Tender Perennial Climbers with Sarah Raven & Arthur Parkinson - Episode 41
grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends
Sarah Raven
4.7 • 843 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You can find more information, photos and advice sheets on all the plants and recipes that we |
| 0:04.3 | talk about in this podcast by heading to the links in the show notes or on our website |
| 0:08.6 | at sarahraven.com. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange the, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven and my friend Arthur Parkinson. |
| 0:26.8 | We both adore tender perennial climbers. |
| 0:30.4 | And what that kind of means is that in this country, they're grown as annuals. |
| 0:35.1 | But actually, if we lived in some lovely warm place like South Africa or |
| 0:39.9 | California or Mexico, they would be like a clematist. They would be completely perennial because |
| 0:44.6 | they're cut back by the frosts in the winter, but they wouldn't be if there wasn't frost. |
| 0:51.0 | And that's where they hail from. And the reason that they're the subject for today |
| 0:56.2 | is that they are just looking utterly splendid. |
| 0:58.9 | And if you want a garden that goes on looking good, |
| 1:02.6 | really late into autumn, even into winter, |
| 1:05.9 | I passionately recommend the Tender Prennial Climer Group. |
| 1:17.1 | Thank you. recommend the Tender Prennial Climer Group. They will give you wonderful flowers and colour and in a way, even more importantly, |
| 1:23.1 | sculpture and architecture in your garden when everything else is turning a little bit grey and mushy |
| 1:28.4 | once the frost start. And these will take, in my experience, down to sort of minus two, |
| 1:33.8 | three degrees of frost. So you have to have quite a really cold night before they get hammered. |
| 1:39.1 | And you love them too, don't you, Arthur? Yeah, I do. You introduced me to them quite a while ago, because they do give |
| 1:45.6 | the late autumn garden, this beautiful, jungly, glitter-arty, like confetti. They kind of just |
| 1:52.8 | snake around the place in early summer, and then as the night still, to get longer, and they |
| 2:00.3 | tend to just put a lot of growth on so they almost |
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