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00:29I'll see you next time.
00:30Hello and welcome to the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show 2026 from the grounds of the Royal Hospital in
00:38London.
00:38It's the highlight of the year for gardeners, designers, growers and of course us.
00:44It absolutely is. Not long now until the doors open, tomorrow morning the world's media will descend on this place
00:51and everyone can see what is on offer.
00:53You can feel tension, excitement, a great pavilion. They're finishing bits and pieces. Judges have done their work, you know.
01:02Wow.
01:02Well, someone else who is back here at Chelsea and knows a thing or two about impressing the judges is
01:09the designer of this garden, Kazuyuki Ishihara.
01:13After years exhibiting in the smaller garden categories, last year he made his debut on Main Avenue and he scooped
01:20the lot.
01:21RHS Chelsea Garden of the Year and the BBC RHS People's Choice Award.
01:27The big question, can he do it again? Can he do the double again? Because this is looking quite good,
01:32isn't it?
01:32I wouldn't be at all surprised. His attention to detail is incredible.
01:38Now straight away, look at the planting, the way the layers of the trees are built.
01:41The aces go in, the pines go in and then you come down a level and you've got this beautiful
01:46sort of moss with these lovely little irises popping up through.
01:49And let's wander through it because obviously the central thing that runs through the whole garden is the water.
01:54And again, it's classic Japanese, that whole idea of renewal, you know, and it's just fantastic.
02:01And then you're drawn towards the back of the garden.
02:03That's the tokonomo, isn't it? That's the pavilion, the ancient pavilion, not very much used nowadays where families would sit
02:11and look back at spectacular gardens like this one.
02:14Well, what a brilliant garden it is.
02:16And we'll be revealing what the RHS judges think of this garden and all the other gardens across the week.
02:22Coming up tonight on the RHS Chelsea Flowers Show 2026, supported by Range Rover.
02:30Rachel Detain will take a first look inside the great pavilion, the ultimate plant paradise.
02:38Arit Anderson will unveil her first ever judged garden on Main Avenue.
02:44It's a real passion project inspired by a person very close to her heart.
02:49JJ Chalmers seeks out the designs pushing the boundaries in the smaller garden categories.
02:57Plus, it's the garden that's been making headlines.
03:00We'll exclusively reveal the RHS and the King's Foundation Curious Garden, designed by our very own Francis Tophill, championed by
03:11the King, Sir David Beckham and Alan Titchmarsh.
03:15Looking forward to seeing how Francis has brought all those ideas together.
03:21It's quite something.
03:22Well, all that is coming up.
03:24But first, earlier today, we went on a whistle-stop tour of the showground to discover why the RHS Chelsea
03:31Flower Show really matters.
03:32Not only does it raise a huge amount of money for the RHS to support green projects around the UK,
03:39it also acts as a showcase for the world of horticulture and garden design.
03:49Chelsea's Main Avenue is the place where designers make their name.
03:54This year sees the return of Sarah Eberle, who's going for gold with her garden for the campaign to protect
04:02rural England.
04:04And she's certainly making an impact.
04:07It's mighty and magnificent.
04:11This landscape of sandstone cliffs is dramatic in both scale and colour.
04:17It has been designed as one of this year's RHS feature gardens to celebrate the work of Project Giving Back,
04:24which over the years has enabled more than 60 charitable organisations to highlight their causes through garden design.
04:37Chelsea reminds us that a garden has the power to transport us to a completely different place.
04:45And here, designer Max Parker-Smith has brought a little of the Australian outback to southwest London.
04:57The real stars of the show at Chelsea are, of course, the plants.
05:02This year, colour is back and the planting is big and bold, like in this courtyard garden.
05:09It shows us that even in a little space, you can create something truly bright and beautiful.
05:17This houseplant studio has been created by three-time gold medalist winner James Whiting.
05:25It's lush, it's fragrant and a real love letter to plants.
05:33And here at the heart of the showground is the famous Great Pavilion.
05:38This is where all the very best nurseries and growers come every year for this one week in May.
05:45The rich, diverse palette of plants inside truly underlines Chelsea's status as the greatest flower show in the world.
05:57And now we've made our way along Main Avenue to the Killick, a seed in time garden, designed by Baz
06:05Granger.
06:06It has been inspired by some of Britain's oldest wetland traditions, but it's also the ultimate modern family garden.
06:14When you step in here, it's the water that you notice first, isn't it?
06:18Yeah.
06:19The noise of it.
06:20Exactly. I think that, though, would be when it was raining.
06:23That's this preconceived idea. The water's caught up there, drops into there.
06:27And then it moves through, well, ultimately, the different areas of the garden.
06:31But what I love about this garden already is when you come onto it, you really get a sense that
06:37there's so much to discover.
06:39There's so much detail and things unfolding in front of you.
06:42You talk about unfolding, I think this is one of those gardens that, as the week goes on, you'll keep
06:46seeing some, yeah, beautiful bits in it.
06:49It's divided into three separate areas, really.
06:51Hedgerow, wetlands, and then the sort of dry, where the reeds are drying over there.
06:56Yeah, but even that detail, you know, the reeds are there to dry so that you would use them on
07:01the building, you know, if you needed to.
07:03But what I love, actually, is the diversity of the planting.
07:08If you look at the trees, if we go back not that many years at Chelsea, a lot about monoculture
07:13is in the same trees.
07:14Whereas here, you've got meddlers, you've got mulberries, you've got this incredible black walnut.
07:20And your pear tree over there, look.
07:22That's like a piece of, that looks like a work of art, that pear tree.
07:25It's so old, isn't it?
07:27Think about how many years somebody's looked after that tree.
07:32And the little bird houses that just pop up around the garden.
07:35So, again, it's just full of detail.
07:38And then I love this black walnut because I didn't really notice this as I stepped onto the garden.
07:43But it's very clever the way it's been planted.
07:45And then you just look up and it towers above it all.
07:47They're quite late into leaf.
07:49So, it's quite clever, really, because you would get the spring sun, then it would provide shade, then it would
07:55lose its leaves, and then this would light up again.
07:57So, it's really cleverly placed.
07:59Yeah, absolutely wonderful.
08:00As you say, I think we're going to discover a lot more about this over the week.
08:03I think we are.
08:03Now, with just a few hours to go until the show opens, the growers in the Great Pavilion are putting
08:09the finishing touches to their exhibits.
08:12Rachel went to take a sneak peek at the sensational plants on display.
08:20The Great Pavilion feels like summertime condensed into one place.
