INSPIRED BY PERCH HILL
Bournville Orange Tulip Collection, see page 10
I’ve just come back from a fantastic trip to Holland where I and our horti team went to find lots of new dahlia varieties to trial at Perch Hill. We did just the same in spring for narcissus and tulips etc — which is what you’ll find in these pages, the best of the old and plenty that’s brand new. That’s our process with every plant and bulb you’ll find in our range — looking, selecting, trialling, refining — so we can offer our very best collections and favourite single varieties to fill your gardens with beauty, colour and abundance. That’s what we’ve been doing here now for 30 years at Perch Hill.
Have a look at our lovely things — not just for the garden. We’ve been thinking hard and creating lots of good home-things throughout 2024.
And finally, if you haven’t already got it, check out my new book, out this spring covering all sorts of autumn-relevant practicalities such as bulb lasagnes and inspiration for the most beautiful colour palettes and bulb combinations.
I hope you have fun choosing,
You can add a splash of one palette into another, but not mix colours willy-nilly from all 4 palettes. That gets too busy — and not beautiful. Try 2 colours from Sarah’s Dark and Rich Palette — as here crimson and vermilion— softened and brightened by apricot from Soft and Warm. That works well.
and Rich
SARAH’S TULIP COMBINATION
COLOUR THEORY
Rich & Dark
Incredibly decadent and undeniably rich, this colour palette was one of my first true loves.
PAGES 8-12
Soft & Warm
This palette is so fashionable, with a vintage, 1970s air. I think of these as cashmere jersey colours.
PAGES 18-21
Boiled Sweet
Bold and brilliant – this is definitely one for the colour lovers amongst us.
PAGES 14-17
Soft & Cool
This is what I think of as the chicest palette. Crisp and smart, like well-pressed clothes or elegant stilettos.
PAGES 22-25
Dark
with ‘Apricot Foxx’ from Soft and Warm Plum and Apricot Collection, see page 19
Swan Lake Tulip Collection, see page 23
Sarah’s favourite colour families to guide you on what she feels works best in her and your gardens.
Plum and Apricot Tulip Mix, see page 19
Bold and Brilliant Tulip Collection, see page 15
Silk Brocade Tulip Mix, see page 10
5 tulip varieties
AND Dark and rich tulips are dear to my heart, and one of my absolute favourite flowers in this luscious colour palette. You just can’t go wrong with these. a April-May (unless otherwise stated)
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tulip varieties
March to May Tulip Collection
Designed with pizzazz and practicality in mind, a spectacular and super long-performing collection — flowers brightly from mid-March, joined a couple of weeks later by elegant, deep purple and finishing with a crimson and orange April into May fandango. 4 tulip varieties, see website for details. a March-May. H.45cm
Ginger Snap Tulip Mix
Those
Shown here in late April ‘Disaronno’
Shown here in March
3 tulip varieties
Silk Brocade Tulip Mix
love the word ‘passementerie’ - the art of making elaborate trimmings or edgings of applied braid, gold, or silver cord, embroidery, coloured silk or beads. That’s what was aiming for here with this collection. 3 tulip varieties, see website for details. H.60cm
Dark Peony Flowered Tulip Collection
Luscious, full-petalled tulips in dazzling jewel-like colours – one of our favourite collections here at Perch Hill. These tulips really do look like spring peonies. 4 tulip varieties, see website for details. H.45cm
4 tulip varieties
3
tulip varieties
Bournville Orange Tulip Collection
Shown here with Erysimum ‘Sugar Rush Purple Bicolour’, not included in collection. See page 44
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Dutch Yard Tulip Collection
We adore this trio of tulips in terracotta pots in spring; the splash of red providing brilliance amongst the dark richness of the other two. 3 tulip varieties, see website for quantities and more details. H.45cm 261162 40 bulbs £34.50 75 bulbs £56.50
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I’m Going to Glyndebourne Tulip Mix
There’s something luxurious about this lot, layers of petals and subtly different tones of purple which make this a head-turner wherever you put it. 3 tulip varieties, see website for details. H.45cm 261805 45 bulbs (15 of each) £39.95 90 bulbs (30 of each) £74.95
A BULB LASAGNE IN A POT
To get dense and flowery spring pots, try layering bulbs, one group on top of the other, in a bulb lasagne. Creating a succession of colour has never been easier. Follow these simple steps to get started...
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The largest and latest flowering bulbs go in deepest (20cm), moving up to the smallest and earliest on the top layer (5cm). If you have 3 layers, aim for 8cm of compost between each layer.
