dahlia variabilis 'bishop's children' | why sarah loves this Sarah explains why she loves these brilliant, richly coloured flowers set against dark crimson foliage. A truly magnificent dahlia for a pot, is ‘Bishop’s Children
favourite summer half-hardy annuals Sarah shows us five favourite summer half-hardy annuals for bountiful vases, brilliant containers and scented arrangements. One of my very favourite things at Perch Hill is ou
how to freeze flowers I like freezing the small edible flowers – anchusas, borage, pansies and violas – in ice or olive oil cubes. Make up different shapes, with some stars as well as rectangles. I know it's go
top tips for picking and arranging roses Roses make beautiful cut flowers but it helps to know some basics on how to pick them and advice on arranging roses for the best effect. Picking roses The trick with roses is to pick them early in t
a simple table centrepiece If you have plenty of rosemary in the garden you can use it to cover drinking tumblers for the table centres in the marquee. Covering a tumbler or medium-sized jam jar (Bonne Maman French jam jars are
a beginner's guide to healing plants I’m about to add a whole new strand to my productive garden – healing plants. There are many plants which you can grow which are perfect for healing common ailments. I have travelled arou
gardening at home with sarah | favourite biennials for june In this video Sarah shares her reasons for growing biennials and her favourite varieties for June colour. I’m a huge fan of biennials, and some people say ‘I can&r
planting container combinations at perch hill Watch as Sarah plants up a combination of edible container plants and shares her top tips for success. you might like View Peat Free
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
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
growing and picking lilacs If you ask people to name their favourite scented flower, lilac is almost always mentioned. But, if so many of us like lilacs, why do so few of us grow them? It's true they can be accused of performin
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,