08:26And you come in here, the sights, the smells, even the sounds of summer are all around you and giving
08:33us that inspiration for our own gardens.
08:38Well, the classic summer flower must be the rose.
08:43And we're here on the David Austin Roses stand.
08:45The display is extraordinary, all that colour and the fragrance, it just hits you the moment you walk on.
08:53This is a shrub rose called Gabriel Oak, and it's beautiful.
08:57I love the very saturated magenta in the centre of the flower, paling to a slightly almost lavenderish pink with
09:04those rather frilly petals.
09:05The scent is fantastic.
09:07The health of the foliage is really good.
09:09In fact, the mix of all these shrub roses together just looks beautiful.
09:13And here's something very different, a rambler.
09:16And this is a classic called Rambling Rector.
09:19This is a big rose.
09:20It needs a large tree for it to ramble and scramble all the way through.
09:25And then the effect is really spectacular.
09:33Raymond, I know you are a regular at Chelsea.
09:35We can always rely on you to bring us a taste of summer.
09:38How many times have you come to Chelsea?
09:40It's actually 66 years since I came to my first Chelsea.
09:44That's a long time.
09:44It's even more than me.
09:46Now, tell me about this year's display.
09:48We have two and a half thousand plants.
09:51We have three new varieties, so that's really exciting.
09:53But I think my favourite is Clematis eliza.
09:56It's really a super plant.
09:57It's very interesting.
09:58And of course, it would blend perfectly with roses.
10:01Well, my judgment is that it's absolutely spectacular.
10:04You're very kind.
10:05Thanks, Rachel.
10:08Well, some of the exhibitors here in the Great Pavilion are Chelsea's stalwarts.
10:13They've been coming here for many years.
10:15There are also new exhibitors, such as Growing Crazy.
10:19Now, Stephen, you've brought your incredible collection of pelargoniums.
10:23Is this the very first time you've been to the show?
10:26No, I've actually been to Chelsea's Flower Show before.
10:29This is a full circle moment because I came here when I was about 13 years of age.
10:33This is the first time that we've been here with our own display.
10:36Have you got a standout plant that you really love?
10:40At the moment, it has to be Lorde Bute.
10:42It doesn't normally come out in such flower this time of year,
10:45so we're really pleased that we've managed to do that and get it to Chelsea.
10:48I think it looks wonderful, so well done.
10:54Of course, one of the best things about coming into the Great Pavilion
10:57is you're seeing some newly introduced plants for the very first time.
11:02And here on the blue diamond display, there is this extraordinary hydrangea.
11:07It's called Velvet Night Red Lace.
11:09And for me, this is just a really sumptuous taste of summer.
11:17One man making his debut on Main Avenue this year
11:21and taking on a big design challenge is designer Angus Thompson.
11:26He is creating a garden that he hopes will remind us to slow down and take a breath.
11:32I joined him during the build-up to the event.
11:40Angus, welcome back to Chelsea.
11:42It's been quite a while, hasn't it?
11:43It has.
11:44We were here 2009 on the Small Earth Gardens.
11:47This is your first Main Avenue garden.
11:48It is.
11:49Foolishly, I thought, hmm, kind of, what's the fuss about a bigger one?
11:54But obviously, it's the intensity of everything happening at the same time.
11:57So what is the story behind this garden, then?
11:59We are called Breathing Space.
12:02So it's the Garden for Aspirin Lung UK, and it's a garden about rest and empowerment, really,
12:09to move at your own pace.
12:11As you can see, at the heart of it, we have this raised platform,
12:15which is a kind of multi-use space for people to rest,
12:20for people to take part in gentle activities, depending on ability,
12:24anchored by the two pines that you see behind us.
12:29The platform's coming in.
12:31That looks like concrete to me, but that's a bit of a no-no here at Chelsea.
12:34We've come up with a carbon-zero concrete,
12:36and that is because it features something called aqua,
12:39which is like a biochar pellet.
12:41It's a charcoal, really.
12:43Effectively, yes, which is, in itself, carbon negative.
12:46So adding that to the aggregate and adding oyster shells to the aggregate,
12:51the end result is a carbon-zero concrete.
12:54Well, welcome back.
12:55Lovely to see you here, and I'm really looking forward to seeing it
12:57all coming together.
13:07Angus, this has really come on, hasn't it?
13:09Wow, I can't believe how much you've done in a week.
13:12It's been fantastic.
13:13Yesterday had a great day, kind of the plants being offered up
13:16where the garden begins to come alive.
13:18I'm fascinated by what the woman here is doing to this rock.
13:22Amanda is just ageing a little bit where required.
13:26We're northeast-facing, so we're cheating a little bit with how the sunlight lands on those boulders.
13:32It's amazing.
13:33Real expert craftsmen.
13:34The attention to detail.
13:36This platform, you put it all in.
13:38It's amazing.
13:38It's quite a structure to get in place.
13:40It was.
13:41I was sat down watching massive cranes, kind of four hours per piece, unable to kind of look, but just
13:48trust the process.
13:49Nerve-wracking for you.
13:50I know you have a way of keeping everyone in your garden calm, though.
13:55Your wife is a secret weapon.
13:57My wife's a secret weapon.
13:58What is she going to do?
13:58We're about to take our team onto our breathing space platform and just do a small class to develop one's
14:07understanding of breathing.
14:08And we're simply now going to focus on our breathing, which is calming for the body and the mind, and
14:14it helps us to feel steadier.
14:15Breathing in, releasing, any tension, opening up, and a long, gentle exhalation.
14:21So best tree pose you can all do, and then find your branches and breathe.
14:26Whoa.
14:26Yeah.
14:27That's it.
14:28Just keep breathing.
14:28Keep steady.
14:29When it gets really stressful here, you can just tell them to deploy all these techniques she's taught them.
14:34You could use it around the whole showground, actually, because it's going to get quite stressier over the next few
14:38days.
14:38Let's have everyone on our platform doing it.
14:40Well, good luck with it all.
14:41I look forward to seeing this when it's completely done.
14:51This has, come on, leaps and bounds.
14:53Amazing what you've achieved in, what, just less than a week.
14:56In some ways, it's slow progress.
14:58You have to take your time with Chelsea, stand back and review each plant that you've placed.
15:03The desire of this garden is not to be overly showy.
15:06It's woodland edge.
15:08It's quiet.
15:08If you look for it, you'll find some kind of jewels, but you've got to look for them a little
15:12bit.
15:13And that's the key to your garden, isn't it?
15:14It's the, you know, take a breath, the serenity, the peace and calm.
