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The reason is that I thought, as we've now been going for three years and had amazing millions of downloads,

I just felt it was quite nice to welcome any new listeners and to describe a little bit

about one of the pillars of the way I think can garden and one of the pillars of the Purcharer Garden here.

And that's about colour and what to do with it, really.

So I'm somebody who really loves a full range of colour.

But obviously we don't want all our gardens and our vases and our pots to end up looking like

countless rainbows all the way down the path because that gets a little bit manic and

busy and sort of quite joyful but a bit tiring if that's the right word and actually having

a little bit more calmness in the way that you combine

colour really is easy on the eye and actually allows each tone of colours to really sort of glow

and for you to see them, whether they're pales and sort of whites and off whites or whether

they're dark rich luxuriant colours. So I suppose over the years I have evolved a system that I

know really, really works. It definitely works for me, but I actually think it kind of works for

everybody. and that is

that I have divided the plant world, the flowering world really, because greens I think of

almost like a background colour, not some of them, not the noisier greens, but so I'm sort

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