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to discover even more. Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange with me Arthur Parkinson and Sarah Raven

and today we are going through our spring and summer 2024 range of plants, bulbs

and all kinds of beautiful things for the garden

because what's wonderful about each season is Sarah launches

all these beautiful things that together we've known about for sometimes a couple of years.

So it's so exciting to see all these beautiful new varieties

and some old favourites return and get us really focused onto the growing year ahead.

So, Sarah, what's your first pick of the collections?

So I'm really glad that you suggested us doing this because it is fun to go through

and really make your top of the pops sort of list.

And for me, there is no doubt in my mind that last year, the Delia, that I just thought was

unbelievably extraordinarily beautiful and stylish, on top of the ones, I mean, you know,

excluding the ones that we breed, which obviously I think are lovely, because I wouldn't have

bred them otherwise,

but is a variety called Night Silence. And it's actually bred by a guy called Peter in the Netherlands,

and I've done a bit of work with him recently on breeding some other varieties. But I always find

going to his field really enlightening and exciting because he often has something that is just jaw-dropping.

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