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Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and usually my mate, Arthur

Parkinson. But today, Arthur is actually here listening, but he's not going to be part of this

chat because we do find a three-way conversation much more difficult without interrupting each other

all the time. And I really wanted to chat to somebody who I admire very much called Willow Crosley,

who is probably half my age or less, but I had a lovely moment in my life about three years ago

where I walked into a house that Willow had done the wedding

for and the whole marquee and everything had gone. I'd seen the market. It was quite spectacular.

But a lot of the flowers had come into the house and it was the weirdest thing because I walked

into the kitchen and all over the table,

it was as if I felt like Arthur and I had done the flowers, but we hadn't.

And it was the most lovely sort of thing where I just literally, it was this cavalcade of single stems of dahlias all the way down, this massive, massive table.

And it was just triumphant, beautiful,

kind of joyful. It was stylish as well as being incredibly crazy colours and shapes and all these dahlias, like a lot of cactus dahlias, and then enough of the singles

to get a good balance between the flower shapes and everything.

Anyway, I just was blown away by it and how wonderful it looked.

And I asked who done it, and it turned out to be Willow.

And so ever since then, she's very much been on my radar.

And then I walked into a much been on my radar.

And then I walked into a party of Jam Jar Flowers who had this fantastic exhibition of pressed flowers in Gloucestershire at time last summer.

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