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00:00Hello and welcome to Gardener's World Live. Now, Rachel, this is a show that, for me, is quite unlike any of the others. This is special.
00:11I absolutely agree. Well, it's our show, first of all. It's a very friendly show, and I think these are real gardeners.
00:19You feel here that people are interacting from the beginning. Oh, look at that thing and buy. They're going shopping, apart from anything else.
00:25And somehow the show gardens do feel more intimate.
00:28And, of course, we've got the A-team here. Arit, Adam, and Ashley.
00:33Triple A's.
00:34And they're already out exploring the best on offer. There's so much to see at the show this year.
00:40So we're going to give you just a little taste of what's coming up in the next hour and why Gardener's World Live is so special.
00:49Birmingham's central location is the perfect spot for Gardener's World's very own flower show.
00:55It's a place for people from across the country to come together and share in our passion for gardening.
01:02It's the best show. We come at every year to see Monty and the team.
01:06I love the size of the show gardens here because at home, in a new-built garden, they're small.
01:11So I can basically come here, pick a show garden up, take it home, and put it in my garden.
01:15And I've got the exact same effect.
01:18The gardens are brimming with inspiration and take-home ideas.
01:23And we'll be following Nick Bailey as he builds his show garden, which is all about making every metre matter.
01:30It's been seven months in the planning, but finally the garden is beginning to become a reality.
01:35The floral marquee is all washed, with summer colour and expert growers offering advice.
01:41That is marvellous. Thank you very much indeed.
01:44No, thank you. Thank you very much.
01:46It's also home to the International Orchid Show, with 31 exhibitors of incredible plants.
01:52I brought my orchids all the way from Ecuador for this show.
01:55I'm from Taiwan. I bring a lot of Asian species to England because you don't see them in England often.
02:01We will be meeting one of the more local exhibitors as they prepare their collection for the show.
02:07This is Scafosephalum gibberosum.
02:10I just love them because they just look like big moustaches.
02:13They're just very different, very unusual.
02:17The beautiful borders are a hotbed of creativity, and that's where many designers make their debut.
02:23I applied to build my first border just three years ago.
02:27This show's been a springboard for my career, and now I'm winning awards for Showcase Gardens.
02:33And we'll be meeting a mother and son building their first ever border,
02:37with a design that combines both Welsh and Arabic roots.
02:42I see the garden as like an exhibition of my faith, so why not have an Islamic garden,
02:47with plants that can thrive in this environment.
02:50Gardener's World Live is truly the people's show.
02:55It has something for all of us.
02:57At Gardener's World Live this year, the show gardens are doing a fantastic job
03:25demonstrating, first of all, different styles of design, traditional, more contemporary.
03:31But also, they're carrying very different atmospheres, and for me, that's what gardens are all about.
03:37I mean, when you look at this one, first of all, it looks obvious.
03:41Lovely sort of zigzag path, leading to a big focal point at the end,
03:45and you're travelling over this water, so there's a sense of sort of calmness.
03:49But then, you look a little bit closer, and it really starts to sort of reveal itself,
03:54and you realise it's not just about human beings.
03:56It provides wildlife.
03:58The lovely bit, though, at the end of each run of path, there's a little focal point.
04:03Now I've stepped down.
04:05It feels slightly different.
04:07There's a boulder.
04:08I can sit down.
04:09The eye line completely changes.
04:12I'm now immersed, and I feel very different to what I did up there.
04:15Then there's these lovely little bee posts, so those solitary bees are provided for,
04:20and then you've got the planting, the gravel underfoot, so there's a texture.
04:25You know, you look at this as a design, it's quite classic,
04:28but then there's a really good diversity of trees, and then there's layers of shrubs,
04:32and then there's herbaceous planting.
04:34But then you've got that main feature of the water.
04:39It's a cracker.
04:45What did I say about atmosphere?
04:54Yes, this feels very different.
04:56It's rugged.
04:57It's this sort of winding path that you sort of slowly move through the space.
05:02Do you know one of the lovely things here is this was all built by students,
05:05and it's great that the show, young landscapers, gardeners,
05:09you know, people cutting their teeth in the world that I love.
05:13But if you look closely in every single one of these gardens,
05:17there is stuff to take home.
05:19Look at that behind me.
05:21Yeah, lovely little border.
05:22But for me, the fantastic bit is all the different flower shapes.
05:27We've got Achilles in there, we've got Poppies, we've got Salvias, we've got Geums.
05:31All those different shapes and forms create this sort of wonderful tapestry.
05:36So, you know, you come here, you take a photograph of that,
05:40and that inspires some planting in your own garden.
05:44There you go.
05:56That was fun.
05:57What a great reminder, though.
05:59When you're creating a garden, you know, how do you want it to feel?
06:03Do you want that moment of calm, lively place to entertain?
06:06This is all about kids.
06:08And you can see, look at the primary colours.
06:10You've got the Salvias, the Dahlias, you know, the Geums, the Ringiums.
06:14So there's these different shapes and forms,
06:16but those primary colours really put a smile on your face.
06:20But also what I love as well is designers come up with cracking ideas.
06:24Look at these.
06:25I peep down.
06:26They're tiny little people.
06:28So as you look through, they're perfectly framed, the planting.
06:31And obviously everyone's going to be slightly different.
06:35What I think is great about these show gardens is, yes,
06:39some of them you can literally pick up, transport, put in your own backyard.
06:43But the others that not necessarily jump out at you as something you would do
06:48are still full of great ideas that we can take home
06:52just to make our spaces maybe a little bit better.
06:57I love the way that at this time of year,
07:03there's a whole new palette of colour and plants
07:08adding real zing to our gardens.
07:11And it's not too late to be thinking about what you can plant now
07:15to extend that flowering season into late summer and early autumn.
07:20And Ariad and Ashley are in the full marquee,
07:23delighting and discovering the extraordinary range of wonderful plants to be found.
07:35Ashley, can you believe they've actually let us in?
07:38I can't.
07:38This is like plant heaven.
07:39Every plant you can ever imagine is in this room with us.
07:42Now, I know what you're like because you want to take in the detail.
07:44You've got your gardening head on.
07:46What are you looking for?
07:47Yeah, I think I'm looking for the right plant for the right place.
