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00:17hello and welcome to the rhs chelsea flower show 2026 an event supported by range rover
00:25we're so excited to be back here to share loads of inspiration for your garden at home our team
00:32of experts are standing by with lots of tips and money saving advice helping you have a fantastic
00:38garden without it costing you a fortune now our show is all about making an impact we've had a
00:44look around and there are so many things here that are making a statement and standing out whether
00:48it's the bright flowers to water features beautiful absolutely beautiful those important first
00:54impressions as you walk through and what's so lovely when we're here is it doesn't matter how
00:58large your garden is whether you've got a patio container balcony there really is something for
01:03everyone including amazing house plants and that's what we're here for is those take home things yes
01:09brilliant now it's press day and the amazing floral displays and show gardens have already caught the
01:15attention of the world's media so today if you too want to make a real statement with your green space
01:22we're going to be showing you how to garden to make an impact from the biggest and brightest
01:28blooms to bold border recipes and the latest foreign tree trends plus i'll be talking to alex jones and
01:35roman kemp about the new rose celebrating the 20th anniversary can you believe of the one show
01:41it's incredible 20 years because that's part of your team isn't it i know how long have you been with
01:4620 years i know i know we'll also be catching up with francis tophill on creating a feature garden
01:54with his majesty the king's foundation and i'll be talking to dame elaine page about what she's hoping
01:59to find at chelsea this year i'm making a beeline for the roses because i need to learn how to
02:08deadhead them
02:11first i've just stepped off main avenue and onto the children's society garden and who better than
02:17design expert toby buckland to show us how we can be inspired by this amazing garden and toby it is
02:25beautiful it's a plot with pizzazz a pizzazz yes but is it really impactful as you walk through
02:33well yeah the designer patrick clark he is a master magpie he's brought together old material stuff
02:41from skips turned it into something new something that looks expensive it's all to do with the dna of
02:48this garden the theme is wabi-sabi which is the japanese art of making good stuff from things that
02:53are broken repairing them making them better so how can we be smaller master magpies in our own garden
02:59to get this impact it doesn't look like it at first because it looks so expensive but see these
03:04paving yes tiles here these aren't from some italian showroom these are from a skip these are paving
03:11stones municipal ones sliced up polished with olive oil and they just look expensive but they're not
03:17and what about the frame i would never have thought of using a steel frame like this in my garden
03:22well
03:22this one again recycled material every picture every piece of art needs a frame and that's what this does it
03:29gives the garden a lovely outline ties it all together and links it in the metalwork it glows
03:33looks beautiful and we've got to mention the water i mean to have a water feature in a garden for
03:37me
03:37is the ultimate but it doesn't need to be on this scale it doesn't but the things you can get
03:42from
03:42this relate to every garden that sound the babble so relaxing and wonderful and of course it reflects
03:48all the plants in the garden the silver of the eleagnus is really gorgeous it fills the air with fragrance
03:54the planting is simple and i think this is a lesson of less is sometimes more you don't need
03:59to ram out your borders to make them completely full to create impact are you ready for the first
04:04question from our viewers of the week yeah no pressure leah asks i have a small paved area how
04:10can i make the most of the space i've got well leah if you're good at building you can have
04:15a really
04:16tidy finish smart joints make it look really tight in chelsea or go more cottage garden mixed materials like
04:22patrick's done say gravel and stone leave little gaps of plants as well and your whole thing will
04:27have a naturalistic look yes so relaxed but still beautiful yeah beautiful useful useful always useful
04:34thank you so much toby there are loads of different ways to make an impact in your garden and one
04:40of the
04:40easiest is with some beautiful bright flowers so garden designer sue kent has put together the ultimate
04:47guide for first-time gardeners who want to use color to give their green space the wow factor
05:02if you want to start growing your own flowers then annuals are a great place to start they grow and
05:07flower and set seed all in one year and for the price of a packet of seed you get lots
05:12of plants making
05:13them really cost effective and they flower for ages through the summer and there are lots of plants to
05:19choose from calendula also known as pot marigold will plant sunshine in your garden not only is it
05:36ornamental but it's edible too the seeds they produce are large and easy to handle so they're a terrific
05:44plant for any new budding gardener look at this petal perfection these are cosmos with their fern like
06:01leaves and their open flowers they're great for pollinators like butterflies and bees lots of
06:08people think they just come in the pink and white but there's so many more varieties to choose from
06:13some of the petals have different shapes like the pinwheel pink and they have turned their petals inwards
06:19to form tubular rays up there is something called a fondant fancy who doesn't love a fondant fancy and the
06:26petals have all been fused to give a sort of bowl like shape they come in different heights and the
06:32smaller ones look great in pots and then you can vary it in your border if you're planting them in
06:38your
06:38border they look fantastic they give a real lift of color throughout it but the one thing that you need
06:45to do to keep them looking good all summer is to deadhead them regularly nigella better known as love
07:01in the mist these beautiful cottage garden plants are so easy to grow all they need is free draining
07:07soil and a sunny position make sure the soil is damp and scatter the seeds where you want them and
07:13before
07:13you know you'll see these beautiful filigree leaves and then these lovely flowers will appear as if
07:19they're floating on top they make great cut flowers but don't cut all the heads off because you need
07:25the seed heads to form and then they'll scatter seeds and the magic will happen again next year
07:37we aren't the only ones keen to get a first look at the gardens and a peek inside the grey
07:42pavilion
07:43in search of inspiration in fact there's quite a few familiar faces also on the hunt for ideas
07:54it's such a place of inspiration it's such a place where you can come
07:57and be inspired to take things back home but just enjoy as well
08:04i do like gardening for sure you know going outside and
08:08being in the fresh air and planting different plants at different times of the year
08:14i'm actually looking for inspiration from my outfit i get a lot of my inspiration from nature nice brown
