Stunning Bulbs for Naturalising Grassland & Meadows with Carien van Boxtel - Episode 143

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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

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Bringing the haphazard beauty of nature into your own space is a charming prospect, and Carien van Boxtel has an incredible eye for naturalising grassland. This week on ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ Carien joins Sarah to share her 12 top bulbs for year-round naturalising - with plenty of bonus varieties along the way - and her three essential tips for perfect planting. In this episode, discover: What makes Snowdrops Carien’s ‘desert island’ flower family for naturalising grassThe later flowering...

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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,
0:12.9	lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden
0:19.8	and the house being tied together. There's also plenty of
0:23.1	garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraban.com today
0:29.4	to discover even more.
0:47.4	Welcome to Gl Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today I'm joined by an old gardening friend and colleague, Karine von Boxtel. I just want to describe how I know her first of all. And then what we're
0:56.0	going to talk about are naturalising bulbs, which is Karin's great passion and kind of
1:02.5	skill set, really. But I met Karin, in fact, on a Delia trip and I went to invited by her and another
1:10.6	great Dutch friend, Dickie Skipper,
1:13.0	to a Dahlia festival. And it's probably now about 15 years ago. And Jonathan Buckley,
1:18.7	the photographer I worked with and I turned up and we had the most incredible, funny, but
1:25.0	rewarding and creative day where all we ate was Dalia's.
1:28.4	We ate Dalia tubas.
1:29.5	We ate Delia flowers,
1:31.0	daily petals.
1:32.0	I think we ate daily leaves in a salad.
1:34.4	I wasn't quite sure I liked those.
1:36.1	We drank Dalia Cordial.
1:38.5	We had everything Dalia.
1:40.2	Anyway, from then,
1:42.4	Karene and I have gone on looking at dahlias and bulbs.
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