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grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends

What to sow and plant this spring with some of Sarah’s greatest guests - Episode 217

grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends

Sarah Raven

Food, Grow, Home & Garden, Arranging, Arts, Cooking, Kitchen, Arrangements, Lifestyle, Vegetables, Eat, Eating, Flower Arranging, Sarah Raven, Planting, Garden, Produce, Gardener, Flowers, Growing, Cook, Leisure, Veg Garden, Home, Gardening

4.8788 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Spring is here in all its glory, and with it comes the perfect moment to plant and sow. This week on ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ we’ve compiled our top tips and growing inspiration from not one, but seven of Sarah’s all-time favourite guests. From Knepp’s Charlie Harpur on his favourite plants for pollinators, to the veg varieties Jess Gough is growing at home, revisit some of Sarah’s greatest guests and their timely recommendations for gardens large and small. Sarah also shares five fresh ide...

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0:00.0

This podcast is brought to you by sarahraven.com, which is home to everything you need for a truly

0:06.3

beautiful and productive garden. You'll also find great and essential gardening kit and stylish,

0:12.9

lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden

0:19.8

and the house being tied together. There's also plenty of

0:23.1

garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraven.com today

0:29.4

to discover even more. Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven and lots of different guests.

0:46.9

And actually guess is what today is all about.

0:51.2

It's peak sewing, growing and planting time right now. And so we actually thought it

0:56.9

would be quite fun to do a kind of resume of lots of seven of our guests, or my guess, I guess,

1:04.6

I guess, over the last year, giving their top plant tips, which kind of extends it out for me in a really good way, I think.

1:13.0

And so what we've got is a range of the subjects I cover in the podcast from veg to flowers

1:19.1

and shrubs to roses, you know, everything, really.

1:23.0

So food, to flowers, to produce, to arranging the whole thing.

1:27.4

And so we are going to kick off with

1:30.3

Simon Lysitt and we're going to finish with me and my top picks for sewing and growing now.

1:37.5

So Simon Lyset, as I'm sure lots of you will know, is the florist extraordinaire, is what I would call him. He loves incredibly flamboyant

1:47.6

on the whole massive kind of flower installations, does lots of the great venues of the city of London.

1:55.2

And, oh, yeah, they're just a bullion, exuberant and exciting. And in this little clip, he's talking about

2:03.5

his favourite things for spring, which, of course, we're in right now, Imperial Fratereries

2:08.2

and Lillia the Valley. I have to have Lillia the Valley in there. Of course, they're not

2:13.2

going to flower in my garden because the dog keeps weighing on them every time. I try and try and I've now got

2:18.2

them in a pot that's high so he can't. I also love all the fratilleries. You know, the Crown Imperial's

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