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Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange with me, Arthur Parkinson and my friend Sarah Raven.

In this episode, we're going to be talking about two stalwarts of the cutting garden and also the container garden, Cosmos and Zinias, two really profusely flowering flower plants for summer

and they're brilliant in the garden for garden presents

and also in the vase. They thrive on being cut

so they're one of mine and Sarah's favourite seeds

to be planting and sewing now.

So Sarah, what zineas and cosmos are you going to be filling the garden with this year at Perch Hill?

Well, it's funny.

I mean, Cosmos are dear to my heart, and you were a bit worried when I suggested this,

that we talked about Cosmos and Zinias too much already.

But I sort of feel you almost can't talk about them too much as long as you've got something new to say.

And that's because for me, they were my starting point.

And when I did my meter square patches when I was still a medic working in Brighton, these trial patches of cut flowers.

And I compared Calendulas, Salvoviridus blue, antirinemes

with cosmos. Cosmos came out top in terms of productivity, both in terms of how many

stems I could pick per week, but also how many weeks that they produced from coming into flower in the middle of July, if you plant them

now, even if you sow them now, but if you plant plugs for sure, and going on cropping until

with us at Perchill, it's early November. But I think over the years, that's why I want to talk

about it again, there is a big thing that's happened with

Cosmos, which is that they are bred, a lot of the seed is actually grown out in Morocco. And

what happens with that is that you are selecting for a different microclimate to ours, with a

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