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Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arranged with me, Sarah Raven and my partner in crime, Arthur Parkinson.

Now, actually today it's mainly going to be Arthur's episode, although I'm going to chip in,

because one of the things he's become increasingly passionate about is the sewing of perennial wildflower meadows.

And I'm going to chip in a bit about annual meadows, but he's been really inspired by his dad's

garden in Nottingham. So we thought we would do a whole thing because now is a really good time

to be sewing these sorts of things. And it's it's incredibly sort of apt.

So over to Arthur, will you tell us all about why you've fallen in love with them?

Yeah, I think it's probably been because of the weather just not been on the side of container gardening this year much.

I found it such a stress watering endlessly.

And whenever I've gone to see my dad's garden in Nottingham, which was formerly my nan's garden, which I had a lot to do with, it's become much more while since my dad's took over.

And before we did this episode, I was scrolling back through my Instagram to find a

photo of my nan sewing the original packets of wildflower seed onto what was her

leak bed.

And that was back in 2016.

Wow.

So from there, from that point to now, that's how long it's taken for this area of my dad's garden to

become a wildflower meadow.

Gosh.

But I was talking to you about this and you were quite surprised at the fact that we'd sowed

wildflower seed onto just vegetable beds, which had pretty much been abandoned because what

happened was my, my

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