08:20tones and creams most of all i just like beautiful things and i think that a garden is a beautiful
08:28thing
08:29especially one like this which is so organized you see the thought that goes behind it everything
08:33has its sort of right place i think wow this is amazing how can i take a little piece of
08:40tom
08:40stewart's garden and bring that into my own back home that's what i love about this place because
08:47flowers and plants redeem us all they literally are our life-giving force and under these great trees
08:54and with scudding clouds i mean there's no better place to be these flowers are from my garden and uh
09:01just
09:01in case i've got a sunflower ready for when these start to wilt
09:06so far it's the pots and everything i've been looking at and the way they're all planted out
09:10and i've picked up a few ideas we've been growing vegetables in the last few years but we've we've
09:17changed from from growing them in a specific area now to growing them all over the garden so i think
09:21actually why not i love it i love a structure but i do love a wild meadow and a bit
09:27of wild grass going on
09:28so here it's absolutely heaven there's everything that you could possibly want
09:34yeah i've got a young family so my garden is all about practicality it's about playing games it's
09:39about running around it's about hiding in the trees i think if i heard something like this
09:43and the kids were running around in it i don't know if the gardeners would be too happy
09:51great to see so many familiar faces having a wonderful time here at chelsea this week angelica
09:59and i'll be joined by a whole range of top experts in floristry in crafts and also in planting they
10:07have got loads of hacks and tips to share inspired by the latest trends but without breaking the bank
10:13which we know is so important today i'm joined by a renowned florist hazel gardener lovely to see
10:20you again hazel thank you so much with a name like hazel gardener you've got to be in floristry surely
10:25i mean i couldn't have done anything else goodbye nikki we're lucky to have you so we're inspired by all
10:31these gardens but we also want to be inspired in our own homes don't we we want floristry to make
10:36an
10:36impact absolutely hopefully you're going to show us some tips on that yes two different displays
10:41two different displays what are we starting off with so we're starting with a hero flower of mine
10:45hydrangeas lovely so they're so beautiful all you need is really one stem to make a huge impact
10:51so we've got um types i'm using here a mop head but you can get lots of different varieties such
10:57as um
10:58oak hydrangea oak leaf hydrangea here then we've also got panicolata which is more like cone shape
11:04also got lace cap but they're all beautiful but they're all slightly different and huge blooms
11:10this is absolutely huge so this is gorgeous just using three yes you're going slightly bigger i can
11:16see over here slightly bigger over here but i'm helped in both scenarios by the flower frog so this
11:20is an excellent piece of kit available kind of like on any online retailer flower frog or a kenzan
11:27and i really suggest you to get one not expensive not expensive really really affordable and what they
11:33allow you to do is just really curate your stems really heavy stems can sit in that and they'll be
11:37absolutely fine so it's perfect for things like hydrangeas you've got a big one there i've got
11:41a big one here because i am going to be making a much bigger arrangement you've got it forever i'm
11:45guessing got it forever and they all come in different sizes so they're so perfect so i've got
11:50a larger bowl here because i'm going to make a beautiful display so you can either pick up one or
11:53two flower heads or you can get a whole bunch so as i said i've got these mop heads and
11:58i've chosen two
11:59different colors the reason because when they dry out they really really fade in color which is beautiful
12:04but what you want is really vivid colors and then they will dry with that color still in it so
12:09the
12:10brighter the color the better for later exactly exactly and they they will go a bit dusky but
12:15yes the brighter the better so i'm cutting them here always cut them at an angle and then normally i
12:20would cut them vertically as well just so all that water gets up to the stem because they're very very
12:24thirsty flowers also to put into the flower it's easier to put in the flower frog as well so i've
12:29got two
12:30different colors because what i find is having a one tonal display is lovely but it's just lovely to
12:35show how beautiful the color ranges of these flowers are depends if you've got acid or alkaline
12:41soil look how quickly you do it i know it's straight in this is the thing a lot of us
12:45grow hydrangeas yeah
12:46so they'd be perfect from the garden give them a drink first exactly yes they're very very thirsty
12:52so you might might have a situation where they're wilting such as this one you can see yes and all
12:57you do is
12:57submerge the actual head in water really and then it will bounce back lukewarm water lukewarm water
13:03for a couple of hours or you can cut it and then put it in boiling water for like 10
13:07seconds and that
13:08will perk it right back up look at that it's already looking good and we're nearly finished and so you
13:14could leave them in your garden i've got three different types of hydrangeas in my garden you can
13:17leave them in the garden so they look a bit kind of dusky and then pick them they're very good
13:21for like
13:21pollinators but yeah just pick them first thing in the morning if you are going to harvest them
13:25and you put flower food in there as well i don't tend to i just like using lots of water
13:30change
13:31the water daily you can also miss the head of hydrangeas that's a good idea they actually soak up a
13:36lot of their hydration yeah last one last one so you can see here i've done an asymmetrical design
13:44not using a lot of stems with my flower frog and that is it yeah actually in a couple of
13:49minutes
13:49it's transformed blooming beautiful stunning isn't it so this will keep in the vase like
13:55this for one or two weeks then when it gets to that stage you just need an inch of water
13:59let them dry and they will completely dry out in situ just perfect gorgeous absolutely gorgeous such
14:06great work and hazel you're going to be back a little bit later to show us how to make a
14:11splash
14:11indoors with lemons who knew i love hazel's work she's the best now it's time to meet a new member
14:21of the chelsea team it's garden designer flo headland welcome thank you good to be in the space we're
14:26loving having you here now viewers will know you from garden rescue but tell us a bit more about the
14:31gardens you specialize in well i work in the london and southeast area with families really lots of family
14:36gardens big and small you know the full range and it's about giving every single brief the due care
14:43and attention that it needs now i know you're brilliant with small gardens because sometimes
14:47you've got to be extra creative with those don't you definitely because actually whether you've got
14:51a small garden or a big garden you still want the same experience so you need to pack all of
14:56those
