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Gardeners World 2025 Episode 17 (S58E17)
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00:00Jo, einfach mal auf das Haus.
00:03Das Fassade ist der longest in den UK.
00:06Ist es wirklich?
00:07Ja.
00:08Es ist ein wunderbarer Setting.
00:09Ich muss sagen, was ein Backdrop für ein Show.
00:12Oh, wenn wir von der Haus kommen,
00:14dann fühle ich mich an, als ob ich an unsere private Garden Party habe.
00:17Oh, ich dachte, das war es.
00:18Ja, für uns.
00:19Ja, für uns.
00:20Es ist ein Gardener's World.
00:22Wir sind heute an der ersten RHS-Flower-Show-Wentworth-Woodhaus.
00:28Ja, es ist wirklich spannend.
00:30Hier ist ein Flavor von was zu kommen,
00:32und was dieses Show ist all about.
00:36South Yorkshire,
00:37ein diverser Landscape,
00:39von traditionellen Farmen und Industrie,
00:41offers eine unglaubliche Countryside Backdrop
00:44für dieses New-Northern Show.
00:47Ich bin überzeugt, dass die Show ist in Yorkshire.
00:49Und es bedeutet, dass so viele mehr Leute
00:51sehen die sie vielleicht nicht mehr,
00:53und das ist wirklich wichtig.
00:56Wir Meet the Garden designer,
00:58keen to share,
00:59warum, historisch,
01:00gardening ist wichtig
01:01für diejenigen,
01:02die in der Coal-Mining-Industrie.
01:04Die Coal-Miners
01:05spent 9-10 hours
01:06down the pit
01:07in blackness and darkness.
01:09When they came out,
01:10they wanted to be out in the fresh air.
01:12They all wanted to garden.
01:14As temperatures rise
01:15for midsummer,
01:16the Floral Marquee
01:17is on fire
01:18with colour.
01:19I'd just recommend walking around.
01:21You'll see things you've never seen before
01:22anywhere else
01:23and you may never see again.
01:24So, looking around
01:25will blow your mind.
01:27And it's not just new plant introductions.
01:30This show is a hotbed of fresh talent.
01:32The next generation taking the horticultural industry
01:35by storm.
01:37I'm just so excited to be here as a young designer.
01:41What an amazing opportunity.
01:43We'll meet one first-time exhibitor
01:45specialising in unusual
01:47and striking foliage plants.
01:49I've never done a flower show before,
01:51so this will be our...
01:53This will be our first time.
01:55Another rising star at the show
01:58is bringing his take on container gardening.
02:01What is key with this
02:03is to raise your pots up.
02:05So, we have tallest at the back
02:08going down to a medium size
02:09and then I'll add some more small ones at the front.
02:11This truly is a show with a difference.
02:14Flying the flag for the horticultural north.
02:31We've been looking forward to this event all year
02:47and Jo and I are joined by Jamie, Francis and Adam
02:51who are already exploring the show.
02:54So, this is the RNIB Legacy Garden,
03:03designed with input from people who are visually impaired.
03:08And I love the sort of sensory experience,
03:11the sound of the trees blowing in the wind.
03:13It's really cleverly designed.
03:14It's interesting, isn't it?
03:15Because as soon as you know,
03:17you start thinking about it slightly differently.
03:19With my hands and even with your feet.
03:22You know, the difference between the gravel
03:24and then the slate sort of smaller detail.
03:26You can feel it sort of guides you through the space.
03:29I love the textures as well on the planting
03:31as you walk through.
03:32You can really brush past it.
03:33And get your hands in it.
03:34Yeah.
03:35Shape forms, textures.
03:36Yeah, exactly.
03:37I love the detail on that deck.
03:39What, the edging to stop you from falling off
03:41so your feet would hit that?
03:42Yeah.
03:43I love the little jetty.
03:44So again, it takes you back into the planting
03:46and you're sort of immersed.
03:48It's a beautiful deck as well.
03:49It is.
03:50Absolutely stunning.
03:51I love this space.
03:52So it's this sort of blend of the Scottish landscape
03:54that meets Scandinavian living.
03:55You've got the plunge pool,
03:56the saunry pool,
03:57the saunry pool.
03:58It's really well thought through.
03:59It's really well thought through.
04:00Yeah, it has.
04:01It has.
04:02So this is one of three gardens
04:04that sit in the young designers category.
04:06And first impressions, nailed it.
04:07Absolutely stunning.
04:08I love this space.
04:09So it's this sort of blend of the Scottish landscape that meets Scandinavian living.
04:19You've got the plunge pool, the sauna, but also I quite like the use of levels and the materials.
04:24Yeah.
04:25Really beautiful.
04:26And I love these monoliths that draw attention to that connection between Scotland and Scandinavia and the rock formations there.
04:32And they've even been drilled, haven't they, to sort of pull in the wildlife.
04:35Yeah.
04:36Amazing.
04:37And drought-tolerant planting.
04:38But the planting here, actually, is what I really, really like.
04:41Because if you were given a brief, if I was given a brief of Scotland and Scandinavia,
04:45I'd probably go quite native and green.
04:47Yeah.
04:48And this designer has filled the whole thing with colour.
04:50There's native plants like loose strife.
04:52Yeah.
04:53But then there's so much fun.
04:54It's really joyful and playful.
04:56Lovely mix of different flower shapes that just pop their way through.
05:00Yeah.
05:01Yeah.
05:02And full of pollinators, which just goes to show you don't have to have just weeds and wildflowers.
05:06You can really make a beautiful, bright colour palette.
05:08And everywhere you look, there are bees.
05:11I just think you could pick this garden up and put it in a domestic-sized space and it would be incredible.
05:17Yeah.
05:18I'm getting a sense.
05:19Do you want to stay?
05:20Can we stay?
05:21No.
05:22Come on.
05:23So mean.
05:26I just want to get in the sauna.
05:28Oh, you do.
05:36As soon as I see ceramics, I think this garden is going to be right up your street.