07:49And I want to see new plants, ones that we could maybe use in future gardens.
07:53Okay, yeah, makes sense.
07:54And I guess as a designer, you're looking for the right combinations
07:57and extending that flowering season.
07:59Yeah, yeah, I love looking at that.
08:00I love looking at the displays.
08:02And of course, there's the individual plants,
08:03but it's how do you put them together, colours, textures, you know, different shapes.
08:08All right, let's see what you come up with.
08:10See you in a bit.
08:12Look at this.
08:19The colour is absolutely stunning.
08:22Iris water waltz.
08:24But I love the shape of the flower here.
08:27All of these lovely scallops around the outside.
08:29A real showstopper in a very sunny border.
08:32This galenia has caught my eye because you don't often see a pink one.
08:45It's so delicate and it has this beautiful chocolate foliage.
08:48And then I couldn't help but notice this Acer viper, which has this incredible leaf.
08:54And the bark, imagine that in the winter, that has beautiful white stripes that will provide winter interest for you.
08:59There's also a little Alcamilla, which is so cute, has the cutest little leaves.
09:03Absolutely love this Adenophora, which has a beautiful fade from purple to white.
09:10It is really similar to Campanula and would be perfect for a woodland edge dappled shade.
09:15Now this is really pretty.
09:23I love how this Nautia is bouncing across the top of the Orlea here.
09:28Really, really pretty.
09:29Tiny little button shapes.
09:30Now completely different to that great big blousy iris, but it works so well.
09:35It's very, very ephemeral.
09:36I really love this type of planting.
09:38I think Ashley would like this.
09:40Here we have a selection of plants that would be perfect for a sunny border.
09:43You've got this mellow yellow verbascum.
09:46You've got this beautiful steeper, which is knitting everything together.
09:49So this is a great combination if you've got a gravel garden or you're looking for drought tolerant planting.
09:58Ari, you weren't joking.
09:59You were quick.
10:00I told you.
10:01I absorb very, very quickly.
10:03But I've just come here because this is where the new breeders showcase their new plants.
10:09And it's so lovely that everybody can see the plants of the future incoming.
10:13But look at this one.
10:14This is the new Helianthus.
10:15And I just think it's lovely.
10:16And the leaf on it is slightly glaucus.
10:19It's got a texture on it as well.
10:20I love how proud it is on the stems.
10:23That is so nice.
10:24This one caught my eye.
10:25Okay.
10:26This is a Rappaelepsis.
10:27So it's an evergreen shrub.
10:29Yeah.
10:30Great for winter structure.
10:31And I think it would look so nice mixed among other perennials.
10:33Very good.
10:34Shrubs get on to play, don't they?
10:35They do.
10:36They do.
10:39I'm in absolute seventh heaven amongst all these perennials.
10:49I mean, just look at the range of colours and shapes.
10:52But I think best of all, so many of them are suitable for attracting pollinators.
10:56And that's really important to me.
10:59Well, every year at Gardeners Wild Live, they ask a designer to create a headline garden.
11:04And this year the honour has gone to our very own Nick Bailey.
11:12It's been seven months in the planning, but finally the garden is beginning to become a reality.
11:17The design is broken up into 196 individual square metres and is rooted in sustainability.
11:23And I want to prove that you can create an entire garden, including the hard landscape, using nothing but plants.
11:30Now, we just need to pull it all together.
11:34It's been a pretty full on eight days, very, very long hours.
11:40And then of course have been months of sleepless nights in advance of doing this.
11:44But genuinely thrilled that in just a few days time, people are going to be able to see all the incredible efforts that have gone into putting this garden together.
11:51Central to my design concept was to make sure the garden works from whichever direction you approach it.
12:04Typical show gardens, you only get to see one or two sides.
12:07This is designed so you can see in from every side.
12:09And so you've got different dynamic views as you move around the site.
12:12You've got all of these kind of pitched roofs which should interact with each other.
12:15This is the veg garden, but then we move into the brassicarium, which is the protected area.
12:21Coming around this side, we can now get the full frontal view of the roofed barn doing its thing there.
12:27Of course, there are the ponds underneath as well, which kind of embody that sort of single metre space.
12:32So coming through here, you've got this big central line which takes you through the garden with these beautiful clay pavers.
12:38We've only seen two sides of the garden, but there's more.
12:41If you come around here, you suddenly get a whole different set of vistas looking into the roofed barn over here,
12:48looking through the trees and those layers.
12:50We've then got the multi-occupancy birdhouse, but also a pergola effectively that gives you an arch or an entranceway into the garden.
12:59And then this is our potting shed, so treated in the same way in terms of roofs and materials as everywhere else.
13:04But there's even more coming through here.
13:06This is where all the hazel will be growing with the beautiful meadow going underneath.
13:10And then coming through here, there's even more. Lots of stuff on the ground here.
13:14But compost heaps just here, people will be able to get and see all of these different views.
13:18And you can see how the vista has shifted again.
13:20So I'm hoping it makes it really exciting for people.
13:23They can truly get to every single angle in the garden.
13:28Obviously, we'll have to burn some of those with cutting with scissors.
13:31Oh yeah, just to tidy it up.
13:33But that is looking great.
13:34Sustainability is truly at the heart of this garden.
13:40And not just as a concept, but as a practical reality.
13:44Every single element has been chosen with a purpose, basically to demonstrate that it's possible to garden while being incredibly kind to the planet as well.
13:53I love the fact that we've been able to construct this garden basically completely from plants.
13:59So the barn I'm stood in at the moment is made from Douglas fir.
14:03It's been treated and kind of burnt down.
14:05This is known as Shugiban, which sounds very exotic, kind of Japanese technique.
14:09I looked up the words.
14:10It actually just means burnt plank, but it's a great way of preserving timber.
14:14Next plant-based material is the hessian just here.
14:17So this is a tropical grass actually that's used to produce this really kind of long-wearing, lovely material.
14:23Talking about grasses, next material over here.
14:25Again, plant-based.
14:26This is bamboo.
14:27It's a fantastic product.
14:28Works as a superb cladding.
14:30The guys have really kind of struggled to cut it because it's so dense.
14:33It's an amazing material.
14:34And then finally our one concession to a non-plant-based material are the clay pavers down there.
