:00:29. > :00:32.Hello and welcome back to the Royal Horticultural Society's Flower Show,
:00:33. > :00:35.Tatton Park for our second programme of highlights from this great
:00:36. > :00:49.It's a really good show. One says that all the time, but I think it's
:00:50. > :00:53.extra good this year. Tatton Park aged a few years ago, but now I
:00:54. > :00:56.think it's back to full strength. The quality across the board and
:00:57. > :01:01.everybody is having a good time. What we have come to expect for the
:01:02. > :01:09.past few years is years, more than any other show. 20 to 25-year-olds
:01:10. > :01:13.wood John Everiss, I followed his career, he had a couple of gardens
:01:14. > :01:17.at Chelsea and he has done a fabulous garden here, and he won
:01:18. > :01:23.best in show in the show gardens category. It isn't just people
:01:24. > :01:30.chucking money at it. This garden, which is based around Crohn's
:01:31. > :01:38.disease and the charity which goes for that it only cost ?6,000. And
:01:39. > :01:40.it's got a gold medal. Everywhere you go, whether it be the show
:01:41. > :01:41.gardens or the Floral Marquee, its quality.
:01:42. > :01:44.Coming up on tonight's show from RHS Tatton Park, an event supported
:01:45. > :01:47.by Bruntwood Properties, we'll be taking a look at the three
:01:48. > :01:50.gardens designed by this year's RHS Young Designer of the Year
:01:51. > :01:52.contenders, and revealing who has won this prestigious award
:01:53. > :02:11.A feature of Tatton which has been here four back-to-back gardens. They
:02:12. > :02:15.reflect the way that most of us garden at home. We will be seeing
:02:16. > :02:17.which one of those has been voted best of the show.
:02:18. > :02:19.Carol Klein plays detective as she uncovers the plants
:02:20. > :02:21.and people making headlines in the Floral Marquee
:02:22. > :02:37.I am sure you have thoughts and opinions, maybe you have been to the
:02:38. > :02:45.show yourself, so get in touch on our Facebook page, or tweet us. Time
:02:46. > :02:47.now to meet the next generation of gardening talent in the RHS Young
:02:48. > :02:53.Designer of the Year competition. This year, the three finalists
:02:54. > :02:55.have been challenged to create a garden office,
:02:56. > :02:57.inspired by the idea First up is Anca Panait
:02:58. > :03:01.from Glasgow, whose woodland-inspired design is called
:03:02. > :03:02.Prospect and Refuge. Earlier, I went to see
:03:03. > :03:17.the finished garden. It does seem remarkable to me that
:03:18. > :03:22.this is Anca Panait's first show garden, because it is amazingly
:03:23. > :03:27.assured. It is based in a woodland, and the idea is it is a retreat from
:03:28. > :03:32.the hurly-burly to create a space where you can work, so the planting
:03:33. > :03:36.reflects the light, dappled shade of woodland, the colours are muted, the
:03:37. > :03:45.touches of what you get from the anemones, with ferns coming under
:03:46. > :03:49.the silver birches. It's a very bright, white half. And then the
:03:50. > :03:56.level changes, and a lovely oak wood, rich and warm, and you come
:03:57. > :04:00.down steps. The inclination is to sit here and think I don't want to
:04:01. > :04:08.do any work, it's too nice! We've got lovely planting, looking out
:04:09. > :04:13.onto crocosmia. But you can go across, and he is your desk. Sit and
:04:14. > :04:19.connect with nature as you work. This would beat any office I've ever
:04:20. > :04:24.been in. There is only one drawback to this garden, and it's quite a
:04:25. > :04:29.serious one. I know for a fact that, if I had to come and work here, I
:04:30. > :04:35.wouldn't get any work done at all. I'd just be enjoying the garden.
:04:36. > :04:38.We'll be walking you through the remaining two young designer
:04:39. > :04:50.The Back to Back garden category is unique to Tatton,
:04:51. > :04:56.Every year, the small gardens may be limited in space, but they always
:04:57. > :05:01.have big ideas, and there is the scope for presenting a wide range of
:05:02. > :05:10.planting concepts. Toby has been to see two of them.
