Standout Stalwarts from the Latest Trials at Perch Hill - Episode 84

grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends

Sarah Raven

Cook, Arranging, Home, Flower Arranging, Grow, Arrangements, Kitchen, Vegetables, Flowers, Gardener, Veg Garden, Lifestyle, Gardening, Leisure, Home & Garden, Food, Cooking, Arts, Eating, Eat, Growing, Planting, Produce, Garden, Sarah Raven

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Every year at Perch Hill we trial some of the most promising flower families in search of the most spectacular, scented, showstopping varieties, and in this week’s ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ we’re bringing you a sneak peek. Hear from Sarah & Arthur about some of the best performers and most dazzling prospects, from the prolific Rudbeckias in the Enchanted series to the gorgeously aromatic Sweet Pea Amelia Fox. In this episode, discover: Which of the flowers being trialled now are captivat...

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0:00.0	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 sarahavin.com.
0:20.0	Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange with me, Arthur Parkinson and my friend Sarah Raven.
0:25.1	In this episode, I'm going to be talking to Sarah about the trialling that happens every year
0:30.3	all the time at Perch Hill, which is where Sarah and Josie and the gardening team and the plant
0:36.2	buying team of Sarah Raven are selecting plants and different seeds to trial and grow to see what me and Sarah and everyone else love and all the things that we love do eventually end up in the catalogue.
0:48.8	But it's quite a long process because we have to source the seed, grow it at Perch Hill, and then try and get enough of it
0:55.1	to make it available to everyone to buy online. And often, me and Sarah, are constantly texting each
1:00.8	other when we're in garden centres or on holiday or having a walk or, and we're also sending each other
1:05.9	Instagram photos and videos of anything that we spot that we both like. And we're always making
1:10.8	notes and sending emails and say, oh, we must get this both like and we're always making notes and sending
1:11.5	emails and say oh we must get this next year and must put this with that and and what also is
1:16.2	lovely is we're also combining our old favorites with new favorites all the time particularly when
1:21.3	we arrange and that's what I do when I come to perchhill so it's always got a list for me and we're
1:25.8	always combining things in the vase. So even if they're
1:28.8	not in a pot that year, we often make a note and say, oh, we'll also put that together because it
1:32.8	looks really beautiful in the vase. So Sarah, tell me what are your favourites this summer
1:41.7	from the trials at Birch Hill?
1:50.5	Well, without doubt, there have been two poppies here that have absolutely stolen my heart.
1:57.5	And the first is a variety of poppy that we actually have grown quite a bit, but about 10 years ago.
1:59.2	And then somehow we stopped.
2:00.4	You know how one does with things?
2:01.0	You just sort of forget to sew it one year, and it goes out of your repertoire and that's an annual poppy
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