05:41I think you might be right, you know.
05:43And I love the reclaimed tiles as well.
05:45It's reclaimed ceramics and brand new.
05:47And this whole garden is a celebration of rocking and pottery, but of pottery and craftsmanship in general.
05:53And as you use that word craft, you look at the planting and I think cottaging and it sits comfortably.
05:59It does.
06:00And yet the symmetry and the geometry give it a sort of formal finish as well.
06:04He's done a good job, hasn't he?
06:05He has done a very good job.
06:07Well, the show gardens are great, but you've got to have the plants to pack them with, haven't you?
06:28And that's where the floral marquee comes in with this season's palette.
06:37I actually only have a tiny courtyard at home.
06:42So everything that I plant and grow has to work doubly hard in the space that I have.
06:47And so I'm always looking for plants that not only look good, but also taste great too.
06:52And 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.
07:01It's got these gorgeous yellow umbels, but it tastes delicious too.
07:05In the middle of this stand is a tree.
07:08You can grow trees in containers, so perfect for us renters.
07:12This is Little Miss Figgy.
07:14It's a dwarf fig.
07:15It produces the most delicious fruits.
07:17And then we've also got mint, which is a really easy to grow plant and lends itself so well to grow in a container.
07:24Actually, you probably shouldn't plant it in the ground because it spreads so quickly and can take over.
07:30It smells great.
07:31It looks great.
07:32And the best bit is, as a renter, we can take it with us wherever we go.
07:41This exhibit just sings out, doesn't it?
07:43The quality of plants is fantastic.
07:45And it's block planted so you can see each individual plant really clearly.
07:50Proxxers Nursery, fantastic.
07:52This is Scabious Magic, a relatively new introduction.
07:56And 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.
08:04And then it turns into this more burgundy colour as it ages.
08:08And there's loads of flowers coming.
08:10Just keep deadheading it.
08:11It'll flower all summer long.
08:13And it's not just me that likes it.
08:15The pollinators love it too.
08:17One of my favourite plants for a pot is an agapanthus.
08:28They love to have their roots restricted.
08:30And at this time of year, they look absolutely brilliant.
08:33And also, this stand is a great example of how you don't just have to plant into a terracotta pot.
08:38You can be really creative.
08:40Although I'm not quite sure I'd be planting my agapanthus into a tuber in my garden.
08:45Here on Dan's plants exhibit, he's done a great job of celebrating this time of year.
08:59High summer, energising, lots of different colours together.
09:03But it's also different flower forms at the same time too.
09:06So we've got something like the Achillea here.
09:08And any plant called Walter Funk gets my back in being a bass player.
09:12And that lovely sort of horizontal stroke that is dotted through the border here.
09:16And right next to it, we've got a verbascum.
09:18This one's called Pink Petticoat.
09:20Sort of peachy colour.
09:22And that's a very much a sort of upright brushstroke.
09:25A vertical accent through this planting with the grass behind.
09:29This is planting for a sunny border.
09:31And all these plants really would work together.
09:34It's great inspiration.
09:49There's a feature garden here that absolutely nails the idea of local identity.
09:56And Chris Myers, the designer, has explored the connection between mining and gardening.
10:02A few weeks ago, we caught up with him as his vision started to become reality.
10:08I grew up in a small village on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales.
10:20And I could climb up hills and just look at what I thought was the rest of the world.
10:26Coal mining shaped the landscape.
10:28I'm Chris Myers, and for the last 20 years, I've specialised in creating show gardens and features at RHS Flower Shows.
10:44This year, I'm creating a show feature at Wentworth Woodhouse.
10:47And the feature is all about coal mining.
10:50Go back in time, and Wentworth Woodhouse was like a little island in the middle of a huge coal field.
10:57And go back 20, 30 years to a time when the miners were so happy, they worked as a community, both down in the mines, but out of the mines.
11:06The coal miners spent nine, ten hours down the pit in blackness and darkness.
11:11When they came out, they wanted to be out in the fresh air.
11:14They all wanted to garden.
11:16So the garden I'm creating pays tribute to the fact that, as a community, when they weren't working, the coal miners still work together.
11:23They worked as a team to grow their own fruit and veg, to feed the family, really.
11:26Wentworth Woodhouse and the coal mining areas around there is actually two hours from where I'm from.
11:31And I came across this place where there were people pottering around, growing fruit, growing veg, all looking really happy.
11:38And I thought, ooh, I like it here. I'm going to ask them if they would mind growing some of the fruit and veg for the mining garden project.
11:45So that's how we're here.
11:47Homegrown is a place where people can come and grow fruit and veg, and it's a community environment.
11:53It was the brainchild of Abbey. It was Abbey's idea to start this project.
11:57We moved into Eastby probably about nine years ago.
12:10Not long afterwards, a parcel of land became available, and we just wanted to step in and make sure that we could keep this land as wild as possible and allow nature to thrive.
12:19We live in the house just behind here, along with a group of people. It's a long terrace.
12:25We just felt there had to be something really positive that we could do with this parcel.
12:29So we decided together that we would buy the land.
12:33Somebody was able to donate us 1,500 trees.
12:37Planting the trees really sparked the beginning of our community garden.
12:42It's such a positive place. Wellbeing is front and centre of absolutely everything we do.
12:50These 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 and getting the benefit of being amongst things growing.
13:11At the present moment, my husband's recovering from hospital treatment and being here, I'm distracted by all the beauty and the natural things that are around us.
13:22You work alongside other people, you spend time with the plants and basically go home feeling much better for having spent time in this wonderful place with nature.
13:36I feel kind of a lifting of spirits, I think, every time I come up, come rain or shine.
13:47Oh, my goodness, look at this. Look at this one. Massive. Oh, wow. Do you want to quality test it? Go on.
13:58Is it good? Is it nice? It is so good.
14:03This space is, you know, it can be used as much as people want it to be used.
14:09And unless it's something that we really can't operate, then we'll say yes to nearly everything.
