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 top 10
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 quint
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
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 i
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 colou
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 importan
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
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 th
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. By viewing the video, you agree to a data transmission to Y
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
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
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
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