15:18You've got to reflect that in the planting.
15:20How are you doing that?
15:21It's lots of greens.
15:22It's the centre of the colour wheel.
15:23So that's a great start point in which to add a few things.
15:26But we also have got a great planting team, which wanted to add an authenticity to our lean into the
15:33Japanese aesthetic.
15:35So we invited Midori Shintaro over from Japan.
15:39And how important has her input been?
15:41It's been essential.
15:42It's very thoughtful.
15:43And for me, she really has got the notion of the beauty of empty space.
15:51Midori, lovely to see you.
15:53You've come all the way from Japan to do this, haven't you?
15:56Tell me what you're trying to achieve here.
15:58We often say create ma or take ma as a means.
16:02Create, you know, that empty space.
16:04And that empty space also creates the empty time.
16:08As a living thing, we cannot live without plants, basically.
16:14So that means, yes, taking the ma is very important.
16:18So it's letting the garden breathe by letting the plants breathe and making everyone feel relaxed.
16:24Yes.
16:25It's all about the ma.
16:26You haven't got that long to go.
16:28Are you feeling the stress of it?
16:30No, not quite.
16:32It's really becoming the garden I wanted it to be.
16:35So let's see where we get over the next couple of days.
16:37But I think we're not rushing it.
16:42And what a beautiful garden, Angus, has created it.
16:47Just look at it.
16:48Yohaku no bi is the Japanese idea about the beauty of empty space.
16:54And you can see it so beautifully illustrated right here at the very front of the garden.
16:58All of these plants given so much space just to show them off.
17:03The wonderful pines that went in right at the beginning as this garden was built.
17:07And they shade these lovely seating areas.
17:10The whole idea of this garden is that you can come in here, pause, relax and take a deep breath.
17:17Come up here onto the floating platform, which I can finally see.
17:22And it's all its glory.
17:23And that hovers over this water feature.
17:26The planting here is very green and white with the occasional pops of purple, the circium, and these gorgeous irises
17:33in there as well.
17:34And the wonderful sound of the water trickling under there.
17:39Angus, well done.
17:40It's lovely.
17:40Having watched this being built, it is lovely to see it finally done.
17:44And it is very calming.
17:46Thank you, Sophie.
17:47Yeah, well, it took all the time that we needed, but it's the first time I've seen it as kind
17:52of fully done and not under wraps.
17:54So it's lovely for me to see it with the sunshine and everything.
17:56You have been very calm throughout this build.
17:58But I did see you an hour before the judges came around this morning looking quite stressed.
18:03The most stressed I've seen you during the whole project because they were just down there.
18:07They were going to come and judge your garden and it wasn't quite ready, was it?
18:11We just got round there with our host pipers.
18:13They came round the corner is the truth of it.
18:16Yeah, it's been, you know, we've been working hard for three weeks.
18:19And it's amazing how what outwardly feels quite a simple build has just been quite complex.
18:24So, yeah, we've used all the time.
18:26And it is all about, it's about, it's for asthma and lung, isn't it?
18:30And it's all about calming down, taking in deep breaths, relaxing.
18:35And it's a hard thing to achieve in a space like this.
18:39Yes, I think, you know, our lack of visual clutter and I think our colour palette of greens steers you
18:46in that direction.
18:48And it's not didactic in a way.
18:50There's pause points around the garden.
18:52So you can use it as per how you're feeling that day.
18:55And this garden will live on after Chelsea.
18:58Where's it going?
18:59Correct, yes.
18:59This goes up to a breathing centre in Rotherham.
19:02And so it's, we've already started the build there.
19:05So it will pop out of here and slot into place there the week after Chelsea.
19:09Well, this is going to be a very nice, calming place to come during the Chelsea week, which, as we
19:14know, gets very, very busy.
19:15But well done.
19:16Congratulations.
19:17And fantastic to see it all finished.
19:20Thank you, Sophie.
19:20Now, designing a large Chelsea garden like this is no mean feat.
19:25But if you have less space to work with, you may have to be even more creative.
19:30JJ Chalmers went to explore the small gardens and houseplant studios where the designers have had to really think outside
19:38the box.
19:46I love this part of Chelsea, tucked away in the trees, away from the hustle and bustle of Main Avenue.
19:52It is a treasure trove of creativity.
19:55It's the perfect place to come and have a few ideas for your own space at home.
20:07There are some beautiful plants in this space, but what Rebecca's put them in is also brilliant.
20:13These planters, they've all got false bottoms, so it allows you to plant at different heights, but also they're lightweight
20:20and they're modular.
20:21It means that you can move them around, and this space is just so much more versatile, and you can
20:26take them with you if you move house.
20:28And this entertaining space, which is built out of reclaimed scaffolding boards, that's a bit of me.
20:34My favourite bit is over here.
20:35Look at this table.
20:37It could be a potting bench.
20:39It actually folds away, so you get a little bit more space.
20:44But can you imagine working from home right here?
20:55This place is bulk.
20:57It shows you that you can still have a humble space and make a statement.
21:01And it's not just these aluminium resin-covered walls with their bold and beautiful amber colour.
21:08It's a tree this size in a space this small.
21:11Tina has used every single inch of this garden, including in the wall.
21:15A few holes drilled, you've got a bug hotel.
21:18With an all-you-can-eat buffet, because all of these plants are perfect for the pollinators.
21:23Because without them, you don't get any fruit out of your tree.
21:37How spectacular is this?
21:39I mean, it looks like a rainforest.
21:40But actually, the concept is fairly simple.
21:43There's a pump at the bottom which draws water up through the central pipe here.
21:47And then that water cascades down over these terracotta pots.
21:51And it means that the plants are constantly being watered.
21:54And that water is being recycled.
21:56And it doesn't just look good.
21:59Listen.
22:02The sound's calm.
22:04And these are houseplants.
22:07So even if you don't have any outdoor space, you could bring this inside.
22:20Do you know what?
22:21I actually love limitation.
22:23Because constraint, it forces you to get creative.
22:27And I hope that what we've shown you has inspired you to get creative with your small space.
22:38Well, most of the cut flowers you can buy in Britain are still imported from abroad.
22:44There are now over 1,000 small growers specialising in seasonal British-grown blooms.
22:51Some of them are part of the Flowers from the Farm network.
22:55We join them as they prepared to bring something special to Chelsea this year.
23:07My name's Georgie Newbury.
23:09I'm a flower farmer and florist based in Somerset.
23:15I'm a writer by trade.
23:16I used to work a very long time ago for American Vogue in Paris.