14:13Hence an RHS show garden that I had no idea was going to be happening this year.
14:17Chris asked us to grow the plants maybe because he'd heard that we're all getting involved, we're all growing the plants.
14:23And I think he liked that idea and felt that it fit with his garden representing a mining community.
14:29And that's exactly what we are here. We are a community.
14:32It's a happy place and I think the world needs more places like us.
14:36I just dig a bit of a hole and just loosen that bottom up.
14:46Do you want me to remove this, are you?
14:48Yeah, we can remove it a bit.
14:52If they've got a problem, they always come and ask me, but, you know, even if I don't know the answer, I'll have something to say.
14:58I come from a family of keen gardeners, so I suppose really I got it from my mother and father.
15:05I have four children, so the vegetables were essential when the kids were at school, you know,
15:10and wages weren't that good in my job at that time, so you needed to grow food, you know.
15:18I'm putting the plant in and then I just fill it up with water, give it a good soap,
15:22put a bit of muck round them to keep the moisture in this hot weather.
15:27If you don't get plenty of mucking when you start putting stuff in, it's too late afterwards.
15:34You can't beat getting it in your hands, you know, with nature's forks.
15:38No smell at all to that. Perfect.
15:42You know, when you retire sometime, you feel you haven't got a purpose in life,
15:46so I find that it gives me a bit of a purpose and helping people and it's just a nice thing to be part of.
15:57Right.
16:04Here we go.
16:05Oh wow, that looks amazing.
16:07So this will show you exactly what's going on with all the fruit and veg that you're growing for me.
16:11Yeah.
16:12You've got a couple of cottages here, these are typical miners' cottages.
16:15Uh-huh.
16:16And then in the foreground, we've got the grow your own area, the area that miners would have grown all their fruit, veg and flowers in.
16:21In the illustration, I've got sweet corn growing in this bed.
16:24And so there's got to be a coal store in there that's going to be surrounded by lots of vibrant cut flowers.
16:29So when they grew flowers, they grew really vibrant sort of deep oranges and reds and yellows.
16:34Like calendulas and things like that.
16:35Yeah.
16:36And really orange, yeah.
16:37And it's obviously something they did almost for their welfare, even though they needed that.
16:40Yeah.
16:41The front of the garden is actually going to be more like a nature reserve.
16:44Mm-hmm.
16:45And that's to bring us into the present.
16:47A lot of the coal mines now, they've been flattened and left to nature.
16:53Yeah.
16:54And a lot of them are now nature reserves.
16:55Yeah.
16:56It's really good use of the space, actually.
16:57It is, yeah.
16:58And it's good that nature's been allowed to come back in to what I guess was a pretty nature-free place when the coal mines were active.
17:05So I think that's it in a nutshell, what do you think?
17:07I think it looks amazing.
17:09So this is some of the veg that I've been growing for Chris.
17:28Sweet corn, some courgettes, some little dumpling squashes.
17:33I've got some peas.
17:34These are some of the cabbages that I've been nurturing.
17:38So hopefully they'll be good for the show.
17:40Fingers crossed it's all going to look magic.
17:47Abby's like the coal mine.
17:49She's been the thing that brought everyone together.
17:53So finding this place, it's an absolute boom.
17:56It is lovely to see you, Feather.
18:12Hey, how are you doing?
18:13Good.
18:14Good.
18:15But how did you start?
18:17Well, honestly.
18:18I was chosen to create this feature because I'm a Yorkshireman and I think everybody thought I'd know what I was on about when it came to coal mining.
18:23But 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 called Betty and Kay came down.
18:33And we drank tea and we ate cakes and they told me such amazing stories about their past, about granddads, great granddads, fathers.
18:40They were all coal miners, but more exciting than they were all gardeners.
18:44I came away with like six pages of notes as to what I had to put into this garden.
18:49Honestly, incredible.
18:50I mean, not a lot of people know this, but actually my great granddad was a coal miner.
18:54Right.
18:55But it was my granddad, so his son, that taught me to garden.
18:59So for me, it does feel like that emotional connection.
19:02Oh, absolutely.
19:03I totally get that because my granddad had an allotment and I can remember being down there as a kid and just potting around and mucking about.
19:09I didn't realise it, but I was learning.
19:11I clearly was and I think that's what shaped my career.
19:13Wow.
19:14I mean, I suppose the big question is though, what did the ladies think when they rocked her?
19:18What did they think?
19:19Do you know, I was so nervous because I thought, what if it's nothing like what they imagined?
19:23What if they hate it?
19:24But they were blown away.
19:25They were almost tears, not only from them, from me.
19:28But you've done a lot of show gardens and you were genuinely nervous.
19:31You know, when you do a show garden, as a designer, you're kind of expressing yourself and there's a little bit of, well, if people don't get it, okay.
19:39But this, I just had to get it so right.
19:42That human connection.
19:43Absolutely, yeah.
19:44Honestly, mate, I think you have with bells on.
19:46It 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.
19:54I tend to agree with you.
20:09Well, I didn't expect to see this in the middle of an RHS show.
20:20What a fantastic space where the designer has been working with young people to create a space for young people.
20:26And they're certainly having lots of fun here.
20:28So the dirt track itself is obviously for the BMX high exhilarating racing to be done.
20:35But 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.
20:46The designers also made sure that these young people are going to be surrounded by nature.
20:51So this wildflower meadow here with the yarrow and all the plants for pollinating is going to be attracting wildlife.
20:57I really love how this metal container has been graffitied just to add more colour and punch and vibrancy into the space.
21:04To create the look of these containers, it's using things like Achillias and Echinaceas and the Calamogrostis grasses.
21:11That will give that real wild feel.
21:13And even down to using metal fencing as trellis.
21:17I mean that's a really good way of making sure that the materials are brought together with planting to really make sure this place sings.
21:27If only there was time for me to go out on the track.
21:30But I can't because there's so much more to see at the show.
21:47This is one of the long borders. There's 18 of them throughout the show and basically the designer can do anything they want.
