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

Today, we decided we would concentrate on the family of plants that are looking really totally magnificent in the garden here, this moment, and that are dahlias. Now dailyas this year have

been bizarre because it's been so cold, grey and wet all the way through the summer. Sometimes

we have our first daily coming into flower here about the 20th of June. This year, honestly, it was

four or six weeks later. It's just been so late.

But they're so splendid now, I think, because they've taken longer to come up to flower,

that we just thought we couldn't miss luxuriating in them.

And so what we're going to do is give you our sort of 10 favourite varieties, both of us, which are some of the same, some

different, and then just chat, general daily a chat.

So, Arthur, do you want to kick off with perhaps your number one favourite right now. And why? So my number one favourite,

I think, is a single because I love the ones that are good for bees and butterflies. And

the wonderful thing about the single daly is they will provide an ectobank right up until

the first frost. It's one called Bishop of Auckland.

And I love the Bishop family because they give good foliage. And I think in a pot and a small garden foliage is a big thing. I think it's fine for big gardens to have a lot of decadives,

but you do end up with foliage like cabbage. So true. And the slugs love that too.

Yeah, slugs love that too. And also big foliage in pots means

you can only really have a dahlia in a pot, whereas the bishop family is more lacy like a black

elder, so I like them. I like Auckland probably the most. It's very voliferous and the tuba

whenever I've lifted them is a lot bigger than some of the

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