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Today I'm on my own again because I'm doing a kind of mini-series, I guess, on colour in the garden.

It seems like a good time in spring to really be thinking

about appraising your garden and are you getting the most out of it. And I do think colour

is one of the most life-enhancing things you can have, whether it's an outfit you're wearing

or your house or your garden. And so it seems

like a really good moment in the year to have a think. Could you make it any better? And it's worth

listening back to episode one and two on this series, because in one, I explain that I work with

four pallets and each four pallets have six colours in and I

go through which they all are. And also we'll put those in the podcast notes. And in episode

two, it's really what atmosphere you want to create in your garden. And so which palette are you

going to go for? And there are some practical things

like shade that you should influence what you're choosing, but also it's really about a feeling.

What feeling do you want in your garden? Now this episode is really practical and it's how to use

my colour system in your own garden. And I've been looking

through lots of garden design books recently and I sort of feel if you already know what you like

and you know that sort of classic English June garden look, which is, you know, things like

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