14:39Of course, they're so much better for the environment than concrete or anything else.
14:44It's great to see the buildings taking shape, but the key to a successful show garden is always the plants.
14:51You know, I was saying that these bismachias, that they're not great at the base.
14:56So what I was thinking is we could try and run it through the angelicus.
15:01Yes, you are.
15:03Using a few different kind of planting palettes in the garden in terms of colours and tones and textures.
15:10And so what I've tried to do is go for the kind of colour wheel opposites thing by pairing kind of blues and oranges, but subtle tones and versions of those.
15:18So I've got the Nepeta, which has got sort of violets, purples, burgundies in there, but an overall kind of pale blue theme.
15:24I've got this Veronica, which is slightly heading towards violet, but there's blues in there as well.
15:28And then the idea is that they contrast against this lovely GM called Tempo Orange.
15:33And then we've got this fantastic Carrex testacea, which again is doing the orange.
15:39I'm using 20 trees in my garden and they need to look their best.
15:48So I've learned from a bitter experience having created a few show gardens.
15:52To get these giant trees, this is about six metres tall.
15:55Stand it up, looks beautiful.
15:56Two days later you realise there's a dead leaf six metres high in the air.
16:00Major problem.
16:01So what I'm doing here is just going through and taking out any little bits of damage, any bits of yellowing foliage that will bug me down the line.
16:09It's a lot easier to do.
16:10You know, it might sound a bit strange, but I'm actually saving all of these kind of half dead leaves.
16:15Because behind me are two compost bins which are going in the garden.
16:18And we need them to look as authentic as possible.
16:20So we're actually saving all the dead plant material as well as the livestock.
16:23That's it.
16:24All right.
16:25Let's put it in.
16:26Come on, let's run this way a bit.
16:27All right.
16:28Two, right.
16:29The host is slow.
16:30Is it?
16:31Can't do it.
16:32You just need to dig a little bit where your foot is, don't you?
16:33Yeah, mate, it's nearly there.
16:34No, I think that's going to work.
16:35I think that's going to work.
16:36I've got a few tweaks to do.
16:37The hole isn't quite big enough to happen sometimes.
16:38Just going to take a skim off the edge, that will slot in.
16:55Literally, it feels like it was made for that spot.
16:57It's just kind of sitting in that wedge and it's the kind of, I guess it's the glue that's
17:01Das war es für das Spot. Es sitzt in der Wedge und es ist, ich glaube, es ist die Glühe
17:07das die Bilder zusammenhältst, und dann links es auf die andere Seite.
17:13Es ist ein deader, da.
17:16Ich werde es auf die Ladder verletzen.
17:24Es ist nur seit 7 Tagen, bis die Show opens zu den Publikum, und wir sind ein bisschen behind.
17:30und das passiert mit den meisten Show Gardens.
17:32Aber die Good News ist, dass all die Hard Landscape ist.
17:36So, unsere Bird House ist auf,
17:38die Roofed Barn ist complete,
17:40die Burnt Out Barn ist vollständig,
17:42und die Potting Shed ist vollständig,
17:44mit den Barns.
17:46So, es geht um die Planting Team jetzt
17:48um die 2,000 oder so planten wir haben
17:50in den Grund,
17:52und, hoffentlich,
17:54in der Zeit für die Show zu open.
18:00Well, Nick,
18:04I know he loves plants,
18:06but the fact that he's taken them through
18:08to his hard landscaping materials,
18:10I think is absolutely genius.
18:12It's such a brilliant way to bring new innovation
18:14into a show garden.
18:16And we will be revealing his finished garden
18:18later in the programme.
18:24What we love about this show
18:26is that we all get to come together
18:28to talk about our favourite subject,
18:30gardening.
18:32Whether it's revelling in beautiful flowers
18:34or solving some gardening conundrums.
18:42That looks almost as good as the garden.
18:44Almost as good, yes.
18:46Oh my goodness.
18:48I've come to their Sweet William.
18:50I tried growing them a couple of years ago
18:52but it wasn't that successful.
18:54It's got loads of buds, this one,
18:56deadhead them,
18:58it will keep flowering throughout the summer.
19:00You can also give it a liquid feed.
19:02That will keep it producing healthy flowers.
19:06I have got dry, sandy soil
19:08in a shady position.
19:10I've got an eight foot high north facing wall.
19:12So let's go see if we can find
19:14you two
19:16some plants that deal with that shady condition.
19:18That would be amazing.
19:20Can I tag along?
19:22Come on, let's go.
19:28Yes, I'd like that.
19:30That's one.
19:32Let's go over this way, shall we?
19:36If we come round here, look.
19:38Look at that.
19:39Oh, I really like that.
19:40It's a tiny little collection.
19:42Some of those will work in semi-shade,
19:44so really what it is,
19:46is finding the plants that will work roughly
19:48in the conditions,
19:50and then finding the variety that will work for you.
19:52Does that make sense?
19:53Yes.
19:54So once we've covered all the ground,
19:56now we want a few little gems, all right?
19:58So this is called Dysporum.
20:00For me, they're a really hard working plant.
20:04And the coloration of the leaves,
20:06you get different ones.
20:07Some are dark, some are light.
20:08Does that help?
20:09Yes.
20:10Yeah, really, really good.
20:11Good.
20:12Lovely done.
20:13Thank you.
20:14Bye.
20:15Cheers, bye-bye.
20:29The beautiful border section of the show
20:31is great for small space inspiration.
20:34And there are 26 different designs this year,
20:37all centered around the theme of cultivating connections.
20:41And now it's kicking off our tour.
20:50Well, looking at this border,
20:52it's a real feast for pollinators.
20:54There's pentstemons, peters, lavenders, salviers.
20:58These blocks are great in the border as well
21:00because they give out a slight scent.
21:02And that paler color means that at dusk,
21:04they can still carry on attracting in
21:06things like moths to pollinate.
21:08And there are also some really nice sensory elements
21:11in this garden as well.
21:12So this herb border here, for example,
21:14it's really great entry plant for children
21:17to have in a space where they can come out,
21:19pick the herbs and taste them.
21:21And then as I come around here,
21:23I can see a firm favorite for a sunny border.
21:27And that's this lovely Stachys Byzantia here.
