Sarah Raven

Acclaimed English gardener, cook and writer. Host of the UK’s No.1 gardening podcast.

https://www.sarahraven.com/ @sarahravensgarden

Sarah Raven is a renowned English gardener, cook and award-winning author. She is an inspirational and passionate teacher - combining her decades of experience with her scientific approach to growing (she is medically trained) - and has been running cooking, flower arranging and gardening courses at Perch Hill, her 90-acre farm in East Sussex, and around the UK for over 30 years. She has written for a host of major publications - including House & Garden, The Saturday Telegraph, Country Living, Gardens Illustrated, Gardeners’ World Magazine and The English Garden - and presented on TV shows including Gardeners' World and BBC’s Great British Garden Revival. Her gardening and cookery books have won numerous awards including ‘Best Specialist Gardening Book’ for The Cutting Garden and ‘Cookery Book of the Year’ for Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook. Sarah is married to the writer Adam Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West's grandson. She also has an online shop that is a brilliant destination for plants, bulbs, seeds, tools and all things garden.

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Sarah's Courses

Cut and Come Again Masterclass

Discover how to maximise the productivity of your plot with acclaimed gardener and grower, Sarah Raven. In this course you will learn that you don’...

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Cut and Come Again Masterclass

Discover how to maximise the productivity of your plot with acclaimed gardener and grower, Sarah Raven. In this course you will learn that you don’t need to have a huge space to have a hugely productive garden and how, with clever plant selection and thoughtful planning, you can grow an abundance of blooms, year round. In over ten hours of lessons filmed at her famed garden, Perch Hill, Sarah will show you step-by-step how to create the perfect ‘cut and come again’ cutting patch from start to finish, covering everything from how to assess your site and choose your colour palette to how to choose plants to balance flowers and foliage and how to plan your ‘spring’ and ‘summer’ schemes. From her extensive research and trialling, Sarah will share her favourite annuals, biennials, and the perennials proven to come back year after year, and will provide expert guidance on the key gardening tasks across the seasons, offering technical tips and tricks for encouraging healthy plant development and bountiful growth.

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Magnificent Pots

Discover how to fill your outdoor space with magnificent pots, packed with colour, scent and beauty. Learn from Sarah’s 30 years of experience as s...

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Magnificent Pots

Discover how to fill your outdoor space with magnificent pots, packed with colour, scent and beauty. Learn from Sarah’s 30 years of experience as she takes you through the entire process, from designing your pot recipes and sowing seeds to planting your pots and caring for them through the seasons. Drawing on her vast knowledge, Sarah reveals her favourite varieties and combinations, enabling you to produce impressive and joy-filled creations, whatever your gardening ability. From low-maintenance perennial pots and drought-resistant table centres to shade-loving flowers and show-stopping whopper pots, there’s something to suit any space and condition. Whether you have a courtyard, balcony or simply a doorstep to fill, Join Sarah as she teaches you how to pack it with flower-filled pots.

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