:05:11. > :05:18.The back-to-back gardens really are tiny, just four metres wide by six
:05:19. > :05:21.metres deep, but the peace garden by Matt Campbell is a vivid example of
:05:22. > :05:28.how bright and colourful your garden can be if it's small and it has
:05:29. > :05:32.sunshine. It is inspired by the 1960s, a decade that frankly I don't
:05:33. > :05:36.remember. But I do know it was the time of the peace movement, Bohemian
:05:37. > :05:42.beauty, and the planting is suitably psychedelic, with the most placid
:05:43. > :05:47.yellows combined with pink Luke Evans and lobelia. It's
:05:48. > :05:51.extraordinary. There is a trick that you can take from this garden, which
:05:52. > :05:54.is useful if you like your garden to look bold, bright and beautiful,
:05:55. > :05:59.which is using darker colours to frame the brighter flowers. It is
:06:00. > :06:03.done here with chocolate coloured dahlias which really make the
:06:04. > :06:05.flowers above them pop. It's got what it says on the wall, flower
:06:06. > :06:20.power. This designer has done the garden
:06:21. > :06:33.design equivalent of a garden grabbed by taking two back to backs
:06:34. > :06:36.differently, but inspired by the gardens of Cholmondeley castle. The
:06:37. > :06:39.further north you live in the country, the more it thrives and the
:06:40. > :06:43.brighter its foliage. My favourite of the two is the front garden, god
:06:44. > :06:50.I love the symmetry provided by these box balls. They create a
:06:51. > :06:58.formal hello, along with the frothing Russian sage, the lab and
:06:59. > :07:03.do -- the lavender, it hasn't just got colour, it's got class.
:07:04. > :07:06.What all the Back to Back designers have achieved in such compact spaces
:07:07. > :07:09.is to be truly admired, but it is a competition after all,
:07:10. > :07:12.and only one of them could be awarded the title of RHS Best Back
:07:13. > :07:39.Lara Behr, with the Macmillan Legacy Garden. Lara, congratulations. First
:07:40. > :07:44.garden, gold medal and best back-to-back. How do you feel? I'm
:07:45. > :07:50.thrilled. It's been a lot of hard work but great fun. This garden is
:07:51. > :07:55.serious and important. Run us through the main features. I had to
:07:56. > :08:00.come up for a design for MacMillan Cancer Support for them to
:08:01. > :08:05.demonstrate how important legacy giving is to them. My starting point
:08:06. > :08:08.was the wishing well, because I wanted to portray legacy giving
:08:09. > :08:12.positively, and I remember that excitement as a child when you put a
:08:13. > :08:17.coin in a well and thought, it's really going to come true. The
:08:18. > :08:23.design started there, and then the poles represent the work of
:08:24. > :08:26.Macmillan. They come round to this clay seating area, which is a
:08:27. > :08:31.reflection of the work and comfort and support that MacMillan offer to
:08:32. > :08:34.cancer patients and their families. We have some words from people who
:08:35. > :08:44.have been helped engraved on the copper discs. ! Circuits a cohesive
:08:45. > :08:45.thought process, but beautifully excited -- a cohesive thought
:08:46. > :08:47.process, but beautifully executed. Over in the Floral Marquee,
:08:48. > :08:49.the exhibitors have been pulling out all the stops to impress the judges
:08:50. > :08:52.and public alike with Never one to miss out on the action,
:08:53. > :08:56.Carol has been amongst the crowds, seeking out the heroes and headlines
:08:57. > :09:12.in her Tales from the Tent. This superb display has won best
:09:13. > :09:21.exhibit in the Floral Marquee, and no wonder. It really is exquisite,
:09:22. > :09:26.and what it says to you is, this is late summer, this is Tatton Park.