22:00They can write their own brief and as long as they hit it, they'll get a good medal. This one got a gold.
22:04Wow. I mean, we know what it's like to write your own brief, so.
22:07Yeah, exactly.
22:08Brilliant. I like it.
22:09This is all about xeris scaping. It's really well-drained soil. In this case, it could be a brownfield site, so you've got the crushed rock beneath that was on that site.
22:18Okay.
22:19You're not taking anything away from that site and you're just planting directly into it and you get this lovely Mediterranean look because it's so well-drained, these plants just thrive in it.
22:28Well, I mean, of course, with the amount of drought that we've had recently and the temperatures we've had, I mean, I guess this type of planting is something that we can all take a sort of look at and start to see what we can do in our own gardens, really.
22:39Yeah, definitely.
22:40And these two features, you know, I like the apertures.
22:42Yes.
22:43These are sort of clay-rendered walls.
22:45I do like the palette of this, actually.
22:47It's quite muted, but with that little pop of colour of those walls, it looks really, really nice.
22:52I mean, it's quite sort of urban, I guess.
22:55Mm.
22:56But I think that this is a sort of inspiration people need to look at because even a small patch in your garden, you haven't got to go and turn your whole garden into something like this.
23:04It could be a really hot area that you just put down the crushed concrete and do this.
23:08And plant into it.
23:09Yeah, yeah.
23:10Very good.
23:11I love it.
23:12Yeah.
23:13Let's have a look at some more.
23:14Okey-dokes.
23:15I wanted to show you this one because I saw this a little bit earlier.
23:23Isn't it great?
23:24It's wonderful.
23:25Yeah.
23:26Great colour scheme.
23:27Beautiful.
23:28Oh, yeah.
23:29There's a lot of detail in here.
23:30Yeah.
23:31Then when you get up close to it.
23:32So this is a college where all the students have got special educational needs and they have a horticultural division where they teach them how to grow from seeds.
23:40So all the vegetables, all the herbs in here have been grown by the students and they've brought it to a show.
23:46It's really well thought through, isn't it?
23:48It really is.
23:49And it's teeming with life because their purpose was to make sure that every plant is really good for wildlife and we can see all the bees all over it.
23:56Yeah.
23:57And then making sure that they've put them together so that they've got companion planting to go on to sort of make sure that there's a real health in that border.
24:03Fabulous.
24:04Yeah.
24:05What a medal.
24:06Got that gold.
24:07Did it?
24:08Yeah.
24:09Brilliant.
24:17Right, Ari, I'm going to ask you a question.
24:18Very direct here.
24:19Okay.
24:20Do you like yellow?
24:21Yeah.
24:22I love yellow.
24:23Good.
24:24I love it too.
24:25But some people don't.
24:26They just won't have it.
24:27No, I don't like yellow.
24:28I don't like oranges.
24:29They're not going to be in my borders.
24:30Which is crazy, I think, really, when you look at this.
24:33Yeah.
24:34And it's so joyous.
24:35The colour tones in here are so lovely.
24:37Look at the GM with that lovely Achillia and then the Centaurus.
24:41So you've not only got all those shapes, but those different hues.
24:44I mean, I don't understand why you wouldn't love that.
24:46Yeah, me too.
24:47This is just so beautifully put together, this board.
24:49And with that rusty backdrop, shows it off.
24:51And the grasses, because I know you love grasses.
24:53Yeah, they just soften it.
24:54This is Necelatis tenuism of the ponytail grass, and it just softens it beautifully, doesn't it?
24:59But there's so much detail.
25:00The more I look, actually, there is more going on in here.
25:03Well, that's the idea of this board.
25:05It's made to use to stop, take time out, look in detail, and it certainly does that.
25:10And another gold medal.
25:11Another gold.
25:12We haven't, you know, really?
25:13We've picked them out and took them.
25:14We should be judging.
25:15We should be judging.
25:16Got an eye for this thing.
25:17We know a thing or two, don't we?
25:18Now, there's one garden here that's been getting a lot of attention.
25:30It was created by one of the young designers, and he sent us a film to explain how it all came about.
25:42Hi, my name is Jacopo Ducato-Ruggieri.
25:44I'm a young designer entering the RHS Flower Show.
25:47I went with Woodhouse with my first ever Dune Garden.
25:51I was born in Sardinia, Italy.
25:53I'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,
26:10all crammed in one thin strip of sand.
26:14I think also it's a very meaningful place for queer people,
26:19and you do really feel just sort of an empowering force of nature.
26:25I think that was something that was worth mimicking in the Dune Garden.
26:30Everyone has just been so generous with their time and knowledge,
26:36and it made me feel like I belonged, even though I'm quite new to this.
26:42So I'm very grateful for that.
26:44I hope the visitors will get that sort of a sense of freedom and liberation and safety
26:53that I felt when I was on Fire Island from this garden.
26:56Welcome to the garden.
27:11Thank you.
27:12It's nice walking barefoot on a garden.
27:14I've never done that before at a flower show.
27:17So, it's finished. Are you pleased with it?
27:21Very much so.
27:22Yeah.
27:23Obviously, it hasn't been easy building with sand,
27:26because it's not a regular building material for a garden.
27:29I love it. I love the way that they weep in the wind,
27:31as if it's really a Dune that's sort of sculpted the plants and the landscape.
27:35Yes.
27:36There's some really lovely details of the story that you're creating here,
27:39with the footprints in the sand, particularly.
27:41But can you tell me that story?
27:42So, the idea came from my holidays in Fire Island, New York.
27:47There is something that I felt there that was very empowering about how nature
27:53would frame a lot of the sort of query images in the landscape, if you like.
27:57And what medal did you get?
27:58Silver Guild.
27:59And you're pleased with that?
28:00Yes.
28:01Good. You should be. It's such an achievement for your...
28:03This is your first garden.
28:04First ever garden.
28:05How does it feel to be one of the young designers here?
