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to discover even more. Welcome to Grow Cook-Eater Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today I'm joined by Tom Stimpson, our head of horticulture.

And we thought the two of us would just catch up on the things as gardeners that we really love in the

run-up to Christmas to bring in for drying so that it's not all about bought in tinsle and

bling. It's about homegrown Christmas decorations. And of course, that's more sustainable and it's, well, it's just a

lovely thing to do. And the longer I garden, the more I do this. And we actually have just

been doing a little film of all the things that have been harvested from the garden that

we're going to overlay this recording, this podcast, with so that you can see

some of the things that we're talking about. But yeah, it's just all the way through the

year in a way, just getting oneself into the mindset that dried flowers, seed heads, grasses

are not the old-fashioned maiden aunt pub fireplace summer filler they're actually things of

grey style elegance and sophistication and their second name is sustainability because they're not

flown from the other side of the world and they're not made of plastic so hello tom let us have a

think of our absolute favorite things for picking from the garden,

for drying inside. I'll talk about the technicalities of that in a minute, but why don't you

kick us off with your number one? I'm going to start with hydrangea flowers, the pinnicularotypes,

and in my garden, as some misses may remember from a previous

podcast, I've got two varieties that I particularly love, limelight and Little Fresco. And the

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