The Ins & Outs - Outside Colour

Episode Date: October 10, 2023

This is the episode to listen to if you want your garden to be colourful all year round! Polly tells us what plants you should use and when you should plant them. Next week we’re going be answering your questions. DM us on instagram @the_insandouts_ if you have anything you want us to talk about.InstagramJojo - @houseninedesignPolly - @pollyanna_wilkinsonWebsitesJojo - https://www.housenine.co.uk/Polly - https://www.pollyannawilkinson.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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been waiting for you, waiting for you. This is episode five of the In's and Out's podcast. Thank you so much for joining us. Today I'm going to be quizzing Polly on colour in the garden and how we can use colour. We are also going to be talking a lot about bulbs and how to look after them, when to plant them, different evergreens, different types of shrubs, when to move shrubs. And of course, we will be talking about a little bit of personal stuff in there, like sleeping bears, how to use your nipples to know when to plant your bulbs.

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we find ourselves in autumn and I actually have to say autumn's my favourite season apart from spring and I also really like summer are you full pumpkin spice

latte girl are you like little ug boot little pumpkin spice cute little hat no photos of your feet in leaves? No, you'll see over there, that's about as far as I go.

I have some sort of red leaves in my house. I'm not like a let's just decorate the whole house with stuffed pumpkins. I think it's mildly consumerism. Anyway. So autumn. Oh, I love this time of year. And it's an insanely busy time of year for the studio and for gardens. It's big planting time.

Now's the time. Is that why your T-shirt says gardening? Just to remind everyone? Yes, I like everyone to remember exactly what it is that I like to talk about. Just to remind yourself what you do. I am obsessed with this T-shirt. It's a really cool T-shirt. I want a T-shirt for every status of what I'm up to.

Or it could be a mood. Pissed off. it would just be perpetually that one bit grumpy hungry hungry a little tired okay it's such a busy time it's mental it's um the weird thing about working in gardens is people think like oh you're really busy in summer and it's it's not you're busy the other times because now is when you're going to start thinking about what you're going busy in summer and it's it's not you're busy the other times because now is when you're going to start thinking about what you're going to plant in your garden because you can start planting now and if you get plants in before christmas they kind of start hitting their stride they start rooting so if we're talking about color today this is when you'd start planning your color for outside can i ask you something it's a kind of rhetorical question but i'm just

going to ask because it's i found it really fun you taught me this last year I was talking about moving a tree or was it some hedges and there was a particular time of the year that you said was a perfect time to move hedges and trees because their roots go into like the sleep mode don't they and they curl up and like sleep and that's the time to move them is that right they're in slumber yes is it this month it's now baby yes it's it's now you did listen hey you learned something so this is exactly it this is why this is kind of the start of the gardening year not the end of it even though you'd probably think end of summer end of the gardening year this is the start this is when you plan it all and this is when you move stuff so everything's going to sleep think of it like a little bear when you move stuff so everything's going to sleep

think of it like a little bear and you don't want to move a bear while it's awake so you move it when it's sleeping i've never used that before and i quite like i love that so now is the time october and march is when you move evergreens but for you know like hedging yeah evergreen hedging evergreen trees small ones but october through to march is when you move everything else so it's when you put things in the ground yes basically and you can move things yes the only rule the only thing you wouldn't do is if your ground was completely waterlogged which i doubt it's going to be like now but you know in january if it's so if it's waterlogged or completely frozen but then like best of luck to you even

digging the hole but essentially you move things when they're sleeping so they don't notice like moving a sleeping baby we've all done that when they were little and you're like quick transfer them yes the danger nap same with plants okay all right so here's the big question, the all-important colour question. Is it possible to have colour in your garden all year round? Yes. But. Yes, I knew there was but. There's always a but. The interesting thing, so inside your colour is kind of permanent, right?

Like you're not repainting your walls every season. Whereas outside you need to look at your garden in terms of seasons so can you have the color that you have in midsummer all year round absolutely not and it's about embracing a different mode of color through the seasons and this is something I spend a lot of time trying to educate people on is you've got to start seeing the beauty and decay so your amazing hydrangea annabelle you have outside. Great plant. Beautiful white clouds in summer. But then they go brown in autumn.

