goes! I don't believe that! In the early
:30:27. > :30:30.days she was in charge of the plants and I did the business but since the
:30:31. > :30:36.children, Emma is more of a parent and I am more the business. This is
:30:37. > :30:45.a family business, is not just you two? Definitely not, both of our
:30:46. > :30:50.fathers have helped with years -- for years with the business. At the
:30:51. > :30:55.start we relied so heavily on our fathers to step in, we are lucky to
:30:56. > :31:03.do something we love but it is quite physical work. It is a tough game
:31:04. > :31:06.but we do enjoy it. Angela, I believe you buy the mastermind
:31:07. > :31:15.behind the business? How did this start? It started 25 years ago but
:31:16. > :31:23.before then I was wholesaling alpines and herbs. How was that
:31:24. > :31:28.handing control over? We disagreed quite a bit on some things and it
:31:29. > :31:33.took me a long time to build it up to what it was. Sometimes you have
:31:34. > :31:40.to change it while she is away! Bomb is going to be there hopefully until
:31:41. > :31:44.she is 90! 110? I would still be happy because she still better at
:31:45. > :31:50.something is than I am. I will still be doing the cuttings! You are
:31:51. > :31:55.husband and wife but the business came through your side of the
:31:56. > :32:03.family? It did. Originally it was my grandparents' nursery and my father
:32:04. > :32:07.also had a nursery as well. And you married not only the lovely lady but
:32:08. > :32:18.you had a business also, did you always like this? If I am truthful,
:32:19. > :32:25.before I met my wife I had never heard of pinks! And I married her
:32:26. > :32:34.anyway! But I just fell in love but then, brilliant plants. All week,
:32:35. > :32:38.Adam Frost has been looking at the design ideas that could work for us
:32:39. > :32:46.in our gardens at home. This is a final instalment. Adam is selecting
:32:47. > :32:53.the concepts that were the best from us in our busy lives. As a garden
:32:54. > :32:57.designer I love everything about Gardens but the future doesn't
:32:58. > :33:08.excite me. How can we garden in years to come? -- really does excite
:33:09. > :33:12.me. This is a really well-designed community space and one of the ideas
:33:13. > :33:17.that stands out is this pond, it looks beautiful but it is clever,
:33:18. > :33:20.this is a storm pond and designed with the paving around it so when it
:33:21. > :33:26.pours with rain it collects water and runs into the pond but over a
:33:27. > :33:29.period that will evaporate and disappear and that is where these
:33:30. > :33:35.concrete rings come in, the planting is in that to hold the moisture so
:33:36. > :33:40.even in dry periods it will still look fantastic. And the added detail
:33:41. > :33:47.is we have so much rain the pond builds over, it runs off into the
:33:48. > :33:51.plant. We have this hard landscape that is very cool and simple.
:33:52. > :33:57.Concrete but mixed with the paving slab and when I went in I was
:33:58. > :34:02.looking at the detail and the shapes and I realised it was just the old
:34:03. > :34:06.grey council paving slabs you have on the streets. Reusing old
:34:07. > :34:16.materials and maybe going forward, we will do a lot more of that.
:34:17. > :34:20.Better for the environment. Absolutely love this, fantastic. It
:34:21. > :34:24.plays with signed in the garden. You cannot hear it, it is not like at
:34:25. > :34:31.home and the neighbours played the music too loud, this is clever, the
:34:32. > :34:36.water is one inch deep and there is a plastic liner and underneath that
:34:37. > :34:42.is speakers and different tunes play Patrick Cummins in the water. It is
:34:43. > :34:49.incredible, that vibration. -- the tunes create Patrick Cummins. And
:34:50. > :34:53.the same with this travel, it vibrates and if you put your feet on
:34:54. > :35:03.it, the vibration goes through your body. My children would love this.
