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

The Best Picks from Our Spring Catalogue with Sarah Raven & Arthur Parkinson - Episode 53

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

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The year is well underway, and with it comes the delightful prospect of spring’s imminent arrival. Longer, warmer, brighter days bring a perfect opportunity to populate your space with some of our favourite, outstanding floral highlights from the Spring Range. Sarah & Arthur sit down together with their brand new catalogue and let their imagination run wild with their top picks. Learn how you can combine collections of decadent Dahlias to bathe your garden in colour, bring vibrance to you...

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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 about in this podcast by heading to the links in the show notes or on our website at sarahavin.com.

0:19.8

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

0:26.3

Today, we're going to do something that we've done a few times before, which is go through

0:32.0

both of our passionate individual favourites in the range that we currently have available so in our spring season

0:40.3

and we're flicking through the catalogue but obviously it's a kind of mainly online range anyway

0:46.2

but to really highlight what we feel are the totally exceptional outstanding things and why?

1:03.4

So over to you, Arthur, your first number one.

1:06.9

Well, obviously, I'm probably biased from my first choice,

1:08.8

but it's one of our daily collections.

1:10.8

It's the Arthur's Doorstep Collection. Yeah,

1:11.6

good choice. And it honestly would be my four desert island tubers. They're just all of them

1:18.0

packed full of nectar, the foliage, particularly of Bishop of Auckland and what's in

1:22.4

Matilda, a very dark and rich, totally tangerine, one of the most floriferous dahlias that we've ever grown.

1:29.1

And then you've got solomon, which is the largest of this collection. So I'd grow this

1:33.6

collection in a big tin bath. I'm going to grow it this year when I've salmon in the middle

1:37.7

and then all the others eclipsing it because solomon's the largest. And I'm going to plant

1:42.8

it with Pannicum's sparkling fountain and that'll

1:45.6

be that and I know that it will start to flower if I pop them all up in March the first one to flower

1:51.4

totally tangerine ideally from probably the second week of June I'd expect buds to be on that

1:56.6

and then that will flower right until the first hard frost and as I've said they're all really

2:01.6

brilliant for pollinators so that's my favourite collection but across from that is a collection that

2:06.7

I'd probably combine with it actually or have in a large pot echoing it as its neighbour it's the

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