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who is with us today, which is incredibly nice. Hello, Arthur. Hello, Sarah. How you doing?

Well, thank you.

Good.

And I'm excited for this episode because I'm looking at the most gorgeous cover of the autumn catalogue inspired by Perch Hill in the bold letters, which is very very thrilling.

Oh, good, yes.

So we thought today we would talk about our favourite things from our autumn range, which

obviously is coming up. We're in the thick of it now, really autumn. And gosh, wasn't spring

a struggle. Well, spring and summer, to be honest, it just rained and rained and rained. And the

light levels were rubbish. And the slugs were horrendousous and it just felt a struggle. Now actually

the garden at Perch Hill is rather abullient and it's really odd. I don't know if you found

this author but things like sweet peas have got stems twice as long. Lillies are twice as tall and

I guess there are certain plants that really thrive in the wet, but others that have sort of struggled and aren't nearly as flowery in a very late like Daly's.

Have you had that experience too?

Yeah, I mean, it's really funny with the sweet peas, isn't it?

Because they struggled.

And our friend Caroline was growing tons of sweet peas.

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