:00:10. > :00:16.We've had a week of suspense, exhilaration and a few tears. But
:00:17. > :00:21.now, we've come to the end of the world's most famous flower show.
:00:22. > :00:25.Chelsea is over for another year but before we say goodbye, here's a
:00:26. > :00:29.chance to enjoy some of this year's greatest hits. Sit back, put your
:00:30. > :00:57.feet up and settle down for our floral finale.
:00:58. > :01:04.Welcome back to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, an event supported by
:01:05. > :01:08.M Investments. Over the last six days thousands of visitors have
:01:09. > :01:12.flooded in to the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea to enjoy
:01:13. > :01:16.the breathtaking work of some of the world's best garden designers, and
:01:17. > :01:20.CB horticultural skills from across the world. Chelsea is the
:01:21. > :01:25.culmination of months of work to produce plants and show gardens just
:01:26. > :01:28.at their peak of perfection. Now is your chance to catch up with some of
:01:29. > :01:34.the highlights from this very special week in the gardening
:01:35. > :01:36.calendar. Will be visiting some of our favourite show gardens,
:01:37. > :01:41.celebrating with medal winners and meeting some of the exhibitors and
:01:42. > :01:45.designers who make the show such a great experience. To get a show
:01:46. > :01:49.garden ready for Chelsea takes an extraordinary amount of effort. That
:01:50. > :01:55.can test even the most experienced designer. No one knows this better
:01:56. > :02:01.than four times gold medal winner, James Basson. He faced a Herculean
:02:02. > :02:10.task finishing his garden, as Sophie Raworth found out. James Basson is
:02:11. > :02:14.famous for bringing a slice of Mediterranean France to Chelsea over
:02:15. > :02:17.the past few years. Olive groves, lavender fields, trickling streams.
:02:18. > :02:26.This year his garden couldn't be more different. This is
:02:27. > :02:34.extraordinary, what are you creating? A quarry. I'm fanatical
:02:35. > :02:38.about quarries, a little bit obsessed. It is a complete departure
:02:39. > :02:43.from what you've brought to Chelsea for the past five or six years. We
:02:44. > :02:48.often do quite soft lines and planting so we thought we would do
:02:49. > :02:56.something contrast in. We've got our wild, soft, Willie look. But against
:02:57. > :03:01.the hard straight lines of a quarry. What is going to rise out of this?
:03:02. > :03:09.Describe it to us. The whole thing has got to feel like a quarry and
:03:10. > :03:15.that it has been tweaked into a garden. They backfill quarries and
:03:16. > :03:18.plant them with weeds and olives and trees and everything is slightly
:03:19. > :03:24.dwarfed by the massive pillars on the left. Use a massive, that is the
:03:25. > :03:31.smaller one, isn't it? Yes, that's the smaller one. What will be the
:03:32. > :03:36.big challenges? The biggest challenge is finishing. You always
:03:37. > :03:47.finish! But this is a big, big builds.
:03:48. > :04:00.It's the moment when all the jigsaw puzzle starts to link up. The stone
:04:01. > :04:11.is quarried in Malta. Cut in Malta, packed in Malta, and brought out and
:04:12. > :04:15.laid by the Maltese hands. They've been putting it together and these
:04:16. > :04:24.guys with their serious skill have been making it feel knitted, tight
:04:25. > :04:30.and perfect. We are always very keen to start planting. Probably a bit
:04:31. > :04:33.too keen to start planting. I've probably been a paying client you
:04:34. > :04:39.don't want standing over you. I think this would be a much cooler,,,
:04:40. > :04:41.reserved construction if I wasn't here. Just kicking, kicking,
:04:42. > :04:51.kicking. This is what I would call extreme
:04:52. > :05:10.gardening, because I'm going up. How funny to see you up here, James!
:05:11. > :05:15.This is definitely extreme planting. It's a very tall, raised bed,
:05:16. > :05:19.really! You started the planting down there. We started in the
:05:20. > :05:24.woodland and we've gone from the lush landscape. As we get further
:05:25. > :05:28.around the garden it gets drier and harder, until we start planting dead
:05:29. > :05:33.things. It's looking spectacular, it's so different to what you've
:05:34. > :05:36.done in the past. I think because it's a very contemporary looking
:05:37. > :05:45.structure. It looks like a brutalist tower block. I'm quite attracted to
:05:46. > :05:48.that architecture. You've got a great bird's eye view of the
:05:49. > :05:51.showground up here. Yes, you are lucky to be up here, loads of people
:05:52. > :06:02.have been asking to come up, you are the first one up here. What a
:06:03. > :06:07.privilege! It's great! All James' hard work paid off. The result was
:06:08. > :06:18.an inspired and beautifully executed garden. The judges thought so too.
:06:19. > :06:24.It went on to receive not only a gold medal, but the Best Show Garden
:06:25. > :06:27.award. I have got so much pleasure from this garden but it has been
:06:28. > :06:32.slightly controversial. It does divide people, doesn't it. Tell me
:06:33. > :06:37.the story about it. I love to see how vegetation comes back in areas
:06:38. > :06:42.of minimal resources. I'm really into Mediterranean plants, for the
:06:43. > :06:47.same reasons. There's very little rainfall, very high sunshine, often
:06:48. > :06:54.high winds, salty winds. To see plants surviving and not looking
:06:55. > :06:58.perfect but natural and cranky and wonderful, for me, is exciting. I
:06:59. > :07:05.suppose for a lot of people, when they come to Chelsea, they say, is
:07:06. > :07:11.this a garden? Yes. Or is it a stage set? What's the answer? This is an
:07:12. > :07:15.edited landscape. Yes, the plants have naturalised and there are blogs
:07:16. > :07:21.in the ground naturally, well, not naturally but post-quarrying. So
:07:22. > :07:26.these are as if they were in the quarry? They would be more staggered
:07:27. > :07:29.and irregular. We've made them into a man conceived pattern, and
:07:30. > :07:35.organise the plants. Not by planting, more by editing, weeding.
:07:36. > :07:37.We might have added plants. We are really studying the fringe
:07:38. > :07:45.communities between steppe vegetation, pavement vegetation.
:07:46. > :07:50.Those fringe communities are quite hard to maintain. And you put in a
:07:51. > :07:54.swimming pool. We have. It's a garden, therefore it is for
:07:55. > :07:59.pleasure. In the heat of Malta you need to cool off. Briefly,
:08:00. > :08:00.environmentally, this is something you're passionate about,
:08:01. > :08:06.particularly with the Maltese quarries. Malta is on the southern
:08:07. > :08:12.tip of Europe, and its suffering from lack of water, rising
:08:13. > :08:15.temperatures and overpopulation. It's having to deal with all the
:08:16. > :08:22.things we potentially would be dealing with in years to come. And,
:08:23. > :08:25.at the moment, they have been slightly abusing their landscape.