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It’s good to have about 10-12cm of compost, mixed with grit (page 63) below the deepest layer. For February colour add Iris ‘Purple Hill’ (page 40) or similar, as the final top layer, just tucked under the soil surface.
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Moisten the base of the bulb and dip into Bulb Starter (page 15). Then place the tulips, pointy end up, about 5cm apart and place your pots in full sun or dappled shade.
These photos show how our Brilliant Bulb Lasagne Collection transforms through the season, see page 42 for product details
Tudor Rose Tulip Collection
The Tudor rose brought together the reds of Lancaster and the whites of York, and here it is in tulip form, but made better and richer by the deep blood-reds of ‘Palmyra’ and ‘Uncle Tom’. Long-flowering
Lay rose prunings on top of your pots to protect your bulbs from squirrels.
Introduce wow factor into your garden with these super-dazzlers.
Opal Fruit Tulip Collection
I’ve always loved an Opal Fruit (now Starburst) and that’s what this fruity-looking, double-flowered collection is all about — orange, blackcurrant and lime, super long-lasting in a container, border or vase. 5 tulip varieties, see website for details. H.60cm 261812 30 bulbs (5 of each) £34.50 60 bulbs (10 of each) £54.95
Wedding Hat Tulip Collection
One of the great things about a royal wedding is seeing the hats streaming past on TV. When these came into flower in a luxurious mix of colours, it’s that mix of feather and fascinator that sprung to mind! 4 tulip varieties, see website for details. H.45cm
Bold and Brilliant Tulip Collection
I love this swathe of tulips growing in the Perennial Cutting Garden. 3 out of 4 of these have the elegant shape and perenniality of the lily-flowered; they’re some of the best and look fantastic in pots too. 4 tulip varieties, see website for details. H.45cm 261300 20 bulbs (5 of each) £19.50
of each)
Scented Tulip Collection
Did you know that lots of tulips are really scented, and none more so than these four?
All well-known perennial varieties, which last for years in the garden, to pick and perfume inside and out. 4 tulip varieties, see website for details. H.60cm
Fabulous cut flower
Three
Lily-flowered Tulip Pot Collection
Boiled Sweet Tulip Collection
From inspiring and thoughtfully curated collections to beautiful hard-to-find varieties, we have an extensive range of bulbs, plants, seeds and gardening kit to choose from.
OUR TULIP COLLECTIONS
• All have top size bulbs which are grown one year longer in the ground than most of our competitors to give you the best, most sumptuous tulips with larger flowers and taller stems
• Are bagged with each individual variety packed separately, so you can decide where to plant each colour
• 45 bulbs
• As
3 tulip varieties
• Full planting instructions at sarahraven.com/advice French Tulip Mix Tall, elegant, Champs-Élysées models of the tulip world. This catwalk collection flowers long and late. 3 tulip varieties, see website for details. H.60cm
Plum and Apricot Tulip Mix
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Apricot and White Tulip Mix
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Bumper Border Bulb Mix
We had this soft and beautiful, scented mix of tulips and narcissus all around our lawn last spring, and picked and picked and picked. That’s why it’s called the Bumper Border Bulb Mix. It’s very perennial too.
Tulips as Peonies Collection
We all love a peony, and here I’ve chosen a mix of soft-coloured tulips to imitate them as accurately as I can, flowering a good few weeks before even the earliest peony. Pretty irresistible. 4 tulip varieties, see website for details. H.45cm
Jemima’s Tulip Mix P
Jemima Bowker has worked with me now for four years, and at half my age, we fall for slightly different collections as they come into flower each spring. This was Jemima’s favourite this April. Elegant, a great mix of shapes, and unashamedly pink. 2 tulip varieties, see website for details. H.60cm
261810 30 bulbs (15 of each) £24.95 60 bulbs (30 of each) £39.95
Spice Up Your Grass Collection
Sustainable gardening is increasingly at the forefront of our minds at Perch Hill, so we have been experimenting with planting lots of bulbs into grass to see which do best. I adore this swathe of varieties down our drive which come back better each year. They look wonderful in grass and picked together for a vase. 2 tulip varieties and 1 fritillaria variety, see website for details. a March-May. H.15cm
Resplendent and Reliable Tulip Collection
are, four varieties which have naturalised, reappearing in greater numbers, year on year. Plant them in poor soil or mix in grit (page 63) to ensure
Shown here with Cardoon leaves and amelanchier growing behind in the Dutch Yard, see website
Spring Party Tulip Collection
One of the things I love most about tulips is how they push on into the end of spring. If you're thinking of planning a spring party or just want abundant flowers for the house, this is the collection for you. varieties, see website for details. H.45cm 261757 60 bulbs (10 of each) £59.95
3 tulip varieties
3 tulip varieties
Long-flowering Tulip Collection
know I go on about wallpapers, but we’ve had a Sanderson pink and
Super Perennial Tulip Mix
These green-flashed tulips grow back year after year, flower for ages, have excellent weather resistance (crucial if there is endless rain) and last brilliantly in the vase. I’ve now had all 3 reappearing in my garden for over 10 years which is pretty remarkable. They do well in sun or shade. 3 tulip varieties, see website for details.
