Scraw I mean my God as being contemporary. And colorful. In the studio from the b.b.c. World Service Dunkley And in this programme with British landscape designer. Following him as he thinks his 1st ever for this year's Chelsea Flower Show. Every time I pass the Chelsea Flower Show takes place I have mixed emotions stressed there's anxiety there's happiness all rolled into one. Has been a landscape designer for 7 years and while his design dozens of gardens for host of product lines this is his 1st on the world stage. His design is called Panay for the Mexican sky Imagine a koala in the shape of a rectangle. I mean fighting in calm space. His men tell you move it's got the most amazing dominant color wars in Clementine coral and cap Chino it's got these incredible I think my Crystal Man steps that cross over a large pool of water they actually look as if they're floating across the water and then I've got very dynamic drought tolerant planting paying an orange wish to visit me Year in and. Around the pool of water with the most amazing copper wire sculpture of a whole sets within one of the palms and forces. On the countdown to the 1st day of construction is underway. 123456789101112131415. Gold 16 days before I enter thought I almost. Oh crikey I didn't I didn't see this is what happens when you do a garden at Chelsea you lose complete track of time because your absolutely absorbed in the garden you're living and breathing that garden but my gawd 16 days left there's still a lot of work to do. On most of the landscape was autumn I was on my 1st garden for Chelsea in 2013 and I'm the youngest ever winner of a silver medal so I know exactly what minority is going through the stress excitement and tension but as every designer we all have our different approaches the garden on designing this year is called the Bermuda Triangle and any I'm using a combination of everyday launching mirror effects and atomizes to create the sense of mystery and illusion from a garden design is the only thing I ever wanted to do but my knowledge comes from a very different but ground being a fashion designer before I got stuck into bringing his guns to life on up with him to find out more about his life before gardening. We're in a beautiful garden called the Chelsea physic garden it's a walled garden in the middle of London I mean you would never imagine that this piece of beauty exists where actually just a stone's throw away from the Royal Hospital where the Chelsea Flower Show takes place. So it's your 1st garden at Chelsea why did you want to become a landscape is on. I used to be a creative director in the fashion industry absolutely loved it so I loved working with Prince and color and creating 2 dimensional design in a 3 dimensional form it just seemed fitting for me to take my design skills and transfer them across in to garden design and actually to be honest they are very transferable skills so when you 1st started to design your Chelsea the 1st things you did and I. Still handle I really believe it's the 1st place to start is by pushing a pen or pencil to paper when I'm drawing a garment on a piece of paper I'm actually imagining how that garment forced on my own particular body how does it hang what does the material do and lot quarries even with a garden and you know we're going to seeing a pen to paper on actually trying to imagine myself within the garden I mean for me you need to be really really quite fluid with with your movements of your pen or your pencil I mean to create beautiful curvy sensual lines you can only do that by actually feeling that whole movement through your body transpiring through your arm into the pencil onto the paper and that passion for dramatic artistic design led Menard to find an inspiration in the work of Mexican architect Luis Baraka I came across a Lewisburg and probably about 2 years ago and literally it was just pure pure excitement. This style of architecture it was exactly what is Mexico about what is the soul of Mexico one Solari is a Mexican film mica but before he was an architect with a passion for Barack and work he wanted to show the nature and and the peacefulness of nature in his work and he as well had a concept that the place where our human me has to be has to be peaceful peaceful and relate to art and to nature saw these lines instead of being cowards are very clean lines white corners and vibrant corners as well. When I came across a Louis Farrakhan's Well I actually started doodling pushing down lawyers at that stage they didn't represent anything. What I had to do is just keep on looking at those and see what was actually clean using to my what was actually coming through what image was coming through them and I wasn't even actually looking at them out of the garden at that stage and generally that is how I tend to start a garden anyway I literally just doodle paragraphs trademarks fluorescent shades of pink and red are a focal point of minorities garden but beyond that minority takes inspiration from the life of Louis Blair again he struggled he struggled to be recognized and it was his struggles that actually made me come to the decision that I was been a huge plants that were in the most drought tolerant that they kind of struggle to survive in in harsh environments can you tell me about the drought plants using really specific to Mexico all I have. Garvey Amerikana is in my garden personally there really is really beautiful structure planting all absolutely fantastic and they used to make tequila in Mexico so. Absolutely and what is lovely about them with the leaves are actually a really enclosed against each other as they open out you get that lovely undulates seeing impression of the leaf that was actually on the West against the. Luis Paragon also had another love in his life beyond architecture courses in his architectural spaces he would often include a pull the horses to cold often monologist take in the same idea at the center of his garden sits a couple was sculpture of a horse next to it lies zinc micro cement steps that float across a large pool. After the initial sketching I'm planning stages for his garden one of the knowledge is 1st tasks was the construction of those furniture pieces. Where abouts ago in a company