14:56features in that small space and keep it feeling airy and you need to be clever with budget as well
15:02yes
15:02because budgets are often really tight so it's about being being clever upcycling recycling having
15:09items that are multi-functional in that space that will help with making the much budget go further
15:15and money saving tips yes that's what i'm going to be looking at today money saving tips inspirations
15:20ideas lots of takeaways for the viewers and these are things you'll be focusing on all week so we're
15:25looking forward to seeing that well earlier flo headed over to one of the balcony gardens to decode some
15:30of the best design ideas that you could use in your green space no matter how big or small it
15:36is
15:36let's see how you got online
15:45compact spaces can be seen as quite a challenge but with some clever planning
15:50you could end up with a space like this
15:55a really good approach to your planning is to think of your space in zones and that will make it
16:00easier for you to then get into the detail of how to plan and plot everything so on this balcony
16:06the right hand side is about productivity there's a potting table here for just starting off with
16:13your seedlings and then another table here for potting on growing nurturing your plants and then
16:19around on the floor lots of different modular pots where we're actually growing and maturing the plants
16:26the space is divided by this pot a really good size and containing this gorgeous pomegranate tree
16:33it gives you height and that's another thing when you're in a small space think bold think big and
16:39put some height in because it's great to to lift the eye the left hand side is about relaxation there's
16:45some
16:46gorgeous outdoor furniture a place to come out and sit and relax but then you're still surrounded by the
16:52garden with all of the pots with the produce and the flowers all kind of productivity going on but
16:59you're sitting in the middle of it and enjoying it
17:07now at the top of this balcony garden is this pergola it's great for creating height in a space
17:14and gives you the opportunity to grow something like a grapevine which will scramble over the top
17:20and give you a canopy and some shade which is always really important in a garden but if you don't
17:24want to grow a grapevine you can grow roses clematis ivy sweet pea anything that's going to give you some
17:32coverage over the top and just beautify the space now pergolas can be quite expensive but you can get
17:39the same effects with garden wires or tension wires same effects but just friendlier on your budget
17:53now this corner is all about maximizing your growing space this curved raised bed is packed with edibles
18:01we've got cabbage we've got packed oil we've got fennel but as well as edibles there are some perennials
18:08as well and that's the thing you don't have to do one or the other bring them both together because
18:13for example by putting in the gems we're bringing pollinators into the garden oh we've also got
18:19nasturtiums which are great pops of color they trail down or you can trail them up and they're great in
18:26salads so edible flowers be experimental there are no rules and actually you learn as you experiment and
18:33you try things out and that's the thing about gardening every day is a learning day
18:43now if you've got a gardening question there's only one place to head for the answer of course
18:49it's the great pavilion here at chelsea it is packed with experts with advice on how to grow your
18:55favorite plants today i'm at peter beale's roses stand with head rosarian brilliant name ian lima
19:02head rosarian that is quite a title it is i suppose um working with roses for 40 to 50 years
19:09you you get
19:10to know a lot of different varieties and so on but uh yeah it's a lovely title isn't it well
19:14we know that
19:15roses are the most popular flower aren't they most popular plant throughout the whole of the uk
19:19but if someone has never grown a rose before how easy are they really uh really easily just put them
19:26into the ground the most important thing to do is uh for the first year is keep them well watered
19:31and liquid fed something like tomato feeders is good enough because what we want is the flowers
19:38but the plant wants the roots to get established then it will give us good flowers don't just rely on
19:43the rain help them through once a week to during the summer months to get the roots established and
19:49what about size because we've got some smaller ones here what are these ones called along here we've got
19:53macmillan nurse over there are these shrub versions yes they're shrub roses shrub roses tend to be more
19:59lax than uh modern roses like hypertees and floribunders um and they can grow in any aspect anything
20:06from full sunshine to semi-shade um in woodland and so on so you've got something for everyone we've got
20:13something for everyone and you fancy some questions are you ready any advice for shrub roses in a shady
20:18part of the garden for a very shady part of the garden a good variety is um a ragosa called
20:26rosary
20:26de la hay um that will stand a lot of a lot of shade uh but there's also one which
20:32uh which we which we
20:33grow uh ivor's rose and that's a really good one really healthy and that's quite happily grown in
20:38in the shade excellent more questions for our viewers reese on instagram says should i be watering
20:44them or should i just let them drink from nature what a lovely way of putting it yeah water watering
20:50them as i said is very important for that first year but once they're established um we all lead busy
20:56lives you don't have to worry quite so much but maybe sometimes when people think i'll water the grass
21:02just give your roses a chance to water as well so once they're established relatively low maintenance
21:07very low maintenance people are very think it's very complicated same with pruning very straightforward
21:12low maintenance but high on impact ian thank you very much you're welcome
21:20of course it is press day today and we've got some very special visitors from the one show it is
21:26alex
21:26jones and roman kent hello nicky welcome well this is like a second home to you here isn't it because
21:31it is peter beale's roses and there's a little bit of a connection well there is because roman and
21:37i have come to see the one show 20th rose which has been grown by peter beale it's here isn't
21:45she
21:45a gorgeous creature smell beautiful to see the colors are sort of pink and red for the one show
21:52and then in the middle yeah we've got of course the proceeds going to children need so pudsy yellow
21:57you see however i mean come to have a look we know that the one shows a huge team but
22:02are you
22:02are you two like proud parents standing here with your baby yeah i mean i mean definitely alex was
22:08nearly welling up seeing but no it is i think it's not just for al and i but as you
22:13know as you say the
22:13one show as a team and i guess you know the viewers as well it's so nice for them to
22:17have something
22:18that feels you know close to home i guess yeah congratulations well it's a lovely way to celebrate
22:22the 20th year and the fact that ourselves and our viewers can plant one in the garden