Our Nero vase is the best vase ever – see our website for why
Alliums are incredibly perennial and flower for ages. I love them for adding late spring and early summer pizzazz, as well as bringing strong colour and shape to the border. Plus, they are excellent for cutting as both flowers and seedheads, and brilliant for the bees. For more information on the contents of these collections visit our website.
Perfect Border Allium Collection
There are certain alliums which fit perfectly and hugely enhance a border — their foliage is finer and their scale and drama just right to mix in, but not take over other things. That’s just what these three have in common, planted here in our Farmhouse Garden. 3 allium varieties of varying quantities, see website for details. H.1.8m
There are no better value alliums than these two. Mix them up together in the garden, or harvest them for inside. 2 allium varieties, see website for details. H.90cm
Firework Border Allium Collection
Plant this lot where you’re sure they’ll be backlit and there’s nothing better, with a great mix of shapes, heights and airiness. This is your May into June border firework display. And there’s hardly a moment when this group’s nectar and pollen are not being feasted on by bumble and honey bees. 3 allium varieties including the towering Allium Giganteum, see website for details. H.90cm
Take the time to get a chair and sit by your alliums to see visiting pollinators coming and going. That’s just what I did before nailing my selection of this super-pollinator family. 3 allium varieties, see website for details. H.1.2m 261713 36 bulbs £39.50 69 bulbs £59.95
Best for Bees Allium Collection
Allium Collection
Arthur’s Allium Collection
Gardener and good friend, Arthur Parkinson, chose this collection which bridges everything alliums can do – from intensity to architectural glamour. And all three have the RHS AGM, so they’re easy and reliable to grow. Interplant them with the soft pink foxglove ‘Sutton’s Apricot’, Linaria purpurea ‘Canon Went’ and create a fluffy bronze carpet of fenne below (see our website). 3 allium varieties, see website for details. a May-July. H.90cm
New Allium Collection
These are my desert island alliums for arranging and the ones I pick the most. One variety boasting starry openness, another with long-lasting, pink-mauve flowers, and, of course, an ever-stalwart in signature purple - impossible to beat in flower or seedhead. 3 allium varieties, see website for details. H.90cm 260870 33
First Days of Summer Bulb Collection
When tulips go over in mid-May, until the roses and sweet peas come into their own in June, we can find ourselves scratching about for flowers to decorate the house and tables. That’s just when I put together this collection to solve that problem — and I love the mix of shapes, colours and textures. It’s a winner. 3 allium varieties and 1 iris variety, see website for details. a May-July. H.90cm
‘Purple Sensation’
A. schubertii
‘Purple Rain’
Shown here with Stipa gigantea, not included in this collection. See website for details.
BULBS FOR
THREE REASONS TO INTRODUCE NATURALISING BULBS…
The perfect choice for flashes of early spring colour, when little else in the garden is in bloom. GROUND COVER Ideal for disguising bare soil and space under shrubs and trees.
FIRST SIGNS OF SPRING
RISE AND SHINE
Naturalised bulbs look impressive scattered through grass as the first show in a wild flower meadow.
CONTAINS
2 camassia varieties
1 narcissus variety
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. Each of these bulbs were planted in different years and have merged gradually into the most cheerful early spring carpet. Each component is reliably perennial. Collection includes 60 items. For a full list of contents, visit our website.
Aspect: Full sun a March-April. H.40cm 261772 60 items £17.95
Anemone blanda ‘Blue Shades’
a March-April. H.15cm 260515 20 tubers £5.95 40 tubers £9.95
Delft Blue Perennial Bulb Collection
A lovely early flowering mix of bulbs inspired by classic, patterned Delft blue china. This combination flowers long and hard, is totally perennial, and will naturalise in sun or dappled shade. Collection includes 90 items. For a full list of contents, visit our website.
a March-April. H.15cm 261348 90 items £22.95
Use to create a blue carpet in your borders through sun or shade.
