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00:00Joe just take a look back at that house that facade is the longest in the UK
00:06is it really yeah yeah it's a wonderful setting in there I've got to say what a
00:10backdrop for a show oh when we come down from that house I feel like as if I've
00:15arrived at our private garden party I thought that's what it was just for us
00:19well it's a gardeners world first we are spending the day at the first ever RHS
00:26flower show Wentworth Woodhouse yeah it's really exciting here's a flavor of
00:31what's to come and what this shows all about South Yorkshire a diverse landscape
00:39shaped by traditional farming and industry offers an incredible
00:43countryside backdrop for this new northern show I am buzzing that the show is in
00:49Yorkshire and it means that so many more people are gonna see the show that
00:52potentially wouldn't have before and that's really important we meet the
00:56garden designer keen to share why historically gardening is vital for
01:01those who worked in the coal mining industry the coal miners spent nine ten
01:06hours down the pin blackness and darkness when they came out they wanted to be out
01:11in the fresh air they all wanted to garden as temperatures rise from midsummer the
01:16floral marquee is on fire with color I just recommend walking around you see
01:22things you've never seen before anywhere else and you may never see again so
01:25looking around it will blow your mind and it's not just new plant introductions
01:30this show is a hotbed of fresh talent the next generation taking the
01:34horticultural industry by storm I'm just so excited to be here as a young designer
01:41what an amazing opportunity we'll meet one first-time exhibitor specializing in
01:46unusual and striking foliage plants I've never done a flower show before so this
01:52will be our this would be our first time another rising star at the show is
01:59bringing his take on container gardening what is key with this is to raise your
02:04pots or so we have tallest at the back going down to medium size and then I'll
02:10add some more small ones at the front this truly is a show with a difference
02:14flying the flag for the horticultural north
02:44we've been looking forward to this event all year and Joe and I are joined by Jamie Francis and Adam
02:51who are already exploring the show so this is the RNIB legacy garden designed with input from
03:06people who are visually impaired and I love the sort of sensory experience the sound of the trees blowing
03:12in the wind it's really cleverly designed it's interesting isn't it because as soon
03:15as you know you start thinking about it slightly differently on my hands and then
03:20with your feet yes difference between the gravel and then the slates or smaller detail
03:26you can feel it sort of guides you through the space I love the textures as well on
03:30the planting as you walk through you can really brush past it and get your hands in
03:33shape forms textures yeah exactly I love the detail on that deck what the edging to stop you from
03:40falling off so your feet would hit that and yeah yeah and look at the jetty so again it takes you
03:44back into the planting and you're sort of immersed it's a beautiful deck it's been really well thought
03:51through yeah it has so this is one of three gardens that sit in the young designers category and first
04:08impressions nailed it absolutely stunning I love this space so it's this sort of blend of the Scottish
04:15landscape that meets Scandinavian living you've got the plunge pool the sauna but also quite like the
04:22use of levels and the materials really beautiful and I love these monoliths that that draw attention
04:28to that connection between Scotland and Scandinavia and the rock formations there and they've even been
04:33drilled haven't they to sort of pull in the wildlife yeah amazing and filled with some drought
04:37tolerant planting but the planting here actually is what I really really like because if you were given
04:42a brief I was given a brief Scotland and Scandinavia I'd probably go quite native and green yeah and
04:47this designer has filled the whole thing with colour there's native plants like loose strife but then
04:52there's so much fun it's really joyful and playful lovely mix of different flower shapes that just pop
04:59their way through yeah yeah and full of pollinators which just goes to you don't have to have just weeds
05:05and wildflowers you can really make a beautiful bright colour palette and it's it's everywhere you look
05:10they're obese I just think you could pick this garden up and put it in a domestic size space
05:15and it would be incredible for you know I'm getting a sense you want to stay can we stay no come on
05:22I'm so mean I just want to get in the sauna
05:27as soon as I see ceramics I think this garden is going to be right up your street I think you might
05:42be right you know and I love the reclaimed tiles as well as reclaimed ceramics and brand new and this
05:48whole garden is a celebration of rocking and pottery but of pottery and craftsmanship in general and actually
05:54use that word craft you look at the planting and I think cottagey and it sits comfortably it does
06:00and yet the symmetry and the geometry give it a sort of formal finish as well it's done a good job
06:05he has done a very good job
06:23well the show gardens are great but you've got to have the plants to pack them with haven't you
06:27and that's where the floral marquee comes in with this season's palette
06:38I actually only have a tiny courtyard at home so everything that I plant and grow has to work doubly
06:45hard in the space that I have and then so I'm always looking for plants that not only look good
06:50but also taste great too and I found three plants on this stand that I really want to take home with me
06:56we've got a bronze fennel in the corner which at this time of year looks absolutely beautiful it's
07:01got these gorgeous yellow umbels but it tastes delicious too in the middle of this stand is a
07:07tree you can grow trees in containers so perfect for us renters this is little miss figgy it's a dwarf
07:14fig it produces the most delicious fruits and then we've also got mint which is a really easy to grow plant
