The Chelsea Flower Show 2023 with Arit Anderson - Episode 119

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

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Arit Anderson is an award winning garden designer, TV presenter, and an unrelenting wave of joy who shares Sarah Raven’s love of Chelsea Flower Show. With the show next week, who better to join us on ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ for a Chelsea special than a woman whose history of design in fashion and gardening has drawn from the gorgeous annual displays of chromatic wonder. In this episode, discover: Arit’s illustrious history in flowers, fashion, events management, and how they led into the g...

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0:00.0	You can find more information, photos and advice sheets on all the plants and recipes we talk about on this podcast by heading to the show notes or at sarahraven.com forward slash podcast.
0:27.8	Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today, somebody I've admired for a long time from afar, who is Arrett Anderson. And Arrett is one of those people who I've
0:36.3	seen her chairing and comparing talks and I've seen her
0:41.8	gardens at Chelsea, which we're going to come on to. But I just want to give a sort of greater context.
0:47.9	Oh, well, first of all, welcome, Arrett. Very rude. Not to...
0:51.7	Oh, that's okay, Sarah. You crack on.
0:55.5	So we have a very close friend in common and it's a sort of nice story in a way which is I think probably now about 15 or 20 years ago.
1:05.6	I got a letter from two people in the Netherlands saying would I go over and be a sort of guest at a daily
1:15.2	fair where not only were we going to look at lots of daily varieties, but we were going to
1:20.0	eat dahlias in all their forms. We were going to eat daily tubas for lunch. We were going to
1:25.1	eat daily petals. We were going to have daily jelly. We were going to have dahlias in We were going to have Delia jelly. We were going to
1:28.6	have Delia isn't all this one. Anyway, that is how I met Queen von Bokstel, who has become a great
1:33.9	friend and who I, whenever I go to Holland, I tend to either stay with her or we travel around
1:40.2	the Dalia and tulip trial fields together. Anyway, she has now become a great friend of Aritz,
1:46.1	and that is how we have been put in contact.
1:50.2	So Arrett was in fashion, and you all know about her,
1:54.1	but I'm just going to give her sort of potted biog.
1:56.8	She was in fashion, and she's a very, very stylish lady.
2:00.4	And then, I think, just like all of us, as she got a bit older, she got into her garden
2:08.2	and went off to Capel and did their garden design course and very quickly became very
2:14.5	successful and well known and had a garden at Hampton Court that did incredibly well
2:19.8	and then more recently it's had a garden at Chelsea. So will you just tell us a little bit about
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