:09:27. > :09:34.It's packed full of the most glory or -- glorious perennials. And
:09:35. > :09:43.another valiantly deserved gold medal, Sue Beasley. Congratulations,
:09:44. > :09:49.it's your first, isn't it? My thirst in the marquee. But this time you
:09:50. > :09:52.come for both sides, the exhibiting and the garden out. I had a
:09:53. > :09:57.four-year break into the RHS approached me and said, would I
:09:58. > :10:00.consider building another? I said I couldn't because of the timing is
:10:01. > :10:05.overlapping, so they sorted that out, and I was in a meeting
:10:06. > :10:09.thinking, I'm just so tired, I need a sleep, and that's where the idea
:10:10. > :10:16.came from to build a garden with a bet on it. Did it turn out to be a
:10:17. > :10:19.dream or nightmare? Mostly a dream, the occasional nightmare, but it's
:10:20. > :10:22.been wonderful and I'm looking forward to having a chip on it
:10:23. > :10:32.before we break it down and say goodbye to Tatton. -- having a kip
:10:33. > :10:35.on it. What a trip there are other things to celebrate, too. There is a
:10:36. > :10:41.wedding in the family to mark the occasion they have named two new
:10:42. > :10:48.plants, one after their son, Thomas, and the other after his wife,
:10:49. > :10:51.Madison bright. They are gorgeous, and plants are going to be given to
:10:52. > :10:59.all of the guests attending the happy occasion.
:11:00. > :11:08.I'm not new to Tatton, at this Carol Klein is. It is clematis Carol
:11:09. > :11:13.Klein, and it's been introduced here at the show. It's a herbaceous
:11:14. > :11:18.clematis. You can grow its sprawling through shrubs or up some sort of
:11:19. > :11:24.support, and it would be great in a pot, too. It flowers from April
:11:25. > :11:26.right the way to the end of September and, do you know what,
:11:27. > :11:32.just like me, it's very low maintenance.
:11:33. > :11:34.Continuing now with our look at each of the gardens in contention
:11:35. > :11:37.for the RHS Young Designer of the Year award, and Monty's been
:11:38. > :11:40.to cast his discerning eye over the Business and Pleasure garden
:11:41. > :11:46.His office design has been inspired by the rooftop gardens typical
:11:47. > :12:09.Jake has taken inspiration for his garden from a modern space. It's the
:12:10. > :12:13.high line in New York which, if you didn't know, is a park perched atop
:12:14. > :12:20.a redundant railroad, hence the outside of the pond and the
:12:21. > :12:26.naturalistic planting. Jake has cleverly put seating in every
:12:27. > :12:31.corner, and particularly inviting RVs, the boulders, which are likely
:12:32. > :12:37.to sit on. To my mind, the gravel is a bit of a curate's egg. I love the
:12:38. > :12:39.way it's divided into two different sizes, nuggets and horticultural
:12:40. > :12:44.grit demarcate the borders, but the colour is quite minty blue and cold
:12:45. > :12:49.and I can't help but think it would have been warmer if it matched the
:12:50. > :12:52.boulders in the borders. That said, the borders are gorgeous, and they
:12:53. > :12:59.are full of life. I love the way the bees are working this equinox. Just
:13:00. > :13:03.lovely. They also use a clever trick of mounting up the soil, which is
:13:04. > :13:08.good for some lovers like Echinacea. There is also a plant I've never
:13:09. > :13:14.seen initial garden before, this one. It's a plant that happily self
:13:15. > :13:19.sews and it finds its own moisture. Just a lovely thing, a beautiful spy
:13:20. > :13:28.among this froth of colour. For a first time show garden, is a
:13:29. > :13:38.triumph. -- a beautiful spire amongst this froth of colour. That's
:13:39. > :13:41.a lovely garden, and later I'll be reviewing the final contender ahead
:13:42. > :13:43.of the big announcement of the winner at the end of the show.