23:20But then I met my husband, so I moved to Somerset.
23:23And I had to find a new way to make a living.
23:25I quickly found I could grow flowers.
23:27For 16 years since then, we've been growing bunches of flowers for sale.
23:33So Flowers from the Farm is the trade body that represents specialist, small-sized flower growers in the UK.
23:41I'm the external chair and we have eight members of the board.
23:44And we have 1,000 members.
23:4680% of us are women.
23:48It's an incredibly collaborative business.
23:51I can't grow enough flowers, so I need my neighbour.
23:54We rely upon each other.
23:59Anybody can be a flower farmer.
24:00You don't need a huge amount of space.
24:02You might have three kinds of flowers that you really love.
24:04You love tulips.
24:05You might love peonies.
24:07And you might love dahlias.
24:08So you might just grow those three things.
24:11You're going to need your neighbour who will grow the filler that will go with that.
24:16And you'll need another neighbour who will grow the foliage to go with that.
24:21And together, the three of you can do an amazing thing out of really quiet and modest space.
24:28The whole Flowers from the Farm Chelsea team, we live miles and miles and miles away from each other.
24:33So everybody came down to stay the night last night so that we could have a final go-through of
24:37everything that we need, everything we need to know.
24:40And then today we're spending the day doing a mock-up to make sure that the idea we had in
24:45January is actually going to work.
24:50Lots of reasons to go to Chelsea.
24:52Partly we need more flower farmers.
24:54And it is the greatest show on earth.
24:57So go and demonstrate at Chelsea.
24:59But we're definitely going to Chelsea so that we can encourage people to buy more flowers, to know that there
25:04is a flower farmer nearby.
25:05And I really hope we get our SIC codes so that we've got something massive to celebrate on Press Day.
25:11SIC codes are standard industrial classifications.
25:14And nobody knows about these things.
25:16They are a five-digit number which is given you by the government and it's associated with your sector.
25:24If we get our SIC codes, we can not only prove how much money we're putting into the economy of
25:30the British Isles,
25:30but then we're in a position to be protected by government and encouraged by government.
25:37There might be grant aid.
25:39None of us have ever had any support from government because we don't exist.
25:44So we have to change that.
25:48The design for Chelsea is really loosely based on a Fibonacci spiral because all flowers open in a Fibonacci sequence,
25:56which is a swirl and it's cutflowers growing, the cutflowers harvested and the cutflowers used in floristry.
26:04Penny Dommet is a fantastic garden designer, so we're really lucky to have her on the team.
26:09To begin with, we've got this paved area, which will be the hard standing and the seat with the compost
26:15in it.
26:15I love the compost seat.
26:17Because of this lovely swirl of the paving with the sets, I think we'll get a lovely curve and I
26:24think it'll show the plants off beautifully.
26:29I'm also a florist and over the years I've worked with Nathan Shaw.
26:32When it came to deciding how we were going to create a structure, I couldn't think of anybody else that
26:38I would have gone to.
26:39What I would like is an exploding greenhouse.
26:43So we still have a greenhouse shape, kind of like this, and the uprights are going to explode.
26:52So like large metal leaves?
26:54Kind of, yeah. I just don't want the greenhouse to meet.
26:58You don't want it looking like a greenhouse.
27:00Yeah, I don't want a greenhouse.
27:04Sarah and Isel over there are in charge of the floristry and Sarah's just putting together this lovely modular arch.
27:12They're so handy. You can make any size you like, you can rearrange them and they're 100% sustainable.
27:18They're absolutely perfect. Like the different textures that we're able to use, we can use it on site.
27:23We don't need anything other than chicken wire.
27:26The sort of juxtaposition between the plants and the metal, it all comes together really beautifully.
27:32So flowers grown in Britain, they're an entirely different creature than the ones that are imported.
27:37They have movement. They're scented, which is something you just don't get, the flowers that are imported.
27:44Flowers grown in the UK have 20 times less carbon footprint than the flowers that are flown in from elsewhere.
27:53Chelsea is nerve-wracking for all of us.
27:56We are flower farmers and florists.
27:58We are not nursery people.
28:00For us to have those plants in perfect condition for Chelsea is really quite difficult.
28:06We're too small to be grand about Chelsea. We have to be there to take our place at the table.
28:11We've got to own the space of flower farming in the UK.
28:15We need to remind everybody that there is such a thing as a local flower farmer.
28:20And our job is to encourage people to grow more flowers for sale, enable people to grow more flowers for
28:25sale,
28:26and make sure that our government recognises the value of the work that we do and supports us in return.
28:36And the first miniature flower farm of cut flowers is in the Great Pavilion, and it's blooming marvellous.
28:44Well, it's nearly blooming marvellous.
28:46How are you feeling?
28:47We're nervous, but I think we have every right to feel confident.
28:50The team has worked so hard, I've never seen anything brought together so fast.
28:55I mean, it's looking luscious, isn't it? But when you're finished, this is going to tell the story of, well,
29:03flower farm to end product.
29:06Field to harvest to floristry, and you see the whole process.
29:10Wow, because that greenhouse is going to look like it's exploding, yeah?
29:14Well, yes, the leaves are exploding from the greenhouse, because we haven't got room for the floristry otherwise.
29:19If you had a normal-sized greenhouse, there wouldn't be room.
29:21That's going to look incredible, isn't it?
29:23It is going to look amazing.
29:24It is. So, coming to Chelsea, then, how does that help with your sick coat?
29:28Well, if we're going to exist as a cut flower sector, then we need to be seen, don't we?
29:33So, the place to go to do that is going to be the greatest show on earth.
29:38Chelsea Flower Show. Wonderful.
29:41And so, when people turn up on Tuesday, public come in, ultimately, what's the message?
29:46I want people to look at their gardens and go, I could do that.
29:50I could grow a crop of digitalis. I could grow a crop of peonies.
29:53These things are valuable, and I've got a bit of garden.
29:56You don't have to have an enormous amount of space. I've got colleagues growing on allotments.
30:00You don't need much.
30:02So, ultimately, if you can find a little space, have a go.
30:05Have a go. Flowers for sale. We need them. We need more growers.
30:09Well, judging, I'm sure you'll be fine.
30:12But I'm going to wish you good luck anyway.
30:14Thanks very much, Adam.
30:18Well, it really is a hive of activity here in the floristry zone in the Great Pavilion.
30:23They are working really hard to put the finishing touches to the exhibits, leaving it to the very last minute.
30:31They've got until 9 o'clock tonight to do it all.