Orchard Camassia and Daffodil Collection
I love bulbs in grass — an optimistic, cheery sight, a create-your-own-Alpine-meadow for spring. Use crocus, species tulips and mini daffs when the grass is short in March and April (see Spice up Your Grass Collection p.23) and once it has grown long, you’ll need the longstemmed camassias and late-flowering, powerfully perfumed Narcissus recurvus. They’re the best things and will gradually spread into a tapestry of colour and flowers. Collection includes 2 camassia and 1 narcissus variety, for a full list of contents and quantities, visit our website. a April-May. H.90cm 261841 40 bulbs (20 Narcicssus and 10 each of Camassia) £49.95 80 bulbs (40 Narcicssus and 20 each of Camassia) £69.95
Aspect: Full Sun/part shade (unless otherwise stated)
Tulip
‘Apricot Emperor’
Anemone ‘Sylphide’
Anemone ‘Mr Fokker’
Tulip ‘Sunny Prince’
Anemone ‘Blue Shades’
Shown here: Orchard Camassia and Daffodil Collection
The Carien Crocus Collection
Named after my Dutch garden designer friend, Carien van Boxtel, this is a truly wonderful crocus collection which kicks off a succession of naturalised bulbs in her lawn in Zaltbommel, south of Amsterdam. All the crocus here have been thriving and spreading for years; they are the prettiest, most delicate looking forms. Collection includes 150 corms. For the full contents list of this collection, see our website. February-March. H.15cm
Ice Blue Crocus Collection
This exclusive collection contains the most beautiful, delicate crocuses in soft blues and creams. Delicate, yet easy to grow, lovely closed up as a goblet and even lovelier, fully starily open. For the contents of this collection, see our website, each in separate bags.
Full sun. a February-March. H.15cm
Bulbs for Naturalising in Shade Collection
The easiest to grow bulbs for gently seeding themselves through shady spots in your garden. Collection includes 120 bulbs. For more details about the contents of this collection, see our website. H.30cm
Spring Shade Mix
Planted
Camassias are easy to grow and reliably perennial. A standout choice for naturalising in grass or borders.
Like the flower-studded sward in Botticelli’s Primavera painting, this petite and gentle-coloured mix of bulbs can be planted in grass, borders or a large container, to flower next spring and for many springs to come. Collection includes 100 bulbs. For the full contents list of this collection, see our website. a March-May. H.30cm 261344 100 bulbs £49.95
‘Blue Pearl’
‘Cream Beauty’
‘Snow Bunting’
Eranthis cilicica (Winter Aconites) a Feb-Mar
Galanthus elwesii a Jan-Mar
Narcissus pseudonarcissus ‘Lobularis’ a Feb-Mar
Anemone blanda ‘Blue Shades’ a Mar-Apr
Chionodoxa forbesii a Mar-Apr
Cyclamen coum a Jan-Feb
The Botticelli Perennial Bulb Collection
Muscari
‘Siberian Tiger’
Chionodoxa lucillae
Shown here arranged with chinodoxa and muscari.
Fritillary Collection
Snowdrop Collection for Naturalising
Introduce
Soft and Graceful Drift Mix
The perfect perennial mixture of flower shapes, heights, and soft variation in tone. Featuring fritillaries, camassias, narcissi, with species and hybrid tulips in ivory, white, and cream. Collection includes 80 bulbs. For the full contents list of this collection, see our website.
Aspect: Full sun. a March-May. H.90cm 261517 80 bulbs (1m2) £74.95
Tulip and Camassia Drift Mix
A bulb combination by my Dutch garden designer friend, Carien van Boxtel. A sea of apricot and cream, with a splash of mulberry, a very perennial collection which is refined and sophisticated, and flowers for two months through. Collection includes 80 bulbs. For the full contents list of this collection, see our website.
Aspect: Full sun. a April-May. H.90cm 261515 80 bulbs (1m2) £49.95
Simple and yet truly spectacular, at its best in a lawn or shallow
Tulip and Narcissus Naturalising Collection
A great pair to last a lifetime in an orchard or on a lawn. Here down the drive at Perch Hill, where they have grown in numbers every year.
Aspect: Full sun. a March-April.
Camassia
‘Sacajawea’
Fritillaria raddeana Narcissus ‘Sailboat’
Tulip ‘White Valley’
Tulip ‘Mieke Telkamp’ Tulip turkestanica
Camassia ‘Sacajawea’
Tulip ‘Apricot Foxx’ Tulip ‘Concerto’
‘Ronaldo’
Tulip ‘White Valley’ Tulip ‘World Friendship’
Narcissus ‘Silver Chimes’ Narcissus ‘Sir Winston Churchill’
“I’m crazy about narcissi and feel they’re much underestimated and underused bulb. They’re fabulous growing in swathes through grass, or in your garden pots, and with the right varieties, they make great cut flowers.”
