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today to discover even more. Welcome to GrowCookie to Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today joined by my co-host, Arthur Parkinson, who, well, we both share a great passion for Pelagoniums.

So why don't you kick us off, Arthur, and tell us all why you love them, and then I'll back you up.

Well, I remember working at Nottingham Castle as an apprentice in the cafe quite a while ago now.

And I remember finishing my shift and walking past very classic bedding of bedding plants in the

summer. And one year they'd done pelagoniums, Atter of Roses, very fancy for Nottingham,

but it was a real trendsetter that's catched on. And I remember just walking past this

huge urn of them. And I took some home for the vase, actually, because I just loved the smell of them.

And I remember sitting on the tram for half an hour, literally just smelling, smelling, smelling, smelling, the most gorgeous fragrance.

And then when I first visited your garden, you'd got them everywhere.

And I think increasingly, both in terms of pot recipes and always in flower

arrangements, it is foliage first. So when you find a foliage that gives you scent, it's such a

joyful thing that's helpful to both the flowers and the look. And I just can't believe how much

of a trend set of they become, particularly in the last

two years.

You can't walk into any makeup shop or fragrance shop without pelagoniums now being mentioned.

It is incredible.

I'd love to know the farm that they're all being grown at because they must be absolutely

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