:35:04. > :35:08.Plugging in music and seeing what Patrick Cummins they can create. For
:35:09. > :35:10.me, it would have to be Paul Weller on a Sunday afternoon and just sit
:35:11. > :35:29.and enjoy it. That is amazing. The coolest thing I
:35:30. > :35:38.have seen at Chelsea. This wall behind me has got 3.8 miles of
:35:39. > :35:44.fibre-optic cable and they are cut into 75 millimetre pieces and set
:35:45. > :35:51.into steel panels in a concrete mix. And you get this effect, which looks
:35:52. > :35:58.like an African sky. It is not just this side, as you go into the
:35:59. > :36:03.building, it repeats itself. Imagine this, your friends come around for a
:36:04. > :36:07.party... Socially and environmentally, gardens will play a
:36:08. > :36:09.massive part in our future but ultimately they will be driven by
:36:10. > :36:18.technology. The Great Pavilion is a treasure
:36:19. > :36:21.trove filled with rare and exotic plants and the people who've
:36:22. > :36:23.dedicated their lives Mat Soper is one such exhibitor,
:36:24. > :36:31.whose life long obsession with carnivorous plants has resulted
:36:32. > :36:34.in a collection of over 20,000. We visited his nursery in Hampshire
:36:35. > :36:52.as he selected the plants I just like the shapes, the colours.
:36:53. > :36:59.They are different, there is something unusual and they do a job
:37:00. > :37:07.by catching insects, flies and wasps. But many other plants can do
:37:08. > :37:11.that. -- not many. The first thing to grab my attention with
:37:12. > :37:15.carnivorous plants was the Venus fly trap, I saw them on the natural
:37:16. > :37:19.history programme, the screen was filled with that closing on-the-fly
:37:20. > :37:28.and that sparked my interest. Every year it slowly built up. It was a
:37:29. > :37:37.conscious effort, one down, I will then do this, it just slowly
:37:38. > :37:42.happened. This is the main greenhouse. There is in excess of
:37:43. > :37:47.15,000 large display plants in here, the age ranges from eight to around
:37:48. > :37:54.40 years, some of them I have grown from seed. I would say the main
:37:55. > :38:04.trapping mechanisms are the pitfall traps, the spring traps and the
:38:05. > :38:09.sticky sundews. These are North American picture plants. They are by
:38:10. > :38:13.far the most efficient of the carnivorous plants, extremely good
:38:14. > :38:21.fly and wasp captures -- catchers, they produce nectar around the lid
:38:22. > :38:25.which intoxicates insects, they eat the nectar and make their way down
:38:26. > :38:30.into the throat of the plant with larger deposits of nectar, it is
:38:31. > :38:36.slippery and they literally slip down into the Tube and the digestive
:38:37. > :38:43.fluid slowly breaks them down and this is where the plant gets its
:38:44. > :38:47.nutrition from. This is impressive. He rarely will see one as big as
:38:48. > :38:57.this! This is the Venus fly trap. They have three trigger hair is on
:38:58. > :39:06.each lobe, the fly will touch one of them and the trap closes. These are
:39:07. > :39:10.sundews. Very unusual, they produce sticky globules of glue. Very
:39:11. > :39:18.sticky. They catch small insects such as whitefly in the greenhouse,
:39:19. > :39:22.fruit flies and small houseflies. A lot of people worry about them
:39:23. > :39:26.catching enough flies, that is the least of my worries, I don't give
:39:27. > :39:35.that a second thought. They can do without. Not me. -- they can deal
:39:36. > :39:40.with that. My main interest in this groups of plants is hybridisation.
:39:41. > :39:50.They say that you cannot improve on nature. You can! I will cross this
:39:51. > :39:55.with this. I will take the flower with the petal. You can see the
:39:56. > :40:10.grains of pollen, I will scoop some of these up. There is that little
:40:11. > :40:14.nodule inside, I will touch the pollen to the stigma and that is how
:40:15. > :40:19.we make new plants. If you cross a very big Green plant with a short
:40:20. > :40:25.right pink one, you would like to get big pink ones but you are lucky
:40:26. > :40:28.enough to get short green ones so this is a Lucky Dip. The perfect
:40:29. > :40:34.conditions at home to grow really nice plants is a small, unheated
:40:35. > :40:39.greenhouse. For growing tomatoes. They like a lot of light and water,
:40:40. > :40:47.cold in the winter. Those three things are very important. This year
:40:48. > :40:53.will be our 19th year at the Chelsea Flower Show and we have had 18
:40:54. > :40:59.consecutive gold medals. We are putting on a single genus display
:41:00. > :41:10.with these North American picture plants. We have the plans to pick it
:41:11. > :41:15.up. We will see at Chelsea. This would be a very good example. Nice
:41:16. > :41:22.and bright. Facing forwards, that would be very good to take along.
