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 | 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
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
erigeron karvinskianus | why sarah loves this Sarah tells us why Erigeron karvinskianus is one of her favourite all-round garden plants.A plant that you’ll find literally everywhere in my garden is Erigeron karvinskianus, and it’s a plant that is
wonderful wisteria The benefits of a rain-sodden spring are not many, but a glorious, colourful display of wisteria is one! Imagine walking through a wood at this time of year in the hillier, wilder areas of Honshu or
understanding dahlia groups Below is a list of the different dahlia groups, along with some classification info and an example of a variety in each group. Classification of dahlias is rather complicated, as there are over 50,00
clematis for every month of the year Clematis are among the showiest of climbers – and a garden with climbers is a place that feels as though it has come into its own. No longer a randomly selected patch of cultivated earth,
why you should choose 'prepared' freesia corms Freesias were my best gardening success in 2011. They can be a washout if you start with corms that have been sitting around too long in their bag, so that all life's juices have been drawn out of th
how to sow parsley seeds Watch as Sarah demonstrates how to sow one of her favourite herbs, parsley, and shares top tips for successful germination. Parsley is one of my absolute favourit
companion planting: friends with benefits Most of us love the idea of companion planting, the underlying principle being that by uniting one species with another we’ll free a plant from the scourge of some particular pest or have a mira
salvia 'amistad' | why sarah loves this One of my absolute favourite plants. Incredible flowers, excellent performance and loved by pollinators. One of my absolute favourite plants is Salvia ‘Amistad&rs
sowing seeds into gutterpipes I sow loads of things, particularly amongst the herbs and salads, into lengths of guttering. They germinate quickly and consistently, all cosy in the warm in my polytunnel and transplant outside
gardening at home with Sarah | the best tulips at Perch Hill In this video from Sarah at home, she shares her favourite tulips for picking, pots, borders and grass.By viewing the video, you agree to a data transmission to Youtube.The data processing by Youtube
sarah's guide to hardy annual flowers Hardy annuals as cut flowers have to be picked - that’s the great thing about them. It’s not picking them that will lead to disaster. Let hardy annuals form seed and they’ve done wha
the wild flowers of sicily It had to be the most unpromising bit of landscape I’d ever seen. The entire bay – literally – was rimmed with oil refineries, tanker loading bays, incomprehensible tangles of pipewo