07:21and lends itself so well to grow in a container actually you probably shouldn't plant it in the
07:27ground because it spreads so quickly and can take over smells great it looks great and the best bit is
07:33as a renter we can take it with us wherever we go
07:41this exhibit just sings out doesn't it the quality of plants is fantastic and it's block planted so you can
07:47see each individual plant really clearly proxys nursery fantastic this is scabious magic a relatively
07:54new introduction and it's great because it starts off green like that when it's in bud which is lovely
08:01it goes to a sort of soft pink with a couple of whites in it and then it turns into this more burgundy
08:07colour as it ages and there's loads of flowers coming just keep deadheading it it'll flower all summer long
08:13and it's not just me that likes it the pollinators love it too
08:25and one of my favourite plants for a pot is an agapanthus they love to have their roots restricted
08:30and at this time of year look absolutely brilliant and also this stand is a great example of how you
08:36don't just have to plant into a terracotta pot you can be really creative although i'm not quite sure
08:41i'd be planting my agapanthus into a tuber in my garden
08:52here on dan's plants exhibit he's done a great job of celebrating this time of year high summer
08:59energizing lots of different colors together but it's also different flower forms at the same time
09:05too so we've got something like the achillia here and any plant called walter funk gets my back in being
09:10a bass player and that lovely sort of horizontal stroke that is dotted through the border here
09:16and right next to it we've got a verbascum this one's called pink petticoat sort of peachy colour
09:22and that's a very much a sort of upright brushstroke vertical accent through this planting with the grass
09:28behind this is planting for a sunny border and all these plants really would work together it's great
09:35inspiration
09:49there's a feature garden here that absolutely nails the idea of local identity and chris myers the
09:58designer has explored the connection between mining and gardening a few weeks ago we caught up with
10:05him as his vision started to become reality
10:17i grew up in a small village on the edge of the yorkshire dales and i could climb up hills and just
10:23look at what i thought was the rest of the world coal mining shaped the landscape
10:28i'm chris myers and for the last 20 years i've specialized in creating show gardens and features
10:35at rhs flower shows
10:43this year i'm creating a show feature at wentworth woodhouse and the feature is all about coal mining
10:49and go back in time and wentworth woodhouse was like a little island in the middle of a huge coal
10:56field and go back 20 30 years to a time when the miners were so happy they worked as a community
11:04both down in the mines but out of the mines the coal miners spent nine ten hours down the pit in
11:10blackness and darkness when they came out they wanted to be out in the fresh air they all wanted to
11:15garden so the garden i'm creating pays tribute to the fact that as a community when they weren't
11:20working the coal miners still work together they worked as a team to grow their own fruit veg to
11:25feed the family really wentworth woodhouse and the coal mining areas around there is actually two hours
11:30from where i'm from and i came across this place where there were people pottering around growing fruit
11:36growing veg all looking really happy and i thought oh i like it here i'm going to ask them if they would
11:41mind growing some of the fruit and veg for the mining garden project so that's how we're here
11:48homegrown is a place where people can come and grow fruit and veg and it's a community environment
11:53it was a brainchild of abby it was abby's idea to start this project
11:57we moved into eastby probably about nine years ago not long afterwards a parcel of land became
12:12available and we just wanted to step in and make sure that we could keep this land as wild as possible
12:18and allow nature to thrive we live in the house just behind here along with a group of people it's
12:24a long terrace we just felt there had to be something really positive that we could do with
12:28this parcel so we decided together that we would buy the land somebody was able to donate us 1500 trees
12:38planting the trees really sparked the beginning of our community garden it's such a positive place
12:45well-being is front and center of absolutely everything we do
12:54these are sweet williams they would have grown in miners cottage gardens
12:59i can imagine the miners coming home from their day in the pit and really enjoying being in their garden
13:07and getting the benefit of being amongst things growing at the present moment my husband's
13:14recovering from hospital treatment and being here i'm distracted by all the beauty and the
13:20natural things that are around us you work alongside other people you spend time with the plants and
13:28and basically go home feeling much better for having spent time in in this wonderful place with nature
13:40i feel kind of a lifting of spirits i think every time i come up come rain or shine
13:46oh my goodness look at this look at this one massive oh wow do you want a quality test it
13:59is it good is it nice it is so good this space is you know it can be used as as much as people want
14:08it to be used and we're unless it's something that we really can't operate then we'll say yes to nearly
14:13everything hence an rhs show garden that i had no idea was going to be happening this year chris asked
14:18us to to grow the plants maybe because he'd heard that we're all getting involved we're all growing
14:23the plants and i think he liked that idea and felt that it fit with his garden representing a mining
14:28community and that's exactly what we are here we are a community it's a happy place and i think the world
14:35needs more places like us i'll just dig a bit of a hole and just loosen that bottom up do you want me
14:47to remove this oil we can remove it a bit if they've got a problem they always come and ask me but
14:54you know even if i don't know the answer i'll have something to say i come from a family of keen