They're brown now. And you've got to start seeing that as beauty and interest. Because autumn is all about those deciduous trees and shrubs changing to yellow and red. But there's a difference between brown and crusty and a nice red isn't there there is but there is there is interest from both and and it's a perception thing so I used to get clients we'd put certain plants into the garden like hydrangea and they would hate that they were brown in the autumn and winter and we'd be going ah but can you not see the value in having some sculptural interest even even if it's not purple or white? And some can embrace that and some just want to hack them to the ground.

But it's about looking at your colour in your garden through the different seasons. So you don't have one colour scheme in a garden. You probably have three or four and they change per season. have three or four and they change per season so that's why it's so important now to plan your colour for the whole damn year chunk it into your seasons and then pick plants per one and if you want to be really geeky and I suggest you do you're going to need a spreadsheet or if you don't like spreadsheets do it on a piece of paper but essentially what you're doing when you're choosing your flowers and your plants is you need to make sure you've got at least a few things in flower in each month because the mistake everyone

makes is putting in loads of roses and iris and things that look amazing in july june july but they don't think hmm september october what am i looking at and what you should be looking at in autumn now is trees that are changing to incredible yellows and reds the kind of thing that you're going to see on instagram these amazing tonal colors so your autumn color if we approach that first is coming from essentially dying leaves because that's what they are so if you've got a garden full of evergreen lumps you're not going to get any seasonal color because they keep their leaves green all year round but if you bring in some really stunning trees like my favorites are liquid amber which is

you'll have seen it it looks like a tree which is on fire it's like a maple like the typical trees that you'd see in new england you know that's really famous in america exactly those are all sort of maples and aces and they all go there's amazing oranges and reds that is what you're aspiring to in autumn you want that sort of blaze of plants just before they drop their leaves so because obviously when they drop their leaves then you just have nothing yes so what's the lovely is it a spellier spellier the one that's a lovely tree that gives you privacy but it doesn't drop its leaves but it turns brown and then the green ones grow through yeah what's that called so well you'd be talking about you're talking about either beach or hornbeam hornbeam i think that's the one i'm thinking of which are often on a pleat which is when it's essentially um a stem with a right box on top

that would be a bleach tree okay but i mean that's a great you've chosen a great plant there so one of my favorites for autumn is hornbeam or beach they're both great they're both great but we'll use them in hedging because you've got this amazing green screen in the summer and then it turns to butter yellow in autumn then you're right it turns brown but both of those hold on to their leaves kind of through the winter and you'll see on really mature ones if people have them they'll often have them in front of their house and you know it's like a big brown hedge some people think that looks really ugly and dead but I look at it and go oh that's so lovely that's like it's a screen it's showing the seasons it's more colourful than twigs and you know that the green will come again so to me those two are brilliant options for hedging

and trees the downside of those guys is they're kind of boring in spring but then presumably in spring is when all your daffs and your daffodils come up so that's your interest yes so autumn if you kind of think of your seasons autumn is the season of oranges reds and yellows and deciduous plants essentially changing color before they drop and so if you're planning for autumn you're going for really beautiful trees like liquid amber or amelanchier or circis or certain cherries they're all going to go yellows and reds, and that's your sort of blaze. That's your autumn blaze. I know it sounds so geeky,

but just having a spreadsheet where you're like, right, what's giving me autumn colour? And just like find four things you like, four or five things you like, and just be like, right, that's September, October, November covered, done. And you go, well, what am I going to be looking at in winter? Like, well, winter, I'm going to have evergreen structure so I'm going to maybe have some yew balls holly whatever your evergreen flavor is but there are some things you can get for winter color it's things like cornice or dogwood

so I don't know if you've seen if you've ever been to kind of Wisley or somewhere like that you'll see them really bright neon colored stems in winter but that is a way of getting color in a border it's they're electric they look like they're on fire. Funny enough I had some of those outside in the garden and I thought they looked completely out of place in this garden. They're best in kind of a woodland scheme oh right okay or sort of near silver birch or they're a big shrub okay so they're not something you'd put right in the front of the border they're sort of more edgy but it's color a little bit like in an interior if everything was fairly muted and quite calm and quite earthy and you suddenly put a red cushion on a sofa that is the first thing

you're going to see when you walk into the room so do you think about that as being if you're going to do it you have to space them out and you can't just have that one thing in the even like the trees you're talking about the lovely trees that go like yellow yes what did you say it was called sorry the the maple liquid amber liquid amber is that if that what if you just have one of those for instance in your garden is it going to stick out like a sore thumb or do you have to sort of plan there for when you're where you're going to put them all or is one okay no one is okay because that would be your focal point okay that would be your wow factor feature of that season whilst everything else is either green or dying okay so no i wouldn't say that's the case as long as you've planned it okay it's not at a time when it's going to clash with anything else because everything is

