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Welcome to Gr Cook, Eter Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today I have returning Josie Lewis, our head gardener.

Hello, Josie.

Hello.

Good morning.

And we have literally, last night, got back from a Delia hunting trip to

Holland. And I just thought it would be quite nice to kind of talk everybody through exactly what we do

when we're looking for Dalias and how far ahead we work and the whole kind of

process of daily a breeding really which we have covered in a podcast before but I just thought

sort of really hot off the press fresh from the trip it would be fun to chat about it so josie why

don't you start by just talking us through

where we went first and what we were up to? Okay, so quite a long drive. Yeah, but luckily

new bank holiday traffic. And we went first to one of our main suppliers. I haven't done the Dalyas before, so it was really

fascinating for me. Then you'd turn up and greet it very warmly you were, which is really nice.

And we're met by the breeders suppliers there and our Dutch guide. And we go into a field, not quite a field. I don't know how many

acres or what that is. It's not like the tulips. It's not huge fields of dahlias.

No, what do you think about an acre? Probably, yes. But there's 10 of each variety in a row.

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