15:02gardeners so i suppose really i got it from my mother and father i have four children so the
15:07vegetables were essential when the kids were at school you know and wages weren't that good in
15:11in my job at that time so you needed to grow food you know i'm putting the plant in and then i just
15:19fill it up with water give it a good soap put a bit of muck around them to keep the moisture in
15:25in this hot weather if you don't get plenty of mucking when you start putting stuff in it's too late
15:31afterwards you can't be getting in your hands you know nature's forks no smell at all to that perfect
15:43you know when you retire sometime you feel you haven't got a purpose in life
15:47so i find that it gives me a bit of a purpose and and helping people and it's just a nice thing to
15:52be part of right here we go oh wow that looks amazing so this will show you exactly what's going
16:08on with all the fruit and veg that you're growing for me yeah we've obviously got a couple of cottages
16:13here these are typical miners cottages and then in the foreground we've got the grew your own area
16:18the area that miners would have grown all their fruit veg and flowers in on the illustration i've
16:22got sweet corn growing in this bed and so there's got to be a coal store in there that's going to be
16:26surrounded by lots of vibrant cut flowers so when they grew flowers they grew really vibrant sort of
16:32deep oranges and reds like calendulas and things like really orange yeah it's obviously something they
16:38did almost for their welfare you know they needed that the front of the garden is actually going
16:43to be more like a nature reserve and that's to bring us into the present a lot of the coal mines
16:48now they've been flattened and left to nature and a lot of them are now nature reserves it's really good
16:55use of the space it is yeah and it's good that nature's been allowed to come back in to what i guess
17:00was a pretty nature-free place when when when the coal mines were active so i think that's it in a
17:06nutshell what do you think i think it looks amazing
17:22so this is some of the veg that i've been growing for for chris um sweet corn some courgettes some
17:31little dumpling squashes i've got some peas these are some of the cabbages that i've been nurturing
17:38so hopefully they'll be good for the show fingers crossed it's all gonna look magic
17:47abby's like the coal mine she's she's been the thing that brought everyone together
17:51so finding this place it's an absolute boom
18:10it is lovely to see you feather how are you doing good good but how did you start well honestly i was
18:18chosen to create this feature because i'm a yorkshireman and i think everybody thought i know
18:21what i was on about when it came to coal mining but being from the dales there's no coal up there
18:26so i came down here and i met some members of the local coal mining community and two lovely ladies
18:31called betty and k came down and we drank tea and we ate cakes and they told me such amazing stories
18:36about their past about granddads great granddads fathers they were all coal miners but more exciting
18:42they were all gardeners i came away with like six pages of notes as to what i had to put into this
18:48garden mate honestly incredible i mean not a lot of people know this but actually my great granddad
18:53was a coal mine right but it was my granddad so his son that taught me to garden so for me
19:00it does feel like that emotional connection oh absolutely i totally get that because my granddad
19:04had an allotment and i can remember being down there as a kid and just potting around and mucking about
19:09i didn't realize it but i was learning i clearly was and i think that's what shaped my career wow
19:14i mean i suppose the big question is though what did the ladies think when they rocked how did they
19:19think do you know i was so nervous because i thought what if it's nothing like what they
19:22imagined what if they hate it but they were blown away they they were almost tears not only from them
19:28from me but you've done a lot of show gardens and you were genuinely nervous you know when you do a
19:32show garden as a designer you're kind of expressing yourself and there's a little bit of well if people
19:37don't get it okay but this i just had to get it so right that human connection absolutely yeah honestly
19:44mate i think you have with bells on it's sort of for me it feels like it just captures a moment in time
19:50yeah a moment in time that we probably need to go back to i tend to accrue with you
20:07well i didn't expect to see this in the middle of an rhs show what a fantastic space where the
20:22designer has been working with young people to create a space for young people and they're certainly
20:27having lots of fun here so the dirt track itself is obviously for the bmx high exhilarating racing to be
20:34done but this area here is where you then come out afterwards hang out get a drink listen to music
20:41and kind of for young people that's what's needed in spaces around our cities the designers also made
20:48sure that these young people are going to be surrounded by nature so this wildflower meadow here
20:53the yarrow and all the plants pollinated is going to be attracting wildlife i really love how this metal
20:59container has been graffitied just to add more color and punch and vibrancy into the space to create
21:05the look of these containers it's using things like achillias and echinaceas and the calamagrostis
21:10grasses that will give that real wild feel and even down to using metal fencing as trellis i mean
21:17that's a really good way of making sure that the materials are brought together with planting to really
21:22make sure this place sings if only there was time for me to go out on the track but i can't because
21:31there's so much more to see at the show
21:52this is one of the long borders there's 18 of them throughout the show and uh basically the designer can
21:58do anything they want they can write their own brief and as long as they hit it they'll get a
22:02good medal this one got a gold wow i mean we know what it's like to write your own brief so
22:07yeah exactly brilliant i like this is all about xeris scaping it's really well-drained soil in this