called outdoors design the idea is that these steps look as if they are floating on top of the water so we've got to make sure that when the steel works the dawn and submerge into the water they almost look non-existent in fact they've got to look nonexistent that's not know almost about they've got to look as if they're not there so that's what we're about to look at. The layers and layers and sheets and sheets of metal it's an environment that are not very useful to you because. It's a bit nerve wracking experience because we only have one shot at this and we've got to get it right. We've got mice saps Oh boy gold they look for jobs. They look amazed I can't imagine that I drew something that big you know when I when I see it like this I didn't realize that I was doing a garden this big it's unbelievable I'm so excited about the. What they've done is they've actually put a metal element into the might cross the man's to make it look like this thing made almost not right you know when you get those metal talks in kitchens what I love about it is the fact that it has a call not metallic sheen but it's all fake you know it is it won't be that texture and he says well it's Louis Paragon it's Mexico and we want to bring out the textures but this is this is amazing in looks fantastic. We move on to the site at Chelsea all on the 10th of May when all the elements of the garden start arriving my day starts I'm at night 7 o'clock in the morning and we work solidly until 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening we have 10 or 12 days to get the garden looking beautiful people have described me as. Obsessive. As a little bit mad with a little bit crazy we have to be perfectionist because Chelsea is about her for. Said. You're listening to in the studio from b.b.c. World Service Well I'm Jack Dunkley in this program we're with British landscapers on of my knowledge moody looking at his design beneath the Mexican sky the dishes Chelsea Flower Show. One of the most unpredictable parts of building a garden Chelsea is the planting those living breathing moving and unforgiving things the pressure of getting them all right it's like nothing else whether they're going to come into flower my shoulder prune or the right saw me is the desire to get comes with sauce she writes I'm sure the flowers produce buds at exactly the right time is a delicate balancing act. My final chicken is plants at a nursery in the south of England just a week before he would and the Chelsea. Where 7 days from entering the site at Chelsea and we're here at Cal weights now St We've just arrived and hot thumping away a little bit so I don't know what to expect it's my last visit here now are on really a little bit nervous but also excited at the same time I'm tiring Jackson here are . Basically here to help in the case for the plants make final selections and be the 2nd set of ice the greenhouse actually smells like a jungle at the moment and says that's a real kind of leafy undergrowth sense in here. Oh boy oh yeah oh yeah. Oh Ok all of you see Ok but. Oh my God. Oh boy because it's. Something he says. And you don't get many of those that chose. This isn't a Garvie parasite on earth and normally you don't get to see as certain yet Chelsea and the golf this is in full flower this happened by chance it's about 3 metres tall and by the time it'll get to Chelsea it will have put on more height so I'm expecting to be expecting it to me for about 4 metres tall but it is such a drama I mean you one just has to look a serious look at all the lovely scales of the little leaflets going up the flower spike itself and then the formation of the flowers at the top How could I resist having this in my garden there's no way that I would have said no to that it's probably going to be a 1st for Chelsea. We've got some of the Afrikaners here now one of the good things about this plant is that it's not so like so many of the other colors that I've got in my garden it's actually quite earthy but that gives the planting scheme a good balance and I think that what we shouldn't really do is be preening everything or what would you think I think we need to take off the obvious the obvious damage it needs to tie with the other plants which we have because of course it's going to be a discord and some stuff I am sorry really over manicures and. Like we haven't had time to directly because my garden doesn't need to be able to tape your eyes and preens this garden is not about that it's. My treat the trees are absolutely beautiful actually what's lovely is that look these are coming into freezes well which is fantastic have and that's the reason why I selected them because I wanted them to be really really very natural in that branch structure in the growth and everything right as you can see the fall proper layer is beginning to peel and as the chain grows and ages you'll kind of starting up orange color coming out there is a lot but at the moment what we just be careful of is not to handle the trunks too much because you know what I don't want to do is I don't want to lose that my kind of peeling bark on a person like a carrot it's part of the character of the tree I don't think there's really an opportunity to separate gardening and it's intricate part of my art and gardening is art Absolutely I completely agree with Darren on you know when I go to sleep I don't actually pick a novel to read in bed I will actually be picking up a book on gardening and actually beside might be. I actually keep a little notebook in case I pick up on some interesting points all right not down gardening does pull you in. On the time has come the 1st day of the bill for monologist garden designer Chelsea . Standing outside the hospital it's $10.00 to $7.00 and it's a really cold day but hopefully the sun's going to come out and it's going to be a brilliant say on now just ready to get on to the Saudis are really excited I'm so glad that we finally arrived at the day that we begin Bale's I'm ready to build my dream. Oh hang on guys they've opened the gates we're ready to go in come on let's go. For advice like. We've arrived at my plots and at the moment it's just a flat clean canvas they definitely is a parallel between putting on a fashion and