30:33But the freshness of those flowers is so key.
30:38Yeah, absolutely. And that's why they're leaving it so late.
30:40We've got plenty more to come on tonight's first look at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026.
30:48An event supported by Range Rover.
30:50We'll be giving you an exclusive tour of the RHS and the King's Foundation Curious Garden by Francis Tophill
30:58with contributions from the King, Sir David Beckham and Alan Titchmarsh, no less.
31:04Plus, Rachel's been exploring another garden with a royal connection inspired by historic royal palaces.
31:13It's the perfect place to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon.
31:20But first, our very own Arit Anderson is taking on a big challenge here at Chelsea this year.
31:26Not only is this garden her first main avenue designed to be judged by the RHS,
31:31but the message behind it is deeply personal, as we discovered in the lead-up to the event.
31:39I'm Arit Anderson. I'm a garden designer.
31:41And this year at RHS Chelsea, I am going to be the designer for the Parkinson's UK garden,
31:48inspired by my sister Julie.
31:52Because my sister has Parkinson's.
31:55I was quite taken aback and really upset.
31:59She was diagnosed with a condition that she wouldn't get better from.
32:03And that was heartbreaking.
32:07Not quite adept yet.
32:08Just going backwards.
32:10I know, don't go backwards.
32:15I bought some drinks, because I know you always like a tea.
32:19I was fostered when I was very young, alongside my younger sister.
32:23And Julie is the eldest out of all of us.
32:27I'll tell you what I found the other day.
32:29Look at this. Do you remember this?
32:31It's Lisa, me, and you.
32:34And I just look at that picture now, and I just think,
32:37that just epitomises how I've always just seen you as my big sis.
32:42Nice.
32:45How have you been doing?
32:47I'm having some pretty awful days, I must admit.
32:50And then you pick yourself up and carry on, didn't you?
32:51The reason why I'm doing it, it's brought home to me just how difficult it is.
32:57Yes, it's not easy.
32:59And the trouble is, people don't understand it.
33:01That's the biggest thing.
33:02I just hope people can learn a bit more about what it means to have Parkinson's.
33:07There's so many symptoms, and they change.
33:09You used to be able to sleep, and now you can't sleep,
33:12and you didn't have a tremor, and now you have a tremor.
33:14I mean, it's not your disease.
33:16It's everybody around you's a disease as well, because it drags you in.
33:18You've got it.
33:19You're the one that has to deal with it every day,
33:21but we're witness to it, and we are part of it, really, I guess.
33:25I think it's painful for everybody.
33:29It is our fastest-growing neurological condition in the world.
33:33It's affecting people that are younger.
33:36So this condition, at this moment, isn't going away.
33:40So to be able to showcase it through the joy of a garden
33:43is something that I knew I had to do.
33:47The inspiration for this garden has been drawn out of a group of gardeners
33:54who have Parkinson's.
33:55So David Plummer has invited me down to his garden in Brighton,
33:59and that's going to be invaluable for me to be able to see him in his own garden
34:03and how it helps him with his Parkinson's.
34:08I was diagnosed in 2009 at the age of 39.
34:12I'd like to sort of understand how being outside and doing what you do,
34:18how it helps with some of your symptoms.
34:20It's my outside sanctuary, really.
34:24It's heaven.
34:25The world was my playground, being a professional wildlife photographer,
34:30but I've still been able to do that and carry that on
34:33because of the garden and the changes I made to it.
34:37I've turned this garden into my workplace.
34:41So one adaptation I've made is I make the jobs achievable.
34:46Otherwise, it can be a little bit overwhelming,
34:48and so the job sits there for a year undone,
34:51and so I do bite-size hits.
34:54One of the things I'm learning about Parkinson's is about movement control,
34:58and there's a term called freezing.
35:00Can you tell me what would potentially help in the garden
35:03to overcome the freezing?
35:04I freeze.
35:05You have to adopt techniques to break out of that cycle of freezing.
35:10So an adaptation could be some form of movement in the garden
35:15that will break the cycle.
35:17It could be water moving or plants moving.
35:21Dealing with the night-time aspect of the garden
35:23could be the most important point.
35:25It really helps my insomnia
35:27because it's such a debilitating symptom to get
35:32that over a prolonged period of time, people really struggle,
35:36and they're just coming out into an outside space
35:40that makes a person feel better.
35:42Thinking about what you've said,
35:44it feels like any garden I design,
35:47I need to think about access,
35:50need to think about the freezing episodes
35:52because, you know, that's really important
35:54if we're going to be in a space.
35:56I get it with my sister,
35:57and hearing you as well talk about the insomnia,
35:59I really want to touch upon that and acknowledge that.
36:02Well, the pressure's on now.
36:04All eyes of the Parkinson's community are on you.
36:07My shoulder's just got a little bit heavier.
36:14It's been brilliant catching up at David's
36:17and really fine-tuning some of the ideas
36:19and some of the things that he needs,
36:21but the ideas that I want, I've got to create them,
36:25and finding a maker to do them has got to be the right one,
36:29and I'm really, really pleased to be working with Khan Sanderlands
36:34and the team at Millimetre.
36:35I'm looking forward to seeing them because getting it out of here
36:38and getting it made is the exciting bit.
36:45I am so looking forward to this being real.
36:49We've got the handrail.
36:51Water's coming through.
36:52At height, somebody can see water, touch water, hear water,
36:57and if they get that moment when they literally, their feet freeze,
37:02this is a sensory cue.
37:03Does that sensory experience of the water in the handrail,
37:07will that potentially pull them out of this freeze?
37:09Yeah.
37:10We're looking at this side of the canopy.
37:12It's the other side where you get all of these beautiful perforations
37:15that will allow your dappled light to come in.
37:18This gives you a feeling of enclosure and safety and a feeling of care.
37:23And I think if you're sat here, you have Parkinson's.
37:27Imagine that is insomnia and you've sat down
37:29and you can just feel that you can just breathe for a minute.
37:37Just seeing the amount of work that the team have done
37:40has kind of blown me away, really.
37:45Create the show garden at Chelsea is a huge task.
37:49Doing it for a charity that you love starts to personalise in it.
37:54But to have it for somebody central in your life,
37:57in your immediate family, has just ramped up the pressure.
38:02I've got to put myself out there.
38:05And here it is, the finished garden.
38:08Eric, congratulations.
38:09It is absolutely beautiful.
38:11It's been an emotional journey for you.
38:13It has, it has.
38:14You know, doing this show garden takes a lot out of you anyway, Sophie.