:08:26. > :08:29.This is really a message to say, look at what you've got and please
:08:30. > :08:34.cherish it. Look what we've got, we've got a wonderful garden, you've
:08:35. > :08:42.got Best In Show, congratulations. Thank you. I think that really was a
:08:43. > :08:46.standout garden this year. Quite a difficult subject to get across in a
:08:47. > :08:50.garden but he did it beautifully. This year there were eight show
:08:51. > :08:55.gardens. Sophie and I checked them out. This is quite a build, isn't
:08:56. > :09:01.it? You've really had to build up this site. Yes, it was quite an
:09:02. > :09:04.ambitious builds. We brought in a lot of soil and had to Brill 's
:09:05. > :09:13.strong retaining walls. Yes cars you've got a neighbour next job. How
:09:14. > :09:17.have you found the experience? I've really enjoyed it. It's quite hectic
:09:18. > :09:23.with a lot of coming and going on Main Avenue but on balance it's been
:09:24. > :09:28.really good fun. The thing I think people will ask, is this a garden or
:09:29. > :09:32.a landscape? What have you created here? It is a garden, not in the
:09:33. > :09:36.conventional sense of the garden you'd have round the back of your
:09:37. > :09:42.town house, where you'd have a table and chairs and a barbecue. But it is
:09:43. > :09:46.a garden in the way you might have a late and a Himalayan planting. Maybe
:09:47. > :09:52.as part of a larger garden. I'm sure it would be fun to own and sit in
:09:53. > :09:56.and enjoy. The Yorkshire landscape, that's what this is all about. It's
:09:57. > :10:00.here to give a message and show people there is something beautiful
:10:01. > :10:04.up there and it's worth going to have a look. All the plants and
:10:05. > :10:08.materials have been sourced locally, and would grow locally? All the
:10:09. > :10:14.materials were sourced locally right down to the pebbles and sound. Where
:10:15. > :10:18.are they from? The pebbles are on loan from the beach and they are
:10:19. > :10:22.going back. The plants are all plants that would grow there because
:10:23. > :10:25.it is quite unique conditions. They aren't all growing there. The
:10:26. > :10:30.hedgerow is absolutely beautiful. I love the hedge row, it's one of the
:10:31. > :10:36.first things to go in. The planting team did an amazing job on that. You
:10:37. > :10:40.sourced the stone as well from the Abbey, is that right? The stone from
:10:41. > :10:44.the Abbey is the same sort of stone that would have been used for Whitby
:10:45. > :10:49.Abbey. We didn't actually take Whitby Abbey apart! I'm glad to
:10:50. > :10:53.hear! It's very then tick. I can hear the seagulls in the background,
:10:54. > :10:59.you've got a soundscape. I can smell the salt coming off the seaweed.
:11:00. > :11:04.Yes, that's been driving in my greenhouse for a few weeks. Thank
:11:05. > :11:09.you for bringing it here. Here we are, is it finished, are you happy?
:11:10. > :11:14.It is finished and we are very happy. It's been quite a journey but
:11:15. > :11:18.we are there. Where you up into the early hours this morning? We had a
:11:19. > :11:22.few, we were up late last night until about 10pm. We had all the
:11:23. > :11:26.cars with the headlights shining on the garden. But we got there. Which
:11:27. > :11:34.isn't what you want to be doing at Chelsea. Not quite but we had a few
:11:35. > :11:37.hours to spare as we did quite well. Tell us the story of this garden. We
:11:38. > :11:42.are standing on the Silk Road. Right at the centre of it is the legend,
:11:43. > :11:47.the city of Chengdu lost the Sun so they sent out four elders to find
:11:48. > :11:50.the sun. They were immortalised as four birds who now circle the sun.
:11:51. > :11:57.One of the challenges is it's not just a huge site but you get a 306
:11:58. > :12:00.degrees view which is the only garden in the showground. That's
:12:01. > :12:05.right and you can't hide anything behind a boundary, everything is on
:12:06. > :12:09.view. What we've tried to do here is very the experience as you walk
:12:10. > :12:14.around. At the back it's quite calm and green. As you approached the
:12:15. > :12:19.front the colour hits you and we've related the colour to the Silk Road
:12:20. > :12:22.to give that impact and vibrancy. And flatpack gardens, this is a
:12:23. > :12:29.flatpack garden, it's supposed to be easy but it's the stuff of divorces,
:12:30. > :12:33.isn't it? Exactly. It sounded good when we were talking about it but it
:12:34. > :12:38.actually has been quite difficult. To drop this side of object as a
:12:39. > :12:42.flatpack garden into place was a challenge but it's worked out.
:12:43. > :12:52.Almost divorced territory there at any point? No! They were hammering
:12:53. > :13:00.it in! You both need a well-deserved rest, I think. It's been a long road
:13:01. > :13:04.to Chengdu. Well, Chris, you've made fractal theory clear. Even I can
:13:05. > :13:08.understand it now. The whole garden is based on that concept. It's based
:13:09. > :13:12.on the natural patterns of nature and trying to understand the way
:13:13. > :13:19.natural patterns relate to gardens, and also where they occur elsewhere.
:13:20. > :13:23.The understanding of music is an integral part of that. Earlier this
:13:24. > :13:28.week the National youth Orchestra were performing that peace that has
:13:29. > :13:32.been written just for this garden. Wasn't it fantastic. I believed
:13:33. > :13:36.there was an overlap between gardens and music and the vocabulary was
:13:37. > :13:40.common but there must be something else. Both stimulate the emotions
:13:41. > :13:44.and Massad the soul. When you put those two things together I wanted
:13:45. > :13:49.to know if there was an amplification of that effect. If you
:13:50. > :13:55.are standing here when the orchestra were playing, undoubtedly there was
:13:56. > :13:58.an amplification. It was wonderful. We've got landscapes, replications
:13:59. > :14:05.of landscapes but yours is a garden and that's what people want. It's a
:14:06. > :14:08.garden design show, isn't it? It's a garden which pulls many strands
:14:09. > :14:11.together. It's about not only getting community and children
:14:12. > :14:15.involved, whether it's in the artwork or the roof or the school
:14:16. > :14:18.who are the recipients of the musical stage, the planting goes on
:14:19. > :14:23.to communities and stimulates community gardens, to particular
:14:24. > :14:29.gardens in east London. It's about talking about the beauty of
:14:30. > :14:30.gardening and inspiring people. I love your garden, it's fantastic
:14:31. > :14:41.this year. As well as James Basson's garden
:14:42. > :14:47.three others won gold medals. Royal bank of Canada garden with a forest
:14:48. > :14:51.with mature pine trees, boulders and a burned pavilion. Breaking Ground
:14:52. > :14:59.garden took inspiration from Heathen planting. Themes of breaking down
:15:00. > :15:02.barriers to education. The Linklaters garden for Maggies
:15:03. > :15:07.created a private space behind a hedge to offer relief and beauty to
:15:08. > :15:12.those offering from cancer. The ultimate for any plant lover at
:15:13. > :15:16.Chelsea is the Great Pavilion. Every year it sets the gold standard for
:15:17. > :15:21.horticultural quality. Yes, it's truly one of the wonders of the
:15:22. > :15:27.gardening world. It has over 100 exhibitors under one roof. That's a
:15:28. > :15:35.lot of class acts. Who better to be mistress of ceremonies than our very
:15:36. > :15:41.own Carole Klein. Roll up, roll up. Welcome to the
:15:42. > :15:47.greatest floral carnival on earth. It's time to perk up your petals,
:15:48. > :16:00.pump out that perfume, and turn your very best side to the cameras.
