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Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange with me, Arthur Parkinson and Sarah Raven.

In this episode, we're going to be talking about garden props, not garden plants,

but all the props support and make a garden feel like home,

be there candles, tables, umbrellas, even gravel and fence panels. And the thing about these things is they can

really influence the overall look and feel of a garden. So if you get them wrong, you can have a

real battle on your hands with the overall visual picture. So me and Sarah thought, it would be

really worthwhile just talking about our personal favourite things to have in a garden.

And I know at Perch Hill, there's lots of different rooms, but in each room, they are different areas to sit and relax and almost feel like you're within a room within the garden.

What are your favourite things at this time here to bring into the garden on a summer evening?

Well, I definitely have found that I need to concentrate on seating in a garden.

And that's because I get up really early in the morning and I go out and I tend to do my Instagram first thing in the morning because it's nice light and it's quiet and everything.

But if I don't consciously think about it, I don't, there's not a seat.

So then I want to sit down, look at the pollinators, you know, if it's not peeing with rain, as it has been most of this summer.

I just want to have that bit of calm and quiet when I'm on my own.

There's no one here working or whatever.

So for me, not necessarily a table, but just a few seats in different, you know, particularly in the early morning.

For me, it's the east facing seat or possibly south facing seat.

And that for me is fundamental.

And this garden is so jam-packed.

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