Pincushions

They need light.

Oh, yes, Scabious, that's it.

So I did some Scabious.

They're the ones that look like little tiny rocket ships, and they don't want to be covered, so you literally just put them on the surface of the compost.

[lips smack] Once you've got over deciding whether they need to be covered or they don't need to be covered, for the ones that do need to be covered, you don't need to worry too much about the exact depth that you cover them.

Um, but, um, Dan Pearson does, um, Dig Delve, and he is very much, uh, going down the self-sustainable route in his garden in Somerset with his husband Hugh.

And I find it fascinating that members of the Scabious family, not necessarily called Scabious, they're called something else, but they're related to the Scabious family, there's a huge number of those that are coming to the fore, are, are being, um...

They tolerate the kind of weather that we've had recently.

If you, if you want to look at something interesting, um, and I think you can probably do this online, I'm not absolutely sure, but at Sissinghurst, that well-known, um, garden, uh, in, uh, Kent with, that Va- Vita Sackville-West and, and, um, her husband created, um, there was an area of garden that they never actually finished, or they never got round to making, and it's named after a Greek island called Delos.

Because when you're selling wholesale, you're not it's not the same as when you're selling retail the stem prices is at basically the wholesale price now it's not quite as wholesaly as if you're buying imports for example but it's still not retail prices and that's for a whole variety of reasons but that's what i decided to do but what i've realized is i've really got to get the volumes up in order to make more money And to do that, I'm reducing the number of varieties that I grow.

So instead of 19, next year, I'm going to be doing my big five, which are Aulia, Agristema, Panicum, Scabius, and the Callistephus.

So they are like the big five, but there are going to be a couple of other little ones.

For example, if the self-seeded Ami make it through and if the Clarkia make it through.

I'm going all in this year.

I've bought Scabiosas.

I've bought, well, I've always, I say always, I've done Dusty Miller in the past.

And there are two, so new look Dusty Miller is great for Christmas, like for arrangements and stuff at Christmas because it's got those really like plush, furry looking white leaves.

Yeah.

And Scabious going everywhere.

So that's the kind of, the feel of a god that I have.

And Ackmilla and...