:16:01. > :16:11.It's time to dive into this oceanic display of clematis. Here are wave
:16:12. > :16:12.after wave of pastal perfection. You can almost hear the sound of the
:16:13. > :16:29.sea. If you plunge under the surface, you
:16:30. > :16:33.are swimming alongside a shoal of silvery fish. The creativity in here
:16:34. > :16:44.is breathtaking. It's out of this world.
:16:45. > :16:54.Some of the stands in here are on such a scale and they have so much
:16:55. > :16:57.penache. Rather than walking through a floral display, you feel as though
:16:58. > :17:05.you are immersed in a fantasy garden.
:17:06. > :17:06.Just look at this stand. Form, texture, colour. Pure beauty.
:17:07. > :17:25.It's sublime. No gala performance would be
:17:26. > :17:31.complete without its superstars. And these aren't just any old orchids.
:17:32. > :17:36.These are amongst the best in the world from the Eric Young Foundation
:17:37. > :17:39.inIersy. How lucky we are they've graced us with their presence.
:17:40. > :17:57.-- Jersey. David objects tin's roses are pure
:17:58. > :18:02.romance. It's not just their colour that enchants, but these waves of
:18:03. > :18:04.perfume that waft through the air bringing a whole new dimension to
:18:05. > :18:13.our experience in the Great Pavilion.
:18:14. > :18:18.When all the hard work is over and the medals are handed out, it's a
:18:19. > :18:32.moment of pure magic. It's not all about the gardens. In
:18:33. > :18:36.the Great Pavilion, all the exhibitors have come in this morning
:18:37. > :18:39.fighting - biting their nails, they've had a sleepless night
:18:40. > :18:50.waiting to see what the judges have given them. It's brilliant!
:18:51. > :18:56.Yeah, got gold. That's the star of the show, isn't it? Have you told
:18:57. > :18:59.her? I have told her this morning, yes. I talked to them all this
:19:00. > :19:07.morning. Very happy. We are overjoyed.
:19:08. > :19:13.Gold! We can breathe now. Yeah. There we
:19:14. > :19:21.go. Yes, a gold. Well done.
:19:22. > :19:30.Well done! Thank you, thank you very much.
:19:31. > :19:39.What have you got? We have got... We have got a silver!
:19:40. > :19:44.We are over the moon. Oh! I am so excited. I am so happy. You
:19:45. > :19:52.got a gold? ? I got a gold. So happy! I mean, beyond happy.
:19:53. > :19:56.Now with 61 gold medals awarded there is a golden glow inside the
:19:57. > :20:02.pavilion this year. But there is still one very important award yet
:20:03. > :20:08.to be revealed, the Diamond Jubilee Award given to the best exhibit in
:20:09. > :20:12.the whole of the pavilion. This year it went to Penwirt plants.
:20:13. > :20:16.Congratulations, it's a big thing. Biggest of the big. How does it
:20:17. > :20:20.feel? Over the moon. Fantastic. Lots of tears yesterday morning and every
:20:21. > :20:24.time people talk about it you think I am going to cry again but I have
:20:25. > :20:29.been told I am not allowed to again. Any inkling it might come your way?
:20:30. > :20:34.None whatsoever. You always like to think you have a chance of having to
:20:35. > :20:38.win a gold. You had to get a gold to get the award? You have to have a
:20:39. > :20:42.12-point gold, you are not allowed to drop any marks. You are put up on
:20:43. > :20:46.your panel which were the ornamentals, we were the best of
:20:47. > :20:49.that. This is perfection in itself? Yeah, well I like to think we are in
:20:50. > :21:02.the best in the world now. It's tricky because you have a huge range
:21:03. > :21:07.of plants. . How come you got a wide range of plants? We are representing
:21:08. > :21:11.the garden we work from in Penberth and we grow all those there, we
:21:12. > :21:15.specialise in South African plants. Why South African plants? We have
:21:16. > :21:21.similar conditions. We are in Cornwall, we are at Land's End.
:21:22. > :21:25.Granite bed rock. We have the air quality. Reflections from the sea.
:21:26. > :21:31.We can really go for it with South African stuff. Plenty of rain as
:21:32. > :21:35.well. Yeah. So it's quite wet. Wet and free drainage. As far as the
:21:36. > :21:37.exhibit it's stunning and you have three different areas and the
:21:38. > :21:46.visitors can walk through and really get up close to the plants. How does
:21:47. > :21:50.that work with the two of you? We do a mock-up before the show, this year
:21:51. > :21:54.it was the main section. When we were trying it, it was too windy to
:21:55. > :21:59.even do it. Too windy down there. You can only do it, you had to play
:22:00. > :22:06.it by ear on site? ? We had to wing it really. I didn't want to say
:22:07. > :22:10.that. Because we know the plants, we propagate everything and we know how
:22:11. > :22:13.they're going to react together. It's not that it's easy, but we just
:22:14. > :22:17.know what we are doing with those plants. Yeah. You certainly do.
:22:18. > :22:22.Congratulations. Thank you. It's absolutely stunning. Thank you.
:22:23. > :22:26.Thank you. Nice to meet you both. One of the best things about Chelsea
:22:27. > :22:31.is the passion and enthusiasm you find here. There are hundreds of
:22:32. > :22:35.expert growers, all of them generous with their advice and thousands of
:22:36. > :22:40.devoted gardeners from all walks of life. One of them is the actress
:22:41. > :22:44.Joanna Lumley. It's lovely to see you here. Hello,
:22:45. > :22:47.thank you. Are you a regular to Chelsea? I am lucky enough to come
:22:48. > :22:52.most years and most years on a Monday and I love that. The first
:22:53. > :22:56.time I came I was about 18 and I was staying with my aunt in Earl's
:22:57. > :22:59.Court. And it was Friday when they sold off the plants in those days,
:23:00. > :23:03.that was the end of the Chelsea Flower Show and I remember buying a
:23:04. > :23:08.lily that high in a pot. And not realising I didn't know how to get
:23:09. > :23:12.back to Earl's Court and I got a lift in an ice-cream van and the
:23:13. > :23:18.fare he exacted was a kiss. That's the 60s for you! Are you a gardener?