Pheasant’s Eye Narcissus Collection
If I had to choose one group of narcissi, it would have to be the incredibly perfumed, delicate-looking Pheasant’s Eye and here are my
CONTAINS
NARCISSUS CLASSIFICATION
Narcissi are classified into 13 different groups, with each offering distinct qualities to elevate your garden. Not sure where to start? Here are Sarah’s top 5 divisions that signal the arrival of spring at Perch Hill.
Arranged here in our Pumpkin Vase with amelanchier just as they are planted in our Dutch Yard. 5 narcissi varieties, see website for details.
Triandrus
Usually, two or more hanging flowers to a stem with reflexed petals. We grow several from this group in pots, including ‘Hawera’, ‘Katie Heath’, ‘Thalia’ and ‘Lemon Drops’. They are often graceful and elegant, which makes them a standout choice for springtime glamour.
Cyclamineus
One flower to a stem with very reflexed petals. ‘Tête-à-tête’ is the most famous amongst this group.
Perfect Pot Narcissus Collection
Jonquilla and Apodanthus
Between one and five flowers to a stem, with a short trumpet that is often wider than it is long, with petals spreading or reflexed. The flowers are usually very fragrant. We love ‘Sailboat’ and the small-flowered ‘Kokopelli’. ‘Sailboat’
Poeticus
The narcissi in this division are commonly known as pheasant’s eye and have beautiful, pure white petals, very short or even disc-shaped trumpets, and incredible fragrance. This is one of the best groups for naturalising in grass, so we usually grow them in the lawn rather than in pots.
Wild (species) narcissi
The narcissi in this classification are distinguished solely by botanical name. These are the species or wild varieties that are often found naturalised in woodlands or beneath trees and shrubs. Narcissus ‘Lobularis’ is a beautiful and long-lasting example.
This stack of pots was in our Dutch Yard this spring and I could not more passionately recommend it. This greeted us with fragrance every time we opened our back door. 4 narcissi varieties, see website for details. a March-April. H.30cm
‘White
Start Spring in February Bulb Collection
I’m obsessed with guaranteed February flowerers that make me realise, spring truly is just round the corner. These three petite bulbs are perfect planted into small scale pots and raised up onto windowsills or outdoor tables.
Everlasting Lilies Collection
Introduce swathes of unbeatable spring colour and cut flowers with Ranunculus. These have been specially selected for cutting.
It’s the silhouette and overall elegance of both these lilies that adore. Both have been coming up in the garden here now for well over a decade, and we’ve had ‘Black Beauty’ in the same pot (with zero TLC against a northfacing wall) for a similar length of time. They just get on with it and reappear with grace every summer. a July-August.
Beauty’ Lilium henryi
Ranunculus Collection
Aspect: Full sun (unless otherwise stated)
To get dense and flowery spring pot displays, you have to try what the Dutch call a bulb lasagne.
Folk Story Mix
A perfect bulb pairing of the pure white, multi-headed narcissus with a zap of contrast from this standout tulip, all the better for the flash of purple. Collection includes 1 narcissi variety and 1 tulip variety, see website for details. a April-May. H.45cm 261840 20 bulbs £19.95
Brilliant Bulb Lasagne Collection
A collection of favourite bulbs to plant in layers for a succession of beautiful flowers. 1 iris variety, 1 narcissi variety and 1 tulip variety, see website for details. a February-May. H.60cm 260937 65 bulbs £35.95
White Garden Bulb
Shade Pot Bulb Collection
Running along the north and very shady wall of our barn, this water trough collection shines light, colour and prettiness into one of the potentially darkest and dullest spots. Hard to beat for shade. The bulbs are planted deeply and left where they are to reappear every March.
of garden flowering. A collection of 80 bulbs including hyacinth, muscari, narcissi and tulips, see website for details. a March-April. H.45cm 261758 80 bulbs £54.50
Our Head Gardener, Josie Lewis’s GUIDE TO POT SIZES AND BULB QUANTITIES
Dia.30cm = 30 Bulbs
Dia.45cm = 45 Bulbs
Dia.60cm = 60 Bulbs
Plant your bulbs in two or more layers
GUIDING YOU TO SUCCESS
With our ‘how-to’ videos and extensive online growing guides, we are here to help you design, grow and care for your dream garden.