21:29And this is Lamsey, which is really good for drought tolerance,
21:33but also so soft to touch,
21:35which again is great for children
21:37to be able to come and see in the garden.
21:39The great thing about this border
21:41is so many of the plants are easy to look after,
21:44cut and come again,
21:45so you can get flowering going throughout the whole season.
21:47So it's good for pollinators,
21:49but also good for people too.
21:59I think the word that comes to mind
22:01when you see this garden is wow,
22:03because it's such a burst of color.
22:05And it's inspired by the super bloom events
22:07that you get globally in very arid places
22:10when all the flowers just come into bloom
22:12and make these incredible displays.
22:15And also the designer comes from the East Sussex coastline
22:18and you feel that sort of seaside effect going through
22:21and the plants are actually growing through sand.
22:24Lots of things that are familiar,
22:26like the California poppies
22:27and two different shades of orange,
22:30which are really lovely.
22:31And then giving some height with the mallows,
22:33we've got the agapanthus coming through.
22:35There's a verbena through there.
22:37And then on these weathered boards,
22:39we've got the black-eyed Susan
22:40just sort of wending its way up.
22:42So you've got lots of lovely height,
22:44which is great.
22:45Lots of wonderful plants.
22:47I particularly like those little dried flowers there.
22:50They're sort of everlasting flowers
22:52and they dry
22:53and you can use them for flower arranging
22:55and so on through the year.
22:56It's fantastic.
22:57The main thing I think that really hits you
23:00is the color.
23:07Slugs can be a real problem for gardeners,
23:11but this garden showcases how you can create
23:14a slug-resilient space.
23:16By choosing plants like these grasses,
23:18geum, and you've also got verbascum
23:20with hairy, tough leaves.
23:22That is something that slugs don't enjoy
23:24as much as the fat, juicy hostas and dahlias.
23:27Also think about cultivation techniques in your garden.
23:31This one uses a straw mulch
23:33and slugs won't like crawling over that so much.
23:36Over time, it will break down and also feed your plants
23:39to create healthy, resilient plants in your garden.
23:43And one of the best things you can do
23:45is have a water feature in your garden,
23:47something that wildlife will be attracted to.
23:49Birds and amphibians and mammals will eat slugs
23:53and remove them from your garden
23:54without you having to do the hard work.
23:56But remember, not all slugs are enemies.
23:58They help to break down dead plant material,
24:01feeding our plants,
24:02and they are an essential part of the ecosystem.
24:06I do think that the beautiful borders are more beautiful than ever.
24:14They're really stunning this year.
24:16Now, the show gardens on the borders
24:18are always sowing something new.
24:21They're giving us excitement.
24:23They're making us think.
24:24It's that freshness that is so appealing.
24:27But actually, one of the things that I love about the floral marquee
24:32is the familiarity.
24:33You see old friends, faces that have been showing here
24:36for years and years.
24:38And obviously, they're bringing new plants.
24:40But this year, we were sent a film by a nurseryman from Yvesham,
24:46who is preparing to show here at Gardener's World Live
24:49for the very first time.
24:51Hello, Gardener's World.
24:57I'm Stephen from Growing Crazy,
24:59and we're getting our pelargoniums ready for Gardener's World Live.
25:02So, my passion for pelargoniums started when I was about 13 years of age.
25:09I got a job working for the National Pelargonium Collection,
25:13which had been started and established by Hazel Key
25:17in what was then the largest collection of pelargoniums under one roof.
25:22As time went on, I probably became the annoying teenager asking,
25:28what's that one?
25:29What's that one?
25:30Why did you get that?
25:31How did that cross with that?
25:32And I'm sure, you know, as annoying as I were,
25:35Hazel never showed it.
25:36She was curious, I think, by the passion that I showed for the plants.
25:42For the last 25 years or so, I've worked in IT,
25:45project management and taught business strategy.
25:48But that all changed.
25:51The Key family had sort of let me know that they were looking at winding up the business.
25:56It was at that point, I suddenly thought,
25:59I need to save that one or I need to keep that one.
26:02I think my collection now is between 500-600 or so plants.
26:10Five months ago, I decided to follow my dream,
26:12take the leap and make it a full-time business
26:15with the help of my partner Harry and my mum Diane
26:18with lots of support from family and friends.
26:20When Stephen told me he was thinking of giving up work full-time,
26:24I actively encouraged it.
26:26What I didn't expect really was that I would be working full-time too,
26:31on the plants.
26:32What are you doing, Mum?
26:36Labelling up, Stephen.
26:38Why are you doing that?
26:40Because somebody didn't label up when they brought it up.
26:43Did they, Stephen?
26:44No, they didn't, Mum.
26:46We've come to take a look at what plants we could take with us to the show.
26:54This is copthorn.
26:55Copthorn is a scented pelargonium,
26:58but it has these large blooms on it that flower all summer long.
27:03This is charity.
27:04It's a scented leaf pelargonium that's primarily grown for its foliage
27:08and you can really see why.
27:10Another variety we would love to take with us is crocodile.
27:14Not only does it have these lovely flowers,
27:17but it's got this really interesting featured leaf
27:19where it's got the nice veining through it.
27:22It's four days until showtime,
27:25so I'm hoping all of this flower is going to last.
27:31I've loved the buzz of the flower shows
27:33ever since Hazel took me to Chelsea Flower Show
27:36to help out on the stand over 30 years ago.
27:39We did Hampton Court
27:41and also we went to the very first BBC Gardeners World Live,
27:46which is a real experience.
27:48So it's kind of nice to sort of come back to where it all started really.
27:56Stephen, I can't believe that you were worrying
27:58whether you had the right quantity of plants.
28:00I mean, it looks absolutely perfect.
28:02Thank you.
28:03Yeah, it's been a bit of a job,
28:05but we've managed to jam pack lots of colour and lots of variety into this.
28:09It's really a celebration of all the different varieties.
28:12That was the aim.
28:13We really wanted to sort of show off the diversity
28:15of all the plants that we've got
28:17and all the different varieties and all the different groups that are available.
28:20Well, I think you've definitely done that.
28:22Thank you.
28:23Now, might this be crocodile?
28:25Because I think I recognise that mottled leaf.
28:27Yes, it's fantastic.
