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Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven and Arthur Parkinson.

And this week, it's just Arthur and I on our own without any guests because we're talking about something that we're so passionate about that we're going to play ping pong about biennials.

And which ones we like, when to sew and grow them,

how to do it, all things biennual. And also, of course, it's worth knowing that there aren't just

flowering biennials, there are of course edible biennials to two really key ones that we grow lots

of here, which are parsley and carrots.

So, Arthur, which are your favourite biennials?

Well, for me it's got to be wallflowers, mainly because they're very nostalgic.

I remember being little, knowing it was autumn, because my mum would collect me and my brotherflowers, mainly because they're very nostalgic. I remember being

little, knowing it was autumn because my mum would collect me and my brother from school and she'd

have walked by the flower market, which was on a Friday in our town, and at that time,

they'd sell bare-root bunches of wallflowers. So she'd be there in the playground with all the

other moms with two shopping bags full of wallflowers wrapped in

newspaper and then we plant them together.

But of course, as you know, Sarah, quite often the bare root mixed bunches contain yellow

quite often.

So I remember most springs, my mum would be quite annoyed because we'd have a variety.

I think it's the one called Tom Fum that would dominate the purples

and the reds that my mum craved to get. Some years it was good, some years it was bad. But no,

for me, wallflowers are the top of the biennial list. Yeah. I just want to reminisce as well, because I remember

with wallflowers, walking into the cottage garden at Sizzinghurst,

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