Details

Release year: 2015

Storyline

Irishwoman Mary Reynolds' journey from rank outsider to winner of a Gold Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show.

Top credits

Directors

Vivienne De Courcy

Writers

Vivienne De Courcy

Cast

Emma Greenwell — Mary Reynolds
Tom Hughes — Christy Collard
Alex Macqueen — Nigel Hogg
Janie Dee — Marigold

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Did you know

• The original crew of botanist builders, including the real Christy Collard, who had built her Chelsea competition garden 14 years prior, recreated Mary's garden.

• Mary Reynolds and Christy Collard are close friends, though they did not stay romantically involved. Reynolds found the film very romantic, and while it was "weird" to watch it with Collard, they had "great fun about it, and we slag each other mercilessly about it."

• The director climbed several thousand feet to the top of a mountain in Ethiopia to get a single shot.