Perch Hill is a mainly productive garden where we grow and trial lots of flowers for cutting, as well as salads, herbs and veg for use in the kitchen, both for Sarah at home and for the garden and cookery school courses. We have three new areas of garden which we are developing, all linked with Sarah's BBC series (to be shown this autumn) about helping reverse our ever declining insect numbers. We have created a mini wild flower meadow using mainly native perennials. This is at a very early stage, plus a new nectar garden and a pictorial meadow of long-flowering annuals - some native British plants, but other longer-flowering annuals from Mexico and California to give a nectar bar to the insects for longer.

Q and A with Sarah
Sarah will be holding two question and answer sessions during the day at 11.30 and 2.15, these last approximately 45 minutes and are followed by book signing.

Lunches and tea
Tea, coffee and cakes will be available throughout the day and lunches start at 12.00.
Sample spring menu: Leek and goat’s cheese tart or Chicken, raisin and caper salad served with a variety of salads including kale and mangetout with roasted hazel nuts with an orange dressing, Perch Hill salad leaves with a lemon dressing, potato salad with pea pesto and roasted vegetable pilaff.

New shop
The new look shop will be open, with a selection of Sarah’s favourite gardening, floristry and lifestyle products including seeds, seedlings, plants and bulbs.

Local farmers and producers
You will also be able to buy meat, bread and vegetables from local farmers and producers during the morning (9.30am-1pm).

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