The Power of Biennials with Sarah Raven and Arthur Parkinson - Episode 74

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Sarah Raven

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It’s the time of year to sow biennials, and while they flower in their second year, the artisanal avalanche of colour that they bring is well worth the wait. Many of the gorgeous biennials that earn a place as Sarah & Arthur’s favourites will self-sow too, so join us on ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ to venture through these beautiful biennials, from the subtle, fragrant Pillowtalk to more eye catching Tulips like Amazing Parrot. In this episode, discover: Varieties of biennial flowers ...

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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.
0:19.7	Welcome to Grokut Eat Arrange, the podcast of me and Arthur Parkinson.
0:25.8	And today we are going to talk about biennials because they are such a thing that you need to remember.
0:32.9	And I just want to say NB, NB, NB, SOW biennials now.
0:38.8	And that's why even though we did this last year, I feel there's such an underestimated
0:43.5	group of plants.
0:44.3	We both do.
0:45.7	So we are giving you a kick to get out and sew them.
1:00.7	Certainly are, or at least remember to get them in as plug plants. Good point. Good point.
1:10.4	So what ones are you going to be sewing? I'm going to get going this weekend. Well, I'm going to try and get going like you this weekend in a friend's garden, because as you know, I've got limited space.
1:12.2	So I've been thinking about this, how to have lots of honesty this time next year.
1:16.9	But with limited space, I'm going to try and scatter, and I don't know if you'll agree with this or not, I'm going to scatter a load of honesty seed onto this bed that I'm going to prepare to plant cosmos plants into.
1:28.6	What I'm hoping will happen is the cosmos will grow lovely, but under them will be lots of seedlings of honesty.
1:34.4	And I'm not sure if that's going to work or not, but I don't know about you, Sarah. We've gone
1:38.4	through spring and we've planted out for summer and I want to kind of have a bit of time off.
1:43.5	So I tend to get in a lot of my bernials
1:46.0	later on in the year, but I'm going to try and do half and half because the fact is you can't
1:50.3	get certain bianails as plug plants. Foxgloves are easy to find, but honesty, which I've not had
1:55.9	this year, and I know you're at Purchill, I've got so much honesty. It fills the garden like a wonderful purple
2:01.2	bubble bath, doesn't it? You just can't get it. So it is important to sew at least a few things
2:07.1	or try and let things self-seed. So I'm at Nottingham at the moment at Mill Yard. And all the
2:13.5	dolly tubs and things are full of self-seated foxgloves, which is wonderful. It's like the whole
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