Live from Chelsea (Ep 130)

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Garden designer, TV presenter and RHS flower show judge James Alexander-Sinclair takes us on a journey into the heart and soul of the Chelsea Flower Show, exploring top-end design, incredible plants and planting, and meeting the people who make it all happen and the celebrities who turn out in force to soak up the Chelsea buzz. Find out about feel-good gardens, exciting new plants and garden products, and get design tips for your garden. This year's show also shows the power of gardening as a force for good. We meet the creator of The Lemon Tree Trust Garden, inspired by the gardens of Domiz refugee camp in Iraq. It's a heartwarming tale of human spirit and triump over adversity, and the RHS is proud to have been able to support the Trust in its work. We also speak to Baroness Floella Benjamin and singer and actress Beverley Knight about Birmingham City Council's display celebrating 70 years since the Empire Windrush arrived in Britain, marking the beginning of a new chapter in our nation's history. For more info and useful links see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast

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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 at an RHS garden near you. Let's go. Catch Springs, finest scenes while you can,
0:22.1	at an RHS garden near you.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts,
0:26.0	plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:50.9	My name is James Alexander Sinclair, and I am at the Chelsea Flower Show 2018, where I've been for the last few days, because I have been judging show gardens, and that happens on the Saturday and the Sunday.
0:54.6	And so Monday is a little bit of a moment where we all just exhale quietly and wander around and smell the flowers before the medals are announced Tuesday.
0:59.5	You come to Chelsea, you expect the absolute crem de la crem of horticulture and garden design.
1:05.6	And some years you come along and you think, well, maybe that's not quite as creamy as it was
1:09.7	the last year. And then other years you come along and say, this is a corker.
1:13.1	And I think I can quite happily say that this is a pretty creamy year, 2018.
1:17.5	Talking about the main show gardens, I'm now no intimately,
1:20.1	having spent many hours walking around them and sitting on them and sniffing them,
1:24.1	there's a really, really nice variation.
1:26.8	Because sometimes you have a sort of, it doesn't
1:28.9	happen to deliberate, but there's a sort of weird zeitgeist that happens in show gardens where you suddenly
1:32.6	think, well, hang on, that one's doing the same sort of thing as that one. And part of that is because
1:36.8	the show is always at the same time, which means that designers are drawing on the same stock of plants.
1:42.1	This year has been a very good year for lupins, you can see.
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