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

The charming revival of Victorian cloches with Beth Gregg - Episode 171

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

Sarah Raven

Food, Grow, Home & Garden, Arranging, Arts, Cooking, Kitchen, Arrangements, Lifestyle, Vegetables, Eat, Eating, Flower Arranging, Sarah Raven, Planting, Garden, Produce, Gardener, Flowers, Growing, Cook, Leisure, Veg Garden, Home, Gardening

4.8788 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Victorian era gave the horticultural world one of the most charming designs for the cloche, or cold frame - a charm that’s being renewed by the wonderful Beth Gregg.Arthur Parkinson hails Beth as the ‘Goddess of Cloches’ through her faithful revival of those original designs with Claverton Cloches. In this week’s ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’, learn what earns the cloche its spot in any garden, and how Beth breathes new life into an oft-overlooked apparatus.In this episode, discover:Bet...

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0:00.0

This podcast is brought to you by sarahraven.com, which is home to everything you need for a truly

0:06.3

beautiful and productive garden. You'll also find great and essential gardening kit and stylish,

0:12.9

lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden

0:19.8

and the house being tied together. There's also plenty of

0:23.1

garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraban.com today

0:29.4

to discover even more. Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange with me, Arthur Parkinson, guest presenting this episode.

0:46.7

Sarah's having a week off, but I'm delighted to be talking to Beth Gregg, who I've now met a few times.

0:53.9

I found myself shortly before Christmas

0:56.7

going down this beautiful country lane with these high hedges to Beth's incredible workshop,

1:04.6

which is like something out of Charles Dickens, minus the electric lighting,

1:08.8

where Beth creates these most incredible closhes,

1:13.4

completely by hand out of glass and metal.

1:17.2

And what Beth's trying to do through her amazing company,

1:20.7

who I'm sure some of you have heard of called Calbertan Closchers,

1:24.6

is bring back the beauty of what was a staple in the English country and

1:30.6

walled kitchen garden, which is the Closh, the beloved Closh, which in modern times some of us now

1:35.8

know as a cold frame. But I'm so excited to talk to Beth today about all things Closher's

1:40.9

and her story of how she's become the goddess of closhers, really. So welcome,

1:46.9

Phe. So nice to have you here. And just tell me, I suppose, what made you suddenly want to

1:54.5

revive what is the closh? Because we've kind of forgotten what the closh is, haven't we,

1:59.6

in the garden scheme of things?

2:02.2

Yeah, exactly. Thank you for the intro. A goddess of clotches is not a title I've heard before,

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