RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2014 special

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We take you behind the scenes during the exiting build-up to the world’s most famous flower show. We hear from garden designers including Cleve West, Adam Frost and Matt Keightley about the inspirations behind their RHS Chelsea Flower Show gardens. Alan Titchmarsh celebrates 50 years of the RHS Britain in Bloom campaign and we also hear from the RHS apprentices who have been given the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work on some of Chelsea's high profile gardens.

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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.
0:43.0	Hello and welcome to this special RHS 2014 Chelsea podcast.
0:48.4	A visit to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is an incredibly exciting experience.
0:54.8	It fills garden lovers with ideas to take home and translate into their own spaces and their own budgets.
1:00.8	But the show doesn't just provide inspiration for grand garden designs, but also for new plants,
1:06.7	tools, techniques, art and creativity. It's a place which inspires people to get involved,
1:13.2	to try new projects and even new careers. Chelsea raises ambitions and aspirations. It creates gardening dreams. I'm Jenny Bowden, one of the horticultural advisors at RHS Garden Wisley and Surrey.
1:21.8	In this special podcast, we're going behind the scenes during the exciting build-up period of the
1:27.0	RHS Chelsea Flower Show
1:28.6	to meet designers, growers and horticulturists responsible for the most famous flower show in the world.
1:34.8	We're going to discover how gardens are finding inspiration at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year.
1:40.5	Chelsea is the most marvellous place for inspiration. It's a pool, if you like, of enormous
1:45.5	ideas, of enormous inspiration, of new things, of things you hate. Why on earth have they done
1:51.3	that? And things you love and go, oh, look at that. The thing about it is, you can't be indifferent
1:56.7	to it. And I think that's tremendous. It's the one week in the year that gets people talking,
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