28:29A really unusual sort of leaf.
28:31I'm not a big fan of the flowers.
28:32I do have to keep the flowers on at home
28:34because my partner does like them,
28:35but I'd rather take them off and show off the leaves.
28:38And you need to keep the peace.
28:40Oh, yes.
28:41Now, I know it's like asking who your favourite child is,
28:46but do you have a favourite amongst all of these?
28:48I think probably this week it's got to be the Stenopalatum.
28:51This really is something a bit different.
28:54It's a species pelargonium.
28:56It has these lovely sort of waxy ivy leaf kind of leaves,
29:00but it has a really nice upright habit to it,
29:02which makes it a really great plant.
29:04And then just those flowers.
29:06Yeah, the flowers are extraordinary, aren't they?
29:08The shape is really eye-catching.
29:10So if you're going to buy a plant here at the show
29:12and it's the first time you've grown a pelargonium,
29:14what are your top tips?
29:16Top tips?
29:17Probably the first thing is to sort of think about the compost.
29:19Go for the best quality compost that you could afford
29:22and then do regular feeding.
29:24We, through the season when they're in flower,
29:26would be feeding them with a good tomato feed.
29:29I can't believe that it's only five months
29:32that you've been doing this full time.
29:34It's extraordinary.
29:35Will you be coming back next year?
29:38Hopefully, yes.
29:40I'll ask you at the end of the show.
29:42Yes.
29:54At this time of year, of course, it's natural
29:56that we are relishing and wallowing in all the wonderful flowers.
30:01But you must have lots of foliage
30:04if you want to achieve peace and harmony in your garden,
30:08which is so important.
30:09And this stand, ferns and foliage,
30:11has three plants that really exemplify that.
30:14You've got ferns, you've got acers and hostas,
30:17and all three will thrive if you give them the right conditions.
30:22So, for example, for the tree ferns, they must have moist air.
30:25But if you spray them every day, they're pretty adaptable.
30:29Aces are fine as long as you can keep them out the wind
30:34and also give them good drainage.
30:35Well, I have real problems with that at Longmiller.
30:37However, hostas love it.
30:39And I love hostas too.
30:41And the secret to hostas, to make them slug-free,
30:44is give them plenty of moisture, give them some shade,
30:47and also give them some room to grow.
30:49And one of the things I'm noticing this year
30:51as I'm walking around the show
30:52is I'm seeing lots of gardens and displays
30:56that are inducing that kind of green calm.
31:00All the beautiful borders are really good,
31:13but this one is interesting because it's doing an awful lot.
31:16It's providing three seats, different types of colorways,
31:19but all of them are aimed at providing a space
31:22for people just to stop, relax, and be at peace.
31:27And I particularly like this corner.
31:29It's very simple.
31:30You have this hardy geranium,
31:32Mrs. Kendall Clark,
31:33which has got this lovely powdery,
31:35slightly lilac-y color.
31:37The thalictrum,
31:38which is topped off with that gentle lilac,
31:41but also has these incredible rich, deep stems.
31:44And then the ferns and the foliage
31:46and the little grasses around it.
31:48It's simple planting,
31:50but the point is it's gentle.
31:52And sometimes, even in the middle of summer,
31:55you need that subtle,
31:57gentle planting,
31:59both of flower and of foliage,
32:01to find the peace that is so important within yourself.
32:15Now, I've come to this garden,
32:16which is right on the edge of the showground,
32:18but it's really worth the visit.
32:20It's called a garden of reflection.
32:22And I like its story.
32:23It has been made specifically for a secondary school
32:26in Wargrave near Reading.
32:28Now, in my experience,
32:29getting secondary school children
32:31to engage with gardening at any level
32:33is an uphill struggle.
32:35But this garden does it very creatively
32:37because it's not just creating a space
32:39full of lovely plants.
32:40Much more importantly,
32:42it's creating a safe environment
32:45where they can let the plants
32:47and nature come to them
32:49and they can engage with it
32:50on their own terms.
32:51And going around the show this year,
32:53I'm seeing more and more examples
32:55of plants and of inspiration
32:57of how you in your garden
32:59can create those calm, quiet retreats.
33:03The beautiful borders are great for inspiration,
33:12but they also provide the perfect springboard
33:14for aspiring designers to take their first steps.
33:17A few weeks ago,
33:18we met a family in Swansea
33:20who are combining their many talents
33:22to create their first ever border.
33:24The first time I came to Klein Park,
33:33I was maybe three or four,
33:36and I just thought I'd entered a magical world.
33:38It was like a fairy tale.
33:40So, obviously,
33:41I wanted my kids to grow up in Klein,
33:43so over the years,
33:44I brought them to the park.
33:45And I feel that if you let children be in nature,
33:48then they'll look after it and take care of it,
33:51which is very important to me as a mother of seven.
33:53I've done the apprenticeship
33:56for nearly three years now in Klein.
33:58I've learnt to experience here,
34:00and to me, Klein is an amazing park.
34:04My name is Oma Yousef.
34:06I'm Emma Yousef.
34:07I'm his mum.
34:08We're collaborating for a garden of Will Vaith.
34:10It'll be a paradise garden
34:12with Arab and Welsh theme,
34:14and the name of the garden is Calonlan,
34:17which is a pure heart in Welsh.
34:20My inspiration was Klein,
34:23but the most inspiration for me was my garden.
34:26That inspired me to learn a lot about plants.
34:31Me and my mum, we make a good team.
34:33My mother's responsible for designing the garden.
34:37I'm going to help with putting it together.
34:40I will be giving the horticultural plant knowledge.
34:44So I say, what about this?
34:46And he says, no, mum, you can't have that.
34:48Or he says, yeah, amazing.
34:50Why don't you incorporate such and such with it?
34:52So the inspiration was actually the theme this year,
34:55which is cultivating connections.
34:58As I'm from mixed heritage and Islamic faith,
35:01there's so many connections,
35:03but all these things are beautiful elements,
35:05and I wanted to combine them into a garden.
35:08I see the garden as like an exhibition of my faith
35:11and my journey and my Welsh and Arab heritage.
35:15So why not have an Islamic garden
35:18with plants that can thrive in this environment?
35:22And it's nice to show people about both heritages,
35:26what plants are grown in Iraq and Wales.