either the same color as that or starting to go brown or green. Okay so you're saying autumn colours are going to be sort of yellows, oranges, then turns to brown and then you go into winter and you're saying that's very much like structure, green, evergreen, holly, that sort of thing. Then you're moving into your spring and that's when the garden starts livening up. Yes and that's, oh god i love spring but it's so spring for me is blossom and bulbs yeah that's your thing so it's and this is where your trees are so key because deciduous trees if you pick a good one will have blossom in spring like uh certain pears ornamental pears or amelanchia which is just such a classic but it's got little white blossom in spring and it turns orange in autumn oh lovely so that to me that's a great value tree which is giving you

spring it's giving you green in the summer and then it's giving you orange and yellow in autumn that's earned its place winter that all the leaves drop off so you've got to but so that's the only downside about it but otherwise it's giving you three out of four it's giving you three out of four if you have an evergreen tree it's a green blob year round so gotcha to me amelanchia lamarchii it's like it's almost a cliche in the design world it's so popular right okay um it's that popular does it have another name oh god service berry i think is it's um what it's called right you know like it's i'm gonna have to listen to this amelanchia lamarchiae so spring is your blossoming trees so amelanchia cherries yeah like oh god who doesn't love a cherry blossom a lot of people love magnolia i personally don't think it works

hard enough drops a lot doesn't it you get like two weeks and it's done yeah blink and you miss it but you know some people love it and in london they look incredible don't they they do they do uh so that's how you get your kind of spring interest up high and then down below we like it down below we do like it down below that's your bulbs okay and i'm obsessed with bulbs there are enough spring bulbs out there that if you're clever you can have something flowering january february march probably even July wow and by then your garden's looking pretty good with your fun stuff okay wow so you can start with snowdrops you've got crocus you've got little tiny daffodils some people hate the bigger daffodils some you know do you like yellow daffodils you

know it's so funny because I never used to like daffodils growing up they were always one of my mum's tulips and daffs were always my mum's favourite flowers. And I was always like, oh, I never really understood it. And now I think they're a joy. I just think they're like sunflowers. I don't particularly like sunflowers, but I love them, if that makes sense. They're like a real, I get them. They're such a happy flower.

And the way they move around and they just are they're happy they're really they're other they're a sign of spring as soon as you're the daffodils start popping up even on the lawn or on the side of the on a road or you just feel like it's a sign of hope right i find it yeah people are funny about them but you can get really pretty white ones as well if you don't like yellow i know that yellow offends a lot of people. But again, it's where your spreadsheet comes in. You're like, January, I've got snowdrops. February, I've got crocus.

March, I've got daffodils. April, I've got early tulips. And this is where I suspect you and most people go wrong. Well, actually, I went a bit mad on tulips, as you know, last year. And I planted them late, late. You did? In the end, late late and in the end I was out in the rain with my cagoule on and I was just shoving them in the ground just like by manually shoving them in the ground manually and I didn't have that brilliant machine that you've got

which I should get this year I knew I had a massive bag of white bulbs these beautiful big white they look like swans and then I had all this mixture of dark purples and dark reds and dark oranges and loads of different bags of those but individually and I just thought right I'm just going to stick all the white ones around the apple tree and then I'll stick these in random pots love it terracotta pots and I just kind of shove them all in and hope the best interestingly the white ones came up really early so there would be earlys earlys this is the only reason The white ones came up really early. So they would be earlies? Earlies. This is the only reason. Breaking news happens anywhere, anytime.

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They're up and they're full. Yeah. And then the other ones took a while and the darkest ones were the last to come out. Yes. Is that right? Well, not necessarily. They're just late. They're late.

