Magnificent Gladioli with Tom Brown, Head Gardener & Tutor at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation - Episode 22

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Sarah Raven

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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As the summer months are upon us and the prospect of lovely evening gatherings in the garden grows ever more appealing, there’s a marvellous opportunity to spruce up your garden with a selection of gorgeous Gladioli. It’s not too late in the year to plant your own, so now is a perfect time for us to consider some of the best Gladioli to bring a natural and harmonious ensemble of colour to your space - this week with the help of the wonderful Tom Brown, Head Gardener & Tutor at West Dean C...

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0:00.0	You can find more information, photos and advice sheets on all the plants and recipes that we talk about in this podcast by heading to the links in the show notes or on our website at sarahavin.com.
0:20.0	Welcome to GrowCook Eat to Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and my work colleague and friend Arthur Parkinson.
0:28.2	Now today we are really happy to have Tom Brown, who is head gardener currently at West Dean, which is that wonderful garden in West Sussex
0:41.5	rather than East Sussex,
0:42.5	so in the next door county to me,
0:44.1	with all those incredible Victorian glasshouses.
0:47.7	And of course, the Arts and Craft Centre,
0:50.6	where you can learn everything from how to make a mosaic to, well, learn how to garden with
0:57.4	Tom.
1:02.8	They have a wonderful big poster as you come in saying make time to make, which I think is a, is that right, Tom?
1:12.0	That's what, yeah.
1:12.7	Yeah, which I love.
1:14.2	A sculpture rather than sat nav, all these sorts of, um, yeah.
1:17.8	Little nice one-liners.
1:19.1	Yeah, exactly.
1:20.4	So, um, I, I first met Tom actually, not at West Dean, but at Parram, which is another
1:26.3	unbelievably beautiful garden, again in West Sus, but at Parram, which is another unbelievably beautiful garden,
1:29.1	again in West Sussex, over the border from here. And I met him because he was doing lots of
1:34.8	trials there, which I was writing about for the Telegraph. And we became friends through gardening,
1:40.7	basically. But Tom, will you tell us about how you first got into gardening and
1:45.7	why and where you've trained and just give us a bit of background?
1:50.4	Yeah, sure. Well, as a sort of quite a young, young man, which was four years ago than I
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