38:17But to then add in such a personal moment,
38:21yeah, it's been a lot, but it's what's driven me on.
38:23And flowing all the way through the garden is this.
38:26I mean, it's absolutely beautiful.
38:27And to touch it as well, it's amazing to touch.
38:30It's what, a handrail and a handrill as well.
38:33Yeah, it is.
38:34So, yeah, play on words.
38:35This handrail is something that I wanted to put in the garden
38:39so that people can have a support when they walk.
38:42When you have Parkinson's, it can be quite difficult,
38:44but didn't want to make it feel like it was just sort of ubiquitous handrails.
38:48So, with the water running through it,
38:50it picks up a sensory sound and the sight of water
38:54because there's a condition called freezing
38:56where the brain sort of stops you from walking.
38:59Tuning into this kickstarts the brain again.
39:02Talk me through the planting because you've got very different pockets.
39:04What was the thought behind that?
39:07Yeah, so I wanted to create these different zones,
39:10kind of reflecting the mood of what happens when you have Parkinson's.
39:13There's this sort of more joyous and uplifted moment
39:15when you're feeling sort of good in your treatment.
39:18But there's also high anxiety that can occur.
39:20So, by having a cooler, calmer palate,
39:23it means if somebody wants to sit quietly and be surrounded by the calm
39:27or if you want to be lifted by the energised, colourful planting.
39:31And then the pathway here is very wide for a purpose, isn't it?
39:35Yeah, definitely.
39:36So, if you have Parkinson's,
39:38your walking gait can make you veer to one side for a bit
39:43or your dyskinesia, it's called you move a lot.
39:46So, there needs to be space
39:48and I wanted to make sure that that person can walk through this garden
39:51side by side comfortably with somebody without feeling constricted.
39:55And tell me about the significance of this structure.
39:57Well, this structure is what we're calling the night-time shelter
40:01because at night, a lot of times,
40:03people with Parkinson's can't sleep, insomnia, sleep disorder.
40:07So, it's to suggest that your garden can be a place to use at night-time.
40:11Changing the palette completely, going into the power blues, the whites.
40:15As the sun goes down, these really pop, these colours.
40:18So, I want people to think that they could maybe, by their own window,
40:21by their door of their back garden,
40:23create their own night-time area
40:24and maybe get some respite from the garden during those difficult times.
40:29Well, it is beautiful
40:30and I think it's going to mean so much to people,
40:32to people with Parkinson's, to their families as well,
40:36people who live with what is really a horrible disease, isn't it?
40:39Yes, yeah.
40:39And it is also your first Main Avenue-judged show guard.
40:44So, very, very good luck.
40:47Thank you, Sophie. Thank you.
40:50Best of luck, Arik. We're all wishing you well.
40:52Over in the Great Pavilion,
40:55the growers have really been pushing themselves
40:57and their plants to the limit.
41:00And earlier today, as final preparations are in full swing,
41:03JJ Chalmers join them as they edge towards the finishing line.
41:12The Great Pavilion showcases horticultural ambition
41:15from growers and nurseries all over the world.
41:18And there are spectacular displays of skill here.
41:24This is the RHS City Season of Abundance installation
41:28and it challenges the limits of the size and scale of the pavilion.
41:33And it sits here right at its heart.
41:35And it's pretty big.
41:35It's 17 metres by 18 metres.
41:38I mean, you're not going to miss it.
41:39And it is all about spring changing into summer.
41:43And with these six beautiful multi-stemmed hornbeams
41:46and a variety of planting,
41:48it truly is abundant.
41:54Everywhere you look,
41:56people are prepping their plants to perfection.
42:00There are feats of technical skill over at the Brantwood stand
42:04with their incredible wisteria.
42:06This stand is so beautiful.
42:07It looks like it's been here for, what, 200 years?
42:10It does.
42:10And that's what we were looking for.
42:12We wanted to show as much variety as possible.
42:14Standard wisterias, climbing wisterias, bonsai.
42:17And this is what Brantwood looks like.
42:18So we've actually bought it to life.
42:20Wow, just brought a little chunk of it down here to London.
42:22Yes, yes.
42:23Tell me, how much of a challenge was it
42:24to get these here from Cumbria?
42:26It was a huge feat of engineering to get them here.
42:29We had the wisteria in three different locations.
42:31So we had to go around Cumbria and pick them up.
42:34And then we had to travel down to Worcestershire for the third.
42:36They're so delicate.
42:37And we had to pack the truck so carefully.
42:40So we had to try and avoid every pothole.
42:42So you can imagine how slow the truck was going to get here.
42:45It was well worth it.
42:46Thank you very much.
42:51Look at these daffodils.
42:53Taylor's Bulbs have brought 46 varieties to the show
42:56and they are all perfect.
42:58I know in my garden at this time of year,
43:00they are long gone.
43:01So to have them looking this good is no mean feat.
43:09Well, you guys are clearly still very busy.
43:12These just arrived from Barbados?
43:14They arrived on Thursday,
43:16but we didn't get them until 9 o'clock Friday night.
43:19These have come from a completely different climate.
43:21Yes, they have.
43:22Coal is a real issue and being there,
43:24the door is not helping.
43:26What temperature are these guys used to?
43:27They're like 30 degrees.
43:29Good luck getting 30 degrees at Chelsea.
43:36Chelsea wouldn't be Chelsea without a little bit of weird and wonderful.
43:40And you can certainly find it here at Wax Wicked Plants.
43:45These carnivorous plants, they look like they come from another planet.
43:47Where have they come from?
43:48They've come from North Yorkshire.
43:49Wow.
43:50And how much of a challenge is it to get them down here?
43:52It's not easy because they're very precious.
43:55So what we do is we lift them, we load them one by one,
43:59we cuddle them, take them to the van,
44:01and put them carefully in the crate.
44:03They're a lot of fun.
44:04I think so.
44:19I'm not sure there is anything better in the world
44:24than come the weekend, you kick back and relax in your own garden.
44:31Let's set the scene.
44:32It's Sunday p.m., lazy afternoon.
44:38The space feels fantastic.
44:41When you start to look at the design of this,
44:45it takes me back to be in my nan's garden.
44:49She never threw anything away.
44:50So she would hoard and collect.
44:53And I love that.
44:54And how you can create sort of a collected mix of items,
44:59pull them together, and they look like they belong.
45:03If you think about it, we've got reclaimed paving.
45:07The bricks tie back in with a back wall.
45:10You've then got the copper that works its way through the space.
