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In this episode, Sarah Raven discusses how to create a comforting garden palette that feels soft and familiar, sharing key plant families and seasonal sequencing.

A comforting garden can feel as soft and familiar as your favourite cashmere jumper, and in this episode of ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’, Sarah shares a palette which achieves exactly this feeling. In the latest of the Colour Guide Mini Series episodes, Sarah shares how to create a mood using the comforting palette, the key plant families and varieties, plus how to sequence them through the seasons, so your borders feel gentle and soothing from early spring to late autumn. In this episode, disc...

People in this episode

Host: Sarah Raven

Topics covered

• comforting palette
• garden design
• seasonal planting
• plant families
• mood creation

Keywords

• comforting garden
• palette
• plant varieties
• seasonal borders
• gentle colors

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