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Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange with me, Arthur Parkinson and my friend Sarah Raven.

Today we're going to be talking about a group of plants that really have become in vogue summer stalwarts and autumn stalwartes for the English garden.

And in the past, I hasten to say probably five years.

I remember when I first got Sarah's book the Baldwin Point Garden.

I don't remember seeing any salvias in it, I might be mistaken,

but now I know at Perchill and in my garden and many other gardens across the country,

salvias have become a must-have plant.

They just flower and flower, and they're very easy to keep looking healthy and happy.

Sarah, could you tell me when you first decided to introduce salvias to Perch Hill?

Yeah, my parents, funny enough, had always had salvi's in their gardens. They had a garden just outside Cambridge and they had a garden on the west coast of Scotland and it was the one in Cambridge on chalk that they always had salves actually. But that's very much because my dad was love collecting plants and they spend a lot of time in Italy and a bit in Greece in the days when you could have a plant collector's license

and bring cuttings back.

So I remember definitely quite a few really long and late flowering salvi's in their garden.

I'm afraid I can't remember particularly which,

but they were ones like Amistad, you know, those sort of

rich blues.

Oh, really?

And I remember very well that my dad always used to propagate them from one year to the next

because much as it's very freely drained where they are on the Cambridgeshire, Hartfordshire

border, it can have quite harsh winters. And of course,

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