:13:44. > :13:45.Over in the show gardens, established names continue
:13:46. > :13:47.to return each year, and one such designer has been drawn
:13:48. > :13:49.back by the challenge of creating a garden
:13:50. > :14:01.This is Michael John McGarr's 2101, and it's his vision of how climate
:14:02. > :14:04.change may have impacted our planet over the next century and how
:14:05. > :14:14.Things will be drier and hotter, we will have flash floods, so the
:14:15. > :14:19.bottom areas, we will need plants that can cope with dry and wet. We
:14:20. > :14:26.have this in the corner, and these wonderful cacti, so the planting in
:14:27. > :14:28.containers. In a way, they will replace the box balls, the
:14:29. > :14:34.ornamental plants we grow now. Because we grow will be spikier,
:14:35. > :14:42.they will be non-hardy plants we can grow outside, so things like this
:14:43. > :14:47.dramatic architectural plant. And the wonderful Mexican blue palm. We
:14:48. > :14:51.will be looking for shade, like here with tomatoes, to keep the fruit
:14:52. > :14:52.sweet. At the back of the garden, it's a standout feature, and I'm
:14:53. > :15:04.going in. OK, it is very different in here!
:15:05. > :15:09.We've got great finds again being shaded. These windows are looking
:15:10. > :15:14.out on to the garden, adding different framed views, it is really
:15:15. > :15:16.nicely put together. Michael has got a theme, he has run with it and
:15:17. > :15:34.executed it beautifully. One of the stars of this garden, the
:15:35. > :15:39.cacti, there's been a great rise in the popularity of cacti. Carol
:15:40. > :15:42.decided it was time that these low maintenance exotics got some extra
:15:43. > :15:50.love, and she's over in the Floral Marquee.
:15:51. > :15:57.Cacti are unique plants. They developed over thousands and
:15:58. > :16:04.thousands of years, along with the habitat they come from which is
:16:05. > :16:10.almost invariably hot, dry desert. Some of them are tiny, intra Kate,
:16:11. > :16:17.detailed. Others are giants that can be as big as 20 metres tall. A lot
:16:18. > :16:24.of the plans behind me and me and youngsters, just 45 years old. --
:16:25. > :16:31.they are mere youngsters. A newcomer to Tatton with an interesting array
:16:32. > :16:35.of plants of William's cactus. How long have you been interested in
:16:36. > :16:42.these plans. I followed my dad in the late 70s, it was his hobby. You
:16:43. > :16:47.must have been a little lad. Six or seven. As a business I've done it
:16:48. > :16:52.for three and a half years. What do you like about them. Just a
:16:53. > :16:58.different shapes, forms, structures, they all have their own character
:16:59. > :17:05.and individuality. Yeah. I love this one, so soft and fluffy. This one is
:17:06. > :17:09.very easy to grow, nice and soft, good for children, like cotton wool.
:17:10. > :17:16.We've got some questions from social media for you. Julian Keely and Emma
:17:17. > :17:21.Hatton would like to know, are there any hardy cacti that can be grown
:17:22. > :17:28.outside all year around in our British climate. Quite a field
:17:29. > :17:34.species, like the great big woolly one at the back. What is that fluff
:17:35. > :17:38.for. To keep it warm during the night like a sleeping bag, doing the
:17:39. > :17:45.day it will lift up to let the heat out. It comes from Peru, 4500 metres
:17:46. > :17:51.so at night time when temperatures are called that one would be very
:17:52. > :17:58.popular and easy to grow. Drew Carpenter asks how often he should
:17:59. > :18:01.water is cactus. Every two weeks between March and October, feed them
:18:02. > :18:06.once a month, make sure that you don't water in winter because that
:18:07. > :18:10.will rot them. Thank you for your lovely stand. I'm really glad you've
:18:11. > :18:21.turned your hobby into a business. Thank you.
:18:22. > :18:31.Now moving from planting where water is scarce to something different.
:18:32. > :18:35.Name Micro has been to see a garden which copes with ways of preventing
:18:36. > :18:43.potential flooding in our front gardens.