28:08I feel very happy and very grateful that I've been given this chance.
28:13And we got a lot of mentorship from the RHS.
28:16And also working with the other young designers together, helping each other,
28:22giving each other advice and be there for each other throughout the process,
28:25which, you know, started in October.
28:28It made a huge difference.
28:30I think it's beautiful.
28:31Thank you.
28:32I could just sit here all day. It's lovely.
28:57This garden is actually already designed to go into a space at the Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice.
29:04And you have to imagine that the palliative care unit is at the end of that path.
29:08So a really important space.
29:10And 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.
29:16These are so important in spaces outside hospitals and connection with horticulture and nature and being surrounded by plants.
29:25We've got butterflies and bees and that lovely, calming influence.
29:29I've designed 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.
29:38Yeah, and I think that humbleness really comes through here because the planting is not in your face.
29:44Yeah.
29:45The palette's very calming. It's very soothing.
29:47And I was speaking to the designer before and this sculpture here is representing this kind of handheld
29:52that you want to do with your child before they're going to leave.
29:55So that sensitivity is so important.
29:57Yeah, and also these poddy areas, you know, these intimate spaces are so important where family and friends spend, you know, critical time with children.
30:08It's great.
30:09Yeah, they've done a fabulous job.
30:19This garden is only six by six metres wide, so it's quite a small space.
30:24The designer has decided to do away with the lawn and fill it full of plants that are good for pollinators.
30:29So I can spy in Echinops and Coreopsis and Lavender, so many plants that are here.
30:34And even thinking of all the wildlife, there has been pine cones put down in the borders,
30:39not only to act as a mulch, but as extra habitat space for all of the insects.
30:45In small space like this, you can pack in quite a lot.
30:54This is Hazelwood Barn and it ticks all those boxes of sustainability, recycling, upcycling, reimagining.
31:04But for me, the most important thing is it shows the value of design because it shows how to put those elements together really well.
31:12And it's a beautiful little garden. You've got somewhere to sit.
31:15We've even got a bath in the back and a crazy building, which I love.
31:19There's some lovely touches too.
31:21We've got things like the corkscrew hazel, which have been cut and they're used as a support for the roses to grow through,
31:28which look great against that black backdrop there.
31:31And then we've got the paving, so there's not cement in between.
31:35It's just a permeable bit of stone aggregate so the water can get back into the water table.
31:41It all feels very cohesive. It's a great little garden and it's got a gold medal.
31:50We've seen how this show can be a springboard for new talent, especially designers and growers from the north.
31:56And you can't get much more local than one exhibitor in the Floral Marquis.
32:00They really did not have to travel far.
32:07Growing up, I was so lucky really because I had gardening around me.
32:11I had my dad who had an immaculate garden.
32:14I remember coming to this nursery when I was knee high to a grasshopper or so with my dad.
32:20We'd been coming for years and years.
32:22In its heyday, this place would have been marvellous.
32:25But then over 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 it had quite a mythical feel to it as we came through.
32:40And now I'm back in Rotherham in this nostalgic, wonderful place.
32:44I'm Dean. Welcome to our nursery that's been set up two years ago by our family.
32:51I've been very lucky to have worked at places like Great Dixter and Beth Chateau Gardens with some really generous people that I've trained with and have trained me as well along the way.
33:03So this four acre site, it dates back to the 1700s and this is all the Wentworth Fitzwilliam estate.
33:10So we're renting this site from them.
33:12And they took us on because of the ideas that I had for this site, the long term vision and create this horticultural hub.
33:20I still have to keep pinching myself, thinking, gosh, this is ours again.
33:28So when it comes to the ethos of a traditional nursery, it's doing the majority of the plants yourself.
33:34A lot from seed and cuttings and divisions or so.
33:37There's a lot of love and time that's gone into the seed and the cuttings that we are doing.
33:41So 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 plants to sell.
33:53A wonderful one is snowdrops.
33:55One of the best propagation techniques that I do now is bulb chipping.
33:59The great thing about bulb chipping is, is that you can make many more plants instead of just letting them naturally bulk up.
34:06I'll take one of these bulbs, Godfrey Owen, so this is a very nice one actually.
34:11And it's quite unusual because it's got six petals on it.
34:14From this one bulb, we can create at least eight more plants.
34:17So when you're doing bulb chipping as well, it's essential that you keep everything sterile and clean.
34:23So just taking the outer section off, it's just to clean the bulb really.
34:28So now that I've taken all the papery skin off, I'm going to take the root off here.
34:33And it's very important that you keep the basal plate on.
34:37That's ultimately where the roots are going to come through.
34:39Chop it down the middle, like that.
34:41That's our first cut.
34:43Place it on its side and then we're going to chop it again.
34:46Each one should have a basal plate on the bottom.
34:50There we are, eight that we have there.
34:52So now we've done that, I'm just going to clean them up into this water.
34:55So now all these bulbs are nice and clean.
34:58I'm just going to sit them in.
35:02There we are.
35:04So this is vermiculite.
35:05The wonderful thing about it is it's quite free draining.
35:08It's 11 parts vermiculite to one part water.
35:11Now you don't want it too wet in there.
35:13It just needs to be a bit of moist.
35:15And then we just need to make sure that they're separated so that they've got vermiculite around them.
35:20We'll place the lid on.
35:24I'm going to leave that for 12 weeks.
35:2620 degrees Celsius in a shady spot.
35:29Once that started to root, that will be potted up and then the process will start then.
35:43So what I've got here is Xenolophium.
35:45It's a Baltic parsley.
35:47It's quite a unique plant.
35:48This was an autumn sown seed.
35:51So these were done 26th of October.
35:53They've gone through all the winter.
35:55And the wonderful thing as well, these have been outside as well.
35:59So it shows it's a tough plant.
36:01So it's called pricking out this.
36:03With the seedlings they're so delicate, these roots.
36:05So you don't want to disturb the roots too much.
36:07And we always pick it up from the true leaf.