35:29It's a Welsh border.
35:30We love Wales, very patriotically Welsh.
35:33He speaks Welsh as well.
35:35So, yeah.
35:36Yeah, shocking.
35:37Paradise gardens is whatever you think paradise is.
35:41For me, paradise is just going to be lush green,
35:45lots of colour, lots of water, the town of birds,
35:48anything that's soothing to your soul.
35:56So the colour scheme for Canonland is white,
35:59cerise colour and purple.
36:01I'm growing the Zyra cyberica
36:03because they've got a lovely purple colour
36:05and it's got an amazing height and it grows so quick.
36:09It only takes about two months for it to fully develop
36:12and have a nice flower.
36:13And it's a spectacular plant.
36:19Water has a very important role to play in paradise gardens.
36:22Water is the life force of all creation.
36:25It mentions in the Quran four rivers in paradise
36:29of wine, honey, milk and water.
36:32Generally, Islamic gardens are split into four
36:36because of the rivers.
36:38So I feel that it should be incorporated in any garden.
36:41It's soothing for the soul,
36:43no matter where your culture or garden is based.
36:46So we wanted to find a space where we wanted to plan this garden.
36:56So I've cleared this area.
36:57This was Brambles before.
36:58I've cultivated it and now the plan is basically to put all the plants along here
37:03just to see the mock-up of the garden before the show.
37:07This is mint.
37:22It's the same variety that they have in Iraq.
37:24I've put this in my garden because it's a five senses garden.
37:28Obviously you can have this in tea.
37:30You put it in salad.
37:32So it's taste and also it gives off a lovely scent
37:36that I'm hoping will tie in with the smell of roses and jasmine.
37:44We're a family of nine.
37:46My husband and myself have seven children, almost the oldest.
37:51The youngest is three.
37:53They've all been getting involved in helping with planting and planning and mosaics.
38:00I thought I'd take this opportunity to get my children to help me make some mosaics.
38:06I think it's a really nice idea for them all to have contributed to this mosaic
38:11that is going to be the central feature of the garden.
38:13My inspiration is Celtic knotwork.
38:16Also, I like geometry, which is Islamic patterns.
38:20What we're making right now is a Celtic heart
38:24because the garden's called Callanlan, which is pure heart.
38:33These plants, the irises, the salvias, the digitalis,
38:38they were part of my journey when I was inclined.
38:40I thought, why not grow them for the border?
38:47It's going to be an exciting experience, really good for the kids.
38:50They're all taking part in it.
38:52They're all...
38:53It would just be fantastic for them to see what I can actually do.
38:56I quite like the idea of people seeing my tiny little border and thinking that's a full-on garden.
39:04I think everybody needs a bit of paradise in their life because life is hard for people.
39:09And when you go into the garden and you sit amongst the green and the different colours and the birds and the bees and the sound of nature,
39:17your heart is at rest. You're at ease. You feel a sense of peace.
39:21It doesn't matter what faith you're from. This is the beauty of gardens.
39:25It has the same calling to everybody.
39:38Emma and Umar, all of that hard work has paid off. You are now at the show. So, how was the experience, Emma?
39:44It's been an amazing experience. Lovely people. Seeing all the celebrity gardeners and the mentors from my son, really.
39:53I'm so glad I did it and brought him to the right place so he could see that anything is possible.
39:58So, how has your family reacted to seeing this lovely garden here?
40:02Totally amazed. My little one, who's four, he came and he ran on the garden and plunked himself on the chair and my son was like,
40:09he's not supposed to go in the show gardens. I was like, it's my garden. He can do what he wants.
40:14So, he was wow, mummy's garden. And then my daughter, she's going to be doing architecture.
40:20So, she was wowed by it. So, all I want from life is to inspire my children and I feel I've achieved that.
40:26Well done. And you've only just finished your apprenticeship as well, Umar.
40:31So, to see all your wonderful plants, how are you feeling?
40:33It's just amazing to show plants. I've got foxgloves, irises, all sorts of plants from Wales and Iraq.
40:41And it'd just be amazing to show people what you can do in such a small space.
40:46And it'd be amazing to show the pollinator flowers too.
40:50Exactly. And I understand that you're going to have this relocated. So, where's it going on to?
40:55It'll be relocated in Swansea, the waterfront. I'm hoping that many people can enjoy it and see it.
41:00And it's such a privilege.
41:02And it should take pride in place in Wales because it's influenced by the Welsh heritage.
41:08All the slabs are Celtic designs. Obviously, it's a fusion of a few different cultures, but there's a big Welsh influence on the garden.
41:17Well, I think it's really great to see that fusion. I have family in Wales, so I hope to be able to come and see it at the waterfront at some point.
41:23That'll be amazing.
41:25So, well done. Well done.
41:30This garden is based on a new build. In one corner, maybe the garage takes out a chunk of the garden.
41:48Then you've already got a shed, if you're lucky. And then they're left with this slightly awkward space.
41:53You still want all the things we want from our garden. You want to relax. Maybe you want to provide for wildlife.
42:00Well, this does it really well. Simple small trees work through the space.
42:05They just start to soften and bring the garden down to this level.
42:09But on the way, you've got these raised beds. All of those is reflected in this central water feast.
42:13The whole thing glues together, but it's not that classic look out the window, strong lines. You know, it's all these overlapping shapes that sit really comfortably.
42:23And then the planting is a mix of the softer, wilder, leery meadow, right into the good old ornamentals.
42:33And the last thing, the materials. They're all reclaimed. You know, they're imagined to be collected off the building site.
42:39So, however, intimidating. That little blank space outside the back door might feel.
42:46A little bit of thought. You too could have something like this.
42:57And I'm really loving this garden. It's got everything you could want in a relatively small space.
43:02Very much a garden of two halves. So on this side, this is the shady bit.
43:07And all these shade-loving plants, things like the hostas and ferns, the heuchera.
43:11And it's punctuated by these yew balls, which just gives it that structure.
43:15And if you haven't got space for a tree, well, this is a perfect solution.
43:18It's silver birch, which is grown multi-stemmed from the base.
43:22And then they've clipped it a little bit higher up so you can use all of this space underneath the planting, which is fantastic.