Spring Centrepiece Container Collection
A hugely successful bulb lasagne - not with tulips this time – but with narcissus and grape hyacinths. This sat on the table outside our kitchen window where we loved it from March into May, Plus, it offers the most delicious scent too. See website for details of plant varieties in collection. a March-May. H.45cm 261724 55 bulbs £34.95 new
Sherbet Candy Viola Collection
The ‘Frizzle Sizzle’ violas divide people strongly. You’ll either find them too froufrou for words or love their craziness. I’m mad about them and the similar Ruffles series.
a February-September. H.15cm 201342
A mix of jumbo seedlings and rooted cuttings (5 of each) £34.95
wallflowers
AND TULIPS
‘Sugar Rush’ Wallflower Series B
These flower in early autumn and again in spring – perfect, compact winter bedding or container plants. Super hardy and quick to establish. a September-October/March-May. H.30cm
Parisian Chic Tulip and Wallflower Collection
A chic combination of the statuesque, coral-pink tulip ‘Menton’ with a soft purple wallflower and the deep, glossy tulip ‘Sarah Raven’ scattered through. The tulips are super perennial. For the contents of this collection, visit our website. a March-May. H.60cm
Rich Velvet
Wallflower Collection
The very best varieties of the very best richly coloured wallflowers. a March-May. H.30cm 200194
15 jumbo seedlings (5 of each) £24.95
30 jumbo seedlings (10 of each) £39.95
Karoo Sunset Collection
Glowing, glorious colours like the very best African sunset. This is a fabulous mix of tulips and wallflowers that reigned supreme in the Oast Garden last spring. For the contents of this collection, visit our website.
a April-May. H.45cm 201375 50 items £49.95
Wallflower ‘Sugar Rush Purple Bicolour’ F1 Tulip ‘Menton’
‘Sarah Raven’
Viola
Aspect: Full sun (unless
W. ‘Taffeta Gold’ 201691
W. ‘Taffeta Primrose’ 201690
W. ‘Taffeta Red’ 201689
Small space
GARDENING
Tom Stimpson is our head of horticulture and he has a beautiful garden — small, exquisite and perfectly formed!
Sarah and Tom have worked together to design a bold and brilliant range with small gardens in mind. Beautiful bulb collections perfectly suited to window boxes and pretty, table centre pots, as well as a number of show-stoppers.
We are super excited about this latest addition to our SR family of looks and ideas.
Underplanting Collection
This large terracotta pot, planted with Amelanchier lamarckii, sits outside my kitchen door and is underplanted with Anemone blanda ‘Blue Shades’ and ‘White Splendour’. A totally gorgeous colour combination which lasts for
Town Garden Spring Succession Collection
Kicking off with Crocus ‘Advance’ and finishing with Tulip cretia ‘Hilde’, this successional collection provided colour and interest for over two months. All very different, but totally harmonious and glorious together. a February-March.
‘Mystic van Eijk’
Tom’s Tree
Tom’s Mini Garden Spring Collection
perennials AND biennials
Here are many of my all-time favourite perennials and biennials. These are strong growers and great performers, all deserving a space in your garden.
Astrantia
Collection
love astrantias in a dappled shady spot in the garden, flowering long and hard all summer, and even more cut for a vase. They have an intriguing structure which scatters air through any arrangement like lacy clouds. These three were top performers in our perennials for picking trial. Aspect: Part shade. a May-August. H.60cm
3 x 9cm pots (1 of each)
x 9cm pots (3 of each)
SUSTAINABILITY IS IN OUR NATURE
At our core, we believe in transforming gardens into havens for wildlife to thrive, and as a business we are committed to working towards a greener future.
Pinks and crimsons look wonderful together, and work well in a cottage garden.
Knautia Collection
The knautia brigade with their close cousins, scabious, flower endlessly, cut brilliantly and, rich in both nectar and pollen, are some of the most visited flowers in our garden by butterflies. a April/May-September. H.1.5m
Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Intense’
Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Firetail’
Salvia microphylla ‘Angel Wings’
June-November. H.75cm S.60cm
Helleborus purpurascens ‘Atrorubens’
Knautia arvensis Knautia macedonica
Shown here with Hydrangea ‘Vanilla Fraise’,
Anemones and Asters for Autumn
A duo from an east-facing bed at Perch Hill on fairly rubbish ground and shaded for quite a bit of the day. These two glow from June to October. Between just two plants, that’s impressive. Aspect:
Lavender and Daisies Collection
If you put me on the spot and asked me to name two droughttolerant, minimal TLC, long-performing, and beautiful plants to pair up at the front of a sunny border, patio, or to line a path, these two would be my first selection. a April-November. H.30cm 201336 12 x 9cm pots (6 of each) £49.95
25 x 9cm pots (12 Lavender, 13 Erigeron) £89.95
Erigeron ‘Profusion’
Lavender ‘Hidcote’
Phlox
‘Dirigo Ice’
‘Blue Moon’
Stockings’
Como’
TRIED AND TESTED
Everything we do is about testing, trialling and finding the very best. We love experimenting with new things so they will grow brilliantly in your garden.
