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Perennial pots with Achillea
with SARAH RAVEN — Acclaimed English gardener, cook and writer. Host of the UK’s No.1 gardening podcast.
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If you have a limited budget, achilleas are a great choice for long lasting blooms in the pot and excellent life in the vase. Here, Sarah shows you how she uses them to frame her doorway.
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Late Summer Pots in Bloom
Perennial Pots with Achillea
In this lesson, I'm going to show you how I arrange pots to frame a doorway using the soft and warm palette.
I've used a variety of achilleas in varying shades of pink here, from pastel pink to deeper colours. Achilleas are a first-year flowering perennial and can be grown from seed so they are a cost-efficient option. They work very well as fillers for pots but they can hold their own too.
They have a long flowering season and will last between five and six months, just make sure you deadhead them when the flowers go over. Achilleas have a great vase life too, and will last for around 3 weeks or they can be hung upside down and turned into dried flowers.
Achilleas are drought tolerant too and are excellent for pollinators.
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Sarah Raven
Acclaimed English gardener, cook and writer. Host of the UK’s No.1 gardening podcast.
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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