Jo Thompson and Ri on learning The Glasshouse Garden - working with the Kent-based Glasshouse Project which helps rehabilitate women using horticulture when they come out of prison -had won gold at the Chelsea Flower Show.
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00:00I wouldn't be this garden without you. It's all your, all the things you talked to me about from that little feather you found in the exercise yard which you put in the diary because that's the only link with nature that you had. That's here in the garden today. The roses that you so missed from your own garden, they are all here in this garden. I filled the garden with roses for you.
00:22And the sound of running water, the peace, the scent, the scent of all the flowers and the sound of running water and the safe space, that warm, enclosing place that you wanted to have. Somewhere where you, not safe but yet, would open out onto a beautiful garden at the same time. So you inspired that strong beauty that we've talked about.
00:49Beautiful.