:23:19. > :23:27.Presumably you wouldn't have been buying plants. And I am a gardener.
:23:28. > :23:31.We have a long thin garden in Stockwell, the kind people who sold
:23:32. > :23:35.us the house had divided into three rooms. The first bit people go how
:23:36. > :23:38.lovely, and my gosh you can go through here and you come to fish
:23:39. > :23:44.ponds and a pear tree and they go but it goes on and you go down to
:23:45. > :23:48.the end and there is a walnut tree I planted and I adore it because we
:23:49. > :23:52.pick our own pears, apples, plums, we have walnuts, I never managed to
:23:53. > :23:56.get one because the squirrels get there first. Figures. Lemons. I
:23:57. > :24:02.brought a picture of the lemon crop yesterday. About two kilos of lemon.
:24:03. > :24:07.Do you keep them outside winter? All winter. I couldn't do that. This is
:24:08. > :24:10.the heat of London. It's divine, I love it. I should put in here that
:24:11. > :24:18.it's what I would call a wild garden. It's how I love it. A little
:24:19. > :24:22.bit, maybe too wild for me. An abandoned garden. Do you love it
:24:23. > :24:25.because of the way it looks or because of the wildlife it attracts
:24:26. > :24:31.or what is it? I am very keen on wildlife. Butterflies and insects
:24:32. > :24:44.and bees. I adore the foxes, I whistle them in if they want to have
:24:45. > :24:50.supper. We have squirrels, I know, but they are adorably funny to watch
:24:51. > :24:53.acrobats, birds, birds. So those are all important for me. Rain is
:24:54. > :24:59.important, when people say it's going to be a bad day, but is it
:25:00. > :25:04.going to rain, sweet rain. Weather is such an integral part of
:25:05. > :25:08.gardening. Rather than seeing it as an enemy it is, what is. We were
:25:09. > :25:11.chatting earlier about, not being old but having more time and more
:25:12. > :25:16.age and one of the things I have learned is to embrace weather. Yeah.
:25:17. > :25:20.Not to see it as an enemy. Not to predict how it ought to be be. Take
:25:21. > :25:24.what comes. And bring with you something so that you are not angry
:25:25. > :25:29.and cross. If you are going to be frozen, take something in your bag
:25:30. > :25:35.you can wrap around you or take off. What do you take from Chelsea? Oh...
:25:36. > :25:39.I just adore it here. I feel that if you didn't have a faith, and you
:25:40. > :25:43.came to Chelsea and looked at what's here, you would end up believing in
:25:44. > :25:50.a new God which is nature, the oldest God of all. Thank you very
:25:51. > :25:54.much indeed. Thanks, Monty. Now Chelsea isn't all about grand
:25:55. > :25:57.show gardens and vast statement spaces, there is also plenty of
:25:58. > :26:06.inspiration for the smaller garden as Adam Frost found out.
:26:07. > :26:11.Gardens seem to be shrinking by the day. For me that doesn't mean you
:26:12. > :26:16.can't have a beautiful garden. I think there are a load of ideas out
:26:17. > :26:28.there to make a small space fill a lot bigger.
:26:29. > :26:34.This really is a small garden. It's actually five metres by seven
:26:35. > :26:39.metres. There is so much going on. You might look and think I couldn't
:26:40. > :26:44.do that. And I am not sure I could even do some of the detail in this
:26:45. > :26:49.garden but there's so many ideas in here that can really help you make
:26:50. > :26:53.your space feel much bigger. In smaller gardens we tend to forget
:26:54. > :26:58.that actually we have more space around the garden than we have on
:26:59. > :27:01.the surface. We accept we have a fence or a wall and if you think
:27:02. > :27:08.about those boundaries they're partly a design process, point one,
:27:09. > :27:13.you can make the space feel bigger. Here, the back wall is sort of
:27:14. > :27:17.wall-to-wall meets green. Here, if you imagine if you wanted an office
:27:18. > :27:21.at home, by lifting this building up and carrying the garden straight
:27:22. > :27:27.under all of a sudden proportions feel beautiful. Borrowed landscape.
:27:28. > :27:31.There is a lovely tree outside of this garden, so if you imagine a
:27:32. > :27:35.tree in a neighbour's garden, maybe using that colour of that tree or
:27:36. > :27:38.the leaf of that tree and bringing it into your garden, and you start
:27:39. > :27:42.to lose your boundaries which makes your garden feel bigger.
:27:43. > :28:00.I think it's absolutely exquisite. Ultimately this is really a hole in
:28:01. > :28:05.the ground, a few steps down. Some nice seating. Surrounded by
:28:06. > :28:09.planting. All of a sudden it changes the atmosphere totally. I am engaged
:28:10. > :28:12.with the garden, it feels comfortable. My eye at the same
:28:13. > :28:17.level as plants, grasses are moving and flowers look beautiful. It's a
:28:18. > :28:21.simple thing to do. This garden plays well with perspective, you
:28:22. > :28:25.imagine the path closer to the house starts wide and as it comes out into
:28:26. > :28:30.the garden it gets thinner and thinner. It makes the back wall feel
:28:31. > :28:33.much further away. Sometimes actually being brave
:28:34. > :28:37.enough to use a large area of water in a small space can work really
:28:38. > :28:41.well. It's reflective, it bounces light around the garden. On top of
:28:42. > :28:50.that, it really gives the sort of garden space to breathe.
:28:51. > :28:58.What I really love about this space is actually it's really simple. If
:28:59. > :29:01.you think about it in plant form - planned form it's rectangles and
:29:02. > :29:08.this change of level slow movement into the space. And it brings you up
:29:09. > :29:13.on to this big slab that goes out over the water and the water pushes
:29:14. > :29:17.the planting away and it leaves you with this feeling you have this
:29:18. > :29:20.really lovely useable space. However small your garden is, there really
:29:21. > :29:30.is some ideas out there that can make the space feel so much bigger.
:29:31. > :29:36.There are two competition categories for the smaller gardens at Chelsea,
:29:37. > :29:39.you have the concept actual fresh gardens that deliver a message for
:29:40. > :29:45.design and the more traditional art is San gardens. Now, I was lucky
:29:46. > :29:47.enough to get the opportunity to explore some of these gardens as the
:29:48. > :29:59.sun set on an empty showground. As the light is falling at us, I am
:30:00. > :30:04.able to roam around, free. This is where the Artisan gardens are.