36:09You never really pick it up from the stem because you might break it actually.
36:13You might do some damage to it.
36:14And just a little push down.
36:16It's got a wonderful parsley-like leaf.
36:19It's an umbel.
36:20So 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 because then it becomes leggy.
36:30You want it just so the, you know, the true leaves are just sat on the surface.
36:39This propagation technique I'm going to show you, I learned from my dad.
36:41It's a really good, quick propagation technique.
36:44So this is a cypress.
36:46Alternifolius, this one.
36:47So I'm literally going to chop it here.
36:51I'm going to turn it upside down.
36:53And then I'm going to place it into water.
36:56And you can see here that they are just starting to root.
36:59That's only two, three weeks or so that that's been in.
37:03So this cypress is half hardy.
37:05But the great thing is, is that you can do cuttings as an insurance policy.
37:09And then you can take that through the winter.
37:11But then you know that you've got babies waiting, you know, for next year then.
37:15As well as the cypress, there are other plants that you can do through water cuttings.
37:20And this is an Arundo.
37:21Arundodonax.
37:22Versicolor, this one.
37:23And it's got these lovely creamy yellow streaks that go through it.
37:27So what I'm going to do is chop it at the bottom there.
37:30Just take these leaves off.
37:31Just the bottom leaves.
37:32You can literally just tear them.
37:33And I'm going to place that into the water.
37:36This is a super fast technique, this one as well.
37:39This one is through within a couple of weeks time.
37:41And it will start to root.
37:43It's a really cheap propagation way that you can do it.
37:45You don't need fancy tools and equipment or so.
37:48Just literally place it into a jar of water.
37:51So one of the reasons why I want to do the Wentworth RHS show is because it's in Rotherham.
37:59This is my hometown.
38:01Our family nursery is based in Rotherham.
38:03So to show a brand new nursery using traditional skills, I think it's fantastic.
38:10And there's an opportunity we couldn't miss.
38:12One of the big features that I'd like to place within my display bed in the Floral Marquee is a dry stone skip wall.
38:20I've taken these pots.
38:23I've duct taped the side of the pot here.
38:26I'm going to water from the top so that they can be inserted into the wall.
38:31And it looks as though they've always been in this wall.
38:34So this is Helianthus silicifolius.
38:37It's the willow leafed sunflower.
38:39And these were placed in probably about five weeks ago or so.
38:43And it's incredible how quickly they started to turn as well.
38:46It only took like a day or so to move towards the light.
38:50And I'm hoping that by the show they should be at least twice as high.
38:55So the dry stone skip wall that I'm creating, there's many materials going into it.
39:00But it's the bricks that I'm using are all going to be from Rotherham.
39:03Because this region, Rotherham, there was at least seven brickmakers.
39:08So I think it's nice just to show the heritage off and, yeah, to show the names off in this display garden that I'm creating.
39:16I've never done a flower show before, so this will be our, this will be our first time.
39:22Yeah, I am quite mad actually. Yeah, yeah.
39:25But they know we've got to strike while the iron's hot.
39:29It's hard work, it really is.
39:31But plants are at the core of this.
39:34I'm quite proud of what me and the family have been doing.
39:38This is a passion that we're doing it for, really.
39:41Dean, you've grown all of these plants yourself. I mean, how are you feeling?
40:03I still have to pinch myself a little bit actually, yeah, yeah.
40:06Lots of preparation gone into it, but I couldn't have done this without my dad.
40:10and the rest of the family, yeah, as a family business.
40:13It's just wonderful to showcase the plants that we've got growing at the nursery as well.
40:17It looks really good.
40:19I mean, I'm just looking at that stone wall and I love the fact of the local bricks in here. So lovely.
40:24Oh yeah, the skip wall, I'm going to call it, yeah.
40:27It's great as well because there's lots of bricks in there from Rotherham,
40:31which have been used through it.
40:33And it's great as well because all the materials in this wall will be going back to the nursery
40:38because it probably came from there.
40:40I love that salvia sagittata, it's gorgeous.
40:43Oh yes, the arrow leaf salvia, that one, yeah.
40:45That will flower later in the season, a blue flower, probably September onwards or so.
40:50But it's definitely for the leaf that you are growing in.
40:53And is it hardy, that one?
40:54Half hardy.
40:55So I'd say full sun, well-drained, sheltered spots.
40:59You should be okay, but take cuttings as an insurance policy.
41:02Well, I know you're loving your propagation, so I should make a note of that.
41:06I have to say, Dean, for a first-timer here, I think this is fantastic.
41:10So really well done.
41:11Thank you.
41:12Thank you.
41:13Thank you.
41:24The really special thing about this show is as well as the most inspiring show gardens
41:29and floral exhibits out here, you've also got this most incredible house behind me,
41:34which is filled with the very best horticulture fused with inspirational architecture.
41:43This is bringing back so many happy memories for me.
41:47I started my gardening journey as a teenager growing veg.
41:51I was always really competitive, but rubbish at all sports.
41:55My brother was far better than me at all of those, but I could grow good veg.
42:00And so, as a kid, I started to exhibit the veg that I was growing in my grandparents' garden
42:06and take them to local shows, and doing exactly this.
42:09And I've not been to one of these shows in maybe 15 years now,
42:13so it's genuinely so lovely to see it all, and it's bringing back so many lovely memories.
42:19Now, all of these veg are grown to sheer perfection, and they're grown purely for their visuals.
42:27So the judges have gone round to check every single centimetre on these potatoes.
42:33But that doesn't mean to say that these aren't going to make banging chips.
42:37This is the RHS Work With Your Garden garden, which is a feature exhibit at the show,
42:54and that's a shame in a way because it means it won't be judged,
42:57and I think it would do really well because it's getting a message across
43:01which 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,
43:18looking absolutely fabulous, and the bees are all over it.
43:23This area is planted for semi or dappled shade, and it's also mounded up as well,
43:38and if you have uneven ground in your garden, go with it.
43:41You don't have to just flatten it. Not everything has to be level.