So tulips, you get early and you get late. So again, and that's all in your guide. Yes. It's really useful. That was the bit that took the longest was figuring out combinations of tulips, which look good together because we don't want you just having just white one one cultivar we've got like five or six for each one so that you've got a collection for early and then they hand over to your lates yeah because what was interesting is the big white ones that i had i can't remember the names i'll have to try and find the names the great big white

ones i had if they had come up next to these little purple ones they would have looked ridiculous because the white ones are actually open and almost coming to the end and then the purple ones was a tiny little bud and they would have looked really wrong together so it's a good succession right yeah yeah so this is why yeah your spreadsheet comes in again so you do these are my early tulips and you choose two or three and this is where you start getting like you do into your color palettes and you're like well what do i want my early tulips to look like a mix of pink and purple or whites and greens or really hot colors and then you choose again for your lates and then you go into alliums for may and june and maybe even july and then you've you've kind of dealt with all of that tricky time when there's not a lot of color out there you've got to get it from your bulbs

and then you get into summer which you need to divide in two you've got to get it from your bulbs and then you get into summer which you need to divide into you've got early summer like around chelsea flower show okay may yeah and then you've got late summer so let's break those two up so what what are you thinking for early summer early summer tends to be when more of your purples and greens are in flower okay i know right mind that alliums yes exactly what do you see at chelsea flower show very dark purple salvias cat mints um beautiful green grasses yes irises oh and you could have some fun with they're beautiful there's some oh the bruised tones that were in sarah price's garden last year oh so sexy what was those frilly knickers that you had that was an iris oh that was an iris iris wondrous it's like an apricot it was beautiful frilly knickers frilly

knickers i see i do listen you do attention so so you can actually also have your little pops of orange there too from things like gm but it is a time of purples whites and greens and so if you love that as a scheme have that as a scheme for your early summer. But it's okay to then go, right, well, late summer, it's going to hand over to slightly hotter colours because it does. Which people don't tend to like. But if you ignore your late summer, your garden's going to be boring from late July through to September. Things like your roses, your iris, really beautiful geraniums will have done their first flush so they're kind of starting to die back a bit or look a bit tired and this is when brace

yourself because this is one that really divides people you need ornamental grasses I love them do you love them I'm glad to hear it I like the ones that are fluffy they're just fluffy i do know that fluffy grass ornamental grasses are amazing and i'm not talking about the ones that are like synonymous with swingers like a big old pampas grass in you know 80s vibes i feel like did i teach you that no is that a thing i mean how would i have taught you that but they are are, right? Yeah. The big, plumy ones. Outside people's houses. That's a sign that you're a swinger. I think it was probably in the 70s.

I don't know that it is now. I'm going to go with it is. You're just going to drive past people's houses being like swingers? Swingers, yeah. Swinger. Knock on the door and be like, Sue. Keys? Keys, I'm here.

Nudge you, nudge, wink. I've never had them specified in a planting plan either, but if I do, I'll be like... But the reason grasses are so great is... The amount of people that are going to be listening to this that have those outside their house they'll be like fuck running out like with a second just pop a little sign in doing like we are not swingers swingers you've got you've got grasses some of the best ones miscanthus basically all of them but i like morning light but also calamagrostis say that gosh calamagrostis calamagrostis calamagrostis say again calamagrostisamagrostis. Say that quick. Calamagrostis. Calamagrostis.

Calamagrostis. Say again. Calamagrostis. Calamagrostis. You got it. Calamagrostis. And in particular, Carl Forster.

Carl Forster. Which I can only presume is named after Carl Forster. Carl Forster. Yeah. Great grass, really tall. It comes into its own in August

and the feathery bits on a grass are their flowers. Ah, okay. So that's technically its flowering season. But what I love about them is they just keep on going through the winter. So they're another example of structure in winter that's kind of swishy. And your fluffy ones you like, which look like bunny tails, just lovely for winter as well.

So whack them in. That's going to give you some late summer interest. And then with that, it's things like echinacea. Do you know what that is? I do know what echinacea is because I take echinacea do you know what that is i have i do know because i take echinacea for the immune system excellent but i don't know what it looks like pink like a pink cone flower it's like a little cone with pink like a big pink daisy oh right oh yes i do know what i do because actually on the bottle it has a picture

actually has a picture of it so i do know that's what it looks like yes that'll be it so they're lovely helenium which is dark orange and this is where i lose people how you remember these names this is amazing helenium no you can tell me every color on the paint and paper library i can so you know yeah these are kind of latin words so it's totally different yeah it takes a while yeah i can imagine but helenium is is essentially a small dark orange to brown version of an Echinacea. Okay. But again, really great for late summer interest. Kind of bunches out, looks amazing with grasses.