:30:05. > :30:14.They're small but they are packed with ideas and inspiration, and
:30:15. > :30:19.often just plain beauty. There are essentially two types of gardens
:30:20. > :30:25.that you find here. One tends to be very naturalistic and uses found
:30:26. > :30:29.objects and found landscapes. The other is much more creative in the
:30:30. > :30:32.sense that it is made from new, it looks like nothing you will find in
:30:33. > :30:41.the countryside. And this is one of the latter, it's by Sarah Ebberley.
:30:42. > :30:54.It immediately sums up the sun and vitality and colour of Spain.
:30:55. > :31:07.Despite being the designer's first-ever show garden, the Poetry
:31:08. > :31:12.Lover's Garden is incredibly confident and strong. It does
:31:13. > :31:16.nothing particularly original, the planting, the stonework, the way it
:31:17. > :31:23.set out reminds me of lots of show gardens I've seen. But what it does,
:31:24. > :31:28.it does so well. The idea is it's a place to come and find inspiration
:31:29. > :31:36.and retreat, either to read a poem or perhaps even right one. Now, as
:31:37. > :31:42.the light falls around me, and although the city still baffles
:31:43. > :31:52.beyond the Park, Chelsea slips into night and I'm just going to have a
:31:53. > :31:56.few moments to enjoy it to myself. Well, as you can see the Artisan
:31:57. > :32:00.gardens give designers a chance to create their vision in a tiny space,
:32:01. > :32:13.often with breathtaking attention to detail. We took a closer look at
:32:14. > :32:19.some gold winning gardens. Is it a night gold-medal? Thank you very
:32:20. > :32:22.much! This garden is incredible. You said you wanted to create an Eden
:32:23. > :32:33.away from the turmoil of the world. Do you think you've been successful?
:32:34. > :32:38.I'm thinking more like 110%. The incredible thing is, as you walk
:32:39. > :32:45.around this garden, even at the back of your garden, it's immaculate.
:32:46. > :32:55.There's more attention to detail at the back of your garden and some
:32:56. > :32:59.people put at the front. So when I met you before, you were talking
:33:00. > :33:02.about taking this glass building and shipping it from Japan. You didn't
:33:03. > :33:06.have a substitute and you were bringing it from the other side of
:33:07. > :33:09.the world here and I felt so nervous. A single crack and you
:33:10. > :33:18.don't have a spare. How has that been? You've pulled it off again. I
:33:19. > :33:25.need to know, this is your 12th time at Chelsea, is there going to be a
:33:26. > :33:33.13th? Yes Sir! Challenge! LAUGHTER See you next year, with another gold
:33:34. > :33:38.medal! I hope! I no! This is the seat lip garden designed by
:33:39. > :33:44.Catherine MacDonald. What a stunning garden it is. I'm especially drawn
:33:45. > :33:48.to the planting. It's got a perfect balance between lights, ephemeral,
:33:49. > :33:53.fluffy plants and slightly heavier plants, to balance it together. Two
:33:54. > :34:01.of my particular favourites are down here. This is totally tangerine. It
:34:02. > :34:06.has only arrived in the last few years and it such a reliable border
:34:07. > :34:11.plant. It goes on for about six months and it's really easy to look
:34:12. > :34:14.after. Of course, it has that beautiful, coppery, orange quality
:34:15. > :34:23.to the flowers. It pairs fantastically with this fern. Copper
:34:24. > :34:26.is a binding theme that pulls the whole garden together, not just in
:34:27. > :34:31.the planting but the hard landscape as well. These copper pipes run all
:34:32. > :34:35.the way around the garden and create a visual flow. The copper links
:34:36. > :34:40.these benches at the front and the back of the garden. The idea is they
:34:41. > :34:47.represent traditional alchemy and modern alchemy. Running through the
:34:48. > :34:50.top of the two benches are copper rills carrying water which creates
:34:51. > :35:00.this unity through the whole garden. I think the Seedlip Garden has to be
:35:01. > :35:08.one of my favourites at Chelsea 2017. Fabulous garden. It looks
:35:09. > :35:15.great. There are lots of and weeds in here, we do at Chelsea, are you
:35:16. > :35:18.serious? We are serious. Weeds or wild flowers can be really stunning.
:35:19. > :35:22.There is an irony as well because you think a lot of weeds are really
:35:23. > :35:27.difficult to get rid of like docks and dandelions. When you try to get
:35:28. > :35:32.rid of they persist and went disappear. When you give them a bit
:35:33. > :35:44.of love and TLC, they show off. They aren't as easy to grow. They will
:35:45. > :35:49.show off. The horse, he looks good. He's slightly rusted... Absolutely.
:35:50. > :35:54.The horse has only recently been finished. We are really chuffed with
:35:55. > :35:59.it, it's taken on that really nice rusty feel. Eventually it will get a
:36:00. > :36:04.really dark rusty colour. How many horseshoes? There are between 300
:36:05. > :36:10.and 400 horseshoes. Some of them are donated by the Royal family. It's a
:36:11. > :36:21.really nice piece and we are chuffed with it. It looks great. What did
:36:22. > :36:25.Clippy think this garden? He over liked this garden, started munching
:36:26. > :36:31.around. At one point they said, can we bring Clippy onto the garden,
:36:32. > :36:35.that can't happen! It looks stunning in this dappled shade. You got a
:36:36. > :36:41.gold medal, I'm not surprised. I bet the visitors really loved this
:36:42. > :36:46.garden. Congratulations chaps. Six Artisan gardens got gold this year
:36:47. > :36:52.but only one of them could be awarded Best Artisan design. I
:36:53. > :36:59.caught up with the winner. Graham, congratulations. It's the big yet
:37:00. > :37:04.again, you won it. Two years ago, you got gold and Best In Show but
:37:05. > :37:07.before that you got a few silver than silvergilt. You've nailed it
:37:08. > :37:12.now and you know what it takes to get there. Yes, got there in the
:37:13. > :37:20.end, really pleased with it. You aren't here every year are you? I'm
:37:21. > :37:23.a biannual Chelsea garden designer. The way you conjure up the
:37:24. > :37:27.industrial landscape, have you sourced all the bits and pieces in
:37:28. > :37:31.here? I was fortunate enough to be able to get the crane. My
:37:32. > :37:35.grandfather bought the crane 40 or 50 years ago. When I went to look at
:37:36. > :37:40.it it was immersed in nature, branches had grown through it and it
:37:41. > :37:45.kind of planted the seed of the garden and I germinated it over 18
:37:46. > :37:51.months. I used the crane throughout the garden. This was all in the
:37:52. > :37:55.nursery? Yes, in an old swamp area. We used to go down there as kids, I
:37:56. > :38:03.managed to salvage it in the winter months. It was a bit of a mission.
