Inspiration Page – Create a naturalised garden

create a naturalised garden

Grow stunning drifts of colour, scent, and texture with these naturalising favourites. Soften patios and steps with self-sowing varieties, grow your own meadow, or allow bulbs to spread themselves naturally throughout your garden

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Shade Perennial Bulb Mix

A nice and traditional mix of bulbs to brighten up a shady, north-facing wall. All these bulbs are chosen to keep coming back for years.

naturalising bulbs in grass

When planting in grass, remember to go for a very natural look, avoiding straight lines and regimental spacing. Scatter the bulbs from the bag with a sweep of your hand like a sower sowing seed and then plant each bulb where it falls. Keep reading >

Bulbs for Naturalising Collection

A collection of the easiest-to-get established, naturalising bulbs for spring, loved by Sarah

Tulip and Narcissus
Naturalising Collection

Twenty bulbs each of Narcissus 'Actaea' and Tulip praestans 'Shogun' for naturalising in your garden

Early Spring Jewels Collection

This mix of bulbs greets me from early March until the end of April on my way to let out the hens

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grow your own flower meadow

We all need to grow more wildflowers and nectar-rich flowers to help reverse the decline in pollinators. Why not try some of our wildflower seeds and meadow mixes? Learn more >

Sarah Raven Wild Flower Meadow Mix Seeds

There are two things I want from my wild flower meadow – beauty, for months not weeks, with flowers coming out and going over in succession, and pollen-rich, insect-friendly plants from early to late in the year

Bluebell Woodland Mix

A tried and tested perennial wild flower mix suitable for shade below a hedge or trees. Includes our stalwart woodland wild flowers, that will slowly naturalise and perpetuate from year to year

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naturalised in bricks, paving and patios

Why not try planting beautiful flowers in your paving cracks, footpaths, and wall gaps, instead of letting the weeds establish themselves. It’s such a pretty cottage garden look that’s very low maintenance. Keep reading >

Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve'

Exceptionally long-flowering, famously brilliant perennial wallflower

Erigeron karvinskianus 'Profusion'

Perfect for softening some steps with curtains of daisies, plus you can create a lovely tumbling outside table centre

Campanula portenschlagiana 'Mrs Resholt'

Grow this as you would Erigeron, out of walls, edging paths and borders, or spilling out of pots

Alchemilla mollis

This acid-green, fluffy-flowered plant is one of the best ever foliage plants for the garden and vase

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In this episode, Sarah explains the super simple, sustainable, and cost-effective steps you can take to enable your best-loved bulbs to return year after year

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Inspiration Page – Create a naturalised garden