94: Chelsea Flower Show Exclusive!
Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball
Persephonica
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
It’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show week! To celebrate, Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball were given exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the world’s most famous flower show before the gates even opened to the public.
In this special episode of Dig It, Jo and Zoe explore Chelsea on build day and chat to two brilliant garden designers - Frances Tophill and Arit Anderson - about the extraordinary gardens they’ve created for this year’s show.
From powerful stories behind the planting to practical inspiration you can take home to your own garden, this is a very special Chelsea edition of Dig It.
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CREDITS
Exec Producer: Jonathan O’Sullivan
Assistant Producer: Eve Jones
Technical Producer: Oliver Geraghty
Video Editors: Cameron Laird
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Dig It at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. |
| 0:03.0 | Anna who's had her back operation, we were planting some things the other day and it was the first thing she's been able to do as part of her recovery from her operation. It's like, oh my God, this is a game changer, isn't it? It's a game changer, yeah. Oh, it's true. It's true. The amount of bees that are loving these, is this garlic? Nectus Gordon, so it's a drying flower. |
| 0:24.1 | It's an alum, isn't it? |
| 0:25.1 | It's an alium, isn't it? |
| 0:26.1 | It's an alium. |
| 0:27.1 | I've not done it for a medal at the end of the day. |
| 0:28.6 | Why have you done it? |
| 0:29.6 | Yeah, I've done it because my sister has Parkinson's. |
| 0:32.6 | All of that right after this. |
| 0:44.2 | Digit is brought to you by Marks and Spencer. |
| 0:45.3 | Great news, Joe. |
| 0:49.1 | M&S have relaunched their Sparks loyalty program and it's better than ever. |
| 0:50.8 | You earn money directly into a digital Sparks wallet |
| 0:53.6 | every time you shop an M&S if you buy |
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| 1:34.0 | accounts in the M&S app. Book something brilliant and watch the money land in your digital |
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