building a garden at Chelsea you're creating a shard. Remiss in all of this is constantly monitoring the bills and making sure that I use paste special attention and so all the little details of the garden because it's those little details that will bring this garden together and make it stand out exactly the same with a fashion chart. So we won't part of what they've actually just pushed off the 1st base of wall right let's have a look at all. Yeah what I've gone through is the quite majestic wolves in a Clemens seeing and what I can best describe as properly like a strong prepaying I've been looking at Barack and Wallace for some time now and I realize that Barack and never had a smooth walls that was not lovely authentic rough texture I worked very closely with the guys rendering the walls it was coming out a bit smooth then they managed to get a texture just in the small area and I saw that for you. To leave just by a little bit it's. A kind of just that stop. The right texture that's exactly what I want it's like almost like little pockmarks in it which is what I want a little speckles over a Most people would probably call this imperfect by having that rough finish they also kind of get this really kind of baked feel about them as well they almost. Sort of heat. And actually it really does remind all of a hawt baking Mexico really pleased that I've actually been able to bring real bright zing of color to Chelsea there's nothing about this garden that is shy. Ok 2nd day of the hills we've got this enormous tree is a knob uses the name is about 3 the meat. Is being slowly angled out of the truck is facing towards the truck and it is actually in midair Ok Thomas leaning towards you a bit more. But. It's funny I've always all my plans I've always said he I mean even named my trees one school. And one's called one pub law. We have to have a bit of fun oh my god. I think emotions will arise when those trees are actually put into their tree Piers because that's when all physically the garden coming a lawyer. So we're halfway through our build itself so he's getting a bit nervous now just trying to manage everyone is a bit of a knot there isn't it but the thing is we're not just garden designers we all having to leave the whole team in the litter is coming through. Where organizing we're basically it's a film stage isn't it creating a garden at Chelsea you're creating a state subsidy and what you're doing is you're directing your axes when everyone's under that amount of stress you're not only having to manage them but you also having to keep them happy and motivated it's not just about creating a pretty little bit of Haven there's a lot more that goes into Chelsea. We've we've got a few more days left actually the gardens are really coming together in the plantings really coming together as well. The cop a horse is now in place as you can see he's made out of aged copper wire one of my requirements for this sculpture was thought I didn't want the horse to kind of just be in place kind of sitting there saying I'm a horse I'm. A flow and a movement head and Rupert still the sculpture because I actually managed to capture that really well because when you look at the wharf he looks as if he's actually moving his head gently from one side to the other he's actually bends and cause of the wire to create not movements and even in the main you can see that there's movement as if some of the head it kind of just gently says which shape. This is by the end of this day the garden has to be absolutely finished because the judges come on to do the judging to morrow and nobody but nobody is allowed on the garden actual It's basically trying to make everything look very easy very relaxed very natural and we need to start tying in the pop culture and blues that we've only got at the back that because at the moment my always going straight to that and I'm not looking at anything out of what the other thing is that we all need to do because nobody is quite strong against that wall we need to stop breaking is a bad way that you know the other colors being brought forward here. Right yeah. And that caused that particular cause muscle for your wrist see how it's a bit of a double blue can we change that for more for a single Bloom because all of this is quite single and all of their all of a sudden there you've got like this double balloon flowering so if we can go that's perfect that's really nice. Right guys I think we're all gone the gravel looks really lovely the pots look really polished and have a really lovely last. I think that's it call it a day. Where all down. Right we're in the middle of your finished garden and harsh How are you feeling I'm feeling relieved that it's darn I'm feeling ecstatic that it actually looks like my vision when I designed this absolutely. Over the man with actually my 1st garden at Chelsea and even on kind of slightly lost for words. It just feels like a dream come true at the moment. Lovely sounds of winter here as well and it's just the mood is Powers just beautiful on the sun's out as well absolutely Mexican weather. Of office when I try to sculpture it's going to be live on forever for this garden 5 days of Shugg and there's still we're going to feel. I've been working with this garden for over a year. You know I have been living and breathing it every moment of every day so to watch this garden being broken down would be like going through. The death of a loved one it would be like going through 3 friends aren't going to try and avoid being here I really really don't think I can watch this garden being broken down and dismantled. It would be too to too powerful too strong and too painful. The knowledge Moody in the studio from the b.b.c. World Service was presented by myself Dunkley the producer was Sharma and it was a whistle down production. To him or editions of in the studio you can find the all caught at b.b.c. World Service dot com forward slash in the studio and if you're interested to hear more related programming search for the arts or the cultural front lawn on the b.b.c. Website. You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service read this is guaranteed to raise a smile such as. 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