22:27is lovely isn't it it is so nice very personal i mean you've recently moved house into the countryside
22:33will you be planting one of your roses absolutely i've got a lovely space in the border have you
22:38already and where should we be planting this rose well apparently you're testing you now but apparently
22:45you can plant in a pot if you haven't got lots of space you've got a balcony maybe or a
22:49small garden
22:49the pot is fine has to be quite a big pot um but you can plant it into a border
22:54as well and it needs
22:56plenty of water in the first year because ian's just told me that there you are very first that's
23:00it very good your family loves gardening yeah martin and shirley kept they're here every single year
23:07you grew up practically in the garden didn't you yeah i mean it's it's always been a thing i think
23:11it's
23:11because also for my dad you know it was always his dad that was out in the garden when again
23:15well
23:15they they lived in in central london so any form of small garden space my granddad was always out
23:20there and uh taught my dad a lot and then also for my mum uh very hands-on she's you
23:26know she's
23:26whether or not it's building work whether or not it's in the garden it's non-stop so i can't call
23:32home
23:32how a conversation at home will go is i'll call my dad and i'll go i'll go yeah where's where's
23:36mum and
23:37now i'll just hear joe joe well hang on rose she's in the garden that's literally how it goes but
23:42how lovely though to grow up like that i mean i know that's important for your children as well
23:46isn't it oh absolutely i mean that that's the reason we moved out of london to have a bit more
23:51space and the children especially annie our little girl who's four she just loves planting so she'll
23:58enjoy putting the rose in i'm sure absolutely it is gorgeous a huge congratulations and you're going to
24:04mosey on around and enjoy the rest of the day that's it we've got the one show tonight so we
24:08need to head off for that one and we'll be chatting more about our 20th anniversary rose yes thank you
24:12both so much for joining us now roses are a summer staple that are perfect for making an impact plant
24:20expert carol klein has been in search of even more summer standouts that will keep your garden looking
24:26glorious from may right through to the autumn some say that chelsea is the start of the social calendar
24:39but it's also the debut of the floral season and this is just the place to look for this season's
24:47summer
24:54for big bold and beautiful what could match the pure perfection of a peony some people would say
25:04but the flowers don't last very long no they're true shooting stars but while they're here you can't help
25:13but gaze into their voluptuous flowers and absolutely nothing in the garden can beat them for impact
25:26fascinating feature of these sumptuous blooms is not only do their petals feel as if they're composed of
25:34tissue paper but they change color too when they start the color is more concentrated
25:41but they fade to these soft and subtle hues
25:51when midsummer arrives you really want to go up in the world how about the spikes and spires of
25:59the bascans they're true summer stalwarts with these glorious flowers which go on and on for ages
26:07and one of my favorites is this fairly recent introduction called clementine they're such
26:14straightforward plants to grow all they require is decent drainage and a really sunny spot and that way
26:21they'll go on producing these flowers for absolutely months and months right the way through to late summer
26:31by the time late summer arrives you may be dreaming of that mediterranean holiday but there's no need to head
26:38for the
26:39airport if you grow these beautiful agapanthus because they can transport you to all the season oceans of the world
26:47from the deepest dark depths of the pacific to the bright and brilliant blue of the aegean and even the
26:56white froth of the waves
26:58as they splash against the shore and even if you haven't got a garden you can grow your agapanthus in
27:06a pot
27:08and show-stopping pianist to vibrant babascans to the moody blues of agapanthus look at that one that's blackjack
27:19you can keep your garden going with big beautiful blooms all summer long
27:31thank you carol now this year we've got some very special visitors to rhs chelsea who've all been
27:36part of a bbc rhs and tiktok search to find the hottest horticultural talent from the world of social
27:43media we'll be meeting all of them across the week but today i'm joined by four of them eli applebee
27:50donald is when a cozy dude lamp and naomi saunders and they are all first timers here at chelsea so
27:57this is pretty special isn't it eli it is it's so exciting so you're all about growing vegetables
28:03on the east coast of scotland yeah have you found any exciting edibles oh have i ever as a single
28:09edible
28:11i'll say plant fungus mushrooms i've seen a stall it's mushrooms every type you could imagine
28:18stuff i've never ever seen but the way it's put there for you to see just so beautiful the thought
28:23that's gone in and how it was presented so you could see them in all their finery and glory but
28:28then
28:28as gardens for edibles some of the container gardens the knowledge sharing that the tales at the river
28:34bank how to grow vegetables in small spaces and i see some of the most perfect pak choi i've ever
28:40seen
28:40in my life not a nibble on them that's amazing now is way yes you're all about encouraging novice
28:47gardeners into growing isn't that right that's correct what have you seen that you thought
28:51hmm that's something that i need to take away well there's really two things i've seen i am i i
28:56have not
28:57i had a very complicated relationship with grasses in my garden but i have just seen some of the grasses
29:02that have been displayed in some of these gardens here and my perceptions on what you can do with
29:07grasses in the space has absolutely changed that inspiration that i came for i found it in grasses
29:13so i've come here for inspiration because of i'm redoing my garden and i'm taking all of that back to
29:19mine so it's going to be absolutely exciting well you've got some points there that's brilliant but
29:22jude you're all about finding hacks and tips and tricks for gardeners aren't you yes absolutely yeah
29:28yeah so i'm covering a lot of gardening business related so i started a gardening business last year
29:33and i've just been recording the whole journey of it and taking people along with me and i mean i'm
29:38getting a lot of inspiration from this place one of my favorite things about this place is the
29:42japanese card i couldn't believe it honestly it's special yeah attention to detail every little thing
29:47is in the right place stones the moss everything's perfect and i'd love to have a go at creating something
29:53like that myself one of my clients gardens ever got the opportunity i really would and naomi house
29:58plants is your specialism what have you seen here at chelsea so i'm a massive lover of weird and
30:04wonderful house plants anything variegated textured bit of gangly growth i've even got a tattoo of an
30:10anthurian wire or quianum on my arm but one thing i in particular i'm really excited to get my hands
30:16on is a cactus that conservatory archives showed which is a matillo cactus geometrizans stacker which