:41:23. > :41:31.This is colourful, this has to go, this one is too dull. I had no
:41:32. > :41:37.interest in gardening as a youngster but I like growing other things as
:41:38. > :41:40.well like orchids and ferns but it all came from carnivorous plants,
:41:41. > :41:44.they are very good way to get youngsters into gardening in
:41:45. > :41:52.general. It is really nice to see people starting to grow these
:41:53. > :41:58.plants. He seemed to be on an unstoppable roll! Taking the world
:41:59. > :42:06.by storm. How many golds? We have been coming for 19 years and this is
:42:07. > :42:10.the 19th gold medal. Best in show? That was very difficult because of
:42:11. > :42:14.all the shows, other such a very high quality show because at that
:42:15. > :42:22.time of year everything is Fresh as a daisy. I have never seen a better
:42:23. > :42:27.display than this year, they are absolutely superb, are you getting
:42:28. > :42:31.better or is this a good year? We were planning for this one year in
:42:32. > :42:35.advance, we normally don't do that out of work and the stars aligned,
:42:36. > :42:42.everything is perfect with that hot spell and the rain just before
:42:43. > :42:50.Chelsea, they are pristine. These are all grown indoors? Unheated
:42:51. > :42:54.glasshouse in Hampshire, freezing cold in the winter and all of this
:42:55. > :43:00.growth has been produced in the last seven weeks. People have this idea
:43:01. > :43:03.that they are very specialist and the potentially tricky. My
:43:04. > :43:08.experience is nothing could be easier? That is right, just a couple
:43:09. > :43:13.of rooms, plenty of sunlight, keep them cold in the winter, they are
:43:14. > :43:20.not tropical, they look exotic, and you must use rainwater. People are a
:43:21. > :43:26.little bit tentative about cutting them back? A lot of people ask us,
:43:27. > :43:30.when they look tatty, cut off the dead bits to allow the sun to get
:43:31. > :43:38.into the ground for the new group. Just trim them. Can you grow these
:43:39. > :43:43.without any protection at all? Were happy through a trial with the RHS
:43:44. > :43:48.at the nursery at the moment, growing them outside unprotected,
:43:49. > :43:54.they are coming up just fine, they are a little bit behind these ones
:43:55. > :43:59.but they seem fine. Yes, you can. Anybody could take any of these most
:44:00. > :44:04.exotic plants to grow on a balcony or a windowsill? As long as they
:44:05. > :44:09.have plenty of light, rainwater and the right compost. They look
:44:10. > :44:13.fantastic and people are loving them. Keep growing them and we will
:44:14. > :44:19.talk about the 20th gold medal next year! Thank you.
:44:20. > :44:21.Standing here now, it's hard to imagine that
:44:22. > :44:24.in a couple of weeks' time, everything you see will have gone
:44:25. > :44:26.and this area of the hospital grounds will be returned
:44:27. > :44:32.But what happens to all the gardens and exhibits when it's all over?
:44:33. > :44:35.I'm standing on Chris Beardshaw's garden.