White Woodland Collection
Getting a good succession of flowers in a shady corner or the north side of a building is never easy, but this more than fits the bill. Months and months of lovely illuminating white flowers which we grow down the shady side of the school at Perch Hill. Aspect: Part shade. a May-October. H.1.2m
200856 9 x 9cm pots (3 of each)
25 x 9cm pots (see our website for details)
Moonlight
Collection
Fabulous mix of hardy, durable and easy shade-happy bulbs, biennials and perennials in Telegraph Plant Agony Aunt, Helen Yemm’s garden. Includes 5 x seedlings of ‘Mon Amie Blue’ (Forget-me-not). 5 x jumbo seedlings of Hesperis matronalis var. albiflora. 5 x Allium ‘Mount Everest’ bulbs and 3 x 9cm pots of Libertia chilensis and Geranium ‘Rozanne’ each.
Aspect: Part shade. a May-September.
Acanthus
Ledan’
Paeonia lactiflora
Leeuwen’
Myosotis
‘Mon Amie Blue’ Hesperis albiflora Libertia chilensis
Thalictrum delavayi ‘Album’
Aspect: Part shade. a June-August.
Erigeron karvinskianus ‘Profusion’
Gaura lindheimeri ‘The Bride’
Helleborus x ‘Endless’ Aspect: Shade. a November-March. H.30m S.30cm
2L pot £19.95
Allium ‘Mount Everest’
Geranium ‘Rozanne’
shrubs
A garden with shrubs is a place that feels that it has come into its own. Great for introducing low-maintenance beauty and impressive structure, they create a space that envelops you and makes you feel at home.
Perfumed Path Collection
For planting in autumn the combination of this shade into sun path is glorious all summer and beyond. Includes 1 x 5L pot of Hydrangea ‘Incrediball’, 1 x 4L pot of Elaeagnus ‘Caspica’, 1 x 2L of Agapanthus ‘Midnight Star’, Artemisia ‘Nana Attraction, Buddleja ‘White Profusion’, Hydrangea ‘Limelight’, Jasminum ‘Clotted Cream’ and Lonicera ‘Chic et Choc’. Aspect: Part shade. a June-November. H.1.2m 201540 8 Items (as above) £120.95
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From Shade to Sun Border Collection
For those beds that experience both shade and sun. This is one of our shadiest borders at Perch Hill, running along the northside of our kitchen. Planted with hydrangeas from the driest, shadiest spot to the Choisya as the bed runs into a bit more sun. Includes 1 x 5L pot of Hydrangea ‘Incrediball’, 1 x 2L pot of Buddleja ‘White Profusion’, Hydrangea ‘Wim’s Red’ and Choisya x dewitteana ‘White Dazzler. Aspect: Part shade. a May-November. H.3m
201450 4 items (as above) £72.95
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Hydrangea paniculata ‘Eclipse’
Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Tara’
Pittosporum
Hydrangea ‘Wim’s Red’
Choisya x dewitteana ‘White Dazzler’
Nicotiana ‘Grandiflora’ is not part of this collection. Seeds available now, see website for details.
Hydrangea ‘Incrediball’
Hydrangea ‘Limelight’
Elaeagnus ‘Caspica’ Jasminum ‘Clotted Cream’ Buddleja ‘White Profusion’
Agapanthus ‘Midnight Star’
Lonicera
‘Chic et Choc’
Hydrangea arborescens ‘Incrediball’ (Strong Annabelle)
Amelanchier
‘Prince William’
Hydrangea ‘Incrediball’
Buddleja ‘White Profusion’
Ideal for masking fences, walls and arches, our rambling climbers will look spectacular in all types of gardens, explore the extensive selection on our website.
I consider roses to be the backbone of any perfect cottage garden. Planting as bare roots in the winter and up to early spring is a good value way to do it. Unless frosty, plant out as soon as you receive
Aspect:
Clematis
Clematis integrifolia ‘Saphyra Nancy’
Mr McGregor’s Patch Collection
My favourite clutch of autumn into spring edibles – handsome, delicious and reliable producers even in the colder months. Don’t just pack your veg garden or allotment in summer, rely on this lot to extend your season for another six months after your tomatoes, courgettes and halfhardy veg are over.
Harvest: October-May.
201508 50 seedlings
(5 of each)
£46.50
I love my vegetable garden, where I can wander to my carefully-stocked personal greengrocer and harvest lunch or supper. Aspect: Full sun (unless otherwise stated)
Handsome Winter Lettuce Collection
Broccoli ‘Claret’ (Purple Sprouting)
Great value.