:18:44. > :18:49.On a glorious day like this thoughts of flooding are far from my mind but
:18:50. > :19:02.this garden comes into its own when it rains. Incorporating practical
:19:03. > :19:06.ways of how to deal with storm water in garden design is becoming an
:19:07. > :19:11.increasingly popular theme. We saw this at Hampton Court in the urban
:19:12. > :19:13.rain garden. Here, this garden is called Slow the Flow and does
:19:14. > :19:30.exactly that. Hi, John, good to me too. Storm
:19:31. > :19:37.water is a big issue, your take on it? It's a massive issue, we all
:19:38. > :19:41.have to cars, nowhere to park so we pave over the front garden. I've
:19:42. > :19:46.tried to come up with ideas that can be practical and absorb water and
:19:47. > :19:51.also recycle in the garden. The design clearly has details that
:19:52. > :19:56.address these issues. Pretty much everything is permeable, we have
:19:57. > :20:00.gabion walls which led what are true, the poorest driveway, concrete
:20:01. > :20:05.beams that let the water through and a roof which will help 50% of the
:20:06. > :20:09.water evaporate. The water will travel down through these containers
:20:10. > :20:14.and they harvested in a 10,000 metre tag. You can either use it to
:20:15. > :20:23.irrigate your garden or pump it out to the mains. I expected more bog
:20:24. > :20:27.plants, why aren't there any? I didn't want to use them because it
:20:28. > :20:33.is a garden where you can put your own plants, we're not saying it's
:20:34. > :20:35.about training and freely, it is about managing, controlling recycled
:20:36. > :20:42.water around the plants that you have in. It has clearly done that
:20:43. > :20:48.and the judges felt you hit the nail on the head what with you getting a
:20:49. > :20:51.gold medal and best in your category. It has been a real team
:20:52. > :20:55.effort, I have designed it with Peter and my crew, everyone has
:20:56. > :21:00.worked so hard, I am pleased for them, we've worked hard here. You
:21:01. > :21:11.should be really proud, well done, congratulations.
:21:12. > :21:14.Time now to review the third and final contender in the running
:21:15. > :21:21.for the RHS Young Designer of the Year award.
:21:22. > :21:25.It's designed by Ula Bukauskaite and it is called Studio Unwired. The
:21:26. > :21:32.idea is that people can come together and hot desk here but you
:21:33. > :21:35.are looking out onto the garden, it is set in an urban environment, you
:21:36. > :21:44.have this wonderful wild planting, which has been inspired by Ula's
:21:45. > :21:48.homeland and memories of the Baltic landscape where she grew up. I like
:21:49. > :21:53.the way she has arranged this with different layers in the planting, we
:21:54. > :21:56.have the wilderness with pines that have dropped cones on the gravel and
:21:57. > :22:03.some have self seeded. There are also manic you and areas that have
:22:04. > :22:09.been garden, we have these wonderful plants planted in block to add shots
:22:10. > :22:13.of colour as well. But do not manic and areas. The idea that this garden
:22:14. > :22:18.is somewhere to escape and connect with the natural world, something we
:22:19. > :22:24.all love to do. This design feels very accomplished, it is pared down
:22:25. > :22:32.and is quite sophisticated. I think that Ula has done a really good job.
:22:33. > :22:38.Now we've seen all three designs in contention and, earlier,
:22:39. > :22:40.I met Sue Biggs, Director General of the RHS,
:22:41. > :22:58.And delighted to announce that the winner of the R HSE and designer of
:22:59. > :23:09.the year 2017 is Ula. Ula Maria. Many congratulations. Well done,
:23:10. > :23:14.Ula. Congratulations. Ula, when you set out to design this garden did
:23:15. > :23:19.you look to win this award? I didn't. I always wanted to make a I
:23:20. > :23:25.would be proud of, and that would be really a motive to me. I think that
:23:26. > :23:28.is a good way forward with garden design, design something you are
:23:29. > :23:33.happy and proud with. When you vanished it did you think you had
:23:34. > :23:37.something special? I think I have something special because it is
:23:38. > :23:41.personal to me and the concept is driven by my ideas and childhood
:23:42. > :23:47.memories of where I grew up so it's a very personal space. I just hope
:23:48. > :23:51.people will love it as much as I do. This is what I love, it is personal
:23:52. > :23:57.to you and feels fresh and different. Is it a big step in your
:23:58. > :24:00.future garden design career? Definitely, it's the most amazing
:24:01. > :24:05.opportunity to start something new, get your name out there and present
:24:06. > :24:09.what you love to do. I think I have this connection with nature and just
:24:10. > :24:13.working with it is exciting for me. You were on the side for two weeks
:24:14. > :24:18.with the other guys, did you get to know each other. Definitely, we
:24:19. > :24:23.become so close and worked together to achieve the best three gardens we
:24:24. > :24:29.could possibly do. Will you share this with them then? I'll think
:24:30. > :24:34.about that one! I don't blame you for keeping it. Will you be able to
:24:35. > :24:37.relax and enjoy the week. I think so, now everything is done I can
:24:38. > :24:43.relax and talk to people and really show them what the garden is about.
