Sarah’s guide to why you should treasure the beauty of brown tulips - Episode 245

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Sarah Raven

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Sarah once overlooked the beauty of the brown tulip, but over time has only grown to love them more and more. There’s a shade for every space, and so if you’re seeking inspiration on how to bring the beauty of Dom Pedro and La Belle Epoque into your garden, then brown tulips take centre stage on this week’s ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’. In this episode, discover: The fascinating history and allure of rare brown tulip varietiesHow to “reflex” tulip petals for a show-stopping floral displayInspir...

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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,
0:13.0	lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden
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0:23.2	garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraven.com today
0:29.5	to discover even more.
0:44.8	Welcome to Gr Cook He to Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven.
1:00.0	And today I'm going to talk about something really dear to my heart, which is you're going to think is a bizarre subject, but it's brown tulips. And I love them. I really love tulips, the colour of tea, black tea, or tea with milk, or a latte, and, you know, a really
1:09.1	milky coffee. And I don't know why.
1:11.8	It's like I love green flowers, but I love brown flowers.
1:15.8	And I kind of always have kind of coppery, bronzy.
1:21.1	Yeah, they just, they're not autumnal to me.
1:24.1	They're just really glamorous and they look sort of slightly metallic but just really
1:29.7	rich and exotic and strange and I absolutely loved them. So I've got sort of two stories to tell really
1:38.0	about brown tulips and the first is that my parents grew a variety in their garden which was called Brun, B-R-U-I-N-E, which may think means brown, Wimpell.
1:52.5	And, oh, gosh, this was a beautiful tulip. So it was slightly kind of strange, pinky brown on the inside. I mean, that sounds really odd. It was mainly
2:03.7	brown, but it definitely had, you know, that thing of copper being slightly burnished with a sort
2:11.0	of goldeny, pinky hue over the top. So it was that in the centre, so in the petal interior. And in the exterior,
2:21.3	it was that, but with a really distinctive wash of silver over the outside. Wow, what a
2:27.0	glamorous thing it was, brun wimple. Now, why do I say it was? Because what happened,
2:32.6	we had quite a lot of it here, but then an organic bowl grower,
2:37.7	I mean, this is total hearsay, but this is what I gather, bought all the stock of it,
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