Chelsea Flower Show
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
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🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
We're at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show! This year's event has a special focus on Parkinson's with the newly named Parkinson's Resilience Rose and the beautifully designed Parkinson's UK show garden. Unsurprisingly, the weather chose to be less than impressive for the day of our visit, but that didn't stop us from enjoying the sites and exploring the PUK plot with the help of the Head Gardeners and charity team. We spoke to a great range of plant experts and show attendees to find out what they thought about this significant year for PD at Chelsea.
Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, Gillian Lacey-Solymar, Mark Mardell, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Sir Nicholas Mostyn and Jeremy Paxman.
Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.
Associate Producer: Lulu Goad
Music by Alex Stobbs.
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| 0:00.0 | Pod-O |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:10.4 | The show is sponsored by Cure Parkinson's, whose urgent and only goal is to find a cure, |
| 0:15.8 | and funded by Bordwave, a networking community for technology leaders and a passionate supporter of Cure Parkinson's. |
| 0:23.0 | For more details on the charity's progress around research and its fundraising, please visit |
| 0:28.0 | cureparkinsons.org.uk. |
| 0:35.7 | Hello, I'm Gillian Lacey Solomon. |
| 0:37.8 | Welcome to another episode of Movers and Shaker, the awarding podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:43.8 | Actually, do you know what? |
| 0:45.5 | This isn't actually just another pub episode of the podcast. |
| 0:48.8 | It's an episode being recorded at the Chelsea Flower Show, as you can probably hear, because |
| 0:54.0 | this year they're making a very big deal about Parkinson's. Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah, hurrah! It is exciting to be. It is exciting. So before I tell you how they're making a fuss and indeed why, let's see who's here. Rory Kethlyn Jones. Nicholas Mostyn. I'm afraid we are a slightly depleted bunch, ha-ha, today, but we are all blooming. Oh, my God. Or at least blooming keen. You've grown, groan. Tortured wordplay. I know, I do apologize. So quickly, on the Parkinson's front, there are two novelties here. First, there's a rose that's been grown to commemorate Parkinson's, and we'll be talking to the growth in just a moment, |
| 1:28.8 | and then there's a special garden, which we'll talk about subsequently. |
| 1:31.9 | But first of all, I wanted to ask Nick and Rory, how keen gardeners say well. |
| 1:35.8 | Well, I've had lived in the same house for 33, 34 years, |
| 1:41.4 | and it's a classic London terrace early 20th century with a walled garden. |
| 1:46.0 | It's quite it's rather nice. A small garden. And I've never been a good garden, but I've always been |
| 1:52.0 | quite proud of what my garden looked like. And it was, it had a lawn and it had shrubs. And every year, the |
| 1:59.4 | battle was on to stop the shrubs joining together in the middle of the |
| 2:03.8 | garden and I planted a few things, a few things worked, a few things didn't but got two lovely |
| 2:09.3 | apple trees, got some, a couple of nice roses which always bloom and ACA, generally really pleasant. |
| 2:16.0 | Eventually though, the grass became too much for me to |
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