:24:44. > :24:45.Congratulations again, lovely to meet you and to see your great
:24:46. > :25:03.garden. Thank you so much. I do think Ula's garden was the
:25:04. > :25:07.stand out garden that category but the standard was very high. It was
:25:08. > :25:12.the best of three that was superb. I love the way that year after year
:25:13. > :25:18.the General standard at Tatton has been raised by designers of all
:25:19. > :25:22.kinds and the whole show has been lifted up by youth. How good is
:25:23. > :25:28.that. Couldn't agree more, totally. We are running out of time but with
:25:29. > :25:35.God just enough time for our last stop. Earlier Monty and I had fun.
:25:36. > :25:39.Well, I tried. You loved every second of it! We looked at some of
:25:40. > :25:53.the more unusual exhibits at this year's show. Here we go, Monty, this
:25:54. > :25:59.is Bus Stop Boulevard. Are there other things to go and see? Give it
:26:00. > :26:04.a chance, it might be fun. Make me laugh. When you wait for a bus the
:26:05. > :26:09.grass grows and your feet and by the look around the back as well. You
:26:10. > :26:15.begin to rest in places you don't want to rust. Monty, you're famously
:26:16. > :26:19.have a passion for begonias. Everyone knows about it. This is the
:26:20. > :26:25.way to do it, if you're going to do it, do it at a bus stop. If this was
:26:26. > :26:40.the last bus stop in the world I wouldn't grow a begonia! But is it
:26:41. > :26:46.art, Monty? It's the Monty Lisa. A bus stop with a fridge, Monty, what
:26:47. > :26:50.do you fancy. I have a strawberry. This was all going to landfill so
:26:51. > :26:59.you have a fridge, you can pay for it, what you think it is worth, and
:27:00. > :27:03.cut your bus. Good chap. -- catch your bus. There is a very precious
:27:04. > :27:16.plant in here going through a dormant period.
:27:17. > :27:24.Well that brings us to the end of the show and the end of the RHS
:27:25. > :27:28.Shows season but it has been a busy summer. Monty, what has been your
:27:29. > :27:33.highlight. You said it was busy, we've seen a lot of shows but I keep
:27:34. > :27:36.coming back to one at Hampton Court, the autism garden which I loved on
:27:37. > :27:41.lots of different levels, I liked the way it was done and why it was
:27:42. > :27:48.done and I loved the trampoline and the swing. That swing was not only
:27:49. > :27:51.fun, it was beautiful. It was beautiful and I remember you on the
:27:52. > :27:55.swing. For me, not one garden that stands out, lots of quality but the
:27:56. > :28:00.weather at all the shows this summer has been fabulous. It has been hot
:28:01. > :28:05.weather. People have made fun of me for my hat back at Chelsea we got
:28:06. > :28:12.you in a hat or two, didn't we. Let's look at this. I think this is
:28:13. > :28:19.the one. How about that, the new Monty look. How about that. Monty,
:28:20. > :28:23.we finally found you. You've arrived. The real me. I don't think
:28:24. > :28:26.we can take it any further because we'll be out of a job. I reckon we
:28:27. > :28:33.cut a dash. Well, that brings us to the end
:28:34. > :28:36.of the show and the end of our coverage of the RHS
:28:37. > :28:38.Flower Show season. The flower show season
:28:39. > :28:41.here on the BBC may be over for another year,
:28:42. > :28:43.but Gardeners World will be back So, until next time,
:28:44. > :28:48.it's goodbye from all our team