30:22is a little knobbly bobbly cactus that grows on top of itself so yeah that's great i love that knobbly
30:27bobbly excellent guys have a wonderful time it's great to have you here there's still so much more
30:33to come from rhs chelsea flower show 2026 an event supported by range rover i'll be meeting dame elaine
30:41page to see what she's found at the show for her terrace and i'll be catching up with our very
30:46own
30:46sophie rayworth about why chelsea is so important to his majesty the king first though toby's back and
30:54he's showing you how to make an impact in your borders by being brave with statement trees
31:05this is an oasis of loveliness i mean look at it
31:11it's the perfect place to talk about focal points because designer christina cop has created lots to
31:18look at in the garden beautiful things there are bird baths water features borders brimming with
31:25flowers a greenhouse to die for and the most beautiful trees
31:33the trees in this garden are really special this is a hazel there's a hornbeam there's a spindle bush
31:40behind me these are hedgerow plants but what makes them so good is that they've been multi-stemmed
31:46and that's transformed them into living sculptures i mean why have one trunk when you can have five
31:54actually this isn't a difficult way to garden and create a tree yourself you could dig a hole put
31:59five hazel trees in it and with time they'll come up and look like this or you could take an
32:06existing
32:06shrub in your garden a gloomy old evergreen and then turn it into a light-filled living sculpture
32:12simply by chopping away the lower branches all the way up to the canopy now when i used to work
32:18on a
32:18nursery we used to call this technique getting the plant to show some knee it's also known as crown
32:23lifting and you can see just how it transforms the plant and there's another advantage of having a
32:29multi-stemmed tree because the branches are growing cheaper jowl and the plant is kept pruned it stays below
32:36its usual height but like this you get the look of a mature tree but lower down the other thing
32:42it
32:42does it creates layers you've got the tree canopy above with its catkins in autumn color and at ground
32:49level a whole new bit of garden to plant up life under a tree isn't for every flower i mean
33:00avoid sun
33:01lovers for silver leaves like lavender and catnip but there are three categories that do really well
33:06though those were tap roots like foxgloves and fennel i mean think of a taproot like on the carrot
33:11that's basically a bit of plumbing that goes deep below the tree's roots and prospects for h2o
33:16then there are plants with wiry roots astrantias cranesville geraniums they flop and spread and
33:23fill the gaps around the feet of the tree and don't forget self-sowers self-sowing plants well
33:28they garden themselves they do the work for you and find their way into little nooks and crannies
33:32aquilegias tow flax both of them are winners the thing to know is that the plants that you buy from
33:38nurseries and garden centers are straight out of compost and in their first summer the watering is down to
33:44you don't spare the hose of the h2o they'll soon get on their own roots and they'll become self-sufficient
33:49and they'll form well a beautiful frame and you need a frame for any focal point
33:54but around a multi-stem tree wow they look fantastic
34:00you don't immediately think about planting trees in borders but it works so well it's so effective
34:06now i'm back with floral genius hazel gardener who earlier on showed us how to create a beautiful
34:13display with hydrangeas and you're going to create aren't you hazel something equally gorgeous for our
34:19tables this time something equally as impactful come on so trends yes the huge trend at the minute is
34:25using edibles on tablescapes it's just really lovely to use an ingredient that you're also going to eat
34:31if you're hosting a celebration so i've chosen lemons today so you've been busy because you've got
34:36another display in the great pavilion yes i've been surrounded by vegetables and working with
34:40she grows veg in the great pavilion for a feast a tablescape full of edibles and this is something
34:45that we can do at home i would never dream of using lemons so what are we going to do
34:50so we've got
34:51loads of lemons here so what we're going to do is it's chelsea so more is more so we're going
34:55to
34:55stack our lemons almost like almost like building blocks so we've got just a common toothpick here
35:02yes so we're going to connect our lemons together so we're just going to pierce one end of the lemon
35:06and then literally put on another lemon on the other end and then we've connected two and then we're
35:12just going to keep on building so you just pierce and then add them in so it's almost acts like
35:17a
35:17scaffold so you can keep on stacking is this going to go next to the display yes as you can
35:23see here i've
35:24just built them in around my vases so it's just to really get home that we're using lemons almost
35:29like a prop almost like you would a vase i like that it's like a sculpture already it is it's
35:34gorgeous and so super simple so then to connect it to the flowers on the table i've got this gorgeous
35:39vase here of all seasonal flowers and i'm going to make a lemon become a flower so how i do
35:45that is i've
35:45got a longer cocktail stick yes that i've actually cut in half then all i'm going to do is pierce
35:51it again
35:52almost to create like a stem as and that's my flower head right and then i'm going to pop it
35:57in
35:57so this has again got a flower frog in so looking at the floral display you've sort of left space
36:02at
36:03the underneath haven't you to create exactly so if you are adding edibles do leave enough space to keep
36:08adding things in you don't want to use you don't want to get in the way of your flowers because
36:12i've
36:12got some gorgeous roses in here now i'm going to keep everything quite low to the vase because i want
36:16to
36:16connect them to the stacks and also if you put them too high you're going to have that bit of
36:20cocktail stick
36:21sticking out and nobody wants that so i'm going to stick another one in there so i've got my flower
36:25frog in there so that's fine i mean these are gorgeous lemons so nice is there a particular
36:30type you should buy if you're going to create this i would say unwax and organic where possible and then
36:35the great thing about that is like if you are having a party you can gift them to all your
36:38guests
36:39afterwards or use them in cocktails or in water what a nice idea you can get these on the high
36:42street
36:43perfect on the high street you can get a whole bag for such an affordable price
36:47so if i connect over here so i'm going to pop that just know my other stack and then you
36:53can
36:54see how it almost looks like it's water falling i like that structure yeah and you could use other
37:00fruit i'm guessing what else could you use so other things that are great apples or plums or pomegranates
37:05anything like that is anything that you can kind of pierce would be fantastic and obviously anything
37:10that you're going to use in your cooking is even better and what about maintenance how often do you