And then if you prefer your purples, there's still hope for late summer. Okay. Plant some Asters. Asters, what do they look like? Little purple daisies. Oh, right. I think they're called a Michaelaelmas daisy okay sweet but little tiny little purple flowers aster munch is very good m-o-n-c-h it's like a big old mound of purple daisies beautiful but lovely for late summer but it's

those kind of plants that people overlook and they're so busy thinking about roses and iris and pretty geraniums that they forget that second season when those are all looking kind of tired and you need something to hand over to and so that's when you have your second summer scheme okay so the first so you've got a bed summer season they're starting to go yeah and then second summer is sort of starting to come out yes what do you do with those that have started to wilt and die do you take them out or do you cut dead have them leave them no so you what i tend to do with things like cat mint for example napita which gets big it looks a bit like lavender it's purple

and sort of scented cats apparently love it but i've never had any issue with that it's what i would use instead of lavender in fact because i think it's better value. Oh, okay. Flowers for longer and it doesn't get woody. Nepeta. Nepeta. N-E-P-E-T-A. Okay. Or catmint. Okay, catmint seed, yeah.

But for example, that gets really big. It's amazing in May and June, but by July, it looks a bit knackered. So you grab it. Got it. Haircut. Okay. Grab it like a ponytail and cut it. That scares people.

But what it does is it will start to re-sprout and you'll probably get a second flush of flowers right okay um so you do that well you've got two choices there actually with may there's something called the chelsea chop and that means after chelsea flower show which is late may so usually sort of between the 20th of may early june you cut all of these plants back by half or you cut half a plant back by half. Even if it's got heads on it looks like it's doing okay. Because what it does is extends the flowering season.

It must feel so strange to do that. It feels sacrilegious. Yeah. But you're like, I'm doing this. Did you ever, my mum used to go and get my haircut as a kid quite frequently. Really wanted it long. She kept it at a bob, bob the irony and she'd be like we're cutting it to make it thicker i was like no you're not she wasn't i've actually heard

that that's a wives tale well i think it was and i think it was just a way of getting it does work with flowers different with hair works with flowers yeah yeah so what you're doing is stopping them get so huge so it contains their size but it also encourages flowers to flower for longer interesting okay so but to answer your question when you get when everything's looking a bit tired you just hack it back okay people are scared of that but it's really well rooted make sure it's got enough water and it will just come back with more flowers okay so we've kind of figured out our colors we've kind of understood the colours of the seasons, which is incredibly helpful, by the way.

Thank you. From everybody, from the bottom of my heart. But now back to autumn. We are in autumn and now is the time, which is the oddest thing because the thought of now going and buying bulbs that you're not going to see. It would be like buying a swimsuit.

Oh, I know. I'm going to go bikini shopping today. Last thing I feel like doing. Yeah. But but i'm gonna do it in the rain it's the complete opposite of when people care about their gardens which is why everyone puts off the planting right and it's why we're busiest time of year for us for inquiries is spring when everyone's like oh it's quite nice outside now and you're like should have phoned me six months ago yes so now it's so crucial not only for spring bulbs you need to be ordering now if you haven't already because the good ones sell out and eventually they all sell out but with spring bulbs you're planting them right now it's the only ones you're not

going to do until november is tulips so you don't plant so you plant everything now every bulb goes in the ground in in basically late october, November or mid-October. September, October, November, December. Okay. If you intend on planting tulips with other stuff, I personally just wait till mid to late November. General rule is you need to shiver when you walk outside. Oh. The idea being tulips get tulip fire, which is a disease which sort of distorts the tulip.

You don't want it. And it lives in the warmer soil. So you need the soil to be cold enough that it's not going to get them right okay so from my point of view i just wait until late november and plant them all at once because i can't be doing with planting oh that's good to know hundreds of bulbs okay and uh and now i have to ask about this brilliant machine there's a machine that i've seen that you use that you amazing the auger i was using that that hand one oh my god okay i literally couldn't move my arm the next day and i had about looking 200 bulbs to plant but tell me about is it called the auger it's an auger a-u-g-e-r and it's essentially you get your drill and it it can you need a good drill because it's you need a attachment that goes on your drill exactly you put you get your drill and it it can you need a good drill because it's you need

a attachment that goes on your drill exactly you put it in your drill and it's a essentially a spiral oh right okay isn't it kind of like what they did for the channel tunnel but obviously on a much smaller scale okay helpful um corkscrew like a corkscrew and you attach it to your drill and you do need a quite powerful drill because if you've got i mean if you've got sandy soil you're going to have a lovely time but if you've got clay then it's like mine's clay yeah so order your bulbs if you haven't already and then i would just plant them in november or december well like you after so you're having to order them now because they're going to go out of stock if you don't yes but you're ordering them you're planting them up in november yes where do you keep is there any way you should keep them somewhere cool and dry and for god's sake take

them out of the box when they arrive don't don't be like, oh, thanks very much, and just shove the box in the shed. Open it and take them out. Because otherwise, if you think they're still kind of a living thing, if you just leave a load of bulbs sat on top of each other, they're going to sort of sweat and rot. Okay. So open the box, take them out, and just sort of lay them on a shelf.