:38:04. > :38:06.It's the industrial landscape, it's not just where nature has taken
:38:07. > :38:11.over, someone has God and displays, haven't they? The brief was that
:38:12. > :38:17.people are living in warehouse accommodation and have commissioned
:38:18. > :38:23.a design to build a garden for relaxation. You are celebrating the
:38:24. > :38:27.heritage because a lot of these wharfs and warehouse blocks have
:38:28. > :38:32.been converted and often just completely get rid of that landscape
:38:33. > :38:38.outside. 100%. It would be great to incorporate this sort of thing.
:38:39. > :38:42.Instead of paving it, to create an atmosphere with this curiosity and
:38:43. > :38:46.industrial heritage really fits in with the Artisan category, I think.
:38:47. > :38:51.And you are celebrating conifers, not many people here are. You put
:38:52. > :38:56.them together so beautifully. Our heritage at the nurseries is growing
:38:57. > :39:01.pines and conifers. I picked the textural ones that relate to the
:39:02. > :39:05.material colour, also some are a bit windswept with the prevailing wind
:39:06. > :39:10.going down the river. They give the garden a bit more depth and height.
:39:11. > :39:15.You borrowed that landscape beyond, you haven't put a boundary in, it
:39:16. > :39:19.feels like it goes on. The location was perfect for the garden, because
:39:20. > :39:24.there is no boundaries. It's like a section of a larger garden so it
:39:25. > :39:30.works really well. Great to see you and congratulations again. Thank
:39:31. > :39:34.you. The Fresh Garden category reflects the modern side of garden
:39:35. > :39:39.design at Chelsea, and this year there were five entries and two gold
:39:40. > :39:42.medals. Juliette Sargent and Nicki Chapman took a look at the designs
:39:43. > :39:55.that impressed the judges and visitors alike.
:39:56. > :40:02.This is the Breast Cancer Now Garden, through the microscope. It's
:40:03. > :40:08.a garden with a really strong theme. And as we walk through the garden,
:40:09. > :40:10.we can read the details that the designer Ruth Willmott has
:40:11. > :40:21.incorporated in order to tell us this really important story. This
:40:22. > :40:25.garden is all about the transformation from disease to
:40:26. > :40:29.health. In the front of the garden, these rugged rocks represent
:40:30. > :40:34.cancerous cells. But further down the garden, as you take a journey,
:40:35. > :40:37.you come to smooth stones which represent healthy cells. In the
:40:38. > :40:42.centre of the garden there is a black rectangular pool which
:40:43. > :40:50.represents the microscope slides that scientists use to study the
:40:51. > :40:55.cells. These circles represent the microscope that scientists use every
:40:56. > :41:03.day to research into the cheers and treatments for cancer. The idea of
:41:04. > :41:07.magnification follows through into the planting itself. Here we have
:41:08. > :41:12.really fine cut leaves and small flower heads, but as you look down
:41:13. > :41:15.the garden to the magnified end, the flowers are chunky and the leaves
:41:16. > :41:28.are big. A good example would be this little flower is mirrored by
:41:29. > :41:33.the large, bold peonies at that end. But the question on everybody's lips
:41:34. > :41:39.is why didn't it get a gold. Of course, I don't know for certain,
:41:40. > :41:44.but I have a theory. Ruth Willmott loves to design conceptual gardens.
:41:45. > :41:49.Most gardens are either purely conceptual or they are very garden
:41:50. > :41:54.knee. Whereas Reeve has set herself a challenge in designing something
:41:55. > :42:02.that falls between, and in doing so she has just missed out on that
:42:03. > :42:06.elusive top prize. To me, this garden is thoughtful, beautiful and
:42:07. > :42:16.atmospheric. I think the fact it is incredibly popular with the visitors
:42:17. > :42:19.speaks for itself. A splash of the Americas has spilled out of the
:42:20. > :42:25.Great Pavilion and into the gardens this year. With this Fresh Garden
:42:26. > :42:31.beneath a Mexican sky. Today I think is the perfect date to be viewing
:42:32. > :42:37.your garden. It absolutely is. When I started designing this garden I
:42:38. > :42:42.said if the sun shines in its full glory it will be perfect. And what a
:42:43. > :42:46.day to be standing here with you just admiring it. When you start the
:42:47. > :42:51.whole process, what were you influenced by? Was it the Mexican
:42:52. > :43:00.design, or somewhere you've been on holiday? I was actually influenced
:43:01. > :43:04.by the modernist Mexican architect Louis Barragan. I have Indian
:43:05. > :43:08.ancestry, born in Kenya, surrounded by beautiful women in gorgeous
:43:09. > :43:13.saris. Subconsciously it was the colour I was attracted to. That is a
:43:14. > :43:20.very, very dramatic backdrop. So he was your influence? Absolutely. When
:43:21. > :43:24.you were designing the garden, what did you have in mind? The blue sky
:43:25. > :43:28.today shows of the colours so well. How difficult is it to recreate that
:43:29. > :43:35.planting or did you just take elements of it? Part of the planting
:43:36. > :43:39.scheme was to show Louis Barragan's life. He struggled to become a
:43:40. > :43:43.recognised architect. I also wanted to introduce plants that people can
:43:44. > :43:48.take home and grow themselves as well. There are a number of plants
:43:49. > :43:57.in the garden that people can take home, and actually using their own
:43:58. > :44:01.gardens. I have an enormous agave in my garden, I didn't think it would
:44:02. > :44:06.grow that large but it is huge. They are pinpointed around the garden.
:44:07. > :44:09.What is that tree behind us? That tree is commonly known as the
:44:10. > :44:14.strawberry tree. It's gorgeous because when the first layer of skin
:44:15. > :44:20.peels off you get this lovely orange streaking on the branches and it's
:44:21. > :44:24.absolutely gorgeous and will survive in this country. The architectural
:44:25. > :44:28.structures and the cacti really works, doesn't it? It definitely
:44:29. > :44:33.does. There's a whole hierarchy in this garden where you've got the
:44:34. > :44:35.trees, the specimen plants, then you've got this lovely, soft
:44:36. > :44:40.planting that weaves through all the lovely structure. It works perfectly
:44:41. > :44:44.well. The bursts of colour through the Greens and the greys. It
:44:45. > :44:51.certainly works and congratulations on your silvergilt medal yesterday.
:44:52. > :44:52.Your face said it all. The sun is shining, it's going to be a trend is
:44:53. > :45:03.weak. We are loving your garden. Whilst the Main Avenue show gardens
:45:04. > :45:06.gather all the attention, most of it, the smaller gardens of all the
:45:07. > :45:10.different types are just as interesting for me, both in the way
:45:11. > :45:17.that they use their plants and in the details of design.
:45:18. > :45:19.This is a great example. It's only a small footprint but it's a
:45:20. > :45:24.combination of architecture and garden that I really love. Upstairs
:45:25. > :45:28.we have a high rise garden and down here a low rise garden in the shade.