22:13case it could be a brownfield site so you've got the crushed rock beneath that was on that site
22:18you're not taking anything away from that site and you're just planting directly into it and you get
22:23this lovely mediterranean look because it's so well drained these plants just thriving well i mean
22:28of course with the amount of drought that we've had recently the temperatures we've had i mean
22:32i guess this type of planting is something that we can all take a sort of look at and start to see
22:37what we could do in our own gardens really yeah definitely you know and these two features you
22:41know i like the apertures these are clay rendered walls i do like the palette of this actually it's
22:47quite muted but with that little pop of color those walls it looks really really nice i mean it's
22:53quite sort of urban i guess but i think that this is the sort of inspiration people need
22:58to look at because even a small patch in your garden you haven't got to go and turn your whole
23:03garden into something like this it could be a really hot area that you just put down the
23:06crushed concrete and do this and plant into it yeah yeah very good i love it yeah let's have a look at some
23:12more i wanted to show you this one because i saw this a little bit earlier isn't it great it's
23:24wonderful yeah great color scheme beautiful oh yeah there's a lot of detail in here yeah then when
23:29you get up close to it so this is a college where all the students have got special educational needs
23:36and they have a horticultural division where they teach them how to grow from seeds so all the
23:40vegetables or the herbs in here have been grown by the students and they've brought it to a show
23:45it's really well thought through isn't it it really is and it's teeming with life because
23:50their purpose was to make sure that every plant's really good for wildlife and you can see all the
23:55bees all over it yeah um and they're making sure that they've put them together so that they've got
23:59companion planting to go on to sort of make sure that there's a real health in that border so fabulous
24:03yeah what a medal got that gold did it yeah fantastic well well done then gold or gold brilliant
24:16right ari i'm going to ask you a question very direct here okay do you like yellow yeah i love
24:22yellow good i love it too but some people don't they just won't have it no don't like yellow don't like
24:28oranges they're not going to be in my borders which is crazy i think really when you look at this
24:33and it's so joyous and color tones in here are so lovely look at the gym with that lovely achillia
24:40and then the centauri so you've not only got all those shapes but those different hues i mean i i
24:44don't understand why you wouldn't love that oh me too this is just so beautifully put together this
24:48ball and with that rusty backdrop shows it off and the grasses because i know you love grasses yeah they
24:53just soften it this is in the sellatist tenuism of the ponytail grass and it just softens it beautifully
24:58doesn't it but there's so much detail the more i look actually yeah there is more going on in here
25:03well that's the idea of this board it's made you to stop take time out look in detail and it certainly
25:09does and another gold medal another we haven't you know no no we picked them out and took we should
25:15be judging now there's one garden here that's been getting a lot of attention it was created by one
25:31of the young designers and he sent us a film to explain how it all came about
25:35hi my name is jacobo ducato rogeri i'm a young designer entering the rhs flower show at wentworth
25:47for the house with my first ever dune garden i was born in sardinia italy i'm now based in switzerland
25:57i started gathering ideas for the dune garden on my trip to fire island new york in 2023
26:04just seeing this very rich and diverse mix of habitats all crammed in one thin strip of sand
26:14i think also it's a very meaningful place for for queer people and you do really feel uh just sort
26:22of a empowering force of nature i think that was something that was worth mimicking in the dune garden
26:29i've always just been so generous with their time and knowledge and i made me feel like i belonged even
26:39though i'm quite new to this so i'm very grateful for that i hope the visitors will get that sort of a
26:48sense of of freedom of and liberation and safety that i felt when i was on fire island from this garden
27:05welcome to the garden thank you it's nice walking barefoot on a garden i've never done that before
27:15at a flower show oh so it's finished are you pleased with it very much sir yeah obviously
27:23it hasn't been easy building with sand because it's not a regular building material for a garden
27:29i love it i love the way that they weep in the wind as if it's really a dune that sort of sculpted
27:34the plants and the landscape yes there's some really lovely details of the story that you're
27:38creating here with the footprints in the sand particularly but can you tell me that story so
27:43the idea came from my holidays in fire island new york there is something that i felt there that was
27:50uh very empowering about how nature would frame a lot of the sort of query images in the landscape
27:56if you like and what medal did you get silver guilt and you're pleased with that yes good you should be
28:02it's such an achievement for your this is your first first ever garden how does it feel to be one of the
28:07young designers here i feel very happy and very grateful that i've been given this chance and we've got
28:14a lot of mentorship from the rhs and also working with the other young designers together helping each
28:21other giving each other advice and be there for each other throughout the process which you know
28:26started in october uh it made a huge difference i think it's beautiful thank you i could just sit here all day
28:44joe this garden is actually already designed to go into a space at the bluebell with children's hospice
29:03and you have to imagine that the palliative care unit is at the end of that path so
29:08a really important space and i think it's brilliant that they've brought it to the show