43:27And then on the other side of this path, which is very smart, it's made of burnt scaffolding boards.
43:35And they're then oiled. And it looks really expensive, but actually isn't. So a really good tip.
43:40And then this side, all of the sun lovers. So they're growing through gravel, which is a great mulch to help sort of retain moisture,
43:47but also keeps down the weeds and sets them off beautifully.
43:50Things like the salvias, you've got alliums here still going.
43:54And it's lovely, this sort of palette of beautiful soft mauves.
43:58And I think what I really like is that you could imagine you could just pick up this whole garden in its entirety,
44:04pop it down into yours and be very happy indeed.
44:07It's interesting listening to Rachel talk about the sunny side and the shady side.
44:23Because this garden is definitely designed around weather. It's for a drier part of the country.
44:29But also that idea that we shouldn't use so much water in our gardens.
44:33You look at it as a layout. It's quite simple. Elegant, rectangular at the top, path that drives all the way around it.
44:40And then you've got a sunken space, texturing materials. It's quite lovely.
44:44You're waxing lyrical, aren't you?
44:46I was just about to talk about planting. So that's perfect timing.
44:50I'm really admiring the planting. It's beautiful. I mean, so well adapted as well for drier conditions.
44:55All these silvery and grey leaf foliage. I love the movement as well with the grass across the top.
45:00It's also, I think, thought provoking because you've got a fountain that, of course, would have been all about the water.
45:07And now we're showing, look what you can do without any water, just planting it up. It's really beautiful.
45:12I think the last little group of plants for me is like the poppies that seem to deal with whatever the winter we have.
45:19You know, they still come up the following year.
45:20Yeah, I mean, it does always come back to that mantra, doesn't it? Right plant, right place. Totally.
45:25And the gardens here show that you don't need to have lots of space to be able to do exactly that.
45:30That's beautiful, isn't it? Right. So where's it going to go in your garden?
45:39Half shade up. Achille up. Need a sunny border. Okay.
45:43Yeah, so it needs full sun. So it doesn't really do so well in half shade.
45:47Thank you so much. Okay. Thank you. Nice to meet you.
45:49I've been and looked and I love buying plants, but there's no more room in that trolley.
45:55I think I can find a little bit more. We've got the other trolley in the trolley.
46:00I brought a house last year, so we're still trying to get the garden together.
46:05Had to put the hydrangeas in some pots, but I'm not sure where to go from there.
46:09Put it in daffled shade if you can. It just protects it from that harsh sunlight because they can go crispy on the edges.
46:13The salvia, that is kind of the opposite end of the spectrum. So that loves it hot and sunny.
46:19When these flowers are finished, you cut them down to the next set of leaves and you'll get new sheets coming and flowers just keep coming and coming and the bees love them.
46:26This is the second year when Gunners World Live has hosted the International Orchid Show.
46:42Now, there are 31 exhibitors, six from overseas, that bring together such an incredible range of these extraordinary plants.
46:49I'm told that there is no other place in the UK that you can see such a varied range of these extraordinary plants all together.
47:00So if you love the plants, you have to come here.
47:03And a few weeks ago, we went down to Dorset to visit a couple as they prepared their orchids to bring to the show.
47:10I'm Annie. And I'm Simon. And together, we're the Isle of Portland Orchids.
47:28I love Gardeners World Live. Lots of orchid people there and also lots of fantastic plants.
47:35I'm a bit of a plant-holic, really.
47:37I first started growing orchids when I was a teenager and worked at a Dorset orchid nursery, weekends and school holidays.
47:47So that was back in the 1970s.
47:49We started growing orchids together in the 1990s and we came here to find a perfect place to grow orchids, surrounded by the wild country that Portland is.
47:59Worldwide, there's about 28,000 orchid species. So they're an enormous plant family.
48:08We've currently got about 500 orchid species and we grow them in three very distinct environments.
48:14This is what we call our Himalayan greenhouse. So this is a greenhouse that we keep with a minimum temperature of seven degrees in the winter.
48:26So it's a really cool greenhouse.
48:27It's also quite bright as well. If you go to the Himalayas, the forest there is much more open woodland. So the orchids are often on trees on their own, getting lots of light.
48:38So we find when it comes to flowering, if you can give your plants plenty of light, it certainly helps.
48:43This is Miltonia cunniata and this is a plant that we came across in the coastal mountains of Brazil.
48:52I remember picnicking under a tree that was completely covered in this orchid.
48:56So it's not when you see a lot, but when you find a tree with it on, it'll be absolutely smothered.
49:01This is Odonticolossum, now Oncidium cristatum, which is one of those cool growing orchids.
49:10I think this is Colombia and Ecuador, that part of the world.
49:14The thing that's special about orchids is their diversity and the links between the species and the amazing places they come from.
49:25So we've been fortunate to travel across the tropical world.
49:29It's given everything context. I suppose when I thought about a tropical rainforest, I always thought about this colourful place.
49:37And they're just great, they're so green and different greens. And you have to really search for the plants a lot of the time.
49:48We're in the Cloud Forest greenhouse. This is where we grow lots and lots of the miniatures.
49:54A lot of these plants are from South and Central America.
49:57This is Dendrobium cuspitsonii, and it's from Papua New Guinea.
50:03I do love it because it is a really tiny plant with these huge great flowers.
50:08We grow a lot of Mastivalias, and so we've got Mastivalivicianas. They're hummingbird pollinated, so they're going, look at me, look at me, so the birds will come in and take the nectar.
50:25This is our warm lowland forest, so this is where we grow all of our Phalaenopsis species, which a lot of people will know as moth orchids.
50:40All of the plants we've got here are species, and that means that they're all plants that are found somewhere in the world as wild plants.
50:50Hybrids are produced by people. We don't produce those. They don't, for us, have the same stories to tell.
50:55This is Phalaenopsis chibi, and you'll notice it's got two seed pods here.
51:01So we haven't got room indoors to grow hundreds of Phalaenopsis, but what we can do is grow our species collection, produce the seed and then sell plants as seedlings.
51:10I think our relationships with orchids is different. I think my relationship is a little bit more around the botany.
51:19Annie, you're a real gardener, aren't you? And you love the propagation and the plants.
51:24Orchids like to have their roots slightly restricted. They don't like to be over potted.
