Planting a Paradise: Perfect Your Flower Yard with Arthur Parkinson - Episode 145

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Arthur Parkinson’s evocative, elaborate descriptions of plants might be second only to his ability to elicit a charming image of garden pollinators through his drawings. His latest book is a celebration of every single garden, and the plants perfect to create ‘a living dance of lavish colours’ - it’s a delight to have him return to the podcast to share how the new book, Planting a Paradise, was brought to life. In this episode, discover: Arthur’s comfort in delightful drawings as an artistic ...

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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
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0:23.1	garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraban.com
0:29.1	today to discover even more. Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today I am rejoined by the wonderful Arthur Parkinson, who used to be my co-host, so to speak.
0:52.9	And the good news is that Arthur is finished writing one of his
0:58.4	two books that he had to do this year. And so he's able to join us again much more often,
1:04.3	which is such good news. And so welcome back, Arthur. It's lovely to have you back on the podcast.
1:12.1	Thank you for having me back,
1:18.1	fluttering back in. And you've been doing so well, I've been listening, of course, and you're amazing.
1:21.3	You don't need me back. So I'm very grateful you're having me back a little bit more.
1:35.8	Oh, no, of course I need you back. And of course, all our listeners have missed you very, very much. So I thought it was a really good thing to kind of re-release you in a way, which is to talk about what you've been doing, which is writing another fantastic book.
1:41.8	And so I just wanted to chat to Arthur about his new book called The Flower Yard, Planting a Paradise. So it's sort of linked to his last book, well, last but one
1:46.0	book actually, because there's been a hen book in between. But planting a paradise, a year of
1:50.9	pots and pollinators is Arthur's new book. And I've been lucky enough to be sent an early copy.
1:58.2	So I've read it and looked at it, and all the photographs, as always,
2:02.2	are by Arthur. But the thing that for me was really exciting kind of development about this
2:08.8	book is that it's got lots of Arthur's drawings. And any of you who've seen Chicken Boy,
2:15.4	his latest book that came out in the spring, which is about his
2:20.2	other mutual love, which is hens. There are really fantastically characterful, beautiful,
2:28.3	eccentric in some, you know, some cases, but just so resonant drawings of every type of hen. And in this book,
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