29:12yeah it's lovely to connect people with it before it goes to its final destination and
29:16these are so important these spaces outside hospitals and connection with horticulture and nature
29:22and being surrounded by plants with butterflies and bees and that lovely calming influence i've
29:29designed a garden and it's a very humbling thing to use their skills and expertise to create spaces
29:35like you say incredibly important spaces like this yeah yeah and i mean i think that humbleness really
29:40comes through here because the planting is not in your face the palette's very calming it's very
29:46soothing and i was speaking to the designer before and this sculpture here is representing this kind of
29:52handheld that you want to do with your child before they're going to leave so that sensitivity is so
29:57important yeah and also these poddy areas you know these intimate spaces are so important where family
30:03and friends spend you know critical time with children it's great yeah they've done a fabulous job
30:18this garden is only six by six meters wide so it's quite a small space the designers decided to do
30:25away with the lawn and fill it full of plants that are good for pollinators so i can spy in econops and
30:31choreopsis and lavender so many plants that are here and even thinking of all the wildlife there has
30:37been pine cones put down in the borders not only to act as a mulch but as extra habitat space for all of
30:43the insects in small space like this you can pack in quite a lot this is hazelwood barn and it takes
30:58all those boxes of sustainability recycling upcycling reimagining but for me the most important thing is
31:05it shows the value of design because it shows how to put those elements together really well and it's
31:12a beautiful little garden you've got somewhere to sit we've even got a bath in the back and a crazy
31:17building which i love there's some lovely touches too we've got things like the corkscrew hazel which have
31:23been cut and they're used as a support for the roses to grow through which look great against that
31:29black backdrop there and then we've got the paving so there's not cement in between it's just a permeable
31:37bit of stone aggregate so the water can get back into the water table it all feels very cohesive it's
31:43a great little garden and it's got a gold medal we've seen how this show can be a springboard for
31:52new talent especially designers and growers from the north and you can't get much more local than
31:58one exhibitor in the floral marquee they really did not have to travel far
32:06growing up i was so lucky really because i had gardening around me i had my dad who had an immaculate
32:12garden i remember coming to this nursery when i was knee-high to a grasshopper or so with my dad
32:20and we'd been coming for years and years in its heyday this place would have been marvelous but then
32:25over the years as we started to come back it was starting to go into a little bit of disrepair
32:32well i remember the archway as a child because i quite a mythical feel to it as we came through
32:37and now i'm back in rotherham in this nostalgic wonderful place i'm dean welcome to our nursery
32:48that's been set up two years ago by our family i've been very lucky to have worked at places like great
32:55dickster and beth chateau gardens with some really generous people that i've trained with and have
33:02have trained me as well along the way so this four acre site it dates back to the 1700s and this is all
33:09the wentworth fitzwilliam estate so we're renting this site from them and they took us on because of
33:15the ideas that i had for this site the long-term vision and create this horticultural hub i still
33:22have to keep pinching myself thinking gosh this is ours again so when it comes to the ethos of a
33:30traditional nursery it's doing the majority of the plants yourself a lot from seed and cuttings
33:36and divisions or so there's a lot of love and time that's gone into the seed and the cuttings that we
33:41are doing so for a successful nursery we need to keep plants going all the way through the year
33:47it's wonderful in the summer and the autumn but it's the winter time that we need to start looking at
33:52plants to sell a wonderful one is snowdrops one of the best propagation techniques that i do now
33:58is bulb chipping the great thing about bulb chipping is is that you can make many more
34:03plants instead of just letting them naturally bulk up i'll take one of these bulbs godfrey owing so
34:09this is a very nice one actually and it's quite unusual because it's got six petals on it from this
34:14one bulb we can create at least eight more plants so when you're doing bulb chipping as well it's
34:19essential that you keep everything sterile and clean so just taking the outer section off
34:26it's just to clean the bulb really so now that i've taken all the papery skin off i'm gonna
34:32take the root off here and it's very important that you keep the basil plate on that's ultimately
34:37where the roots are going to come through chop it down the middle like that that's our first cut
34:42place it on its side and then we're going to chop it again each one should have a basil plate on the bottom
34:47there we are eight that we have there so now we've done that i'm just going to clean them up into this
34:54water so now all these bulbs are nice and clean i'm just going to sit them in
35:02there we are so this is vermiculite the wonderful thing about it is it's quite free draining it's 11
35:09parts vermiculite to one part water now you don't want it too wet in there it just needs to be a bit of
35:14moist and then we just need to make sure that they're separated so that they've got vermiculite
35:20around them we'll place the lid on i'm going to leave that for 12 weeks 20 degrees celsius
35:28in a shady spot once that started to root that will be potted up and then the process will start then
35:33so what i've got here is tennelophium it's a baltic parsley it's quite a unique plant this was an
35:49autumn sown seed so these were done 26 of october they've gone through all the winter and the
35:55wonderful thing as well these have been outside as well so it shows it's a tough plant so it's called
