The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge
The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge 2015, presented by Joe Swift (Gardeners’ World) will see six amateurs designers compete to win the biggest prize in gardening - to design and build a garden on Main Avenue at the RHS Chelsea Flower show in 2015.
Seasons
1. Cottage Gardens at Harlow Carr
Air Date: 2015-05-11
The competition starts at RHS Harlow Carr in Harrogate, where the designers are given four days, a 3x4m plot and a limited budget to create a show garden in the Cottage Garden style - a mini Chelsea. They are sent to a local wholesale nursery to source their plants and are helped and mentored throughout the process by Joe, who won a gold medal at Chelsea in 2012.
2. Formal Gardens at Sudeley Castle
Air Date: 2015-05-12
The five remaining designers are sent to the impressive Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, where they have to create formal gardens on a 4x4m plot. They have just four days to complete their garden and being a formal garden, they have to include a piece of topiary - a two metre-high yew hedge that they have shaped themselves.
3. Conceptual Gardens at Painswick Rocco Gardens
Air Date: 2015-05-13
Only four designers remain and this time they have come to Painswick Rocco Gardens in the heart of the Cotswolds. This week they have to create conceptual gardens which will showcase their creativity and impress judges RHS judge James Alexander Sinclair and Chelsea gold winner Ann Marie Powell.
4. The Final at RHS Wisley
Air Date: 2015-05-14
The three finalists go to the RHS Headquarters in Wisley where they have five days and their biggest budget yet to create a show garden that will prove they are a worthy of winning the biggest prize in gardening - to design a garden on the Main Avenue at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
1. Cottage Gardens
Air Date: 2016-05-01
Joe Swift presents as six amateur garden designers compete for the chance to design and build a garden on Main Avenue at the Chelsea Flower Show 2015, a life-changing opportunity that can launch one designer's career.
2. Formal Gardens
Air Date: 2016-05-08
Presenter Joe Swift takes the five remaining designers to the grounds of Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire where they have to create formal gardens to impress RHS judge James Alexander-Sinclair and gold medal-winning garden designer Ann-Marie Powell. They have just four days to showcase their design skills, and their gardens must include a two-metre-high piece of topiary that they have shaped themselves from yew hedge.
3. Conceptual Gardens
Air Date: 2016-05-15
The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge is a new competition for BBC2 with one of the biggest prizes in gardening - to design and build a garden on Main Avenue at the Chelsea Flower Show 2015. It's a prize that can launch one designer's career. In each episode, they will design, build, shop for and plant a show garden in a different style.
4. The Final
Air Date: 2016-05-22
It's the final of The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge, a new competition for BBC2, and in this episode one designer is picked to design a garden on Main Avenue at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015. The pressure is on as the final three designers go to the RHS headquarters in Wisley, where they have five days and their biggest budget yet to create a show garden that will prove they are worthy of going to Chelsea. Mentored and advised by Joe Swift, the designers need to create flawless designs along with perfecting planting if they want to impress judges James Alexander-Sinclair and Ann-Marie Powell and win this life-changing opportunity.
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Rating
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Release Date
2015-05-11
Episodes
8 (2 seasons)
Status
Ended
