You can find more information, photos and advice sheets on all the plants and recipes that we talk about in this podcast by heading to the links in the show notes or on our website at sarahraven.com. This is the podcast Grow Cook Eat Arrange with Sarah Raven and Arthur Parkinson

and this week we're going to talk about two things that are absolute classic late winter

edibles and ornamental crops and they are snowdrops and rosemary.

Thank you. and they are snowdrops and rosemary. So, Arthur, tell me what your favourite snowdrop is.

My favourite one, Sarah, is unusually for me, it's sort of like a man-made snowdrop, really.

It's the double snowdrop, Flora Polino.

And it's a huge thing.

It's like a big old parrot bird cage being hung on by this little pendulum.

And it's quite short.

And you don't really notice it in the garden garden apart from it looking like a little ghost or

bit of confetti but if you pick it and what I love to do is I'll pick it and I'll float it

so you can see all these beautiful lymie green petals really is the most beautiful creature so

I've got quite a few of those in the garden at this time year specifically for picking because

unfortunately unlike the single one they are no specifically for picking, because unfortunately, unlike the

single one, they are no good for bumblebees. Yes, of course, because the nectaries of the flower

have been bred into the secondary petaloids, the extra rows of petals, haven't they?

That's the thing about double flowers. I think, you know, let's mention that.

Particularly in February, crocus and snowdrops are really essential source of pollen

and nectar for the early emerging bumblebees that are coming out of hibernation.

And so having snowdrops and crocus are plenty in your garden at this time of year is

incredibly important for the

survival of bee communities and the singles always will have a higher concentration of nectar and

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