Autumn bulb planting for a year of beauty with Josie Lewis - Episode 186

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Sarah Raven

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4.8 • 788 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Autumn is an exciting moment where your bulb planting now starts the colourful symphony that emerges the following spring, so it’s a perfect time to start getting creative.Head Gardener Josie Lewis joins Sarah on ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ to share her top list of bulbs to plant this autumn, how many bulbs fill out your space, and we run through the art of the bulb lasagne.In this episode, discover:The irresistibly scented tulips like ‘Orca’ and ‘Hermitage’ which bring with them a splash of c...

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by sarahraven.com, which is home to everything you need for a truly
0:06.3	beautiful and productive garden. You'll also find great and essential gardening kit and stylish,
0:12.9	lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden
0:19.8	and the house being tied together. There's also plenty of
0:23.1	garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraven.com
0:29.1	today to discover even more. Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today I'm joined by Josie,
0:47.5	because we thought as we're walking around the garden and making plans and plotting and planning
0:53.0	and designing all our bulb combinations for next
0:57.1	spring. Her take on bulbs is sometimes, not always, but sometimes slightly different to mine.
1:03.8	And she looks at it from a design point of view, of course, but also incredibly practical point of view. So what are the things, what are the
1:13.8	bulbs that you can plant in the autumn season that give you really, really high performance with
1:20.0	somehow less maintenance and somehow easier to look after? So welcome, Josie. It's lovely to have you here.
1:28.8	Thank you very much.
1:35.1	And so I'm just going to interview you, really, if that's all right, and just get you to sort of justify why you've chosen what you've chosen. So I think you've chosen 14 or 15 bulbs that are your
1:43.4	absolute must-have. And I'm going to grill you as to why
1:47.2	they're so good. And then we'll move on to the next one. So let's make a start. So let's start,
1:53.1	should we start with tulips? Because they are everybody's favorite autumn planting spring
1:57.4	flowering bulb. So talk me through your five selections of tulips.
2:05.4	Okay. So I've chosen these really because, as you say, they're relatively trouble-free and they give you such a good show.
2:14.5	I'll start off the, this is an early tulip, hawker, which is an orange. You know,
2:20.5	it's a great introduction to tulip season with its big pow of orange. It's a double, so you
2:28.1	don't need that many in a pot because it's quite a big head on it. And so, and we often don't combine it with anything.
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