36:02pricking out this with the seedlings they're so delicate these roots so you don't want to
36:06disturb the roots too much and we always pick it up from the true leaf you never really pick it up
36:10from the stem because you might break it actually you might do some damage to it and just a little
36:15push down it's got a wonderful parsley like leaf it's an umbel so it'll send up a lovely white flower
36:23one piece of advice i give is that when you're placing it in you don't want it too high
36:28because then it becomes leggy you want it just so the you know the true leaves are just sat on the
36:34surface this propagation technique i'm going to show you i learned from my dad it's a really good
36:42quick propagation technique so this is a cypress alternifolius this one so i'm literally going to
36:48chop it here i'm going to turn it upside down and then i'm going to place it into water
36:55and you can see here that they are just starting to root that's only two three weeks or so that
37:02that's been in so this cypress is half hardy but the great thing is is that you can do cuttings as
37:08an insurance policy and then you can take that through the winter but then you know that you've
37:13got babies waiting you know for next year then as well as the cypress there are other plants that you
37:18can do through water cuttings and this is an arundo arundo donax versicolor this one and it's got these
37:24lovely creamy yellow streaks that go through it so what i'm going to do is chop it at the bottom
37:29there just take these leaves off just the bottom leaves you can literally just tear them and i'm
37:34going to place that into the water this is a super fast technique this one as well this one is through
37:40within a couple of weeks time and it will start to root it's a really cheap propagation way that you
37:45can do it you don't need fancy tools and equipment or so just literally place it into a jar of water
37:54so one of the reasons why i want to do the wentworth rhs show is because it's in rotherham
37:59this is my hometown our family nursery is based in rotherham so to show a brand new nursery
38:06using traditional skills i think it's fantastic and there's an opportunity we couldn't miss
38:11one of the big features that i'd like to place within my display bed in the floral market is a
38:18dry stone skip wall i've taken these pots i've duct taped the side of the pot here i'm going to water
38:26from the top so that they can be inserted into the wall and it looks as though they've always been in
38:33this wall so this is helianthus silicifolius it's the the willow leafed sunflower and these were placed in
38:40probably about five weeks ago or so and it's incredible how quickly they started to turn as
38:46well only took like a day or so to move towards the light and i'm hoping that by the show they
38:53should be at least twice as high so the dry stone skip wall that i'm creating um there's many materials
38:59going into it but it's the bricks that i'm using are all going to be from rotherham because this region
39:05rotherham um there was at least seven brick makers so i think it's nice just to show the heritage off
39:10and uh yeah to show the names off in this display garden that i'm creating i've never done a flower
39:18show before so this will be our this will be our first time yeah i am quite mad actually yeah yeah but
39:25they know we've got to strike while the iron's hot it's hard work it really is but plants are at
39:32the core of this i'm quite proud of what me and the family have been doing this is a passion that
39:39we're doing it for really
39:57dean you've grown all of these plants yourself i mean how are you feeling i still have to pinch
40:03myself a little bit actually yeah yeah lots of preparation gone into it but i couldn't have done
40:09this without my dad and the rest of the family yeah there's a family business it's just wonderful
40:14to showcase the plants that we've got growing at the ministry as well well it looks really good i mean
40:20i'm just looking at that stone wall and i love the fact of the local bricks in here so lovely oh yeah
40:25the skip wall i'm going to call it yeah um it's great as well because there's lots of bricks in there
40:30from rotherham which has have been used through it and it's great as well because all the materials
40:36in this wall will be going back to the nursery because it probably came from there i love that
40:40salvia sagittata it's gorgeous oh yes the arrow leaf salvia that one yeah that will flower later
40:46in the season a blue flower probably september onwards or so but it's definitely for the leaf
40:52that you are growing it okay and is it hardy that one half hardy so i'd say full sun well-drained
40:57sheltered spots you should be okay but take cuttings as an insurance policy well i know you're loving
41:03your propagation so i should make a note of that i have to say dean for a first timer here i think
41:09this is fantastic so really well done thank you thank you
41:13the really special thing about this show is as well as the most inspiring show gardens and floral
41:29exhibits out here you've also got this most incredible house behind me which is filled with
41:34the very best horticulture fused with inspirational architecture
41:43this is bringing back so many happy memories for me i started my gardening journey as a teenager
41:49growing veg i was always really competitive but rubbish at all sports my brother was far better than
41:57me at all of those but i could grow good veg and so as a kid i started to exhibit the veg that i was
42:04growing in my grandparents garden and taking them to local shows and doing exactly this and i've not
42:10been to one of these shows in maybe 15 years now so it's genuinely so lovely to see it all and it's
42:17bringing back so many lovely memories now all of these veg are grown to sheer perfection and they're grown
42:25purely for their visuals so the judges have gone round to check every single centimeter on these
42:31potatoes but that doesn't mean to say that these aren't going to make banging chips
42:47this is the rhs work with your garden garden which is a feature exhibit at the show and that's a shame
42:55in a way because it means it won't be judged and i think it'll do really well because it's getting
