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Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange with me, Arthur Parkinson and Sarah Raven and today I'm delighted to be talking to Sarah about her new book, which is a year full of pots. And I'm not surprised Sarah's written this book

because there are 382 pots, I believe, at Perch Hill, all full of inspiration, which is shared

with us all. And I've been lucky enough to know the garden at Perch Hill now for quite a while.

And it's been really amazing actually seeing

how Sarah Josie and Adam and the garden team have kind of made gorgeous daisy chains of pots

throughout all the different areas of the garden it's been really lovely to to notice the growth

of the pots and I've been looking at Sarah's year full of

Potts book and as somebody who just gardens mainly in pots, I'm kind of bowled over by the

amount of pots in the book and the amount I'm learning. So Sarah, I just wondered if you could tell

me what made you want to write about pots as opposed to gardening in the ground?

Yes. Well, I've been definitely inspired by you and Josie, I would say.

So I've known Arthur now for 10 or 12 years. And I remember, first of all, going to his garden in Stoke-on-Trent at the Emma Bridgewater Ceramics Factory. And I walked into the courtyard

there and some of it is in quite sort of functional pots like dust bins and water troughs and

things as well as a massive raised bed in the middle of the courtyard.

And so there are two areas.

There's a courtyard area.

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