This week one of our Talking Dirty favourites is back! Val Bourne is an award-winning garden writer and grows all manner of treasures in her 1/3 acre Cotswolds plot. This week - in part one of her latest appearance - she shares some of her favourites Prunus and the Scilla you must grow, plus those to avoid! And as usual her coversation with Alan Gray (East Ruston Old Vicarage) and Thordis meanders via a host of plants from Geums to Ferns.

Next week Roses, Trilliums and Violets...plus FLOMO*

*FLOMO = FLoral/plant-based fear Of Missing Out

PLANT LIST

Geum 'Totally Tangerine'

Geum 'Prinses Juliana'

Amsonia

Helenium 'Sahin's Early Flowerer'

Geum 'Bell Bank'

Geum 'Mai Tai'

Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus'

Echinacea purpurea 'White Swan'

Galanthus plicatus 'E.A. Bowles'

Succisella inflexa 'Frosted Pearls'

Galanthus 'Marjorie Brown'

Hamamelis

Prunus mume 'Beni-chidori'

Prunus 'Kursar'

Prunus 'Okame'

Prunus incisa 'Kojo-no-mai'

Prunus 'Tai-haku'

Prunus 'Chocolate Ice'

Scilla siberica

Scilla bifolia

Scilla bithynica

Allium triquetrum

Tulipa saxatilis (Bakeri Group) 'Lilac Wonder'

Adiantum

Anemonoides nemorosa

Polypodium