43:00a message across which is fundamental to good gardening which is go with what you've got
43:06soil-wise topography-wise aspect-wise the whole thing and it demonstrates it really nicely
43:12so these beds are in full sun and they've got perennials and grasses mixed together looking
43:19absolutely fabulous and the bees are all over it
43:31this area is planted for semi or dappled shade and it's also mounded up as well and if you have
43:38uneven ground in your garden go with it you have to just flatten it not everything has to be level in
43:43in fact it makes it much more interesting sometimes and the planting on one side is pretty wild grasses
43:50and wildflowers very very loose through the middle is a birch retaining wall and again that's a fabulous
43:57habitat and here we've got a bit more manicured planting things like the hack and a clover grass
44:02flopping over the edge of the path and things like this persic area too and you sense it as well as
44:08getting shadier it's getting a little damper too so now we're into planting for full shade but with
44:22plenty of moisture in the soil because we're at the bottom of the slope so a wonderful tapestry of lush
44:29foliage all working together greens and purples it feels so full down here and a lovely backdrop of this
44:37dry stone wall too which works beautifully with the house and just captures the surrounding area too
44:43and in the paving there's a lovely detail these two grills over the paving and the planting goes
44:50subterranean there's water down there and lots of ferns and hostas brilliant little composition i love
44:57that bit and what's nice is the public can come into this garden walk through it and experience it and
45:03learn about gardening for themselves
45:17i am loving this show there's so much amazing planting everywhere you look and one of my
45:33favorite displays i've seen so far is by greg anderton of leafy liver inside the floral marquee
45:39and as a fellow plantsman i love the way that greg has used his planting to create bold bright colors
45:50my signature style is high impact planting i like happy color that makes people smile and that's what
46:01what i've got around me here in my own garden
46:07i'm greg anderson i'm originally from bolton actually but we now live here in lytham st
46:12towns in lancashire and for me this year taking part is going to be so exciting
46:19my entry to went with woodhouse flower show is an ocean of summer flowers and it features this wonderful
46:26boat planter as its centerpiece which will sail above this pillow of perennials and annuals it's
46:34a bit like looking over the sea except it's all flowers so when i first started gardening
46:40my grandparents gave me a small patch in their garden which affectionately got known as greg's garden
46:46when we moved to lytham my primary school had a gardening club and there we would plant up hanging
46:52baskets pots wheelbarrows and enter the local garden competition we actually won it one year which was
47:00amazing it was a wonderful moment and that i think was a catalyst for me it was funny at school because
47:08all my friends were asking for computer games and playing cards for christmas and i asked for a greenhouse
47:15in 2006 i took a stall at my primary school summer fair to sell some of the plants that i'd grown in
47:24my new greenhouse and i raised 40 pounds for the ptfa which felt absolutely amazing and that was my first
47:32day in business eight years ago i was doing a talk for a local charity and i was telling them my story
47:40about how i started and i finished it by saying one day i'd love to have my own little plant center
47:46and the new general manager was stood at the back and came to me afterwards and said we'd really like
47:51one here would you be interested six months later i opened my first little plant center and i've never looked
47:58back this is my first home it dates back to like 1850 and i had the opportunity to create a number
48:15of different garden areas and that to me was so exciting i had a tarmac path and two pieces of grass
48:23either side of it and i was determined to make a beautiful garden here that would bring joy to
48:27people the agapanthus look fabulous oh they do and they're coming out yeah everything's coming
48:35into flower it's always just wonderful to see i i just oh oh that's lovely no nice to see you take
48:42care jill bye-bye as this is my front garden what is particularly lovely about is the amount of people
48:49who stop and say nice things about how much pleasure it gives them it's a cobbled cottage so i wanted
48:57cobbles to be part of the garden which was why then i came up with a plan for a mosaic i also felt
49:05that the garden had to have a cottagey feel to it dahlias foxgloves little daisies all those things i
49:12sort of thought would give it a wonderful sense of place the side garden is different to what i've got
49:21here at the front because that is a coastal garden verbenas scabias salvias all these plants that really
49:30give you a great shot of color but can tolerate the salt winds and then i'm mixing those with grasses
49:35like the wonderful stiper tenuissima which is a great grass that holds its structure over the winter time
49:42the next garden project is my mediterranean garden which i want to be really colorful some nice vibrant
49:53dahlias gems but also maybe mixed with a little bit of lavender as well because that just helps to give
50:00that little bit of rest to the eye in between all of that heat wentworth woodhouse means a lot to me
50:07because of course it's the rhs northern show and i feel very proud to be there at what is the first one
50:15it's a historic moment
50:19so this we're testing out ready for wentworth because my theater of pots is going to be a real
50:24centerpiece of my garden what is key with this is to raise your pots up so we have tallest at the
50:32back going down to a medium size and then i'll add some more small ones at the front
50:37one thing that i really love to do is to use containers as a way to create impact and i
50:45call this a theater of pots so i'm choosing these plants for the color combination but i'm also
50:52choosing a range of heights flower shapes flower textures
50:59these are cosmos and this variety is called apollo white and i particularly like this one because