45:14They sit comfortably with our different containers.
45:17Then you've got the three different water features.
45:20And if you take a moment and stop and listen,
45:23they all make slightly different sounds.
45:25So you've got this sort of little tune going on in the background.
45:29Then you get to the planting.
45:31Big statement up in the corner, which is the river birch.
45:35And that sets a tone, in a sense.
45:39Not only does it connect to the materials,
45:42but also there's layers of planting underneath it.
45:46And you're left with this sort of hug of a courtyard.
45:50It feels comfortable to be in.
45:54Sort of romantic cottaging.
45:56When you look a little closer,
45:58you realise the selection of so many of these plants
46:02has been driven by that tea.
46:06We've got things like the camellias,
46:08the roses, the lemon balm.
46:11There's even some nettles.
46:13So, yeah, all in all,
46:16it creates a place that you would definitely
46:20want to spend a good few hours.
46:24Now, I'm not the only one
46:26that's been seeking out a little rest and relaxation
46:29before the show opens tomorrow.
46:32Rachel has found the perfect place to do just that.
46:44Well, I've found the perfect place to relax.
46:47I'm on the Boodles Garden, designed by Catherine MacDonald.
46:50And it's inspired by the historic royal palaces,
46:53which includes Kensington Palace,
46:55Hampton Court and the Tower of London.
46:58In fact, this central area is very much inspired by the tower.
47:02You've got this rill, which actually goes all the way around.
47:05But very cleverly, it just comes down at both sides,
47:09just down these little waterfalls,
47:10which have just the right amount of sound.
47:12And that represents the moat at the tower.
47:18The planting at the front of the garden is anchored by this mammoth yew
47:23that's been beautifully clipped.
47:26And then there's this lovely drift of plants going through.
47:28You've got lots of grasses, things like the brisier,
47:31the imperatus cylindrica rubra, which is that red foliage.
47:36There are irises just traveling through.
47:38And then again, we're anchored at this end.
47:40You've got this OG-shaped pot,
47:42which is an inverted shape that you see on the roofline of the Tower of London
47:47and then again at Hampton Court.
47:49And Catherine's very cleverly turned it on its head
47:52and put a yew in that.
47:59And that sumptuous theme in the colours really continues through here.
48:03You've got more irises
48:04and then the glorious buckeye bell peony
48:07with that rich crimson colour.
48:09On this side, the iris is slightly paler
48:12and then there's a cloud of Anthriscus sylvestris raven's wing,
48:16the raven, of course, for the Tower of London.
48:18It's a lovely effervescence.
48:25The planting design here is incredibly clever
48:28because, in fact, it's quite a restricted palette of plants.
48:31That means that you feel calm.
48:34Your eye doesn't go from one thing to another.
48:36It's really lovely.
48:38You walk past the pear
48:39and there's a yew hedge that just wraps itself around you
48:43like an arm giving you a big hug.
48:50Finally, there's a chair of pretty majestic proportions
48:54from which I can sit and admire the Agapanthus
48:58and feel relaxed and regal.
49:01Pretty much like a queen.
49:08Now, there's one RHS Chelsea garden
49:11that's already been making headlines this year
49:14and it is designed by our very own Frances Tophill.
49:18She's teamed up with none other than
49:20His Majesty the King, Sir David Beckham
49:23and gardening royalty, Alan Titchmarsh.
49:25I caught up with her as she took on the daunting task
49:29of bringing this illustrious garden to life.
49:37Frances.
49:38Hello.
49:39You've gone to the other side this year.
49:40I know, it's slightly terrifying.
49:42From presenting to designing.
49:44And what a garden to design.
49:45I know, no pressure.
49:46The RHS and the King's Foundation.
49:48I know.
49:49Well, tell us about what you are doing now.
49:51The whole garden is the curious garden
49:53with it being me that's designed it about plants,
49:55about how incredible they are,
49:57not just in a garden,
49:58but actually globally, economically,
50:00how important they are in human lives.
50:03And so this is the museum,
50:05which is this beautiful oak frame building,
50:07which is going to just be filled
50:09with all the things you can do with plants.
50:10It's a walkthrough.
50:11People can actually come into this space.
50:13Which people love.
50:14I don't want to add pressure to you,
50:16but you have, let's say,
50:17quite a high-profile team involved.
50:20Alan Titchmarsh.
50:21And his advice, which was absolutely priceless,
50:23it's like, just do you, but more polished.
50:26I was like, actually, yeah.
50:27So we're going from Alan Titchmarsh to...
50:30David Beckham.
50:31He's been really involved
50:32in kind of helping to choose the planting.
50:35And then His Majesty the King
50:37has also been involved.
50:39Just the King.
50:39Did they have specific things
50:42they wanted to achieve in this garden?
50:44They did.
50:45Alan was all about representing
50:47the best of horticulture,
50:48which is his passion.
50:49So no pressure there.
50:50The King is all about detail.
50:52So all the things like the little carvings
50:54on the timber,
50:55the artisan craftsmanship of everything
50:58is what he'll be looking for.
51:00David Beckham is a beekeeper,
51:01so he wanted there to be a beehive.
51:04And the beehive is in there.
51:06And the beehive is in there.
51:07So we're going to have a...
51:09People.
51:11It's going to be a wild beehive.
51:14So woven willow with a kind of cob
51:17on the outside of it,
51:18which will be in the middle of the veg garden
51:20with cut flowers and companion planting,
51:24hopefully to sort of show pollination.
51:28Although hopefully we won't actually have
51:29any bees in it
51:30because they'll have to be moved.
51:32We've got a good honey supplier,
51:34so there's a good supply of honey,
51:37apparently,
51:37that will be brought in.
51:38Not just me.
51:39Not just you.
51:42Do you feel left out here?
51:44No, I don't.
51:44Do you feel left out here?
51:45Do you feel left out here?
51:46We'll sell you some.
51:47Oh, thank you.
51:48Catch you all.
51:51How much pressure are you feeling?
51:52Well, quite a lot.
51:54We're not being judged,
51:56which takes some pressure off in that sense.
51:58But the main thing is,
51:59I don't want to let anybody down.
52:00I want the garden to feel like a beautiful space,
52:03and I want those people,
52:05when they come,
52:05to feel that as well.
52:18Jake, hello.
52:19Watering the wall.
52:20Yes.
52:21What are you actually doing here?
52:22Because this is lime render,
52:24which is a natural product.
52:25We're just feeding it with some moisture
52:26so it doesn't dry out too quickly.
52:28Frances is not here.
