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Welcome to Grow Cooket Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and Roving Guests.

And today I'm joined by our very regular head gardener Josie Lewis.

I mean, very regular in terms of she's... I'm always here.

On the podcast very regularly. And do you know what we thought we'd talk about today is Hellebors, which I know in a sense you're all thinking, oh, everybody talks about Hellebors as

winter proceeds towards spring. But the thing is that we have just been so

blown away by trials that we've had here of new varieties, as well as tried and tested ones that we've

had in the garden now for three decades in some cases, that we thought we'd talk about them again.

And the main sort of jogger for that was we had snow here, really quite a lot of snow last week.

And, you know, all the pots, the containers were completely covered in snow.

And it was just so noticeable the things that have not survived, or if they have survived, which

they may well have done, they're going to break from the base and come back like the hookras,

which have really taken a bit of a bashing from the snow.

Hellebors, it's as if nothing has happened.

Now the snow has gone.

We've had, you know, we went to minus seven here, which is quite unusual for us in early part of last week.

And that is just what's remarkable about them.

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