51:06it's a more dwarfing habit and you get a lot of flowers for the size of plant too and remember
51:11if you keep deadhead in this it'll flower all summer long right till the first frost
51:19this dahlia here is called dahlia maxi starburst pink and i absolutely love the center of this because
51:26you have these little yellow tips on there long flowering keep deadhead in it it'll flower all summer
51:32and it likes a bit of tomato food as well it's scabious
51:41nice pushing nice and solid the first wentworth woodhouse flower show is a historic moment and to
51:49win gold bear would be absolutely amazing and that is what we're determined to do
52:02great congratulations on your medal i mean you made it this is where you wanted to be inaugural
52:16show and are you happy with what you've done i'm absolutely thrilled about it especially considering
52:21the way the weather's been over the past few weeks where it has really been scorching hot the flowers have
52:27held out lovely and it's looking colorful and happy and that's exactly what i was aiming for now i know
52:33that plants like to misbehave so what has given you sleepless nights as you've got this together the
52:39delphiniums definitely yeah because just as soon as they start to drop there's no stopping them here
52:45they're really holding nicely and we've got quite a few different varieties yeah from this beautiful
52:51delphinium palmer black velvet and then there's a wonderful meaver as well which is a shorter
52:57white variety that is looking particularly good on the stand as well and great for using more at the
53:01front of a border too well done again greg and i'm really happy that we're going to see you here again
53:06thanks ever so much the perfume coming off these lilies is unbelievable you can smell them halfway
53:19down the floral marquee and harps nurseries take center stage here this year with this wonderful
53:26exhibit because they've been doing rh shows for 25 years they've got over 100 gold medals so they are
53:33the master growers this year and honestly these lilies are just perfection these are the tree
53:40lilies on this side and as you can see some are towering over my head they're really tall make
53:45great impact in the border and a lovely range of colors i particularly like the soft yellows
53:51and you plant them in spring in the border they'll come up and flower in summer and they're reliably
53:56perennial as long as they've got good drainage and plenty of sun and you can always take them as cut
54:02flowers as well bring them into the house and they will grow between shrubs and other perennials
54:07and it's quite key to deadhead them when they're over and leave as much foliage on as possible
54:13because then that'll feed the bulb for next year and they'll keep coming up every year and these
54:18are really good on pretty much any soil if they've got good drainage but if you've only got acid soil
54:23or you want to grow in containers try some of these these are the rose lily and you see
54:29they're much shorter and i'm getting a lot closer to them even though i've got my posh jacket on
54:34because they don't have the pollen on the stamens that is going to stain it so if you've got that
54:40concern grow some of these and it's exactly the same process now there's so much going on at the show
54:46and in fact on the other side of the house jamie adam and francis are checking out what's over there
54:53this house it's humongous it's nice that it's in the middle of all the show yeah i know there's
55:02never been one like this is nice it's different to any of a show yeah i love that yeah i tell you
55:09what that architecture is incredible it's impressive isn't it yeah yeah yeah but there's some community
55:14cubes over there that i would like to go and have a look at can i come with you yeah brilliant also though
55:19there's some containers so if it's okay i'll go and have a look at them okay that sounds good see you
55:23later see you later this is the girl guiding grows cube and all the planting in here all the flowers are
55:34color themed to match the different badges that you can get as a girl guide including a brand new
55:38gardening badge but what i really love about the community cubes and this one particularly is they
55:44really epitomize that spirit of working as a community this one has been designed by the girls
55:52and built by the girl guides aged 4 to 18 but they will have learned all about gardening and this is
55:58shaping the next generation of female gardeners and growers these guys hopefully will go on to be the
56:04next lot so this is a wonderful thing this is jimmy's nhs well-being garden and this is a bit of me
56:20because it's all about the plants the structure in this space is brought through these two multi-stem
56:25trees we've got a birch and a hazel both really easy to grow native trees and as well as providing the
56:32architecture to the space they're also creating pockets of perfect little opportunities for
56:38brilliant plants so in the middle here we've got sanguizorba persic area and hackna cloa on the far
56:45side of the birch it's a bit shadier so plants like epimedium are thriving then over at the back which
56:51would be south facing plants like napita and roses are adding a splash of color to the space so this shows
56:58in just a small space choosing the right plants for the right spot can be really important and really powerful
57:16these community containers more than anything just put a huge smile on your face kids youth groups you
57:24know local city farms have all come and played their part which i think is a beautiful thing as is this
57:35it's quite full for ugly you think about it it encapsulates the cycle of life you know the decaying
57:42wood the moss the habitat and then food flowers but also maybe even a nod to the future that idea of backing
57:51off and not maintaining our gardens too much it's incredible really that you can say that much in
57:58such a small space
58:11what a day joe i can't believe it's over and the first show we were here at the first time at wedworth
58:18yeah wonderful show fantastic setting gotta say brilliant well that's it from us next week monty
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