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Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me Sarah Raven and my friend Arthur Parkinson.

This week, we thought we would talk about pelagoniums, large, small, scented, not scented, houseplant varieties, garden varieties, etc.

Because as autumn progresses, they really come into

their own and they're just unbelievably invaluable cheer and perfume for this time of year.

The other reason that I like the idea of chatting to Arthur about them is to be honest, he's quite a recent convert.

He'll tell you why I was put off them, but I think it was having to pick over too many of them a queue.

But this year, I know in his garden, he has actually got loads as pot plants on an outside eating table, which

have to get shifted off so they can make room for a plate.

So, Arthur, over to you on why you've finally been convinced that pelagoniums are worth their

time.

Well, I've not quite been convinced.

I think, to be fair on them, it's been probably the worst summer

for English pelagoniums because it's been so cold and windy. I can count on my hand the number

of lovely summer, Spanish, Mediterranean warm days we've had in our garden. And, you know, I've

looked outside on a day like today when it's grey and windy and the poor things are just shaking

in the wind. You know, they haven't flowered particularly wonderfully, but I do like some of them and they have

grown on me because I've ordered off eBay actually the lovely old shanky, is it shanky or swanky

pots? Those old terracotta pots that are really old. Oh, I know. Yes, yes, yes, that were made up in your part of the world.

Yeah, so it's really nice. I look at these pots and they've got Bullwell on them or Nottingham.

And Bullwell is literally the town next door to where I grew up. So it's quite nice to have them in these lovely old terracottas. have done much better than others one that i really really have loved is um one that i first saw

here it's got a tiny little spider light flower it's called sideloides i think i'm pronouncing

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