:44:36. > :44:37.After the show closes tomorrow evening, this garden
:44:38. > :44:39.is going to three different educational and community
:44:40. > :44:46.In fact, every show garden here is being rehomed
:44:47. > :44:49.or recycled in some way, and for some of the gardens that
:44:50. > :44:52.means another flower show, as Nick Bailey discovered
:44:53. > :44:55.when he met up with Chelsea grandee Andy Sturgeon amongst the crowds
:44:56. > :45:14.We were neighbours last year at the flower show on Main Avenue, creating
:45:15. > :45:18.gardens. We are back this year in different capacities, and I
:45:19. > :45:22.understand you have a particular mission. I might have bitten off
:45:23. > :45:26.more than I can chew, because it is daunting. I've had an idea for years
:45:27. > :45:31.that, when these gardens get taken down, some of them gets sold on and
:45:32. > :45:35.reused, but a lot of amazing pieces from the gardens just go into barns
:45:36. > :45:40.and they are stacked up in yards up and down the country and they never
:45:41. > :45:43.get to see the light of day again. So one of these beautiful things are
:45:44. > :45:48.stashed away and you are going to pull them out again. What are you
:45:49. > :45:52.going to do with them? The RHS asked me to do a garden at Hampden cart,
:45:53. > :46:00.so we will make a new show garden out of anything I can get my hands
:46:01. > :46:04.on. We are in this beautiful Viking cruises garden. I think you hope to
:46:05. > :46:09.scavenge from it. That's right, we are going to keep the palms and
:46:10. > :46:16.things. Anything else you have got your eye on? Some interesting plants
:46:17. > :46:23.in the radio to gardens. I'm looking at James Alexander's rusty troughs.
:46:24. > :46:28.But what I want to do is reinvent everything. I don't want people to
:46:29. > :46:34.recognise it from here necessarily, because I want to use it in a
:46:35. > :46:38.different way. You are pulling together these fantastic materials,
:46:39. > :46:43.but labour is a huge component and landscapers are so important in
:46:44. > :46:47.creating show gardens. How would you pull the team together? We have
:46:48. > :46:51.called out the colleges, and a lot of the people working on that garden
:46:52. > :46:55.will have recently graduated. The idea is that they get thrown out
:46:56. > :46:59.into the industry in July and the first thing they do is get the
:47:00. > :47:03.opportunity to make a garden and get their career to a flying start.
:47:04. > :47:07.There is a crisis in the industry because young people are not seeing
:47:08. > :47:12.it as an attractive industry. I want to change that because it's a great
:47:13. > :47:17.job. If you look around any show and you see these amazing creations,
:47:18. > :47:19.these great gardens, the designers get the glory but they wouldn't
:47:20. > :47:24.happen without the people to build them. What better way to start a
:47:25. > :47:32.career? Thank you very much. Pleasure. I am very much looking
:47:33. > :47:36.forward to seeing Andy's garden when I go to Hampton court in July.
:47:37. > :47:42.Somebody else who cares about young people and horticulture is Baroness
:47:43. > :47:45.Floella Benjamin, who is spearheading a campaign to encourage
:47:46. > :47:49.the next generation of gardeners. I suspect we all feel it's a good
:47:50. > :47:56.thing to have young children involved in horticulture, but how
:47:57. > :47:59.are you going about it? I'm an RHS ambassador, and they have a school
:48:00. > :48:03.'s gardening campaign, and we are trying to encourage schools across
:48:04. > :48:06.the country to get children to be interested in gardening, nature and
:48:07. > :48:11.the environment. It's fantastic to see that even the government
:48:12. > :48:14.understand. I asked a question in the House of Lords, whether the
:48:15. > :48:18.government would support the RHS with this, and they said yes,
:48:19. > :48:23.because gardening can be therapeutic for children. So many children
:48:24. > :48:27.suffer from depression and excited, because of laptops, this crazy world
:48:28. > :48:32.they are part of, and if they learn about gardening, to understand about
:48:33. > :48:38.patience, connection with the environment, to see that it takes
:48:39. > :48:42.time for something to grow, the sense of belonging, I think that
:48:43. > :48:45.will make a difference, and so many schools are now signing up to the
:48:46. > :48:51.RHS school 's gardening campaign, which is wonderful. Wood dig your
:48:52. > :48:57.own children garden? Yes, when my children were born, I pondered a
:48:58. > :49:01.rose for them. In my garden, we have rose bushes. My son is 35 and my
:49:02. > :49:06.daughter is 28, but rose blossoms beautifully. When we were little --
:49:07. > :49:10.when they were little, we encouraged them to grow plants of their own. I
:49:11. > :49:16.say to people, even if you don't have a garden, you can grow things
:49:17. > :49:20.like broad beans, carrots, on a balcony, on a windowsill, and to be
:49:21. > :49:24.exposed to nature in the way that I was through my mother, she
:49:25. > :49:29.encouraged us... The easy thing, or the easier thing to do is to get
:49:30. > :49:32.young people involved, somewhere between the age of four and eight
:49:33. > :49:38.they are very receptive. The problem is to keep them involved or
:49:39. > :49:44.introduce gardening and nature to 13, 14, 15-year-olds. You're right.
