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Welcome to Grow Cookies Range, the podcast of me and today, an old friend and colleague of mine, Tricia Gild, who I have known from a distance for a very long time. And then in

2017, Tricia and I were involved with the Radio 2 gardens with Anna Carice,

and we basically put together the design for a really colourful cutting garden.

And the whole idea is it was all about colour and flowers and abundance,

which I feel is such a foundation stone to Trisha's

business, which is of course Designers Guild and her sort of flagship store in the Kings Road

has been a place I have been visiting a very, very long time. And actually, I'm wittering on

too long now before I say hello to Trisha, but I'm sitting in a room now where I remember so well going to a warehouse sale

and buying the most incredibly vivid green and blue and turquoise and white,

almost as if sort of not splashed with paint but sort of striped with paint. And I absolutely

adored them and they lit my life every single day for about two decades. Anyway, welcome, Tricia.

It's lovely to have you a fellow lover of colour. Well, it's lovely to chat to you and to be with you again. We always

get on so well, Sarah. Yeah. It's great. It's lovely to see your smiley face. So I suppose,

Tricia, as well as, well, we had fun on that garden now six years ago, crazily. We're just coming up to Chelsea again. So it's sort of

fresh in my mind. And it was such a joyful experience working with you and your team and your

studio and the importance of daily as to you. But I'd love you to talk about and tell our listeners

about how you got into gardening, where you garden and what you love about gardening,

I suppose. Well, I mean, that experience of working with you because you know so much more

about everything to do with flowers than I do. But it was just a real education for me. And it was,

you know, my first memories of being given some

seeds in my grandfather's garden. I was, I think, three or four years old. And their garden with their

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