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Welcome back to our podcast, Grow Cook, Eat Arrange, with Sarah Raven and Arthur Parkinson.

And this is an episode that we thought Arthur and I would explain the terms that we throw around, perhaps a little bit too liberally.

I always think gardening has a new language that you have to learn and it shouldn't

be assumed that you know it. And it doesn't need to be patronising. It's like if you don't know

how to speak Japanese, how are you going to understand Japanese? So for those of you who are seasoned

gardeners, you can turn off right now. You really don't need to listen to this. But for those of you

who are

quite new to gardening, we might be describing some things that you'll find useful.

So, Arthur, will you tell me what an annual is, first of all?

An annual is a plant that lives all within one season, so it germinates as a seed, grows, flowers, sets its seed, normally within about six months.

And annuals divide into two groups. One is called Hardyy and what that means is it can take the frost

and it can actually live in the garden through the winter and come into growth again in the

spring. It won't get killed by the frost. That's a hardy annual and a classic example is a corn poppy

that could get sown in a field after its mother has flowered in the summer, in the autumn.

It germinates, grows all the way gently through the winter, and then in the spring and summer it comes into flower.

A half-ardiannual, a classic example and a plant that Arthur and I both grow lots of is a cosmos. Now that comes

from warmer climates, and if that is subjected to frost, it'll die. And so you actually sew that

in March and April to plant out once the frosts are over in your garden, and it will be zapped by the

frost again in the autumn. So annuals are over in your garden and it will be zapped by the frost again in the autumn.

So annuals are plants that Arthur and I both adore, both in terms of edible but even more

for Arthur in the terms of ornamental varieties. And particularly it's because they're cut and

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