:49:45. > :49:49.That's why, why ask the Minister that question, how can get young
:49:50. > :49:52.people involved in gardening, in the environment and nature, and to see
:49:53. > :49:56.it as a career path and to have it as part of the curriculum. If you
:49:57. > :50:04.look at it closely, gardening can help with all different subjects. It
:50:05. > :50:07.teaches about food production. The government is listening, and
:50:08. > :50:12.thankfully, when I asked the question, the university of Glasgow,
:50:13. > :50:16.universities said to me, this is important to us. Supermarkets said,
:50:17. > :50:20.we want children to be involved. The Natural History Museum, all kinds of
:50:21. > :50:24.people suddenly saw there is somebody out there talking the way
:50:25. > :50:30.they want to introduce children to gardening. If anybody can do it,
:50:31. > :50:37.it's you! Do you think that Chelsea, briefly, has something for children?
:50:38. > :50:40.It's mainly adults who come here. Do you think children would benefit?
:50:41. > :50:45.Especially this year, because Chelsea is so doable this year. You
:50:46. > :50:48.don't feel like, I couldn't possibly achieve it. There is something
:50:49. > :50:52.spiritual about it this year. The wild flowers and plants that you
:50:53. > :50:56.see, there is a feeling of tranquillity. It is a very spiritual
:50:57. > :51:01.place, and I think children need that spiritual harmony that they
:51:02. > :51:07.have naturally to continue. Thank you for talking to us. I am sure you
:51:08. > :51:08.will bring energy, dynamism and spiritual harmony to children and
:51:09. > :51:11.gardeners. Thank you. Encouraging young people
:51:12. > :51:13.into horticulture can only be a good thing and it can lead
:51:14. > :51:18.to a promising career. Tamara Bridge and Kate Savill met
:51:19. > :51:21.whilst taking part in the RHS Young Gardener of the Year in 2015
:51:22. > :51:44.and now they have their own garden Here we are, on your garden. How has
:51:45. > :51:48.it been working together? Really great. Kate and I have quite a lot
:51:49. > :51:52.of crossover in our planting style, and that first made us think we like
:51:53. > :51:58.working together. This process has been one of quick decisions,
:51:59. > :52:02.laughing, giggling, but also some serious design, and hopefully that
:52:03. > :52:09.passion and friendship shows in the garden. It is all about scent,
:52:10. > :52:14.evoking memories of previous scents in childhood, which is tricky to
:52:15. > :52:18.squeeze into age -- into a space like this. It's been fantastic
:52:19. > :52:23.working with Jo Malone. She gave us the idea of a scent memory wall, and
:52:24. > :52:31.it is: a journey of discovering what a memory of scent can unlock. We put
:52:32. > :52:34.it on social media, we asked friends and family what they're scent
:52:35. > :52:38.memories are, and we got a great response, from the smell of new
:52:39. > :52:46.books, puppies, dusty vinyl, tree blossom. The response was fantastic.
:52:47. > :52:50.Do you have a particular scent memory? Yes, both of ours is this
:52:51. > :52:55.lovely woodland walk we created at the back of the garden. When I was
:52:56. > :52:59.small, I used to race bikes in the local wood and aim for the puddles.