52:29No, she's not.
52:31You're on your own.
52:32She's let me loose.
52:33She's out looking at some plants
52:34and doing some visits like that.
52:36We're constantly in contact every day.
52:38Video calls, you know, messages.
52:40Should we give her a call?
52:41I want to see what she thinks of it all.
52:42Oh, video calls.
52:43All right, so she answers.
52:45Ah, there she is.
52:46I know you haven't been here for a few days,
52:48but Jake's doing a great job.
52:49The render looks amazing.
52:51He's just been watering the render,
52:53so it's going very well.
52:55You've been in regular contact with Jake?
52:57Yeah, regular pictures, updates,
52:59discussions on trees, those sorts of things.
53:01Well, very nice to see you, albeit miles away.
53:05Bye.
53:05See you later.
53:09What a garden to be creating.
53:11It's fantastic.
53:12There's lots of different ideas
53:13and it's been really fantastic to bring it all together.
53:15I'm looking forward to seeing it next week.
53:23Frances, what a transformation.
53:25I was here less than a week ago
53:27and I have to say I was wondering
53:29how quickly this garden was going to take shape
53:31because there was no planting.
53:33Yeah, well, the planting started happening two days ago.
53:37That just transforms everything.
53:38The plants are the main focus, really, of this
53:41because it's a celebration of horticulture and of plants.
53:43We're just all hands on deck planting.
53:46Volunteers as well here planting it up for you.
53:48We do.
53:49So we have the core planting team
53:51but each day this week we have four volunteers from the RHS
53:54and we also tomorrow have some students
53:56from the horticulture training at the King's Foundation as well.
54:00They've been doing all sorts of things
54:01but Lila's down there helping doing the mulching
54:04around our cut flowers.
54:05You're one of the volunteers here.
54:07What's it like?
54:08It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
54:10I am very new to horticulture
54:11and so in my first year to be able to work
54:14at like a Chelsea show is incredible for me.
54:17You've got this wonderful museum as you're calling it.
54:20Tell me about what you've got here.
54:21The Museum of Curiosities is to show people
54:24that plants come into all of our lives
54:26and what an amazing thing the natural world can be.
54:29I have tried to encompass all of the things
54:32that plants can do for people.
54:34At the moment I'm working on the dye area.
54:36So this is a swatch book of different dyed plants
54:40which I've made bunting from
54:42and I've turned it into a book
54:43to actually show which plants make which.
54:46Are you nervous or are you kind of on course?
54:49The end is in sight
54:50but we still haven't got most of our plants here.
54:53I'm not worried that it won't happen
54:55but I'm worried that it will be some very long days
54:58to get it there.
54:59That's what Chelsea's all about.
55:01Good luck.
55:05And here it is.
55:06What a wonderful burst of colour.
55:09It feels beautiful.
55:11But for me, it's the interplanting
55:14of the herbaceous perennials,
55:16the shrubs, the veggies, the herbs,
55:19all in together.
55:20If you had a hard day at work,
55:22you came home, walked out,
55:25this would make you smile.
55:26It is making me smile right now.
55:28Let's go through the Museum of Curiosities as well
55:30because I haven't seen this.
55:31It's the first time I've seen this properly finished
55:33and all the flowers, the dried flowers hanging.
55:36Isn't it lovely?
55:37It is.
55:38Do you know, I imagine Francis' house to be like that.
55:40It very, very possibly is.
55:43And look at that, that beehive.
55:45Isn't that spectacular?
55:47That's fantastic.
55:48That's what David Beckham wanted.
55:49This place really does celebrate plants, doesn't it?
55:51It really is.
55:51Here she is.
55:53The woman herself.
55:54Congratulations.
55:57Are you happy with it?
55:59I think so, but I need more time
56:01for it to all sink in.
56:02Ask me in a month.
56:04Yeah, no, I think it's really lovely.
56:05So, come on.
56:06You've been here.
56:07You've built, created it.
56:09What's your favourite element?
56:11Oh, well, I love the herbs.
56:13Yeah.
56:13That whole front edge.
56:15It took me three days
56:17because it kept crawling off to like,
56:18you know, can you check the gutters?
56:19Can you do this?
56:20It took me three days to place that,
56:21but I really wanted to place that myself.
56:24Mainly because I love herbs,
56:25but also it's the texture of it.
56:27So that front corner under the pomegranate trees,
56:29I love the pomegranate trees.
56:30I wanted that to be this kind of amazing,
56:33sumptuous, textural space.
56:34You were talking from the day I came to see you
56:36when you first broke ground here
56:38about the garlic.
56:39I've just spotted it.
56:40You grew that, didn't you?
56:41Especially for David Beckham.
56:42Well, I didn't grow it for David Beckham,
56:43but when he asked for garlic
56:44and I had already put in the plant orders,
56:47I had to dig up some garlic from my allotment
56:49and put it up for David Beckham.
56:50So, yes, I did grow that.
56:53Bless you.
56:54What would you take home?
56:56Oh, I mean, I would take home the beehive.
56:58You were going to say that.
56:59I would take home the beehive.
57:00I love the beehive.
57:02But also, I think lots of things from the building.
57:05A lot of it comes from my home,
57:06so I will be taking it back home again as well.
57:08What did I just say?
57:09Exactly.
57:10And you've got the big day tomorrow.
57:12The king is coming with David Beckham
57:14and Alan Titchmarsh,
57:15but the king is going to be here.
57:17Are you nervous about it?
57:17Yeah, I am nervous.
57:19I feel like it's a lot of responsibility.
57:20I want to represent, you know,
57:23the RHS and the King's Foundation well.
57:26I want them to be proud.
57:27I want them to get it.
57:28And I just, you know, I want people to love it.
57:30I want people to learn from it
57:31and be inspired by it and enjoy it.
57:33But I think when everyone comes tomorrow,
57:35that will be the test of whether I've kind of done them proud.
57:39You've nailed it.
57:41You've worked so hard for us.
57:43It's for masses of luck for tomorrow.
57:46Well, that's all we've got time for this evening.
57:48Our coverage from Chelsea continues tomorrow
57:51on BBC One at 2pm,
57:53when Nicky Chapman and Angelica Bell
57:55will be bringing you all the excitement from press day.
57:58They'll be joined by our family of experts
58:01helping you at home make an impact in your garden.
58:05Monty and Rachel will be back tomorrow
58:07here on BBC Two at 8pm
58:10with exclusive coverage
58:11of the Royal Family's annual visit to Chelsea.
58:15But that is all from us for tonight.
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