growing a half-hardy annual cutting patch Sarah talks through her favourite half hardy annual flower varieties for growing in the cutting patch. I'm standing in my half-hardy annual cutting patch and I absolutely love
identifying your soil type Soils can be identified in to their general types by the way they feel and respond to handling. Pick up a handful and squeeze it together. Sand feels gritty and the grains do not stick together when
how to stake your annuals Sarah shares her top tricks on how to stake your annual seedlings effectively. I want to show you what I’ve been up to this week, which is staking lots of the things tha
annual flowers – create summer colour Here's a good game to play: if some kind of crisis hits and your own personal credit crunch shrinks your garden to a few square yards, which plants would you keep as your absolute summer favourites? F
gardening at home with sarah | favourite wallflowers In this video Sarah shares her favourite wallflower varieties for growing almost anywhere in the garden. By viewing the video, you agree to a data transmission to Youtube.The da
my love of wild flowers All my life, I have been in love with wild flowers ... so much so I published a book documenting 500 of Britain's most beautiful specimens. Read on for an extract which explains why I'm so fond o
the importance of wild flower meadows Almost all our meadows have now been sprayed and re-sown with more productive grasses to create more hay, with others turned over to arable. It’s been estimated that by 1984, 97% of lowland
creating a wild flower meadow Sarah talks through how she has begun to establish the wild flower meadow at Perch Hill. By viewing the video, you agree to a data transmission to Youtube.The data processing by
gardening at home with sarah | may tulips In this video, join Sarah for a walk around Perch Hill as she shares her favourite tulips for companion planting, growing in shade and pots. By viewing the video, you agree to a
edible flowers Scattering flowers over your food is a good way to add colour and I've always been a sucker for marigolds, violas, primroses and nasturtiums for this decorative reason alone, but the more I learn
the greenhouse in july Sarah guides you round her greenhouse on a very hot day in July, sharing with you her favourite plant varieties to grow in the heat. It's mid-July and I'm in the greenhou
staking plants There are some fantastic gardens within half an hour of my house, all of which teach as much about how to garden as anything I could come up with. I try to walk around them often and in as many
using native wood structures In 2012 I had a resolution for my new vegetable patch - to use only British native wood for plant supports and edging. I needed to raise the beds to help drainage on our heavy clay soil. If I di
pollinator super plants Many cultivated garden plants have limited wildlife value. Years of selection for increasing showy blooms has resulted in flowers losing their attraction to pollinators, but there are plenty of t
best houseplants for winter Now is the moment to make the inside of our homes as wonderful as our gardens have been through the summer. There are lots of beautiful, vibrant plants available to fill the winter with life and co
flowers for indian summers Compare the weeks that a group of hardy annuals are in flower – cornflowers, sweet peas, marigolds and love-in-a-mist – with a group of half-hardy annuals, such as tobacco plants, cosmos, snapdragons