:53:00. > :53:04.Earthy smells, wet leaves, it takes you straight back. Wright with the
:53:05. > :53:10.heat at the moment, the real dry heat, when the rain hit that dry
:53:11. > :53:14.paving, that takes me back. I lived in London all of my life and that
:53:15. > :53:20.smell that comes off the dry ground... It takes you right back to
:53:21. > :53:25.that hot summer where that memory has been evoked from. What plants in
:53:26. > :53:30.particular really pack a punch here? We knew we wanted to include some
:53:31. > :53:38.roses, and we have one called iceberg, with a delicate scent, but
:53:39. > :53:49.also another one with a lemony scent. Lots of aromatic foliage,
:53:50. > :53:54.herbs, things like thyme. Definitely, all around the seating
:53:55. > :53:58.area. With this heat, the smell of the herbs is fantastic. I love the
:53:59. > :54:03.way you are completely enveloped in plants. I think you've done a
:54:04. > :54:07.fantastic job. You have a great future ahead of you, individually
:54:08. > :54:17.and together, hopefully. Thank you. Thank you. Feel-good gardens have
:54:18. > :54:23.been the highlight of the week. There you are, Joe! Very nice
:54:24. > :54:27.garden. Beautiful, isn't it? Chris James McGee asked, what will be the
:54:28. > :54:33.one best garden design idea you to take from this year's Chelsea and
:54:34. > :54:37.use in your own garden? Funnily enough, it was on that garden, the
:54:38. > :54:44.scent garden, round the back, a nice little area, just a path leading to
:54:45. > :54:50.an area not much bigger than a metre across also, two little seats. It
:54:51. > :54:53.shows you that, even in a very small garden, you can have a smaller area
:54:54. > :55:02.that creates a different atmosphere. Matt has some lovely sort of Saronic
:55:03. > :55:09.stones -- Saronic stones. He has used pine, and it is being clipped
:55:10. > :55:15.and it creates a lovely dome effect. It is like bosoms. We all like a
:55:16. > :55:22.bosom. There has been a lot of talk this week about your act, which
:55:23. > :55:26.looks really stupid... What do you mean! And one or two people had the
:55:27. > :55:32.temerity to suggest that my ties were less than ideal. I have a
:55:33. > :55:41.couple of facts that might looked less stupid than yours. -- a couple
:55:42. > :55:47.of hats. That's lovely! It gives me coverage. I need some more coverage.
:55:48. > :55:57.Do you think it would work for me? It's about your tie. If you don't
:55:58. > :56:03.think that hat is sufficient, we could try these. I think I cut a
:56:04. > :56:11.dash. I think we are onto something, Monty. Put that on no, take the
:56:12. > :56:16.other one. You are good with hats, aren't you? I like that, baggy
:56:17. > :56:20.trousers... If we are serious, I will put on a bow tie next time and
:56:21. > :56:29.nobody will complain with the braces? Yes, and that is me set up
:56:30. > :56:37.for gardening. I think it is a bit laurel and Hardy, frankly. Give us a
:56:38. > :56:45.hat. I think this is the one. How about that? It's the new Monty look.
:56:46. > :56:51.How is that? Monty, we finally found you. You arrived. It's the real me.
:56:52. > :56:55.I don't think we can take it any further or we will be out of a job.
:56:56. > :56:59.It's nearly time to finish, but we've had such a good week here at
:57:00. > :57:03.the 20 17th RHS Chelsea Flower Show, so we will leave you with a taste of
:57:04. > :57:38.of the moments that have made this such a memorable year.
:57:39. > :58:06.That's it for tonight, but you can join us here
:58:07. > :58:10.tomorrow on BBC Two at 8pm, when we'll be back to look at some
:58:11. > :58:13.of the people and plants that have made this year's Chelsea.
:58:14. > :58:16.Sophie and Joe will also be here on Sunday at 5:30 on BBC One
:58:17. > :58:20.with their highlights from the past week.
:58:21. > :59:05.# I'll come get my things but I can't let go
:59:06. > :59:09.# I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it