Episode 95 - Show Notes & Advice

Grow, cook, eat, arrange podcast 95
Grow, cook, eat, arrange podcast - 95

episode 95 | show notes & advice

episode description

 

This week, Sarah and Arthur talk about their favourite perennials for a beautiful, productive, and self-reliant garden. Very easy to care for, and a great way to introduce garden glamour, these perennials are total must-haves for anyone looking to breathe life and colour into their borders.

in this episode, discover

 

  • The stylish perennials at the top of Sarah’s list
  • Arthur’s shopping list for an exciting garden project
  • Evocative perennials from Sarah’s parent’s garden 

 

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advice sheet

 

Sarah’s memories of a self-seeding garden (1:23)

Sarah recalls her parent’s self-seeding garden, laden with short-lived perennials that reappear up to three or four metres away the following year. 

  • Honesty
  • Sweet Rocket 
  • Wallflowers
  • Foxgloves
  • Linaria purpurea ‘Cannon Went’ 

Arthur shares some of his short-lived favourites (2:36)

  • Aquilegia – great plants for self-sowing, comes in a watercolour hues.
  • Perennial sweet pea – loads of colours to choose from. Arthur loves how pink perennial sweet peas can snake through grass like magenta ribbons. 
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  • Salvia x Jamensis – flowers much earlier than lavender.
  • Lavender ‘Hidcote’ - great in a sunny garden with free draining soil.

Garden grasses (5:21)

  • Stipa gigantea ‘Golden Oats’ cutting grass – great for impact. Fabulous, tall, and elegant.
  • Chasmanthium latifolium – a modern favourite and can be grown from seed. Takes a while to germinate but is an excellent value for money perennial. Sarah loves the Ironed-flat corn sheathes and elegant diorama curved stems. Also, a cracker for Christmas wreathes and the Christmas table, with or without paint or spray, it dries beautifully. 
  • Briza media – not to be confused with Briza Maxima. It’s perennial, delicate, and every panicle looks like a teardrop hanging on a stem. In any breeze, you see the whole plant quaking

Self-reliant roses (7:44)

  • Rosa x odorata 'Mutabilis' – Always in flower at Perch Hill. Almost as if it’s fashioned from silk, looks simply stunning even if it’s a bit raggedy. 
  • Rosa glauca – another excellent border perennial. 
  • Rosa ‘De Resht’ – An old China rose. Unbelievably healthy, flowers lightly. Very long performing and never has black spot or mildew. 
  • Rose ‘Calendar Girl’ – mix of reds and pinks. Very fairy tale. 
  • Rosa 'Champagne Moment' – new but with an antique look, a prolific flowerer. 

Ground cover (11:37)

  • Erigeron karvinskianus ‘Profusion’ – romps through the paths and the little crevices that nothing else wants to grow into.
  • Ivy-leaved toadflax – one of Sarah’s favourites. Almost like a miniature snapdragon.  

Plants to complement shrubs and trees (12:43)

  • Cyclamen – whatever tree you plant them under, they seem to thrive. ‘hederifolium’ for the autumn and ‘coum’ for the spring. The leaves alternate with the flowers, so you never have a blank space.

 

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Wild Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)
 
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Other great self-reliant plants 

  • Persicara – a lovely candy pink.
  • Japanese anemone – thrives on neglect, good in shady places, and a great alternative to cosmos. Although, be careful, they do tend to take over.
  • Oriental poppies – stake if you can, but don’t worry too much.
  • Salvia greggii 'Amethyst Lips' – handsome in purple and white, and reliable.

 

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