Harvest: March-May. 201090
10 seedlings £9.95
Flower Sprouts (Kalette)
Cut and come again.
Harvest: SeptemberNovember. 201078
10 seedlings £9.95
Kale ‘Raven’ F1
Brilliant compact variety.
Harvest: All year round. 201715
10 seedlings £10.95
Winter Kale Collection
A truly the-best-of-the-kales collection, with little and large (compact ‘Curly Scarlet’ and giant ‘Redbor’ F1) and Tuscan Kale types (compact ‘Black Magic’ F1 and giant ‘Nero di Toscana’), with ‘Peacock White’ F1 there for contrast and can be picked as a baby leaf for a salad bowl too. Harvest: September-March. 200888 15 seedlings (3 of each) £14.50
Our selection from the good performers in our autumn into winter hardy lettuce trial last autumn. These make a handsome bunch with the right combination and contrast of colour and leaf shape as well as crunch and sweetness of taste. Harvest: October-May.
201224 20 seedlings (5 of each) £19.95
Rainbow Cauliflower Collection
Why not create a stylish and beautiful rainbow of cauliflowers rather than just going for white? As with many brassicas, the time to plant cauliflower seedlings is late summer to early autumn. They will then give you a good winter crop. Harvest: March. 201239 20 seedlings (5 of each) £19.95
Doorstep
Herb Collection
‘All The Year Round’
‘Graffiti’ F1
‘Sunset’ F1
Lettuce ‘Outredgeous’
Lettuce ‘Cos Freckles’
Lettuce ‘Cerbiatta’
‘Curly Scarlet’
‘Nero di Toscana’
‘Peacock White’ F1
‘Redbor’ F1
Kale ‘Curly Scarlet’
Lettuce ‘Batavia Green’ Kale ‘Emerald Ice’ Lettuce ‘Moon Red’ Spinach ‘Toscane’
Cauliflower ‘All Year Round’ Chervil
Chard ‘White Silver’
Lettuce ‘Rouge d’Hiver’
Chives
Jekka’s Thyme
Collection P
The absolute best collection of strawberry plants for tasty strawberries from June until July. With just a few pots you can get a bumper harvest. Includes ‘Honeoye’ (early), ‘Cambridge Favourite’ (mid) and ‘Florence’ (late). Harvest: June-July.
18 bare roots (6 of each) £20.95
Perennial rhubarb is an invaluable crop. Grow different varieties in succession to pick from March until August. Includes two-yearold crowns of ‘Timperley Early’ (early), ‘Raspberry Red’ (mid) and ‘Victoria’ (late). Harvest: March-August.
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Seedlings
rooted cuttings
Jumbo seedlings and young plants
New Giants Sweet Pea Collection HA Includes Sweet Pea ‘Erewhon’, ‘Blue Velvet’ ‘Eclipse’, ‘Beaujolais’
‘Winston Churchill’.
Sarah Raven Wild Flower Meadow Mix P
Bluebell Woodland Mix P + B
(Honeywort)
Ammi majus
Centaurea
Calendula officinalis
Lathyrus odoratus
‘Cambridge Favourite’ ‘Florence’ ‘Honeoye’ Strawberry
‘Victoria’ ‘Raspberry Red’ ‘Timperley Early’ Rhubarb Collection
Wonderfully scented (Narcissi and hyacinths) and long-flowering varieties to brighten your home. These bulbs are bumper-sized and easy to grow, definitely worth it for the cheer factor. a December-January. H.45cm
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Sarah’s Favourite Amaryllis Collection
Successional flowers from November to March Blue hyacinths have the strongest scent
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Scented Indoor Narcissus Collection
Hyacinth for Forcing Collection
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Match the Roses Tulip Collection
A real classic Sarah Raven colour combination with amber and crimson to match new rose foliage, perfect for a window box (given the heights) and with early and late varieties here, you’ve got a good six weeks of flowering. 4 tulip varieties, see our website for details.
a April. H.45cm 261804 40 bulbs (10 of each) £39.95
3 tulip varieties CONTAINS
Venetian Tulip Collection
This is one of the best ever tulip collections we’ve planted throughout the garden and in pots in the Oast Garden at Perch Hill. Wonderful! 3 tulip varieties, see our website for details.
a April-May. H.45cm 260319 45 bulbs (15 of each) £28.95 90 bulbs (30 of each) £47.50
Shown here with Erysimum ‘Sugar Rush Purple Bicolour’, not included in collection. See page 44
4 tulip varieties CONTAINS
Spring rose foliage
Watch Sarah explain why she loves this classic combination of tulips, search for this collection on our website