37:14have to water them so this would be really good this is all very seasonal but what i would say
37:18if you're doing this outside put it put your flowers in at the last moment you don't want
37:23your flowers outside too much in the heat so just do it last minute and then pop all your kind
37:27of
37:27lemons around it so gorgeous so impactful and then when all your guests have gone you can reuse all the
37:32lemons exactly really really clever now angelica has just bought a whole summer set of crockery with
37:37lemons on she could do something like this actually a real maximalist moment that would be beautiful
37:42i love that for inside the home but also if you're dining al fresco exactly thank you so much for
37:47joining us it's fantastic do you know what that display would look great in my kitchen i love it now
37:55though it's time to meet a true legend of the west end stage we know her for wowing audiences through
38:01a
38:0160-year career having starred in musicals such as evita cat and chess but you may not know that she's
38:08rather
38:09green-fingered and uses the terrace of her london flat as the ultimate place to unride please welcome
38:16dame elaine page it's wonderful to have you here isn't it wonderful to be here amongst all this foliage
38:22and plants and flowers and just wonderful now not many people know that it's when you were a little
38:28girl that you found a love of nature by potting plants in your maisonette i did we lived in our
38:35maisonette in barnet high street and we didn't have a garden but we had pots and my mother has always
38:42loved flowers and gardening and so i i was first taught about planting and plants there in the masonette
38:50and then many years later we moved to east barnet where for the first time we actually had a proper
38:55garden and my mother made a wonderful rockery and my father's pride and joy was the lawn he wanted
39:04to make it like wimbledon you know the grass courts and and they would also plant vegetables we had um
39:13we had an apple tree and she would make lots of wonderful apple pies so that's where i learned about
39:19gardening and i think that's the thing of as well of always being in the theater all my life you're
39:24indoors and you're in the dark and uh the same in recording studios you're in the indoors in the
39:30dark so for me to be able to be in a garden or to have just even some pots some
39:36pretty flowers to look
39:37at uh yeah that just works for me yeah so those moments when you're outdoors hearing the birds
39:44absolutely must be really special well i've i'm lucky enough i live in a flat but i've got four little
39:49terraces and the sun comes up in the front and i usually have my morning tea there and listen to
39:56the birds as you say because i'm near battersea park so i hear them tweeting away and then as the
40:01sun moves
40:01around the apartment all day i sit in a different or if i'm able to you know a different uh
40:08terrace at
40:09different times of the day one for lunch and then right at the back for tea it's lovely so you
40:14must have
40:14a lovely vista of london i do i i look all across battersea park it's the most fantastic uh view
40:20because now it's all in bloom and i see the four seasons uh you know it's a wonderful thing to
40:27see
40:28but right now i think spring is my favorite because all the bugs and the shoots come out and you
40:33just
40:33suddenly see all those trees bloom it's fantastic now you have pots on your terraces i do i do what
40:41sort of
40:41things you grow in at the moment well i just before christmas i was going away for christmas time and
40:46i knew that when i came back in the spring there'd be nothing to look at so i found out
40:51about something
40:52called lasagna planting and i'd never heard of this before and um so i looked it up online and what
40:59to do
40:59and uh i learned how to do it basically it's like lasagna it's layers of bulbs and so i bought
41:08bulbs and
41:09the lower layer you put the the uh latest uh blooming flowers so things like tulips and um
41:20alliums and the tall ones and then the middle one is hyacinths and dwarf daffodil something like that
41:26and the top is uh the the earliest flowers like snowdrops and crocus and things like that and much to
41:34my
41:34amazement i mean i did it and thought oh this is never going to work and when i came home
41:39uh and
41:40now spring became and suddenly this whole melange of all these most beautiful flowers appeared all
41:47together in my pots and it was just the prettiest thing lots of colors it was fabulous now i know
41:53that
41:53you love bright colors and also roses but you've been learning about that chelsea deadheading haven't you
41:58i have because i have some lovely roses a girlfriend of mine pauline uh gave me one for
42:04my birthday and i had other roses on the terrace as well surrounding my pots and i never quite know
42:11what to do with them so i just met this lovely man who's taught me how to deadhead roses and
42:18how to
42:18prune them and when to do it so i've learned a great deal about the maintenance of of roses today
42:25i'm eternally
42:26grateful well we've loved having you here elaine thank you so much now if like me you think of
42:32daffodils as a spring flower you'll be surprised to see them in full bloom here at the show in may
42:37well a few years ago dame mary berry went to discover how growers keep them looking their best for chelsea
42:48there's nothing more exciting than when the first daffodils come into bloom in spring
42:54but come late may there is lots of other color coming to replace them
43:02so why would you bring spring bulbs to chelsea well for over 30 years taylor's bulbs have
43:10so i've come to lincolnshire to meet adam taylor the latest in a long line to nurture these spring
43:17staples adam i have never in all my life seen so many daffodils together it's really spring wonderful
43:27the beautiful sight isn't it it goes on forever so how many have you got here in this enormous field
43:33in total we have 4 000 tons of bulbs in the ground uh in this area they just look so
43:40organized they're in
43:41straight lines all along in the wind they look so special they're trumpet type yes this is your
43:48classic yellow trumpet daffodil as people would call them variety called carlton it's what most people
43:53would imagine a daffodil is to be how many varieties have you actually got over the farm of daffodils we've
44:01got a lot of different varieties let me show you looking around this field it's just like a patchwork
44:12quilt all different colors yeah it's a beautiful uh site isn't it mary there's 350 varieties here in
44:19total in this field yes in this field is it true that you should put daffodils always in one vase
44:27together and not add other flowers to it correct yeah daffodils like daffodils they don't like other
44:32flowers in the same vase they will shorten the shelf life of the other flowers i had no idea that
44:38there were so many varieties why bring a spring daffodil to a summer show we like to show all the
44:45different varieties that we can offer that just gives people opportunity to be able to see all of
44:51the different flowering times on show in one go if we didn't take them to a show then it'd be
44:56a
44:56struggle to convince ourselves to actually keep this collection running some of the more discerning
