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Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven,

and at the moment a series of interesting plants, people, guests.

Today, it's Gary Newell, who is our senior horticultural buyer,

and he's actually joined me on the podcast, this is his third time, in fact, because he is a font of plant knowledge. And I love the fact

that Gary's young and I'm old, and so he comes from a slightly different standpoint to me. And he is

someone who is really passionate, as am I, about sustainability and biodiversity

and gardens being places for nature and playing an incredibly important part in the whole life

of our planet. So welcome, Garrett. It's lovely to have you back. Thank you for having me. Looking forward to this one. Good. So today, Gary and I are going to chat about the year that we're in, which is the year of the coronation. And obviously, we haven't had those very often. And so we just thought it was just quite an interesting kind of

concept to think what we would both sow and grow because it is this particular year that kind of

remind us of coronation themes really. And so what we agreed is that we would chat about the red, white and blue

theme. And is there anything that looks beautiful with that, that colour theme? And then we also thought

we'd talk about sort of regal colours, so golds and coppers, and then perhaps sort of really

regal velvety blues and purples and the final thing is the king

loves nature and is very very keen on biodiversity as we all know and looking after the environment

and so that is perhaps the first or final theme so things that are very, very good in the garden for nature.

So Gary, do you want to kick off? What would be the first plant that you would think of

introducing into a garden to celebrate the year of the coronation?

Let's kick off with the golden themes. I think there's a really interesting series that we've introduced this

year called the Rudbechia Enchanted series. Oh yes, lovely. You've trialled them at Perch Hill last year,

I know, and you're really fond of them as well. There's a few really good golden varieties within

that series, one of which called Nightfall. Yeah. And I think the main interest to find this plant,

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