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🗓️ 18 May 2018
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0:00.0 | Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you. |
0:06.4 | Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance to delight your senses. |
0:13.2 | Inspire your gardening adventures and entertain your own little stars. |
0:17.4 | Race you, let's go. |
0:19.5 | Catch Springs finest scenes while you can add an RHS garden near you. |
0:23.6 | Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds. |
0:29.6 | Hello, you're listening to Chelsea Shorts from the RHS, an exclusive peak behind the scenes of the greatest flower show on earth. |
0:39.3 | Today, a sense of well-being, we'll be looking at gardens to soothe and heal mind and body. |
0:45.3 | I'm Catherine Pottsidi, the show manager for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. |
0:49.3 | We're here on a sunny build day and one of the very interesting themes that's come out of this year's show is the |
0:55.1 | importance of gardening as part of your health and well-being and we have a fabulous garden that's been |
1:00.3 | designed by he's bought together all sorts of like restful environment and really beautiful plants |
1:07.5 | are all great for your health and well-being the garden itself is situated at the end of Main Avenue and it's fully walk through so you can walk around, enjoy the peace and tranquility of the garden. There's plenty of places to sit and rest. So it's very much a practical garden and Matt is going to be relocating this garden to an NHS Mental Health Trust in Camden after the show where it will live on |
1:29.0 | permanently for residents and visitors and patients to enjoy. My name is Matt Keatley. I'm the |
1:35.3 | designer of the RHS Philgood Garden. This particular garden is inspired by the work I'm doing up at |
1:39.6 | Whizley with the RHS. That garden is tagged the wellbeing garden, so all to do with promoting physical |
1:46.3 | health and mental well-being and how we can help improve it through well-considered, well-designed |
1:51.8 | outside spaces. One of the big things for me is the layout, so the 2D layout of the garden |
1:57.0 | is very organic, natural forms of the beds and the paths and I didn't want any straight |
2:02.9 | lines no visitor should feel like they're being forced down a particular route whether it's |
2:06.8 | towards a bench or towards a sculpture they they need to feel encouraged to move into the space |
2:12.0 | and move around it in in their own time and find places to rest rather than being drawn towards them so much. |
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