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Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange with me, Arthur Parkinson and my good friend Sarah Raven. Today it's the time of year where we're starting to think about our summer combinations

and how to get beautiful rockets of exploding colour right way through into the heart of summer.

We're going to talk today about a bull which is really quite versatile and very very

exotic for the English garden.

They sort of stay in fashion.

You see them at the garden centre a lot, but you don't

really see gardens pack full of them anymore like you used to do. And I remember seeing Sarah,

I think it was on Gardner's World, when she was walking through her Oast Garden and there was a

wonderful ribbon of a lily called Landini or Nironen and Sarah of course had picked these most beautiful colours

of lilies. They weren't the white lilies like you see in the supermarkets and so I'm going to

plant lilies this spring for my summer combinations and I think you're planning on doing it too

aren't you Sarah? I am and I suppose the thing that's put me off in the last 10 years or so is the bleeding

lily beetle, which will come back to, or maybe we should talk about it now, because I think

it is the thing that puts so many people off. So it arrived, it's this bright scarlet beetle, I'm sure

if you're a seasoned gardener, you will know it very well.

Quite big, the size of my sort of little fingernail, a little bit narrower than that,

but it's quite a big thing, very, very showy. Actually, it's not as big as that. It's half

the size of her fingernail. And I think the reason for that being so showy is it's it's giving off a message to birds

that it's poisonous, that it's toxic.

So they're quite easy to spot and they are really a pain because what they then do is they

reproduce voraciously and then they lay their eggs in what looks like sort of poo

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