Perfect flowers for a biodiverse buzz in your garden with Arthur Parkinson - Episode 198

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4.8 • 788 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Butterflies and bees can only thrive in a garden with a ‘living buffet’ to which they can flock, which is why biodiversity is the hot topic for Sarah and Arthur in this latest episode of grow, cook, eat, arrange.Reflecting on a year in which pollinators have struggled and needed particular support, they share the best plant varieties for bringing a much-needed buzz into your gardens, and discuss why nighttime pollinators ought not be forgotten.In this episode, discover:Sarah & Arthur’s ab...

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by sarahraven.com, which is home to everything you need for a truly
0:06.3	beautiful and productive garden. You'll also find great and essential gardening kit and stylish,
0:12.9	lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden
0:19.8	and the house being tied together. There's also plenty of
0:23.1	garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraven.com today
0:29.4	to discover even more. Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of Sarah Raven and in this episode of me, Arthur Parkinson.
0:47.6	And what we thought we'd do, seeing as we're recording this now in autumn, is do a sort of summary of garden biodiversity. With us both
0:57.3	been on social media, we've noticed how alarming for a lot of gardeners and everybody really,
1:02.8	whether you're gardeners or not, the lack of insects has been this summer due to the rain and
1:08.3	the cold, but also possibly other things. So what means so if what we'd do
1:11.9	is just have a chat and a recap really of how we feel our gardens are helping nature and things
1:18.0	we can improve on and the plants that this year we've really noticed, bees and butterflies and moths
1:23.3	really be drawn to in the garden. Yeah, it is definitely been really noticeable because we had
1:30.5	such a wet spring and then went on to have a wet early summer and even July, to be honest,
1:38.3	though insect populations were much lower. Not birds with us, but definitely insect populations. And in a way, I think we
1:47.5	had it less here because we're so flower-rich than I noticed, as you say, on guests coming to the
1:55.8	garden and customers coming to the garden on the garden openings, just sort of saying, oh, gosh, you've
2:01.0	got lots of bees here. We haven't got any bees. And I think it drew Josie in the gardening teams
2:07.3	and my attention to the fact that it's so important to have late flowering things, because if
2:14.6	insects are emerging late, they're going to need late flowers for pollen and nectar.
2:19.6	And so classic dahlias like the Honker series, those lovely starry ones,
2:25.4	and the Bishop's children, etc. are just super, super important, I think.
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