bring pollinators into your garden The honeybee is in peril, but every gardener can help by planting pollinator friendly plants in their gardens and allotments. Gardening, for me, has turned a completely new corner. I used to lov
top 10 plants for pollinators If you're just starting to make a pollinator friendly garden or if you're new to gardening and want to add a few pollinator friendly plants but are not sure where to start then this is Sarah's to
sweet peas | why sarah loves them and how to cut them If you’re going to grow one plant for picking, or one family, it probably has to be the sweet pea, they are just the most luscious, lovely, scented, pretty, easy, just sort of quintessentially British
how to grow your own wedding: part 1 Bea, our head gardener, was getting married in July and she was having her wedding party in the garden at Perch Hill. It gave us both an idea – to grow her wedding – as much of the food and flowers as
my top wild flower mixes and garden-worthy varieties Wild flowers were my first love in the plant world. Here are my favourite varieties, that flower for months, not just a few fleeting weeks, and are possible to grow in your own back garden. For instru
growing a hardy annual cutting patch Sarah shows you her hardy annual cutting patch blooming in July, talking you through her favourite varieties to plant.I'm standing in my hard annual cutting patch and these are the real backbone plant
sarah's favourite hardy annuals Watch as Sarah shares her top hardy annual flowers for a cutting garden and tips on when to sow the seeds. I always think that if half-hardy annuals are the froofy colour and glamour of a cutting g
a spring wild flower adventure I remember one sunny May weekend nearly 20 years ago spending a couple of days botanising down in the West Country.We had a white 2CV, and drove around very slowly, roof down, spotting any colour chan
my favourite british wild flowers I'm on a mission to get more of us to grow British wild flowers in our gardens. As ever-increasing numbers of these plants vanish from the countryside, our own private spaces become more important – a
creating an insect haven I want to create a mini paradise for insects at Perch Hill, a place that gets everything right for them and that will look beautiful, so that we can sit and watch hoverflies, butterflies and bees h
the cutting garden in august Sarah takes us on a tour of some of the highlights in the cutting garden at Perch Hill in August, including the sweet pea arch and the white trial bed growing through Clematis netting.
climbers | why sarah loves these Sarah shows us some of her favourite climbers from the trials at Perch Hill, which are used as both climbers and trailers.One of the things we really love at Perch Hill, are growing climbers as annual
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 it. It's just three by fo
how to get summer colours in an autumn garden Here’s a useful exercise: walk around your garden today and make a note of what’s in flower and still looking good. Then try to think back to when those plants started flowering. Are there some stalwa
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 abou
how to cordon train your sweet peas My friend Nipper Keely taught me how to cordon train my sweet peas to grow magnificent plants. Nipper’s stems of trained sweet peas are at least eighteen inches long, with five or six flowers on