43:43In fact, it makes it much more interesting sometimes.
43:46And the planting on one side is pretty wild.
43:50Grasses and wildflowers, very, very loose.
43:53Through the middle is a birch retaining wall, and again, that's a fabulous habitat.
43:58And here, we've got a bit more manicured planting,
44:01things like the hakenochloe grass flopping over the edge of the path,
44:04and things like this persicaria too.
44:07And you sense it as well as getting shadier, it's getting a little damper too.
44:16So now we're into planting for full shade, but with plenty of moisture in the soil
44:24because we're at the bottom of the slope.
44:26So a wonderful tapestry of lush foliage all working together.
44:31Greens and purples, it feels so full down here.
44:35And a lovely backdrop of this dry stone wall too,
44:38which works beautifully with the house, and just captures the surrounding area too.
44:43And in the paving, there's a lovely detail.
44:46There's these two grills over the paving and the planting goes subterranean.
44:51There's water down there and lots of ferns and hostas.
44:55Brilliant little composition, I love that bit.
44:57And what's nice is the public can come into this garden,
45:00walk through it and experience it and learn about gardening for themselves.
45:05I am loving this show. There's so much amazing planting everywhere you look.
45:19And one of my favourite displays I've seen so far is by Greg Anderton of Leafy Livam inside the Floral Marquis.
45:38And as a fellow plantsman, I love the way that Greg has used his planting to create bold bright colours.
45:45My signature style is high impact planting.
45:55I like happy colour that makes people smile.
46:00And that's what I've got around me here in my own garden.
46:03I'm Greg Anderton. I'm originally from Bolton actually, but we now live here in Lytham St. Anne's in Lancashire.
46:15And for me this year taking part is going to be so exciting.
46:19My entry to Wentworth Woodhouse Flower Show is an ocean of summer flowers.
46:24And it features this wonderful boat planter as its centrepiece,
46:28which will sail above this pillow of perennials and annuals.
46:34It'll be like looking over the sea, except it's all flowers.
46:37So when I first started gardening, my grandparents gave me a small patch in their garden,
46:43which affectionately got known as Greg's garden.
46:46When we moved to Lytham, my primary school had a gardening club.
46:51And there we would plant up hanging baskets, pots, wheelbarrows,
46:56and enter the local garden competition.
46:58We actually won it one year, which was amazing.
47:01It was a wonderful moment.
47:02And that I think was a catalyst for me.
47:05It was funny at school because all my friends were asking for computer games
47:11and playing cards for Christmas.
47:14And I asked for a greenhouse.
47:18In 2006, I took a stall at my primary school summer fair
47:22to sell some of the plants that I'd grown in my new greenhouse.
47:25And I raised £40 for the PTFA, which felt absolutely amazing.
47:31And that was my first day in business.
47:34Eight years ago, I was doing a talk for a local charity
47:39and I was telling them my story about how I started.
47:42And I finished it by saying one day I'd love to have my own little plant centre.
47:46And the new general manager was stood at the back
47:49and came to me afterwards and said,
47:51we'd really like one here, would you be interested?
47:53Six months later, I opened my first little plant centre
47:57and I've never looked back.
47:59This is my first home.
48:09It dates back to, like, 1850.
48:12And I had the opportunity to create a number of different garden areas.
48:17And that to me was so exciting.
48:20I had a tarmac path and two pieces of grass either side of it.
48:24And I was determined to make a beautiful garden here that would bring joy to people.
48:28The agapanthus look fabulous.
48:31Oh, they do.
48:32And they're coming out.
48:33And sea holly.
48:34Yeah, everything's coming into flower.
48:36It's always just wonderful to see.
48:38I just...
48:39Oh!
48:40Oh, that's lovely.
48:41Thank you.
48:42Nice to see you.
48:43Take care, Jill.
48:44Bye-bye.
48:45As this is my front garden, what it's particularly lovely about is the amount of people who stop
48:50and say nice things about how much pleasure it gives them.
48:55It's a cobbled cottage, so I wanted cobbles to be part of the garden,
48:59which was why then I came up with a plan for a mosaic.
49:04I also felt that the garden had to have a cottagey feel to it.
49:08Dahlias, foxgloves, little daisies, all those things I thought would give it a wonderful sense of place.
49:19The side garden is different to what I've got here at the front because that is a coastal garden.
49:25Verbenas, Scabias, Salvias, all these plants that really give you a great shot of colour but can tolerate the salt winds.
49:33And then I'm mixing those with grasses like the wonderful Stipa tenuissima, which is a great grass that holds its structure over the wintertime.
49:43The next garden project is my Mediterranean garden, which I want to be really colourful.
49:52Some nice vibrant dahlias, geums, but also maybe mixed with a little bit of lavender as well,
49:58because that just helps to give that little bit of rest to the eye in between all of that heat.
50:05Wentworth Woodhouse means a lot to me because, of course, it's the RHS's northern show,
50:10and I feel very proud to be there at what is the first one. It's a historic moment.
50:16So this we're testing out ready for Wentworth because my theatre of pots is going to be a real centrepiece of my garden.
50:27What is key with this is to raise your pots up.
50:31So we have tallest at the back going down to medium size, and then I'll add some more small ones at the front.
50:36One thing that I really love to do is to use containers as a way to create impact, and I call this a theatre of pots.
50:48So I'm choosing these plants for the colour combination, but I'm also choosing a range of heights, flower shapes, flower textures.
50:56These are Cosmos, and this variety is called Apollo White, and I particularly like this one because it's a more dwarfing habit,
51:08and you get a lot of flowers for the size of plant too.
51:11And remember, if you keep deadhead in this, it'll flower all summer long, right till the first frost.
51:17This dahlia here is called Dahlia Maxi Starburst Pink, and I absolutely love the centre of this because you have these little yellow tips on there.
51:29Long flowering, keep deadhead in it, it'll flower all summer, and it likes a bit of tomato food as well.
51:36It's scabious.
