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today to discover even more. Welcome to GrCook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and different guests.

And this week I am so happy to have an old flower friend and colleague Simon Lysitt joining me and Simon's been here to

teach at Putschill many times and loves it here so of course I love him but also I love his flowers

and he's incredibly exuberant flamboyantant, joyful, glorious, colourful, sometimes kind of really pushing,

not being too massively overtasteful, which I'm all for, and just sort of loving everything

that flowers can bring. So he's a really top-notch florist, one of the best in the country at the moment,

without doubt. Welcome, Simon. It's lovely to have you on the podcast. Wow, well, thank you.

That was the most gorgeous. I wish I'd recorded that myself. That was such a lovely introduction.

Thank you. And I particularly like the fact that you and I have this bond over not being too tasteful

most of the time when we're arranging our flowers.

Exactly.

There's nothing worse than ghastly good taste in my view.

I think, I think, I mean, your garden is just, you know, my joyous times at Perchill

are whenever I'm there,

but I in particular remember standing amongst the daily test beds when we were together last

and you saying, oh, I don't know, is that one just a bit too out there? And then we were both like,

of course it's not. It's fantastic. Exactly. Exactly. No, it's like if it's what my mum would call vulgar, then we've got to take it seriously and have a really good look at it because that probably means that it's sort of really joyful and jolly and the sort of thing that will bring the spice to the party, basically.

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