Put them somewhere. Just spread them out so they don't sweat on each other. That's a great tip. Yeah. Okay. The existing bulbs that are in the ground from the year before when do you take those out i don't even the tulips tulips rarely come back and if they do they're usually a bit shit that's interesting i left all my tulip bulbs well they might surprise you i think i might have saved oh my god i think i did that i think i saved i think i pulled them all out of the pots and i think i've saved them. Pots are different.

So in the ground, I just leave all bulbs. Things like alliums, snowdrops, daffodils, they'll all come back, just let them do their thing. Some tulips will surprise you and come back, but it will be nowhere near as good as the year. If you planted them in November. Smaller or just less of them. But in pots, what I do is treat it as an annual. So you grow them, they flower, do their thing.

You have to leave them to die back if you want to use them again. I personally compost them because they're never as good. So I put everything out of pots and compost it if it's a tulip. Everything else you can whack out. So if you did a pot display which had daffodils, alliums and tulips, if you want, when the daffodils are over you let them die back a bit pull them out but i just i don't have storage space well daffodils always come back in abundance every year they seem to just keep coming back so if you're like frugal or you've got the storage space to

lift them let them die back they need to die back because the way a bulb works if you think of it like a solar panel it's like the bulb needs the energy of the leaves the leaves of the solar panel so they absorb all of the nutrients from the sun as it's dying back and the energy goes back into the bulb amazing and it's like a little battery the worst thing you could possibly do is yank all the green leaves off it even though it looks a bit crap okay when it's dying down right and now's the time also when you're going to be planting your garden so if you've got your spreadsheet and you've done your colors and you know where it is now's when you're going to be planting your garden. So if you've got your spreadsheet and you've done your colours and you know where it is, now's when you're planting it. Hedging, trees, they're at your cheapest now because there is something called bare root season, which is when you dig up a plant from the ground and it's not been put in a pot.

It gets delivered to you as a big ball of earth with a plant on it and it's cheaper. So it's far more economical. The plants are asleep, so they don't know they've been moved. So it's such a busy time for you now. Now is plan your garden time. So it's planting the trees time. Buy your bulbs. But really plant all your bulbs in November.

I would. That's okay. It goes without saying, I've obviously asked everything that's up in my head. But if there's anything anyone out there thinks i've missed and would like to ask ask us the questions on the the underscore ins and outs underscore instagram that's where we're taking questions and ask polly anything that you want to about color or bulbs or anything and we'll try and answer it next week next week next week yes big old week episode six that's gonna be fun oh it's like gonna be gardener's question time yes mixed with interior's question

time yes asked by andy rowe oh my god i know it's gonna be really fun yeah perhaps we could have wine for that one oh let's have wine for that one we'll make it an evening one yes okay i'm excited okay good this leads me to the cringy bit where i ask you to please like subscribe share with your friends because if you don't we won't be able to do this again and next week is our final episode our q a and if you've enjoyed the last few weeks like we have we'd love to keep doing it we want to keep sharing and offering tips and advice and just generally having a get together and a chat over the next time a glass of wine. Thank you so much as well for all the questions that you've so far sent in.

We've had a look at some of them and they're brilliant. So thank you very much and we've really enjoyed it so far. Talk to you next week, pal. Talk to you next week, pal. Bring the wine. Boo. What wine do you want? This is important.

Red. Poullion. No, I'm very precise. Montepulciano would be lovely. All right. What are you going to drink? You're a white drinker. I'll drink red with you. Would you. Well, what are you going to drink? You're a white drinker. No, I'll drink red with you.

Would you, Andy? What are you going to have? Beer. Oh, Andy. I'll drink a wine. Would you drink a wine? You can have a beer. Wine for girls?

Stop it. Wine night? Wine house. Wine night. Okay, good. Can't wait. That's a wrap. That's going to be loose.

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