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Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange with me, Sarah Raven, and it's absolutely lovely to have Arthur back with us today. And the reason he's back is that he's taking a little break from his mega year of writing.

He's writing, well, perhaps he'll tell us which new books he's working on.

But he was keen to join because we're both so fanatically wanting to get the message out there

about pollinators and how incredibly important it is.

So that's why he's back to join me.

And we're going to try and give you our 12 best plants throughout the year for pollinators,

but particularly extending it out from just honeybees right the way out of the whole bee population and butterflies,

and of course hoverflies, which are incredibly important pollinators, and even wasps, which I know are rather controversial.

Very, very welcome, Martha, lovely to have you here.

Hello, Sarah. This is such a nice topic for us both, because it's something we've been passionate about the years.

I mean, it's really nice that everyone is on the

bandwagon, isn't it? But you certainly started this in terms of making people realize that you can

have a gorgeous garden, but still one of the buildings for bees. So it's great that you've

latched onto it more or more, isn't it? It so is. I mean, I didn't start it, but I certainly, I'm a great... The first woman on television to do it, I'd say.

Well, I'm just, I love getting the word out. So I guess straight into it, really, I mean,

we both agreed that we would go right the way through the year because it's easy to just

concentrate on the sort of spring and summer. But of course, that isn't the whole story, because if you are a bee and you're a bumblebee

and you're emerging early in the year, you need forage straight away when you're just coming

out of hibernation.

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