:45:29. > :45:33.All the materials have been beautifully thought about. The views
:45:34. > :45:36.have been framed. It really feels like a very cohesive design and a
:45:37. > :45:43.great example of what you can do in your own space. Here is a nice crisp
:45:44. > :45:48.boxed hedging and yew hedging and into this lush shady environment.
:45:49. > :45:55.These plants don't get much sun, they don't get much rain. We still
:45:56. > :46:01.have this wonderful textural foliage of plants like the tree ferns and
:46:02. > :46:05.the gingers. I like this rusty metal work that ties in with the detailing
:46:06. > :46:09.on the steps and it shows you can grow plants in the city in an urban
:46:10. > :46:13.environment, plants should always come first. Don't you think? They
:46:14. > :46:16.should. The way they're worked together with the design should be
:46:17. > :46:19.seamless and it works here. It's a lovely garden. I think it's going to
:46:20. > :46:22.be one of those gardens, there are always a handful at Chelsea, that
:46:23. > :46:29.gets better and better every time you look at it.
:46:30. > :46:35.This year, the RHS introduced a new type of garden at Chelsea. These
:46:36. > :46:40.weren't judged but were created to inspire visitors and to celebrate
:46:41. > :46:44.Radio 2's 50th birthday. Each of these five feel-good gardens had a
:46:45. > :46:51.presenter as its champion and focussed on one of the five senses.
:46:52. > :46:59.This garden is for your eyes and boy is it a celebration. The colour is
:47:00. > :47:02.just exploding out. But not in a chaotic random way, in the most
:47:03. > :47:06.extraordinary controlled celebration and triumph and march of every
:47:07. > :47:11.colour. It's wonderful. Thank you. I love it. Everybody else is loving
:47:12. > :47:13.it. It's a good job you do too. One of the things that's interesting is
:47:14. > :47:18.everybody is saying, not just it looks nice, but it's a garden. It's
:47:19. > :47:24.a garden they feel they could have at home, could you? It really is a
:47:25. > :47:29.garden. I have noticed today is that we planted ten days ago, it was at
:47:30. > :47:32.the height of the Silver Birch frame and all those poppies and sunflowers
:47:33. > :47:37.have crowded it now. Things are really growing. Are they planted in
:47:38. > :47:43.the ground or in pots? A lot are in pots. But still growing. Obviously
:47:44. > :47:47.it's incredibly carefully constructed. But could people do
:47:48. > :47:52.this at home, is it possible or do you take the idea and a couple of
:47:53. > :47:57.colour combinations or could you create something as rich as this
:47:58. > :48:02.that's sustainable? You can. A lot are self-seeding. There is a
:48:03. > :48:07.structure. And some roses. There are bedding areas that will be changed
:48:08. > :48:12.every year. You can bed out. I have beds like this at home. They will
:48:13. > :48:17.give you a succession because if you cut them it's like dead heading.
:48:18. > :48:22.It's live heading. You have colour outside and you are replenishing it
:48:23. > :48:29.by bringing it inside. That's the key difference to most perennials.
:48:30. > :48:37.You can't really do much in shade, can you, you are limited? You
:48:38. > :48:43.definitely are. There are some things, we have a shady zone here.
:48:44. > :48:46.You are more restricted because annuals make food from the sun and
:48:47. > :48:51.it's like putting them on a starvation diet if you put them in
:48:52. > :48:56.the shade. One thing I know some people have raised is that annuals
:48:57. > :49:02.and particularly some of the most popular ones have flower heads that
:49:03. > :49:05.are very busy and not so good for pollenators, is it possible to
:49:06. > :49:08.balance having lots of wildlife and this amount of colour? It genuinely
:49:09. > :49:12.is. You want to look for ones that you can see the centre of the
:49:13. > :49:18.flower. This is perfect, it's why they're so busy. The poppies, they
:49:19. > :49:24.go for the pollen, the bees, not the nectar there. Things like this
:49:25. > :49:29.beautiful single dahlia which is elaborate, but if you watch the bees
:49:30. > :49:33.are feasting on the centre of the flower. They aren't contradictory at
:49:34. > :49:37.all. We are all feasting on the colour. It's lovely. It's a triumph.
:49:38. > :49:44.Thank you very much for bringing it to Chelsea. Well, it's been really
:49:45. > :49:48.good fun. Good. James, welcome back to Chelsea. How
:49:49. > :49:51.long has it been? It's been 18 years. Probably when you were still
:49:52. > :49:54.at school. I remember some of the gardens you have done in the past,
:49:55. > :50:00.it's wonderful to see you back. This is so brave and different. Tell me
:50:01. > :50:04.about it. Well, the idea is it's a science garden. How do you get sound
:50:05. > :50:08.into gardens and either you play loud music which we can't do at
:50:09. > :50:11.Chelsea because it will scare the horses or you have whispering
:50:12. > :50:14.grasses that nobody will hear. So the idea was to bring in something
:50:15. > :50:20.new. The other thing about Chelsea is it's there to do new and exciting
:50:21. > :50:22.things. We are standing in a woodland glade with rather soft
:50:23. > :50:26.lovely wavy wood land planting around it. Then you start to look
:50:27. > :50:31.closer and it's actually in the quite what you expected. I love
:50:32. > :50:35.that. There's so much more to this garden than initially meets the eye.
:50:36. > :50:39.I describe them as Easter eggs in design terms, you think you get it
:50:40. > :50:43.and you suddenly notice something. Tell me about the ripples through
:50:44. > :50:47.the water. There are speakers in them. That's where the sound comes
:50:48. > :50:52.from. If you play certain frequents of sound through water it makes
:50:53. > :50:57.different patterns. It's all been programmed by some very clever young
:50:58. > :51:01.sound artists, so each speaker does a different thing. Some are
:51:02. > :51:06.flickering across the surface and some are booming and loud. It's
:51:07. > :51:12.about taking the bass out. Now it's playing... It's doing weird things.
:51:13. > :51:15.I notice there is bits that look almost like Jack Frost painting live
:51:16. > :51:19.over the surface and some look like fish jumping up and down, it's
:51:20. > :51:22.dramatic. To turn sound into a visual form is something I have
:51:23. > :51:25.never seen before. It's fun. It's the only way you can do it, because
:51:26. > :51:29.essentially what we are doing here creating a show is it's a visual
:51:30. > :51:32.spectacle. We have to try and make sound something you can see and we
:51:33. > :51:37.have a strip of gravel on the front the visitor will be able to put
:51:38. > :51:41.their foot on and there is a vibration that travels up your leg.
:51:42. > :51:45.The idea is if you go to a concert and stand too close to a speaker you
:51:46. > :51:49.feel the music. My misspent youth, I remember that. Here you are feeling
:51:50. > :51:55.it and seeing it but you can't hear it. But it's there. You can roughly
:51:56. > :51:59.hear it, just, it's quite low. Then you see it and on top of that the
:52:00. > :52:03.planting is spectacular. Talk about a study in the calming effect of
:52:04. > :52:07.green. I have an amazing planting team that were helping me. As you
:52:08. > :52:11.know with Chelsea, it's not just one person. It's a whole load of people.
