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Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange with me after Parkinson and Sayre Raven.

Today we're going to be talking about crocuses, anti-Rynums, otherwise known as Snaprogans, and Char.

Outside now, my garden's getting its first proper pools of spring colour,

thanks to one small but incredibly wonderful bulb called the crocus.

And I'm so glad to be looking out the window today at these beautiful Cadbury purple chocolate bar dolly tubs,

thanks to them being brimming with a crocus called flower record.

It's quite a big wrapper of a flower and it's like a lovely, almost blown up balloon.

And it's quite dull today, but I guarantee you when the sun comes out, each flower will open

and you'll see these most incredible orange stamens that are like burning

little flickers of candles and what that will bring into the garden will be the first proper

buzzing of the year, the queen bumblebees who will be looking around the sky at this time of year

and gravitating to anywhere that's got these flowers in them because they're stacked

full of pollen and nectar. And I'm sure at Perch Hill, Sarah's got many more varieties in flower

two. I love crocus as well. I really, I love them having seen them in the wild with my dad

when I was a child in roads, just beautiful carpets of these things. And also on a botanising trip

in March with my dad, well, my whole family actually up a mountain called Montegrappa,

which is where that delicious spirit comes from in Italy. And it's just amazing. As soon as you

get to the snow melt, so where the snow

basically turns to mush, you get this incredible line for as far as you can see of where these

crocus are just, just coming into flower as the snow withdraws further and further up the

mountain. You get this incredible moving line of crocus.

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