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Everybody welcome, Adam Frost.

Oh, my God.

How are we all?

Bless you. Thank you very much. It still blows me away coming. I've just had to do an interview with, well, a couple of people. One of it was Essex Radio and about what's it like coming to this area. And honestly, lots of people know that I was, you know, I was at school in Harlow and I'm sort of got a lot of family in the area. And I always feel like there's this sort of acceptance. Like I'm like one of theirs. Nice. And it feels nice and warm and I feel safe. Fuzzy and cozy and lovely. Yeah, it's nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We've been through a bit of a journey today, though, haven't we really. I mean, goodness me, this morning, wasn't it horrible or the rain? And everybody still came, which was lovely. And now we've got this absolutely glorious afternoon. So it's turned out all right. Thank you for staying with us. I'm Claire Venice from Garden's Log magazine. I mean, to be fair, I'd wish you'd all gone home and then we could have done a short one.

He did, he did, to be fair.

And I'd now be on the M-25 to Heathrow, but, you know, but you know, for Claire's benefit, I'm pleased to stay. Oh, well, thank you, Adam. Thanks, everybody. Your cup of tea is coming. Good, good. You cover to go. Well, this session is talking about plants that can give colour for a long time throughout the year, which is probably something we've had a challenge with the weather that we've had.

So how do we cope with the weather that we've been having, the lots of rain, the lots of sun,

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