:52:12. > :52:16.I had very talented sound artists who helped with the speakers and
:52:17. > :52:23.amazing planting team who helped to put this vision together. The brief
:52:24. > :52:27.was create a slightly sinister woodland. The time you have been
:52:28. > :52:31.able to do it, it's spectacular. The one garden I would see at Chelsea,
:52:32. > :52:37.it's this one. Thank you very much, that's sweet of you. With Jon
:52:38. > :52:41.Wheatley in his taste garden. This celebrates everything I love about
:52:42. > :52:45.gardening, it's something about the joy of it. I love the way that here
:52:46. > :52:51.we are at Chelsea, it's not trying to pretend it is anything else, it's
:52:52. > :52:55.a veg plot. That's right. It's my passion, as well. What is lovely is
:52:56. > :52:59.the colours and forms and shapes and textures of of these plants and you
:53:00. > :53:06.can eat them. You are a master, you were telling me you won over 20 gold
:53:07. > :53:12.medals. Why have you chosen the pattern you have, a lot of brassicas
:53:13. > :53:18.on that side. What I am intrigued by is that there is a mixture of old
:53:19. > :53:23.and new here. There is some very new, some interesting plants from
:53:24. > :53:28.China. The pak-choi and Chinese cabbage. We have done traditional
:53:29. > :53:31.old style lettuce and new ones and the texture and form as well as the
:53:32. > :53:36.taste of these plants is one of the things that we tried to demonstrate
:53:37. > :53:43.in the garden. I was thinking that olives, 20, 30 years ago if you saw
:53:44. > :53:47.an olive at Chelsea it was under canvas, or exotic thing, a
:53:48. > :53:52.Mediterranean plant. Yes, it was. We can grow these now. Climate has
:53:53. > :53:57.changed. I know that a lot are grown under glass, as well. One of the
:53:58. > :54:02.other things we have tried to do is not only look at the foliage and the
:54:03. > :54:05.root but also at the flowers. The pea flowers, and we have gone
:54:06. > :54:09.worldwide to research most of the work in here. Well, I know you have
:54:10. > :54:13.only had a short time, how long did you have to prepare? About 11 weeks.
:54:14. > :54:17.What was the toughest thing getting this ready in 11 weeks? Toughest
:54:18. > :54:22.thing was for my colleague who must take the credit for growing these
:54:23. > :54:26.fantastic vegetables, Terry Porter, to get them all to this pristine
:54:27. > :54:29.condition. What's been interesting is the public response and the
:54:30. > :54:34.passion that people have shown standing out on the edge of the
:54:35. > :54:38.garden. Is that young and old or old people like me who are used to it? I
:54:39. > :54:43.suppose both of us are of an age. But my passion is to get young
:54:44. > :54:45.people involved. Also the 30 and 40-year-olds that have small
:54:46. > :54:50.patches. They're going to come here and are going to love it and
:54:51. > :54:53.hopefully they'll go home and will grow some veg and will never stop.
:54:54. > :54:59.It's a brilliant garden, thank you so much. Thank you.
:55:00. > :55:04.The feel-good gardens were a great success. And a welcome addition to
:55:05. > :55:09.this year's Chelsea because there were only eight show gardens,
:55:10. > :55:13.instead of last year's 17. I caught up with Sue Biggs to find out how
:55:14. > :55:19.the week had gone and what she's planning next.
:55:20. > :55:24.Now, Sue, we are coming to the end of the week, which to be honest at
:55:25. > :55:26.the beginning some of us were feeling, not anxious about, but we
:55:27. > :55:30.knew it was going to shall a different week because the show is
:55:31. > :55:35.different. Yes, it is. How has it gone? It's gone brilliantly. The
:55:36. > :55:37.atmosphere on the show this year has been absolutely extraordinary. The
:55:38. > :55:41.weather, of course, has helped massively. Yeah. Couldn't have been
:55:42. > :55:45.better really. No, couldn't. But all the energy and the passion and the
:55:46. > :55:50.innovation here at this show, whether in the pavilion with the
:55:51. > :55:55.nurserymen or the gardens outside, all the different categories,
:55:56. > :55:59.especially the feel-good gardens and the beautiful artisan and one of the
:56:00. > :56:02.gorgeous Main Avenue gardens. Why do you think that is? What's great
:56:03. > :56:09.sometimes when you have a problem that you have to overcome it does
:56:10. > :56:12.spur on an innovation and new way of thinking about things and there's
:56:13. > :56:17.new categories as a result of this, more space has arisen in the ground
:56:18. > :56:21.that is easier for people to sit down and just stand and stare. It's
:56:22. > :56:26.great with horticultural too, rather than constantly on the move. Now
:56:27. > :56:31.what's next up? On 7th June this year we have the first ever
:56:32. > :56:35.Chatsworth flower Show, up in the East Midlands in Derbyshire, it's
:56:36. > :56:39.going to be the most amazing show, I think. What will make that show
:56:40. > :56:42.special other than the location? The location of course on the day, the
:56:43. > :56:45.house in the background, it couldn't be a better setting but the real
:56:46. > :56:48.theme of the show is design revolutionaries and what we have
:56:49. > :56:51.tried to do is take a step away from all the other shows, they're all
:56:52. > :56:55.different in their own wonderful ways, and there are gardens for
:56:56. > :57:02.example lieshg the free form gardens where there are no rules. We have
:57:03. > :57:07.show gardens up there, so some from here, but some is the most
:57:08. > :57:10.beautiful, the conservatory there, collapsed 100 years ago, we rebuilt
:57:11. > :57:13.it for the show. It sounds intriguing. We have had a great week
:57:14. > :57:19.at Chelsea. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
:57:20. > :57:21.Well, it has certainly been an extraordinary week. I think it's
:57:22. > :57:27.been a very good show, don't you? It's been a strong year, no doubt.
:57:28. > :57:36.What did you like best? I liked the feel-good gardens. Great quality,
:57:37. > :57:42.great range. I think Sarah's stunning. They have been 100%
:57:43. > :57:48.success. One thing I could take it would be Darren's gate. I agree. I
:57:49. > :57:55.love that gate. It's got my name on it, you can't have it! Really. He
:57:56. > :58:03.can make another one maybe. What about you? I got great pleasure from
:58:04. > :58:08.the boat garden. That's just about it from us at Chelsea. I will be
:58:09. > :58:16.back on Gardens World next Friday in the usual slot and I have a preview
:58:17. > :58:19.of RHS Chatsworth and Joe will be there and we will be at Hampton
:58:20. > :58:25.Court in July. Until then, goodbye.