51:31Really squashing down just around the plant.
51:34And that's what we recommend. So if you can pick up the plant, buy the plant, that's where it's nice and sturdy in the pot.
51:46This is Scaphocephalum gibberosum. I just love them because they just look like big moustaches.
51:54They're just very different, very unusual. So this will be coming to Gardener's World Life.
51:59Anything with a flower on is likely to be in our exhibit.
52:04One of our hopes is that our Cilogyny Nittidas will be in flowers.
52:09So these are the flower spikes coming here.
52:12So they look about perfect. So we should have lots and lots of these.
52:16We really like to talk about our displays.
52:20You know, lots of people are so interested and Simon talks nonstop to people.
52:24I think together we make a really good team.
52:30The thing that gets us is every time a species opens its flowers and we see again its special little face appearing for us.
52:39That's a magic moment.
52:40I can see the moustache orchid has made it here. That is so exciting. That is such a unique shape.
52:52Isn't it wonderful? And everybody's really, really enjoying it. It's like they're going, wow, look at that plant.
52:59Annie, what else on this display are you excited about?
53:00The Mastavale beachianas. They are just incredible. Hummingbird pollinated and so bright. You can see that just jumping out in a forest.
53:10That looks amazing. I mean, it's like it's been coloured in with a highlighter. That's how bright it is.
53:14Simon, when people are coming here to buy orchids from you, what kind of advice are you giving them?
53:19To match the habitat the orchid naturally grows in to the habitats inside your house.
53:23So some rooms might be cooler and shadier and that's going to suit the cloud forest orchids that come from tropical mountains.
53:29Or you might have a brighter, hotter room and that would fit the plants that come more from the lowland forests.
53:35But you've got a habitat somewhere in your house for every tropical orchid.
53:39Not only are there so many amazing orchids on the display, but the scent is absolutely intoxicating. Just standing here I can smell it.
53:47I'm so glad I got to meet you both and hear about your orchids. Thank you for showing me.
53:59Fancy joining me? Just for a moment, slow down and enjoy the garden.
54:06I think I've found the perfect small spot on the whole of this showground.
54:11Look above me. The tree providing dapple shade. I've got a boulder just to perch my backside and take a moment.
54:17I've got the water moving down and then I've got the bog planting wrapping its way around. Then the hostas and the ferns behind me.
54:25It carries real atmosphere and it's not a big space. In fact, I think it celebrates a lot of what Gardeners World Live is about this year, which is making a metre matter.
54:35Nick's mission for his headline garden is to inspire us to transform just one metre square for the benefit of you, wildlife and the planet.
54:47And on that note, Ari is now with Nick and they're about to reveal his garden.
54:52Nick. Wow. It absolutely looks, feels, smells is amazing. You must be so happy.
55:10It's kind of a mad thing, isn't it? You know, as a designer, when you've kind of created something in your head and then suddenly it's a 3D reality, it never stops being amazing.
55:16Let's look at the plants because now that they're here, it's singing. I mean, you know, I absolutely love colour and blue and orange I'm so passionate about.
55:25They make each other zing and look more radiant and more exciting.
55:28You've really obviously taken on board for pollinators and wildlife throughout this garden as well.
55:33Yeah, I've tried to do that and we've got the sort of grassy mixes. The idea is that there'll be three, four, five months of flowering in there.
55:39So as you say, brilliant for pollinators, but also brilliant for those parasitoid wasps, of course, which balance out all the pests in the rest of the garden.
55:47So it's kind of showing that even in just one square metre, you can create these pollinator patches, these kind of pest patches, and it's a really simple thing to do.
55:56But of course, the water that has to be present in the garden, I mean, this looks fabulous.
56:00I love the idea that you just bring water into a garden, it brings life immediately. And you know all the stats, you know, it's literally two, three weeks and you've got 20 new species suddenly in the garden.
56:10But also to be able to show that just a one square metre pond, you can have a couple of different plants in there, you can have a beautiful display.
56:16But you, I love how you've been so playful and really gone into using plants throughout the whole garden.
56:23You know, 100 years ago, we didn't have glass, steel, metal and plastic in gardens, and we had great gardens.
56:29So why can't we go back to that? Everything here, basically, apart from the clay paving, is made of plants.
56:34This wonderful Douglas fir, this cedar, the hessian on the walls, the bamboo on some of the ends.
56:39It's all plants and they're all kind of looking after each other, creating this environment.
56:43We don't need to use lots of these modern materials.
56:45I could literally sit here all day. Let's kind of go through to the back if that's okay.
56:49Oh, look at this! Fabulous!
56:54But, look, the metre comes alive massively, doesn't it? All of your raised beds.
56:59Even if you're dedicating just one square metre to growing veg, you can grow nine sweetcorn.
57:04That's going to be at least 18 corns, that's a family for a month.
57:08Yep.
57:09Four courgettes. Now that's probably a family for a full summer, right?
57:12Yeah, definitely.
57:13You can grow four cabbages, you can grow nine lettuces, you can grow four tomatoes.
57:17Yep.
57:18So just in that small space, actually, you can get something really productive.
57:21And this, a triumph.
57:23Indeed, the famous brassicarium.
57:26And, of course, everything wants to mess with your brassicas, right?
57:29It's the pigeons, it's the slugs, it's the ovids, it's the rabbits.
57:32But if you've got a structure overhead, and we've done a mini one over there, you can cover it in a mesh.
57:36Traditionally, of course, we would use plastic.
57:38Now there is a product that does exactly the same thing, but it's made of sweetcorn.
57:41Wow.
57:42So it's completely biodegradable, lasts for eight years, then you throw it on the compost heap.
57:50Nick, it's a really beautiful garden.
57:53But, true to you, everything plant driven.
57:58It's brilliant.
57:59Thank you.
58:00Really well done.
58:01Thank you.
58:02I'm afraid that's it for today, but you can still come to the show.
58:14It's open till Sunday, and if you possibly can, I urge you to do so.
58:18It's really good.
58:19And next week, you'll be with Francis, who's at a beautiful garden just outside Bath.
58:25And I'll be back at Longmeadow in a couple of weeks' time.
58:28So, until then, from all of us here at Gardener's World Live, bye-bye.
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