The 12 Most Stunning Cut Flowers for Compact Gardens with Butter Wakefield - Episode 112

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Sarah Raven

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The limit to your imagination extends far beyond the size of one’s garden, particularly with the cut flowers that award-winning garden designer Butter Wakefield adores most. Butter returns to the podcast with more than a smorgasbord of stunning flowers compact enough to fit in the smallest of gardens, but captivating enough to make the most monumental impact as a cut flower. In this episode, discover: The bold bulbs of Daffodil Jetfire and subtle beauty of AvalancheWhy the Dahlias of Rosie Ra...

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0:00.0	You can find more information, photos and advice sheets on all the plants and recipes that we talk
0:05.1	about in this podcast by heading to the links in the show notes or on our website at sarahraven.com.
0:20.2	Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange with me, Sarah Raven and a series of wonderful gardening and food and garden design based guests.
0:29.8	Today I'm actually rejoined by somebody who we talked to, or I talked to, early just in the beginning of the year in January, and that is Butter
0:40.8	Wakefield. Now Butter is a garden designer who concentrates very much on smaller sort of urban
0:47.5	gardens. And last time I talked to her about her design tips for small gardens. But the reason we've become friends is that
0:56.7	we both absolutely adore colour and saturated colour and particularly acid green. But also,
1:03.1	she loves cut flowers as I do. And so having enjoyed having her so much giving her design tips for
1:10.2	small gardens, I thought I would really
1:12.2	love to have her back at this time of year, which is the sewing and planting time, to talk about
1:17.5	what you can get for picking from a very small garden. So this is really an episode on small
1:24.0	cutting patches, cutting gardens that suit a more city urban environment.
1:31.8	So welcome, bus, a rather a long-winded introduction, but lovely to have you back.
1:37.4	Oh, it's a thrill to be here.
1:39.1	So our sort of classic list of 12, it's quite a lot to cover in our sort of 30, 35 minutes,
1:45.8	but I'd love you to kick off with right now in spring, what are your favourites?
1:52.7	Well, like you, I'm mad on cramming as many bulbs into parts as I possibly can because I
1:59.6	think picking your own dafts is just almost the nicest thing in the whole wide world.
2:05.6	And, you know, so for smaller parts, I think, you know, ones like Snow Baby and Jetfire are, you know, there are little diminutive numbers.
2:16.6	Snowbaby is enchanting, very fine foliage
2:20.8	too, which is rather nice and appealing in a sweet little white flower. Jetfire, a little bit
2:26.9	bigger, but so early. In fact, I've got some on my desk behind me now. Yeah. They're reflex, yellow
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