45:01gardeners as well will come to the stand and they'll see varieties that they have never seen before
45:05and they'll order them there and then because they'll want to make sure that they get those bulbs
45:09so they can have something special for their garden all these daffodils flower at different
45:14times from january to may how do you get them all together for the chelsea flower show we have a
45:22technique let me show you welcome to our 2000 ton potato store mary and this is where we keep our
45:32chelsea daffodils you've brought them into the cold yeah we have them paused in time at this temperature
45:39they've been on a journey already to get to here and then they carry on on that journey all the
45:44way to
45:44chelsea so these bulbs were harvested last june and then we've kept them in a shed all the way
45:48through until december at a warm temperature we've tried to make sure that the bulb thinks that it's
45:53summer all the way through until that time and then we plant them and then they root and as you
45:58can see they're very vigorous so as soon as we bring them into the glass house they'll go from this
46:03to full flowering in how long well within two to three weeks really yeah much quicker than they would
46:09do normally so here we are from the cold potato shed to the glamour of chelsea yes that's their
46:15journey mary you've had 26 gold so far what's the chance of a 27th there's every possibility isn't
46:27there we really hope that we can do it there's so many things that are out of our control but
46:31we'll
46:31do everything we can to come home with the gold medal adam i for one i'm thrilled that you're bringing
46:36spring daffodils to chelsea again and i wish you every possible success thank you mary
46:45i'm really in daffodil heaven there is so many to choose from i might be a while
46:59absolutely stunning and joining me now from taylor's bulbs is adam taylor hello well that was then
47:06this is now and i've got to say this display is absolutely beautiful and it was interesting to
47:12hear how much work goes into making sure all the daffodils bloom at the same time yeah it's always a
47:16risk because you're playing with their natural flowering season so bringing them here to a show
47:22at the end of may is always a little bit odd considering that they flower in march and april
47:26yeah so is it from january to may that different varieties will bloom yeah they're the extremes
47:33and so not a lot of people know that you can have daffodils in flower in january or may but
47:39most of
47:39them are in that middle peak of march april season and they'll they'll always follow a period of time
47:44over that as well so some will be in early march others in late march and so you can have
47:49daffs in
47:50flower for a long period of time now daffodils they are fantastic for impact aren't they yeah really
47:56good in those dark early spring days when you haven't got as much natural light and all of a sudden
48:01you've got the bursts of yellow in particular a lot of my favorites tend to be the whites that come
48:06a
48:06little bit later i like them they complement blossom a lot of the time as well but we have such
48:12an array
48:14it's always daffs the yellow no there's more there is more to it and there's been two new varieties this
48:20year tell us about them yeah so wordsworth golden this one here uh is a variety that um we are
48:27using
48:27with our celebration of the national garden scheme centenary uh it's just a classic yellow it's got a great
48:33big corona uh which a lot of people find really quite attractive uh so this is one and another is
48:40heaver castle um heaver plants a lot of daffodils they have their own festival yeah and and so we
48:47named a variety in honor of everything that they do for our daffs amazing now adam i've got to say
48:52good
48:52luck thank you could be your 33rd gold medal yeah we hope so i think the team have done a
48:58fantastic job
48:59and let's see where what we get well if i was judging thank you
49:08i'm here on the rhs and the king's foundation curious garden designed by none other than our very
49:16own francis top hill francis a huge congratulations you look fabulous today and the garden is amazing
49:24thank you thank you are you relieved it's all finished are you delighted yes i need a bit of
49:30time for it to sink in i reckon in a month i'll know how it's gone yes at the moment
49:34i'm just so
49:35in it you know yeah amazing but to design a garden with his majesty the king sir david beckham
49:41and alan titchmarsh cbe i mean that is quite a responsibility that's the word for it that's what i
49:47felt a responsibility not to let anybody down and it's the rhs and the king's foundation as well
49:52but actually it's been a lovely collaboration alan's a great friend so he's been on the end of
49:58the phone whenever i've needed david's actually been really into the plug so he asked for things
50:03like the peter six hills giant and lavender which we've got a lovely one which jekka grew because
50:07you're not meant to bring lavender here because of potential viruses we've got a lovely uk grown one
50:12um so it's just been really lovely and obviously the king with his sustainable ethos and biodiversity
50:17and all of those things are what i'm about anyway so it's been lovely working with such passionate
50:23people and what's so great i mean already there's so many people looking at the garden but they can
50:28actually come onto the garden as well that makes a difference that's really important to me you know
50:32we come every year and we're very lucky that we get to stand on the gardens and you get the
50:37whole
50:37atmosphere then and i wanted to make sure that people visiting the chelsea flower can get that and
50:42also explore it you know it's about plants we've got all the plants growing out here which people
50:47use all the time i want to celebrate how important plants are and then in what i'm calling the museum
50:52of curiosities i love that i love it there's so much to look at that you can do with all
50:57of the plants
50:57that are being grown and i want people to explore that so if there were three plants that people
51:01perhaps could not literally take away but replicate at home what would you suggest some of my favorite
51:06plants the pomegranate trees yes they are not fully hardy so i'm not even sure that i could grow them
51:12at home but i'm i might just give it yeah give it a while because i love them but also
51:17we've got lots
51:17of really lovely herbs now where i live it's quite wet so what i've done here is i've put all
51:22of the
51:23the drought herbs into pots with lots and lots of grit so i think that's a really nice thing to
51:28do so
51:28easier to grow yeah so we've got like south african rose this is this is a manuka right by the
51:33beehive you
51:33know like manuka honey yes so that's this is the plant but you know if you put something in a
51:37pot and
51:37you put some gravel in there you have the flexibility to move things around protect them when it's cold
51:42things like that so i've tried to do that and obviously putting veg front and center of course
51:47some of it bolts close to your heart totally we've got flowering broccoli and things like that which
51:52are great for pollinators and they look really beautiful yellow flower well it's not just the two of
