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
early flowering biennials for spring My spring garden is full of bulbs – scented narcissi, hyacinths and tulips of many different kinds. I also have cherry and apple blossom and patches of early-flowering annuals like Cerinthe majo
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
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
why you should grow verbena rigida Sarah shares with us the reasons she loves Verbena rigida, and what conditions are best to grow it in. Verbena bonariensis, a tall purple plant, seems to be everyone’s f
sarah’s top roses for cutting A vase of garden roses is a lovely thing, a signal that summer proper is finally here. I have a small garden at Perch Hill dedicated to roses for cutting, so I can guarantee this luxury for months at
annual flowers for pots If I had to choose my absolute favourite annual flowers for pots these would be it. All these flowers are perfect for pots in the summer and will give you maximum colour impact for minimal effort. Ann
the best summer annual flowers Annuals are the best plants in the world – better than trees, better than shrubs, better than perennials, even better than biennials, which are hard to beat. They flower, set seed and make babi
top 5 vegetable seeds to sow in may If you said to me I only had five packets of seed to sow in May in the veg plot which would they be? Which are the plants that I would hate to be without, that I would miss having in the garden to giv
which are the best pumpkins? Pumpkins are the most handsome of all the autumn veg. The best pumpkins are friendly, soft and curvaceous, and by growing several varieties you can have a mixture of the loveliest colours. The leaves
the very best annual climbers Behind the story of Jack and the beanstalk is some deep level of amazement at what a seed can do in the course of a year. By last September I had a French bean 12ft high and a cup-and-saucer vine pok
