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

The 12 Best Roses with Josie Lewis - Episode 98

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

4.7843 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Whether your idea of the perfect Rose is a prolific climber like Scent from Heaven, or a compact burst of colour like Josie Lewis’ favourite Hot Chocolate, no garden is complete without a Rose. This week on ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ signals the start of a new format highlighting the floral flag bearers of each family, starting with Sarah & Josie’s top Roses, and a number of upcoming standouts from our recent trials. In this episode, discover: Exciting new discoveries from the latest rose...

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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 at

0:08.9

sarahraven.com.

0:19.7

Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange with me, Sarah Raven, and today I'm joined by Josie Lewis, our head gardener, and we're going to talk about roses.

0:30.1

Josie is fanatical about roses. We'll talk a lot more about that, but this is the first of our new format, which is 12 best of.

0:37.5

And it's really us trying to distill down.

0:40.4

I'm a great believer in stock cube somehow.

0:43.0

I really like the distillation of everything that I've learnt

0:46.4

over the last 30 years of gardening and being able to hand it to you on a plate.

0:50.0

Well, this whole series of 12 Best of is exactly that.

0:54.7

And today it's going to be roses.

1:00.6

Josie is our head gardener here at Perch Hill.

1:03.4

She's been with us now over 10 years.

1:06.6

And sometimes she sort of looks at me and threatens that maybe she'll move on, half joking

1:12.0

because she knows it will be an absolute disaster all round.

1:15.8

But she's the most incredibly wonderful leader of the garden here.

1:20.7

And the thing we're going to talk about today is roses,

1:24.3

which actually we have already done an episode on,

1:27.2

but I really felt we couldn't

1:29.3

not report one of the big trials that we've done this summer in 22, which was the vase

1:36.1

life and scent value of many, many different roses that we have in the garden here. And again,

1:42.7

sorry, I'm rambling on a bit at the beginning here,

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