51:57us standing here on this garden is it because i have noticed another little bearded chap behind us
52:02prominent place is he going to be there the whole time because we haven't seen gnomes here before
52:06not a long time chelsea flash i banned them over 100 years ago and because the king has a gnome
52:13at
52:13highgrove that he hides so the gardening team find it in different places so is he going to be moving
52:19does he move he does move i've never seen him move but every day he's somewhere new so um he's
52:25certainly
52:25enjoying this garden that's for sure and of course later on this afternoon we have the royal visit sophie's
52:32here to tell us more we're very excited i know the royal family they come here every year and they
52:37love
52:37it the late queen queen elizabeth she came i don't think she missed a year she hardly missed a year
52:42she
52:43came here for the first time in 1952 when she was queen and she came almost every year after that
52:49and
52:49obviously she brought the then prince charles with her now king who will love what you've created
52:54here francis you will and am i right in thinking that the king has had a garden here before he
52:58has
52:58this is a very royal spot actually because i think it was 2002 and he designed the healing garden which
53:06he dedicated to his grandmother and he he created it with the ginny blom the designer and it was right
53:12here on this spot and then there was also the princess of wales she was then duchess of cambridge but
53:16in 2019 do you remember she had the back to nature garden beautiful which was wonderful and they
53:21brought the kids on do you remember they were tiny then and they had a swing here and everything
53:24so yes it's a very royal spot and they do every year they seem to stop on this corner anyway
53:29so
53:29he'll be he'll be in here won't he definitely will well it certainly has a very special place in
53:34their heart we look forward to the coverage later on and francis congratulations you get a time to
53:40breathe a little bit later now for the first time this week we're opening the chelsea garden clinic
53:53the place for you at home to ask your burning gardening questions and in the hot seat to answer
53:58them today it's toby are you ready for this yeah the pressure yes but i'm ready yeah you always ready
54:06shall i go first okay laura's got in touch via instagram what british native plant gives the best
54:11impact well it's got to be that chelsea favorite the foxglove so easy to grow self-sews comes up in
54:19one spot grows a crown of leaves and then flowers the following year dead easy it's so colorful bees love
54:25them you've locked them don't you i do there's a lot in the grounds here yeah yeah well it's partly
54:29because they fill out borders so beautifully they've got plump flowers haven't they that's the way to
54:33describe them there's something really tactile about them i love the word plump yeah great and
54:39to repair it with here earlier and she's got a question for you i've got a question from the clinic
54:44how can i make my city garden still look like a garden through the winter okay evergreens are going to
54:52be your friend now you don't have to have box balls there's been trouble with those but there
54:56are other evergreen shrubs like pittosporum good balls you can shape them into there's one called
55:01golf ball for example it's very good for this or hookera now these are soft leaved perennial herbaceous
55:07plants that means they've got the soft foliage flowers as well but they come in all different
55:11colors and they can make a tapestry that will last all winter long and look really beautiful so the
55:15fact that you live in the city or town you don't have to compromise do you on your plants no
55:19and these
55:19are wonderful in window boxes as well so when you look out from your kitchen window you can see the
55:24flowers frame in the garden beyond on the darkest and grimmest of days you know they'll bring the
55:28place to life wonderful okay tracy has got in touch via instagram my jasmine house plant keeps throwing
55:34off tendrils growing leaves and hasn't flowered for two years what do i need to do to get it to
55:40flower
55:41you've got to shock it back into flowers stick it outside your back door so it gets a cold night
55:46or two
55:46and then give it lots of tomato fertilizer you could prune it as well that will give it a bit
55:51of the boost it needs it's kind of like drying it off in the pot will can help as well
55:55but it's that
55:56shock to snap it out of this constant production of foliage treat it mean and it'll be a bit keener
56:02when you say dry it out though how long do you try it out well just let it be on
56:05the dry side if you over
56:07water and over feed all the time plants just think well i'll put on foliage and no flowers it's like
56:12holding your nerve yeah it comes back yeah that's it just be a bit meaner yeah time for one more
56:17yeah should we do this one this is from rebecca i have a trailing rosemary um i was doing so
56:23well
56:23so many flowers this year then all of a sudden it looks sad how can i revive it because it's
56:28starting
56:28to look sadder oh i'm looking at that i can see the pot there at the bottom now if you
56:32let a plot
56:33plant dry out completely particularly one that's been established and its roots have been in that
56:37container for a long time it will become so root bad it's hard to get the water in and then
56:42when
56:42you do you've kind of rotted off roots because the plants dried out and then it sits soaking wet
56:48and dies back the best thing i'd say you're not gonna like this but let's take a cut in a
56:53bit
56:53and start again well this again do you know this is the season of hope you can take a cutting
56:58of a
56:58rosemary now drop it on the floor and it'll grow roots stick a few of them in a pot and
57:03you'll have a
57:03new plant more plants for free than that original as long as you keep it well watered in the future
57:08and pot it on occasionally i think it'll do really well so be brave well sometimes plants need a
57:15reboot and rosemary's a classic for this particularly in containers they're not going to live forever
57:19oh great we love all this advice don't we so good we've got so many more but we've got a
57:25whole week
57:26here so that's good toby as ever thank you very much indeed now do keep sending in your questions
57:33you can text our whatsapp number which is on the screen now or head to the bbc gardeners world
57:39socials using the hashtag chelsea garden clinic now we've heard earlier that for the second time
57:47ever at the rhs chelsea flower show the ban on gnomes has been lifted now in celebration we'd like
57:54you to send in your garden known pictures using the hashtag gnome of the day on our socials and
58:01we'll be sharing some of our favorites across the week that's it from us today but you can join
58:07monty and rachel on bbc2 at eight o'clock to see what his majesty the king makes of francis's garden
58:14as he tours the showground with other members of the royal family and we'll be back here on bbc1
58:20tomorrow at two o'clock to bring you all the excitement of medals day plus we'll be showing
58:25you how to garden to help nature nourish we'll see you tomorrow see ya bye bye
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