51:41Nice pushing, so they're nice and solid.
51:43The first Wentworth Woodhouse Flower Show is a historic moment, and to win Golbert would be absolutely amazing, and that is what we determined to do.
51:54Greg, congratulations on your medal.
52:13Thank you.
52:14You made it, this is where you wanted to be, inaugural show, and are you happy with what you've done?
52:18I'm absolutely thrilled about it, especially considering the way the weather's been over the past few weeks, where it has really been scorching hot.
52:26The flowers have held out lovely, and it's looking colourful and happy, and that's exactly what I was aiming for.
52:33Now, I know that plants like to misbehave, so what has given you sleepless nights as you've got this together?
52:39The Delphiniums, definitely, yeah, because as soon as they start to drop, there's no stopping them.
52:45Here, they're really holding nicely, and we've got quite a few different varieties.
52:50Yeah.
52:51From this beautiful Delphinium Palmer Black Velvet, and then there's the wonderful Neva as well, which is a shorter, white variety.
52:59That is looking particularly good on the stand as well, and great for using more at the front of a border too.
53:02Well done again, Greg, and I'm really happy that we're going to see you here again.
53:06Thanks ever so much.
53:07Thank you.
53:14The perfume coming off these lilies is unbelievable.
53:18You can smell them halfway down the Floral Marquee, and Hart's Nurseries take centre stage here this year with this wonderful exhibit,
53:26because they've been doing RHS shows for 25 years.
53:30They've got over 100 gold medals, so they are the master growers this year.
53:36And honestly, these lilies are just perfection.
53:39These are the tree lilies on this side, and as you can see, some are towering over my head.
53:44They're really tall, make great impact in the border, and a lovely range of colours.
53:49I 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 perennial,
53:58as long as they've got good drainage and plenty of sun.
54:01And you can always take them as cut flowers as well, bring them into the house, and they will grow between shrubs and other perennials.
54:08And it's quite key to deadhead them when they're over, and leave as much foliage on as possible,
54:14because then that will feed the bulb for next year, and they'll keep coming up every year.
54:17And these are really good on pretty much any soil, if they've got good drainage.
54:22But if you've only got acid soil, or you want to grow in containers, try some of these.
54:27These are the rose lily, and you see they're much shorter.
54:31And I'm getting a lot closer to them, even though I've got my posh jacket on,
54:35because they don't have the pollen on the stamens that is going to stain it.
54:40So if you've got that concern, grow some of these, and it's exactly the same process.
54:43Now, there's so much going on at the show, and in fact, on the other side of the house,
54:49Jamie, Adam and Francis are checking out what's over there.
54:56This house is bungles.
54:59It's nice that it's in the middle of all the show.
55:02Yeah, I know. There's never been one like this, has it?
55:04No, it's just different to any other show. I love that.
55:05Yeah.
55:06I tell you what, that architecture is incredible.
55:11It's impressive, isn't it?
55:12Yeah, yeah, yeah.
55:13But there's some community cubes over there that I would like to go and have a look at.
55:17Can I come with you? Yeah.
55:18Brilliant.
55:19Also though, there's some containers, so if it's okay, I'll go and have a look at them.
55:22Okay, that sounds good.
55:23See you later.
55:24See you later.
55:25This is the Girl Guiding Grows Cube, and all the planting in here, all the flowers, are colour themed to match the different badges that you can get as a Girl Guide, including a brand new gardening badge.
55:39Yeah.
55:40But what I really love about the Community Cubes, and this one particularly, is they really epitomise that spirit of working as a community.
55:49This one has been designed by the girls and built by the Girl Guides aged 4 to 18, where they would have learned all about gardening.
55:57And this is shaping the next generation of female gardeners and growers.
56:01And these guys, hopefully, will go on to be the next lot.
56:04So this is a wonderful thing.
56:09This is Jimmy's NHS Wellbeing Garden, and this is a bit of me, because it's all about the plants.
56:22The structure in this space is brought through these two multi-stem trees.
56:26We've got a birch and a hazel, both really easy to grow native trees.
56:31And as well as providing the architecture to the space, they're also creating pockets of perfect little opportunities for brilliant plants.
56:40So in the middle here, we've got Sanguissorba, Persicaria, and Hacknicloa.
56:45On the far side of the birch, it's a bit shadier, so plants like Epimedium are thriving.
56:50Then over at the back, which would be south-facing, plants like Napita and Roses are adding a splash of colour to the space.
56:57So this shows, in just a small space, choosing the right plants for the right spot can be really important and really powerful.
57:05These community containers, more than anything, just put a huge smile on your face.
57:22Kids, youth groups, you know, local city farms have all come and played their part, which I think is a beautiful thing, as is this.
57:35It's quite thought-for-rugging.
57:36If you think about it, it encapsulates the cycle of life, you know, with the decaying wood, the moss, the habitat, and then food, flowers.
57:47But also maybe even a nod to the future.
57:50That idea of backing off and not maintaining our gardens too much.
57:55It's incredible, really, that you can say that much in such a small space.
58:11What a day, Jo. I can't believe it's over.
58:14And the first show, we were here at the first time at Wentworth.
58:18Yeah, wonderful show, fantastic setting, got to say, brilliant.
58:22Well, that's it from us.
58:23Next week, Monty will be at Longmeadow.
58:25That's 8pm on Friday.
58:27But from us, it's goodbye.
58:29Goodbye.
58:30Your one-stop source of planting ideas and inspiration is available now.
58:43Gardener's World, the flower thesaurus.
58:45And Press Red now to relive the concert that rocked the world.
58:48Enjoy the nostalgia of Live Aid at 40 on iPlayer.
58:51Stories.
58:52Let's go and join artists on iPlayer.
59:01Let's go and join artists on iPlayer.
59:03That's the effectiveness of the magic that Stone opened in its cars.
59:05Let's follow the�经insons that 계속 entering the cards.
59:08The lovely dancers bring such a lot of seeing you on iPlayer.
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